has a rather good interview in this month’s Front Magazine. And he seems to be dipped in Second Son.

Drop us an email if you’re looking for the President Tee that he’s sporting as we have a few left.

I saw Example a while back and was amazed by his energy…that’s not meant to be damning the man with faint praise, he has got power on stage and got a fairly mild crowd going buck wild. You can read his blog here - he has a particularly good looking BIGGIE RIP mix from MK on there…I say particularly good-looking because I can’t download the thing on this here p-o-shit PC.

We’ve got together with the good folks who run the I heart parties. This month we’re going to be taking over the Macbeth, giving away a load of T-shirts, putting on a free BBQ and then throwing the mother of all ho-downs.

Dubstep and dance from Second Son poster boys Noisses and DMC Champion DJ Beware. Rock, 90s hip hop and general dirt from Zuul, Tropical Tits and William Steel. We’re told that he’s good. He takes photos for Vice so there should be nuff angry looking hot girls.

We’re also putting pressure on some good friends to play a live set. If that comes off then this shit is going to blow up like a highschool kegger. More info on that soon.

So the long and short is - we’re going to play music and hopefully people will go nuts. In terms of haircuts, outfits, music and crowd reaction we’re hoping it’ll go something like this…

Basically it’s a bunch of dudes who put American news clips through the auto-tune treatment (as popularised by Kanye West, leading exponent of ludicrously self-aggrandising arrogance and dressing like a space clown). Unfortunately they themselves then jump into the resulting videos, but if you can get past the occasional facetious bit there are some gems in there. I particularly like the “very thin ice” theme, and I dig the way it frequently sounds like a soup of regurgitated parts of R Kelly’s ‘Trapped in the Closet’ but with added cries of “shortayyyy” over dribbling sentimental teenage sex beats - in short, exactly like an Usher song. The other great thing is how weird the US news is, auto-tune or no auto-tune: appalling jokes, senators debating the merits of turtle fences, Michael Jackson “waking up dead” etc. T-Pain is in one of them, Gordon Brown sings in another and all the US newsreaders are hot cougars. Sorry about all this, I’m mildly hungover today too.

 It’s been proven that 90% of statistics (including this one) are pre-fab ‘facts’ used to prop up a tenous argument. About as useful as the vinegar and brown paper that Jill used to patch up Jack’s crown. One of my favourites is the old chestnut that men think about sex every 7 seconds. How helpful. Is this one milli-second thought every 7 seconds or does a 5 minute reverie count as one thought or 300? If I’m awake for 16 hours a day then I should be having over 8,200 thoughts about sex everyday. Am I some kind of under-sexed freak if I only have 5 a day? How did they measure this? And if they’re so certain of this statistic then why don’t we know how often women think about sex?

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Mista Jam (Radio 1/1Extra/Speakerbox) will be playing instore at Mash Clothing on Oxford Street this Friday 5^th Feb.

10% off all new stock as well, from 6-8pm, in store and on the new website. ONE NIGHT ONLY! The perfect way to start the weekend, with fresh garms and some heavy beats…

 Check the facebook page for more info.

Late last year I was lucky enough to visit India with the charity TRAID and Ms. Erin O’Connor. She was visiting women working in the textile industry who have massively benefited from work done by TRAID (Textile Recycling for Aid & International Development). Their clothing recycling banks and second-hand shops here in the UK fund projects that ensure fair wages for women working out there who are using traditional embroidery techniques on pieces that end up selling for a pittance on the high street here.

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So it seems like an age since any of us posted up here.

Well it’s not been because we haven’t been busy, quite the opposite, if anything we’ve all been too damn manic to get round to keep the news updated.

Anyhow, that’ll all change shortly, there’s been some good travels recently and there’s nuff tings in the pipeline for this year, clothing-wise, music-wise, webshop-wise, even party-wise. Lots of new cut-and-sew, a couple of collabs, even maybe a hat or two.

Back in a bit.