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HELLO

I am Sonia and I am a photographer. I have recently been invited to contribute some pictures to the Get Me! blog, which is nice. The pictures that I will be posting are part of an ongoing project I will be shooting over the next few months. I don’t want to write too much about it yet, but maybe I will explain a bit more about the project soon. For now, here are my first few photos from late Saturday night…

PHOTOS : SONIA MELOT

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Being a Pussy Hurts

I have never had a knife pulled on me, found a burglar in my house in the middle of the night, or even broken a bone in my body. In fact, nothing bad has ever happened to me. Whereas you’d be inclined to think that’s ‘a good thing’, one look at this picture of me on a rollercoaster is enough to convince you otherwise. See, whilst other people know the intense, nauseating pain of breaking a leg, or the bowel-wrenching horror of discovering your house has been broken into I have, hitherto, lived a fairly cosseted life. The most frightening thing that has ever happened to me in my formative years was wearing white swimming shorts on a school trip to the Loire Valley which turned see-through in water. My tolerance level for fear was never tested and so has remained unnaturally low. The result being that I am now, and forever will be, a complete pussy.

You only need to look at the other people in the picture to realize that I wasn’t in such a dangerous situation as I appear. My friend Ben, sitting next to me, is a good bit more ‘streetwise’ – to the point that he probably doesn’t say words like ‘streetwise’. He didn’t even flinch on Saw (I saw the picture and even watched the video). He is so completely lacking in respect for the power of this ride to frighten him that he’s flicking the V’s at it. And the guy in front – although you can’t see his whole outfit, you can see enough to tell he’s wearing a full tracksuit. He’s not going to be a stranger to the old ‘fight or flight’ scenario. Indeed, he’s so used to far more dangerous situations that he’s comfortable enough to cheer away quite happily with both hands in the air. And he was on the front row.

No, I’m afraid my central nervous system is nowhere near as robust as I might want it to be. Hard as I try, I’m now hardwired to become completely terrified at the drop of a hat. Should I ever encounter something that is genuinely truly fatally scary, like being woken up at gunpoint by a leprotic rapist, I can’t even imagine how I might react. I think it could only rank as being so infinitely off my scale of fear that it would in fact turn negative and leave me cool as a cucumber and not the least bit panicked. Either that or I’d just piss my pants.

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MIMI LEUNG

Mimi Leung , who is designing one of our new t shirt releases , has a show this July. She will also be releasing a t shirt to go with the exhibition.

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KING BB’S SUICIDE MIX

Here is a mix I made. It’s pretty depressing, and may shed some light on my ability to empty a dancefloor. That was a bigger problem in the old days, but now I just DJ with my boys from Noodles and Broth and stand about while they play garage, seems a lot more popular. Anyway, if you are feeling like shit and want some music to really drag you down to rock bottom, this might be it.
It is mainly blues, but there is a bit of spiritual stuff and a calypso track in there too. The sound quality isn’t great because I recorded it off vinyl and onto garage band on my laptop, and I cant really work it yet, so sorry about that.

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TRACK LIST:

1.JUNIOR WELLS – HOODOO MAN
2.BLUE SKY BOYS – WILL YOU MISS ME WHEN I’M GONE?
3.BIG WALTER – MY TEARS
4.GEORGE SMITH – TELEPHONE BLUES
5.LEADBELLY – TELL ME, BABY
6.BUKKA WHITE – THE PANAMA LIMITED
7.SON HOUSE – JOHN THE REVELATOR
8.MONA BAPTISTE – CALYPSO BLUES
9.MOSBY FAMILY SINGERS – ETERNAL LIFE
10.KIP ANDERSON – WITHOUT A WOMAN
11.BIG JOE WILLIAMS – PLEASE DON’T GO
12.CRYIN SAM COLLINS – LONESOME ROAD
13.ARBEE STIDHAM – WHEN I FIND MY BABY
14.SON HOUSE – DEATH LETTER
15.SKIP JAMES – RATHER BE THE DEVIL
16.BISHOP PERRY TILLIS – YOU CAN’T FOOL THE HOLY GHOST
17.HOMESICK JAMES – HOMESICK
18.WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD
19.BLIND BLAKE – ROPE STRETCHIN’ BLUES
20.JERICHO

KING BB

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LIXO DJS AT DEVIATE

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GETME! TALKS TO MARTIN CREED

Martin Creed was born in Wakefield, England, in 1968, and from 1986-90 attended the Slade School of Art in London. In 1993 his Work No. 81, ‘a one inch cube of masking tape in the middle of every wall in a building’ was installed in the offices of the London firm, Starkmann Ltd, and since then Creed has had eighteen solo exhibitions or projects in Europe and North America and has participated in numerous group exhibitions world wide. He lives and works in London. He won the 2001 Turner Prize with Work No. 227, the lights going on and off. An empty room in which the lights periodically switched on and off. Artist Jacqueline Crofton threw eggs at the walls of the room containing Creed’s work as a protest.Creed won the prize.

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VIDEOS THAT THUNDER

“MANDROID”

VIDEOTHUNDER

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LP COVER COMMENTARY WITH KING BB

I had never listened to hardcore until about a year and a half ago. it seemed to have totally slipped past my school existence, i was too busy buying lots of different colours of those nike string bags that only fitted one t-shirt and a pencil in them, or wearing base loafers, that sort of stuff… oh and i had a real thing for stan smiths.
anyway, i started my new job and it turns out that everyone else has been listening to hardcore for years, so i had to start too, in a vague effort to ingratiate myself / learn something.
anyway, this is by far my favourite hardcore album, not that the opinion of someone with such a paltry understanding of the genre counts for much. not only is it amazing, it also has a good cover, and a great inner sleeve - as you can see.

here is another crappy youtube video photo montage crapfest, but it’s an amazing song.

WORDS : KING BB

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