Don’t touch Kano’s Cold Cuts!!!!!!!!

Smileymic meet The Sugar Hill Gang!

Life is a very random and splendid thing. At around 7.15 pm on the 8th I was walking towards the Custard Factory where the Gigbeth music festival was taking place. I was about to watch some living legends sound check for their show that evening, that in it self was a little strange as we as fans don’t usually get to see our favorite acts prepare for the show, we usually just get the spectacle of the event. So it seems even more random and increasingly splendid that about half an hour later I find myself sat in a room drinking tea with Master Gee, WonderMike, HenDog and DJ T Dynasty of The Sugar Hill Gang. I really wasn’t sure what to say to them, I got introduced by their road manager “Hey this is the guy that does that crazy cover of Rappers Delight” and it kind of went from there. If the conversation ever slowed then my friend Sarah had questions ready to fire at them. We talked about music and how it effects you whether you’re the performer or the audience, we talked about family, about playing shows and about Obama winning the U.S election. I was told to help myself to refreshment and so I did, I then nearly had my fingers torn off by the green-room attendant who informed me that I couldn’t help myself to the array of cold meat as that was for Kano. The Sugar Hill Gang got a taxi to their hotel to rest up for their performance and my friend and I set off down the road to figure out what to do until then, Sarah giggling childishly after I told her I got told off for touching Kano’s meat. As we walked past South Birmingham College I couldn’t help but notice a large group of musicians loading their gear into a couple of cars. One of these people was a tall man dressed in a suit sporting a large beard and colourful hat that did not compliment the ensemble, I realised that I recognised him. The group turned out to be The Destroyers, who I stumbled upon at an all night music event at The Custard Factory the year before. They told us they were on their way to play a gig at the Prince Of Wales in Moseley. We have our answer, an hour later we’re stood at the back of a large marquee listening to the most sublime anarchic folk music you could ever wish for and I feel happy. Once the set finishes I get back in my car and head for Gigbeth to see The Sugar Hill Gang do it old school. They played an amazing set, you could certainly tell that they’d been doing this for a long time, the creme de la creme being left till last as you might expect….Rappers Delight. I drove home replaying the evenings events in my mind wondering how many more random nights like this I might experience and hoping the number runs into hundreds.

2 Comments to Don’t touch Kano’s Cold Cuts!!!!!!!!

Sarah
November 18, 2008

For the record folks, whatever he says, Mike really was gutted he couldn’t get his hands on Kano’s meat…