Wednesday, 19 November 2014

DRESS CODES AND TESCOS

WHADDUP WHADDUP WHADDUP DEN DEN DEN LETS GO GET US SOME BRAND NEW WICKEDLAND

How are you all? I'm really not sure how I am at the minute. Anyway, I had some lovely food at my mums for my sisters belated birthday party. I love party food. The main problem with eating a big portion of something isn't getting full, it's getting bored of the same taste. With party food you can pile a plate as high as you like and not get bored of it because its all small bites. Delightful.


I went of Demon FM with Nico and Teeps the other day, just discussing some music and upcoming events and stuff. After we finished this one yat came in and tried to spin us, saying we called Sophbeck a 'drug den' when we didn't haha. It was weird man. She was trying to talk to me like I owed her something, I can only think she thought I was a student. It was hilarious, she literally tried to tell me off. Imagine that.


Found this little gem when trying to do a reverse image search for a picture. I was pretty happy with that. Look at them, they look so chuffed.


Items piled high all over each other, not even bagged. As if that isn't enough she was fishing through a dog eared M&S bag to try and find her purse. So fucking annoying. It's like when you're walking up to someones door with them and they don't get their keys out of their bag before they're at their door. What are they thinking?


This made me laugh. Definitely looks like it says Smoker Sex It. That makes nooooo sense. Very poor branding.


I went to see Dave Gorman again in the week with Max at DeMontfort hall. I enjoyed it thoroughly because I enjoy what he does but it wasn't nearly as good as the last time I saw him. I guess that's the way it goes with this sort of stuff isn't it.


He came in the crowd to take this blokes phone off of him and it was so weird him being metres away from me. I first got into him 12 years ago when he did his Astrology Experiment and I've been a big fan of him for so long. It was weird, he was a couple of metres away from me.


I'll tell you one thing that is crap. That's being stuck behind slow people on stairs. Old or not, I can't live with this stuff. I've got no patience. This guy wasn't sticking to one side either, he was nearly taking up the entire stair well.


You'd think if someone was going to have the audacity to stop people during their working day and lecture them on moral beliefs they would have the decency to cut their fucking hair and leave the tie dye at home for one day. Dream on, Britain.


Am I mental for thinking that she should have probably rolled both legs up?


Look at this appalling shit. I spend half my waking hours trying to stick up for the dumb McDonalds staff and this is how they re pay me. They think this is acceptable. Shocking isn't it, it's all over the place.


Look at this girl hahahaha asleep in Mcdonalds, feet up. It's weird when you're sober and everyone else is drunk and you kind of wonder why anybody enjoys being drunk at all innit


Bumped into the spice girls on the way to Canvas the other night haha look at me, having a great laugh.


I don't get this. I can't imagine being so so into something that it makes me want to dress up as it and just walk around the streets. It's not even halloween. These people love this shit don't they.


I saw this guy with his ham like calves and his short shorts clinging onto his curly hair as it thins out and I figured this is so me in 5 years.


That's your lot! OOOOOO no it's not. I'm in talks with my printer at the minute over getting short runs of some WickedLand T-shirts done. It's looking like there are going to be 3 different designs, I'll keep you posted once I've got more details.


Monday, 17 November 2014

NEW PODCAST - 065 - PERVINDER

Tom and Bradley guest today as we discuss Dapper Laughs, Kim Kardashians nudes, some courtroom antics, a Pistorius update, a 'stupid virus', a botched school shooting, a dropkicked toddler and the world debut of our new segment 'Toms Top Tips.' All on this weeks episode


Wednesday, 12 November 2014

RESTAURANT REVIEW: BYRON BURGER

The little open bit round the back of the Highcross near the cinema is so cool now, it's so built up. Like you can look at it and almost image it's not in Leicester, but then also it's hard to imagine town without it now. The latest edition is Byron Burger, another (kind of) American food chain that's set up shop there, I went along last week to check it out.

NAME: BYRON HAMBURGERS

LOCATION: 6 BATH HOUSE LANE, HIGHCROSS, LEICESTER, LE1 4SA


PRICE: The prices were ever so slightly above what I would have expected. Burgers were between 7-10 pounds while sides were all about 4 pounds. Milkshakes were £4.25 and extra sauces were £1.25. Saying that my whole meal (with extras) came up to just under £20, so in my head it's still in that affordable Nandos kind of price bracket. Right for the area. 6/10



They do a bunch of craft beers at around £4 for a 330ml measure




ATMOSPHERE: It was kind of cool, kind of calm. Low lit which was nice and the seating plan left it nice and open. So many restaurants round there cram tables together and the boring couple that've been married 20 years and hate each other and have nothing left to say end up eves dropping on your convo because they're close enough to. None of that here. Music was low, it was all just right. 7/10

My oreo milkshake was tall and thick, real good


FOOD: The food was really awesome. All I seem to do these days is go around tasting various burgers and fries haha but these were riiiight up there. The menu was big enough that they had variation but small enough that they do what they do well. I had a smoky with blue cheese and home made skin-on chips. It was divine, I could have ate it forever. Even now looking at that picture i'm salivating hard. It was covered in those crispy little deep fried onions and the blue cheese was a nice wedge of actual blue cheese, not just blue cheese sauce. The actual burgers were medium rare, and pink and delicious in the middle. Portions were pretty good too. 8/10



Dave's rather uninspiring plain cheese burger






DECOR: You know what, it looked really, really good. There were loads of kind of exposed copper pipes and walls that worked really well together, but then everywhere you looked there was worn leather. Everything aside from that looked all modern and new, like all the counters and tables were all matte black. It was odd because there was kind of nothing amazing about it but it all just looked really well done. The design themes that ran through out were great. 8/10




SERVICE: The service was great too. Everything ran so smoothly, it was so quick and efficient. It would be a problem for me if I worked in the area because you could easily get in, sit, order, get served, eat and leave within an hour. We weren't even in a rush and they served up in that time during evening service. The woman who served us was polite and funny, but she did one weird thing.

I hasn't seen my friend Dave in a while so we did that thing of sitting down at the table and gabbing to each other without even looking at the menu, just catching up. When she come over to take our order we asked for a couple more minutes and she just sat down with us and waited. It was so weird and uncomfortable. Aside from that odd moment of what I can only think was laziness it was top stuff. 7/10 







CONCLUSION: It was really great! A really nice space and the food was so good, I can't wait to taste the other burgers. That said I can't wait to taste that Smokey with blue again, it really was amazing. Everything was on point and I really enjoyed my time there, literally nothing to complain about. If you like burgers get in there as soon as you can, I'm sure you'll really enjoy it too. It's a shame that this place is surrounded by Frankie & Bennies, Coast to Coast and Handmade, because it almost doesn't deserve to be lost in a sea of Burger places. If I'm down that way looking for a burger and fries again anytime soon I'm heading straight to Byron.

FINAL MARK: 36/50

Tuesday, 11 November 2014

KURLY HYPA - FADING EP

Hey, a couple of days ago I dropped some new music. For the last few months I've been working on an EP. I kind of wanted to take a break from writing the vapid, braggadocio rap that I always do and really try to write something a bit more introspective.

I used to write songs in a similar kind of format for a short while with Darryl and I miss those days so I tried to get back to that. Also, I've been listening to artists like Chance the Rapper, Drake, The Beatles and even Kanye and really admiring the way they will build a song and tackle a subject. Chance and The Beatles really inspired me lyrically, and quite a lot of this release is really sweet in that sense.

I've found I've had the best response to my music when it is wide open and really honest and I tried to keep that in mind whilst writing it. I found the whole process really challenging but hopefully I got there in the end and you lot will enjoy it.

Give it a spin and let me know what you think!


Friday, 7 November 2014

HALLOWEEN CULTURE CLASH FOODFEST

WELCOME TO THE YUNG STYLE DOJO! I wonder if anyone actually reads these little bits at the top. They're usually just me typing out in capitals not really saying much. Anyway, on we go

Is this good? Or does it just look delicious because we all love Reese's? Is it just peanut butter or would it be a little sweeter? Many questions. Have you seen that click on Facebook or some maggots in a Reese's cup? The people posting it were like noooo I'm never eating Reese's again! Fuck all that shit. Imagine watching Super Size Me and not wanting a McDonalds. Mental people.


Look at this guys outfit, what absolute gold. He really went for it and knocked it out of the park. I saw a photo on twitter of two other people dressed as pilots covered in blood and so on dressed as 'The pilots of the missing Malaysian airline' looooool. They were getting slated but fuck off, that's funny man. The more tasteless the better


Another fantastic effort, very simple but very good.


Imagine if I just popped a little dot on there. He was asleep so I'm not sure he would have noticed.


This was the most unfullfilling thing about my whole day. Do you know how shit this is? Even still, out of all the things I would want to go to you website to to find out why would they choose this?


The new shape London busses have this one little solo cabin seat at the front that was really making me laugh. So squashed and squeezed under the stairs.


I went to the Red Bull Culture Clash with Darryl. It was such a mental, exciting night. The scale of the event alone was absolutely crazy, Red Bull run the world.


Boy Better Know killed it standardly, the levels were so so gassed



Rebel Sound (David Rodigan, Shy FX and Chase and Status) won in the end, deservedly so. Some of the dubplates that these lot were pulling out were insane. They played a special version of Rihanna's 'We Found Love' that dissed BBK, Stone Love and A$AP Mob. It was crazy, everyone lost their minds.


Our wristbands got us into the afterparty too, which was fun. We went along on these busses. I'd love to know how much money they've spent on the whole event. On the night they had the covers of the evening standard, the Metro and another free London paper, I can't remember the name. Literally 3 full page covers. It was completely sold out months ago, but it was just brand building. Everything was branded.


The afterparty was cool. It was at some little club with about 200 people inside, and half of the grime MCs who were on the BBK stage were there and heartless crew. They all went back to back before Skream did a set. When we left we saw Toddla T knocking about outside. The afterparty alone was an amazing event haha


Head. To. Toe. This is a real outfit for a real war haha.


I met Rodigan and Stormzy briefly at the after party. Darryl had met Rodigan a couple of times and told me he was a real mardy arse in real life and I didn't want to believe him. I can confirm this is true, sorry to ruin the illusion.




On my coach back this was the most annoying cunt I'd ever met. Going to some House night in Manchester with her little crew who was on the coach. Wearing sunglasses on a national express coach during a dull October afternoon. Kind of loses it's ballerish connotation doesn't it?

She was fucking gaaawking all the way there in her broad south London accent. I fucking hate that accent on girls, I find it so so unattractive. It cuts through everything and goes right into the middle of my head.


Johnnys costume was pretty sick at the Coolden halloween party I went to. Check him out


Mental things were happening. Fosters shouldn't be used as a mixer, no matter how much you hate their adverts.


Beastwang was a standard vybes after the party. It's been a while since I've MC'd in a club drunk. It will be a while again.


Bees's mum is real nice. I've never met her but because she knows I'm a greedy boy she made me this biiiiig portion of chilli and even gave me a little bowl of grated cheese to go with it. I had a portion yesterday and I can confirm it's delicious. I was eating it and wondering why chilli con carne has never entered the 'favourite food' conversation in my mind. It was literally that good. Thanks, Bees's mum.


The menu has changed ever so slightly as Slug and Lettuce. I saw 'buttered asparagus' and licked my lips. I thought perfect! I can substitute out my regular greasy onion rings and have delicious long, steaming stems of asparagus each time I each there. Imagine how underwhelmed I was with this shit.


Why are phone books allowed please? In 2014 why are phone books allowed. It's mental, a mental, mental waste of paper. Some cunt who works for the Yellow Pages had took the time and effort to ram one into every letterbox of the apartment block I live at. I would have loved to have caught the cunt and started ripping them out and throwing them at his head. It needs to stop, we've all, always got google.


Seen this awesome contraption? Never seen one before but I was into it. Preeeetty cool.


That's your lot! feel free to leave a comment in the top right corner! WXCKXDLXND

Thursday, 6 November 2014

NEW PODCAST: 064 - HOT LOVECAST

Back after a couple of weeks off with Brad and Frank discussing that video of that girl walking about in NY, long crisps, a fun marriage, a heartbroken Chinese lady in KFC, quick Ebola round up, a painting that's been massively miss-valued and Halloween. Enjoy!

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

KURLY HYPA / FADING EP / OUT SUNDAY 9TH NOV [EP TEASER]

Yoooooooooooooo so I've got a new EP coming out on Sunday, and I made a little video just to promo the songs and look at the process a little bit. This was shot with that new camera I bought about a month ago and it was also just an exercise to get back to grips with editing video. I want to start filming more content for the Wickedland YouTube channel, so it's a step towards that.

Anyway, Enjoy the video and keep an eye out for the EP when I post it on Sunday!