Say DE LA DE LA DE LA!!!!!!!!!!

Have you ever had one of those moments where have to ask your self how the hell did I end up here, doing this? Well that’s pretty much what I was thinking on Wednesday night as I was sat outside Tammy Wynettes silver trailer in the artist backstage area at The Leamington Assembly with Pos, Dave and Maseo sat chilling a mere 3 feet away.

This was by far my biggest gig to date, as the afternoon unfolded I wasn’t feeling anything out of the ordinary. If anything I had a mild case of “let me at em!!!” but other than that I wasn’t feeling nervous. That changed the second I went out on stage to last minute check and saw the two level hall absolutely packed with 900+ people. My heart started racing! I had to have a quiet word with myself, “Stop flapping and just f*$¬£ing do it!”¬†

So I stepped out on stage and some loyal Smiley followers made some noise for me and I triggered my signature attention grabbing intro and off I went. The second I finished Smiley-skit the crowd let me know they were on my side and it was a relief! I played my new song “Crunch” and messed up the first loop but I only noticed after I added the second and third. I tried to play the chords in a way to cover it up but it wasn’t happening. My internal dialogue was ticking over “What are you gonna do?, this is very obviously not going right, errrrrrrrr?”

Stopping a song once your a good 45 seconds in is something you’re not supposed to do but I couldn’t think of any other way of handling it. ” I’m sorry but this is the biggest F%$¬£ing gig of my life and if I’m gonna play this I’m gonna do it properly, is that cool with you” I asked the crowd and they let me know in abundance that I’d made the right call. I finished the set with Rappers Delight (it only seemed right) and thanked the crowd for being an outstanding audience and I was off. I proceeded to dance my ass off with my friends to one of the best live hip hop sets I’ve ever seen.

I later found myself posing for the photo you see above, completely perplexed at how I arrived there doing that.

There are some people who have helped me along the way in my musical career and as this was my biggest gig to date I think this is the best time to thank all of them. Sara you are the most patient and supportive girl I have ever known. John Mostyn and Claire Burgess at C.I.D Music. Dave Smith for sorting my website and printing out. Kris Halpin for being an amazing producer and even better mate. Colin Brown, Ian Clarke, Jim Warrior, Tompz and Baldy you have all given me much appreciated musical input and advice and I’m a better performer because of it. Dephect clothing for flowing me cool t shirts to perform in, Skullcandy for flowing me headphones for playing live with and finally my friends and followers who came to support me at this show or any other gig for that matter, it means the world to me that you’re there cheering me on.