this is the last show of our beautiful tour. I’m so glad to be back in London after so many ye
this is the last show of our beautiful tour. I’m so glad to be back in London after so many years - i first came here in 2002, with @fester902 and MF Deluxe and @bleubirdy and DJ Spytek and @freshkils and of course @jamestkirkpatrick. Thesis introduced us to Toolshed - @timbukturaps, @chokeules, and @tommy.o_ - and they may not have been sure about us at first, but they became sure real quick. And we were enamoured of them immediately! We played shows at The Embassy Hotel, and Call The Office (where - i will never tire of telling people - @shadkmusic sorta technically opened for ME), and the Alex P Keaton, and the Black Shire (with @ceschiramos and @louisdorley and @gregorypepper) and a place called Pandemic(??) and went up to Bayfield and rocked cottage country at the Black Dog Bistro thanks to @pete_meades_brc and one time me and @messiahcarey played The Grinning Gator to resounding, almost hostile indifference. There’s so many DJs here - Hullewood, Ando, B-Nutz, and more. There’s groups from the past and present that should never be forgotten - OK Cobra, GSG, Mullet & Steps, the Makeshift Einsteins, Topsoil, Bread & Water. This place is weird. I’ve been buttonholed at so many weird coke parties, lost and wandering downtown with my suitcase, reluctantly regaled with dozens of tales that all seem to end up with someone covered head to toe in some appalling substance. It’s got one of the most toxic university campuses in Canada, and my friend had to undertake a landmark legal challenge to get the local police to reconsider their standard practice of treating all sexual assault survivors like liars. It was the subject of a magazine article arguing it might be the most racist city in Canada. People i used to rap with here are on the streets now, casualties of a crack epidemic that seems more pervasive than anywhere else I know. I think those things are why I admire so much the people who bear up under the weird and terrible things to make something beautiful here, and protect each other, and make a supportive community of artists and people who care hard. The person who exemplifies that for me, the heart and soul of the London I know, is James Kirkpatrick. (at Taproot @ The Root Cellar Organic Cafe) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpKR9JilGqd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=q12ndhko8waq -- source link