Way back in pre-COVID life, LDN Features collaborated with RAT Stands in support of the release of their product, the DrumDeck.
LDN was between series at the time - we were almost done with filming Series 03, and had just wrapped up releasing Second Press - our covers series. But the plan was to shoot this “special edition”, drop it before Series 03 as a way of introducing the changes we’d made behind the scenes.
Read MoreOne day, last summer, I got a DM from Jade. Out of the blue, she said she really liked the tour stuff I’d been producing for Sarah Darling and was wondering if I’d be up for documenting her performance at Nashville Meets London.
It was hard to say no, when she’d asked so politely. Especially after talking on the phone to her the night before and seeing how easygoing she was about the whole thing.
So, I got out of bed early one morning, after signing a lot of intimidating paperwork from the people of Canary Wharf promising them I wasn’t going to be a moron, and headed in to the event.
Turns out, NML is a pretty big deal - which explained the paperwork.
Read MoreI met Amy a few years ago at a Discovery 2 gig that she performed at. To be honest, I didn’t even meet her there, I messaged her a few weeks later when I was listening to her SoundCloud and editing a video of Amy at that gig.
Read MoreI met Adée whilst in Sweden on tour with Elle Exxe last year. We clicked straight away, talking about her and my influences from the Hip Hop world. I talked to her about how her delivery reminded me of Vic Mensa and the content was very Noname-esque. It was refreshing to come across someone who got what I was talking about in ideas, and was very gracious about the fact I was slightly deafened by the venue’s sound system and the fact I’d had something like four hours of sleep the night before.
Read MoreIn my first stint in Oz, all the time I hung out with my friend Arow, I never met her boyfriend Chris - one half of Headlines. So, it was weird to stand outside of Horse Bazaar again on my second Oz adventure, waiting for her to appear, only for this guy to precede her, staring at me like he knew me from a different life. I stared back at him because I felt like I knew him too.
Read MoreNot long after I got back from Sweden - like a couple hours or so - I was asked by Tommy, Fatai’s man with a plan for her European-based stuff, to cover her gig at The Lexington later that week. I’d listened to a few tracks before I got to the venue, but didn’t really know much about Fatai herself.
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