andreasgrant

Thursday - Sunday

2009-08-10T10:49:00.000-07:00

Glitterbest went really well! Great audience and performers. Got flyers Thursday and started distribution for Not Night. Friday got paid for working for Splash of London. Money + Charlie...went out with JS Barnett at Cat & Mutton. Crashed like a baby. Saturday drinks with Laura Pickering. Sunday woke up close to Brosdway Market and strolled down to Nelson. Met Pertra, havent seen her since HOME. Petra's friend, Valeria was celebrating her b -day. Hot stuff from italy with a hip hop video bdy and outfit(short, short dress) we made out in Ladies and did C, MDMA, drinks and beers all sunny Sunday. Woke up Monday after 12 hours sleep. Supposed to do Splash but he's overslept as always...

Standon Calling + Monday - Tuesday

2009-08-05T09:07:00.000-07:00

Weekend. Performing on Galileo stage and BCB tipi to great a praise. People came up to me and wanted a hug, beautiful women stranded over me, I blew joint smoke in their mouths and danced with my friends methadone, e, charlie and ketamine and kept on dancing the next day. then walked in the scorching sun with the help of a stick to the village to buy some whiskey and downed it by the pool, while giving up on reading Nietzsche. Few hours rest in tent and then train to Liverpool Street. Met guy who arranges Secret Garden...back in London it was time to down two bottles of white wine with Tim the mad professor who isnt a professor...met beautiful Cuban Melissa, til V tore up her nr

Monday

Great performance rounding up RAW. next one 7th sept. cant wait! Good to be back in kentish!

Wednesday

Back in squat. reading Twilight of the Gods. Found black paint. Today Glitterbest. Tomorrow paint...and Rum Punch

Tuesday

2009-07-23T10:50:00.001-07:00

Cash! Me and V did Islington. Found financial admin for studios SPACE for atrist. Might be future studio sponsor. Meeting her again Friday at Studio Spaces Mare Street. Met actor Richard, friend of V at Barley Mow. Agreed to jam with me. Exciting stuff

Wednesday

2009-07-16T04:12:00.000-07:00

Glitterbest with Orlando Seale, Agnes Meadows and Olumide Popoola and me. Got mic instructions from UK's famous magician Paul Daniels in the house. And he did have a point, which I openly admitted...

Great night!

Then of to Macbeth for a wild band, containing an Iriish bloke I used to brake in to houses with in the winter and my assistant from the Not Night on backing vocals. I booked them for next Not Night, And the singer looks raw and cool.

Monday - Tuesday

2009-07-15T06:33:00.000-07:00

Monday

BCB Soho. Hung with Mark O'Rourke. The resident Homerton Hospital Artist.

Tuesday

Private views in West End with Mark and Alfred Camp

Thursday - Sunday

2009-07-14T07:17:00.000-07:00

Thursday

After much ado Krister Linder arrives for the Not Night. Success! Mark O'Rourke and Lottie arrive. A lot of new faces. After aprty at V's. I fall asleep exhausted as usual.

Friday

Shopping with christer V and Viva after drinks in Primrose Hill. Stay up all night chatting to Christer who's of on the sunrise flight to Stockholm

Saturday

After 3 hours sleep picked up be lesbian Vegan army van and driven to Kimberley, this Trustafarian festival in Norfolk. Got to ride in the van on the bed, so catch some shut eye. Arrive, perform, nail it! Now it's mayhem time: first date with Rebecca who I find in the main tent, we go sauna and steam tenting. Next day, next date Emily, 18 year old and one of the pilot's daughters which comes in handy since I get to fly for free!

Pilot on e come down over Kimberley mansion. Dangerously low!

Last night, Sunday, on roof top of Vegan van find Christine, part Arrakan Indian, part dancer, part choreographer. Have yet to get her out of my mind....

Thursday - Sunday

2009-06-28T14:29:00.000-07:00

Thursday

Salena Goddens birthday in Hampstead Heath. Jack, Paddy, Kelly, Sal, Simon, Alex, Me and Tanya, late arriver who I had to go meet at the station after champange, charlie and MDMA and try to act sober(first date). We all back to Salenas. Me an T had some fun, interupted by some woman who swallowed animale nitrate and couldnt find her bag...

Friday

Breakfast and Bloddy Mary's at Salena's. Lunch date with Laura, the ex school teacher. Dinner with T in Arsenal. Nice

Saturday

Swedish Midsummer party at Jimena's in Finsbury park. Hit it of with Jimena's flat mate Sofia, the lesbian...

Sunday

Binge drinking with V at the Nelson, Royal Oak(SHE still works there!) then back to V

Monday - Tuesday

2009-06-24T04:28:00.000-07:00

Monday

Back at the office then private view at Royal Albert Hall, loading docks. Most strained upper middle class effort at being urban. Street art commercial that will henceforth only be seen by the truckers. Back to the office for quick transcription of poem. Then BCB in Soho. Performed "Requiem" and "Solstice", specially written for Book Club Boutique's Midsummer special. A crowd of hard core cynic Soho legends sat quiet and wept IoI

After party at Gerry's with Mark and Alfred. Soraya, sweet to see her again. Free charlie from a guy in his 70's, named Steve, an ex music manager, showing us pics from his Ipod of him and Prince Harry at a Robbie Williams house party

Fell asleap on b us 25 after failing to convince Soraya I should sleep there. Home at 6.45

Tuesday

Lunch at V:s, then Champagne in the park all day in the sun in London Fields. Cat & Mutton with JS Barnett, then the Nelson, where I got a juicy, paid gig at a school teachers conference from Adrian

Sunday

2009-06-22T09:29:00.000-07:00

Breakfast by the church on Denmark Street. Down to Hyde park for One Taste at the free music festival. Bumped into Salenas vegan army, cool girls who offered me champagne. With blueberries. Salena arrived and Namoi Woddis and Raymond Antrobus and Dean Atta and Kate Tempest performed an I met this HOT chick when I was walking the former Eurythmics guitarist Lassie dog and called on it, "come her bitch" and she thought I called on her and it was hysterical. And we kissed and shared a muscle relaxer pill and she told me she was a model just home from 5 years in Bangkok and a daughter of a diplomat and I took her email

Saturday

2009-06-21T04:02:00.000-07:00

So Saturday, sweet Saturday. Did bit of work at the Apple Office. Wrote Solstice from Book Club Boutique Monday in Soho. Were I will have a date with Z. Went to Soho, met a Krishna monk, followed him to the temple for some food and chat. Crushed another monks faith in a discussion, Quite fun. Got a leaflet on the deeper meanings of yoga. Which I read in Lincoln in the Fields while munching away on a free BLT sandwich. Down to Shoreditch. Ran in to Julian, my Brazilian coke dealer. We did lines and free beer courtesy of Shiro at the Ten bells. Dragged in a hot couple of upper class Norweigan chicks and started making out with them in the Ladies room. Good night.

Saturday - Friday

2009-06-20T03:41:00.000-07:00

Saturday

Passing Clouds Dalston. Worst gig ever. Sound system didnt work. Sound engineer drunk. But met Kate Tempest. Wonderful Kate Tempest. Booked her for Glitterbest Wednesday. And beautiful Lucy Granville in her afro. Went home with a school teacher complete with glasses. Hot petit 25 year old, hairy like a frenchwoman but from north England. Hot number! Spent morning watching sun rise over Regents Canal and making out, then to hers for breakfast and afterglow..

Sunday

Monday

RUSH - the dirty two dozen at Book Club Boutique, Dick's bar, Romily Street, Soho. Salena's male erotic writing night went down really well. People came up to me afterwards to ask if I was published. Again, lovely Lucy Granville....we had a long chat, alass she has a boyfriend!

Dont they always? Had no dough to print my poems but with the kind help of Ben Graham and Tomas Adejumo, fellow poets, deed was done!

Tuesday

Of to the office on Regents Street, ran into Richard, Salena's ex. he just got home from Spain. We went to the French House Soho and downed drinks. It was not yet afternoon. Then to his houseboat in little Venice for some more. Hay fever sneeze put my phone in Regent's Canal(that same ol canal again, the stories it could tell!) Richard dives in 3!!! times to get it. SIM card saved! Of to Camden. Chatted up some lovely ladies, got drunk, lost touch fell asleep on the house boat. Richard afterpartied on K with the two leatherguys in the boat next door...

Wednesday

Back to office for some more work. Got discovered as an underwear model by red head 14-year old! He took me back to the designer's office on Fashion Street(!). Shoot in two weeks.

Thursday

Prep visuals all day at Apple store. Didnt work. Should have seen the signs. Not Night that night at Queen of Hoxton dint work either. acts forgot their instruments and a few of them were crap!

Friday

Shoot with Jac for Getty images at his Pentonville Rd studios with lovely Zaraya and Zola...seeing Zaraya later in the week...dark and lovely

Saturday - Sunday

2009-06-15T10:40:00.000-07:00

Saturday

Woke up, read the Independent about Obama's victory trail through Africa. He's well of to do something about Israel. Nethanyahu in TIMES says he want a Palestinian state too. Gully!

Met Tim, the mad physics professor on Brick Lane and we did a bottle of wine and cider at the Verge where they looove me! First question:" You sober yet?"

Started covering; Camden, Soho, Dalston, Hoxton Shoreditch with flyers and posters for the Not Night on the 18th.

Then did Passing Clouds in Dalston. Crap sound system, drunk sound engineer, but found Kate Tempest and a little northern chick that looked like a sexy French teacher. Lovely way to spend the morning. But first we watched the sun rise along the canal by Broadway Market.

Sunday

Did flyers on Brick Lane Sunday market, hung out with the girls and their friends at Bacon Street Project and grabbed some free beer with JS Barnett at "The world IS Yours" exhibit on Redchurch St, which has turned into an ongoing night club. Went upstairs to the Albion's roof terrace to meet my new friend Alexandra, lawyer at Swiss Bank. She's lovely!

Tuesday - Friday

2009-06-12T11:08:00.000-07:00

Tuesday

Woke up in Brett Anderssons Manager's Hackney Conversion, headed to Birmingham to perfrom in a Slam. Came back and the sunset over Marleybone was just amazing. Got of the bus and decided to walk. Headed down to Limehouse and got dragged in to the wrap party of "Sex Drugs & Rock n Roll". Indeed.

Wednesday

Spent all day designing flyers for Not Night - D - Day Celebrations on the 18th of June. Thanx to newly retained sponsorship from Baconstreetproject will pick them up Friday night. Ended up in house part in Squat City, Robin Hood Gardens, where I live. Met beautiful girl who was about to kiss me as her boyfriend came out and grabbed her.

Thursday

PR for night on the net. Met J S Barnett, photographer, friend and Not Night DJ. We talked about our upcoming shoot and Not Night stuff and decided to make a night of it. Via Baconstreetproject and grabbed Jac, the Pole, then of to Catch. Met nice girl from Wales. Call her Saturday I think. Got to observe the rules. perhaps invite her to Passing Cloud where I perform Sat Night.

Friday

Did a pilot on my poem "Gun" outside of the newly painted graf walls omn Sclater Street. A return en force to the ol manor so to speak. Director is Richard Nockles who saw me at Jont's Unlit in Brixton and fell in low with "Gun". He's had a meeting with Faber and Faber for funding and will take the finished piece to the BBC. Got flyers and posters for the Not Night, partly paid for by the Bacon Street Project, my new sponsor. Went out with Barney after a brief biz meeting at Charlie Wrights. Ended up at the Axe, Hackney Rd just in time for the changing, from strippers to club. Indeed...