Introduction thread
Ricky Forcefield
88 Posts
Yeah hello. I'm 35 from Southern UK, been into Hip Hop since 86/87. Records wise pretty normal, only digging things I can tell you is going to that Greenpoint spot in 2002, and I have quite a big Reggae collection. Used to buy sets off a guy who would buy lots off old Soundmen, but it made me a bit sad.
I have started painting Graf again after a break of about 10 years. My 6 year old son is on it too (no forcing it on him tho)
Funnily enough I know a poaster who briefly became infamous on here for calling you a bunch of cunts (PAP related) You can tell I've been lurking for a long time.
I saw Leo Sayer getting a coffee in Waterloo station a few weeks back, asked him for a photo but he was bout to get on the Eurostar and didn't want to. I told a white lie and claimed my son was named after him but he wasn't having it.
Thriller > Off The Wall
simply because Thriller was a huge part of me and my friends' childhoods.
I have started painting Graf again after a break of about 10 years. My 6 year old son is on it too (no forcing it on him tho)
Funnily enough I know a poaster who briefly became infamous on here for calling you a bunch of cunts (PAP related) You can tell I've been lurking for a long time.
I saw Leo Sayer getting a coffee in Waterloo station a few weeks back, asked him for a photo but he was bout to get on the Eurostar and didn't want to. I told a white lie and claimed my son was named after him but he wasn't having it.
Thriller > Off The Wall
simply because Thriller was a huge part of me and my friends' childhoods.
Comments
Which town?
We have southern UK repping for Wales, Colchester, Oxford, Canterbury, Cornwall, Brighton, Bristol and various parts of London. Apologies for any area missed out.
definitely not Southampton
One hour to Waterloo, we'll expect you at the next meet.
Indeed. I used to live in London 97-2002, good times.
Going to Carnival Monday
Pompey revealed.
yes I know what John Westwood smells like
Do they still hate Scousers in Portsmouth?
Be careful how you answer this. ;-P
no not particularly, no more than normal people.
why do/did we hate scousers?
I like your style.
I think it's to do with the bad old days of the 80s, when many of my fellow citizens were encouraged to get on their bikes and look for work. Some of them cycled as far as Portsmouth, where they ran out of road. Those who settled
sent the local crime rates for burglary, drug-dealing, mugging and shoplifting through the roof, earning them the lasting enmity of the localsbecame immediately popular thanks to their cheeky Liverpudlian humour and happy-go-lucky attitude, making a valuable contribution to the community in the process.I don't think we had a particular influx of Scousers in the 80s, might be a Tebbit-related urban myth. Thing is Pompey has always had a mix of Northerners etc from the amount of sailors that marry local and settle down, particularly Geordies.
There is a vortex in Portsmouth that draws people in, and they can't leave. It's the uni with the highest retention rate too. My parents were from Bristol, went to the Poly, and never left. It's not quite shit enough to run screaming from and nowhere near exciting enough to do your head in so I suppose quite a comfortable place.
I did kick a scouser out of moving taxi in Portsmouth once though, but that's another story.
Oops...
The ferry port is fucking huge though. It's like a city inside a city.
thanks, I enjoy your postings.
why oops?
yeah Gunwharf, it's ok. Very Portsmouth though in the way we're promised modern shopping facilities and it turns out to be outlet stores. And it's generic, none of the hard-nosed charm of true Portsmouth.
The stretch to IOW is like the most expensive stretch of water to cross in the world I think. It's weird over there.
Not sure how huge the ferry port can actually be, Portsmouth is a small area, most densely populated area in Europe for its size I believe. But I haven't been in there since I was 11.
Fuck records, I'm happy to talk about Peeeeeeeeeoooooooorttmufff all day
i love the hail mary, "but Leo, i named my son after you!" do you think he gets that a lot???
The Sayer is tiny tiny tiny, I know that's no surprise and everyone says that about people but yeah
I believe he actually opened with "You've got a cute way of walkin'..." but got the gas-face.
I hope the Sayer gets that all the time because, by all accounts, he's a nasty little shit.
i was trying to explain batmon's "oops"
damn, the sayer is nasty? he seems so huggable on the endless flight cover. and so mysterious on thouse other trenchcoat covers. it would be ill if he had sharpened little teeth in his little head and when you asked him for photos he hissed at you and blood dripped out his mouth
I deleted and wrote oops......
War Vs. Mandrill
you know what I thought you had, because you always come through with that question.
I enjoy War more, but consider Mandrill better, make sense?
Ha...Slick answer!
Now THIS is a proper introduction. Welcome to the club.
yeah completely, but true. I used to party, and I partied more to WAR but Mandrill are 'better'
most new Hip Hop depresses me, and I don't mean just the Flacka Wayne blah blah but everything from earnest Euro man stuff to nouveau boom-bap is just meh. I like the shock of the new. I was deep involved in 'UK Hip Hop' when that was what it was when it really was what it was. I'm into Grime and kept up with that as a genre but you get people saying that peaked in 2004. I'm still excited by bits and pieces like Starsky x Trim 'DPMO' but the last LP I bought was Friends 'Manifest!'
I love my Reggae and Dancehall and liking the new electrobashy sound but ultimately this is my sh*t
and here are my records
little dude.
broke wires on my Project turntable and have to use USB one
:why must I cry?: