Up North

Yo my people,

I am in Dundee having played two shows here already and we are about to get on a bullet train to Edinburgh, which is gonna be exciting. Before I left London, I did a video shoot for my single , which is called All night long , and that was quite a lot of fun for the most part , the whole thing looks like an Lamar meets hip-hop kind of video mixture , you'll understand when you see it . The whole day was a pleasurable experience right until the rain which you may remember I talked about in my last blog , The day after that I did a photo shoot for something I'm not allowed to talk about with an amazing photographer , who I'm also not allowed to talk about, but all will become clear in due course.

On Wednesday I left for Scotland we don’t know when we're coming back as we go to York, Newcastle and Bristol after, so Ben (my roadie) stocked up on music, films and magazines to keep us entertained over the next few days. The road trip is enjoyable and the carrier is a very nice size just like a small bus so Ben & Jenna and I are able to lie down and sleep most of the time. I had a gig the night I got here which wasn't great due to my awful sound setup, but the crowed seemed to enjoy it. I had a day off the next day so I went clubbing, I went back to the hotel and watched 5 episodes of battlestar (love that show) then went to sound check for my next gig that morning, the gig was much better than the night before, which went down really well .
Night just after gig I woke up at 5 in the morning don’t know why so I just went through some emails, checked my MySpace to see what’s good, and then I went to sleep again .
We had another day off yesterday, I did some shopping, ran into one of my old mates who I used to model with back in the day. Then I went for lunch with the boys and went back to my room to finish off watching battlestar.

That’s all peepz, holla at ya when I get back.

God's Tears

hey , this has gotta be quick cause , I’m in the studio an got a tight deadline but I've got a few minutes till I have to go and do some work . I finished the doing the hole mic nights think for a little while , ok so the music video we have been working on is done now, it went really well by the way , better than expected actually, I just gotta wait for my guys to edit it so I can’t wait. I had to get sleep in the car while I was waiting for my next scene, we was still filming after 5 in the morning, it was more fun and more comfortable then sleep on the floor that’s for sure, anyway just a few miles outside of action I was standing in the back lounge having a laugh with the boys
when I noticed smoke coming out the back of the one of the lights. I was quite scared has the film crew was having a 5min break and was all outside smoking and at first I was thinking maybe I should find the power supply and turn it off , thought it was like exhaust fumes causing horrific amounts of pollution and probably some kind of carbon monoxide poisoning . but before I had a chance to tell anyone the rain started to fall, problem was the scene we were filming at was on a rooftop, and it was crazy when I all the crew had to all rush in to save the gear from getting wet, ramming all the gear under the tent, They saved the gear but we had to wait for the rain to stop before we could carryon filming.

Ok that’s it for now, more next week.

Stay safe peoplez

Up's & Downs

Wotz going on peepz,
so I've just finished the main section of my album this week, which I am very happy with so far.

I been going to a lot of open mic nights this week, I went to two the same night, one in west London and the other in south-east London last Friday , and have gone to a open mic nights almost every night , one in Nottingham , Leeds and Sheffield, oh I did have a interview/session on upfront FM on Sunday which was kool, I was not there that long so I hope to get to go back for longer next time, sorry about that, and thanks for having me guys.

I must say that I have been feeling quite depressed though, not too sure what the main reason is, maybe that’s because it’s a few different things that’s been on my mind, I ain't had the chance to see my brother in prison in so long it’s unreal, this music thing is so time consuming, but I don’t wanna make excuses I must try to go see him who soon, I miss my little bro L, I also got a call from a friend of mind who’s cousin got court up in some knife crime shit and is in hospital, what the fuck is going on? This shit has got to stop I swear, too much too often and nuff craziness, if I had a teenage kid I would send them to live somewhere outside the UK that’s for sure. These days should be the best times of my life right now has I am doing so well with this music thing and its getting better and better in so many different areas but to be honest , I feel life in the outside world is just so depressing right now, and I can’t help but feel a bit lost.
On a lighter note my former single (titled On Da Road) has had just gone over 20,000 downloads so I well pleased about that, so I would like to think everybody who has download it, much love and respect to ya, and to those who have not downloaded it yet, WHY NOT? lol, it’s now a free download from my MySpace page, so go get dat!! And once again I am both delighted and very grateful for everybody who has gone and downloaded it, I'm overwhelmed by how much people like the song and could never have expected the reception it has been getting, here on the internet and on the underground radio scene. THANK YOU.

See ya soon,

Budgie

Operation Melt Down

Hello world,

Just another update for ya so here goes, the week has been very busy to say the least,
on Wednesday, I went to on open Mic night , which I try to do has often has I can, If you was their then maybe you would understand what I’m going on about but I felt very out of sorts, has most of the mc’s were doing their thing but truth be told I did not understand half of what they were saying, I only seemed to cotton on to a few words here and there like yea yea and me me and bits like that, I thought to myself dem its like I left England and gone to a land where people just grunt and moan on the Mic, one dude was trying to come across with a heartfelt performance type thing, but has I said it all sounded a bit gibberish and he almost sounded like he was going to burst out into tears for a little while has he had a very crying like tone to his voice, I did understand that he was rapping about hard times and such but not being funny he sounded like a baby whose rattle got taken away from him, next up was a guy from Leeds I think it was, he was rapping on one of his own hip-hop beats which he made and I must say it sounded really good, a nice clubby track that is very danceable so I was very impressed, until he opened his mouth that is, he was chanting for the longest time then started rapping but about half way into his verse he came across like he had forgotten his words of something has he just started saying arr err and that’s the stuff, big it up big, I mean what the fuck was all that about? Bless him for trying though, remember it not easy for most people to go on stage and perform, but for me at that point the performance was over has he was back to chanting on the rest of the track with no verse in sight, but anyway after that I got up on stage and done my thing I only performed one track and free styled on another but I think it went well, the crowd seemed to warm up to me very nicely so I was happy, and i guess if it was a crap show I would of heard about it by now but has always I will leave them comments for others to review, love me or hate me ha-ha.

Thursday I was in the studio recording most of the day, the next day I got up around 8am and went shopping for a few last minute bits that I needed for the video shoot, after I done that I was mainly at home that day on the phone sorting out and confirming arrangements and sending emails that sort of thing, I must say the day seemed to run away very fast for me but around 6pm I had to stop all I was doing and make sure I put in a few hours rehearsing time before I sort myself out to go to bed.

Saturday I got up at 10:30am, don’t ask me why I woke up so late after having an early night I don’t understand it myself! I was more pissed off at the fact that I have had no phone call from anybody to ask what was going and where I was at, but anyway a few hours later I spoke to the who’s who and was dressed and ready to go out and to my thing at this video shoot, all I had to do next was load up my gear in the car, head over to west London to meet up with the actress, but by the time I got their I was so upset it was unreal, has it took me just under three hours to get their because of some dem water main that had been fucked on the A4 after Chiswick round about junction and the traffic tale back was all the way has far back has Battersea, and it took me an hour and a half just to get back to south London after coming back from west London, which upset me even more, has you can imagine my phone had been ringing off the chain so some much because I was so late, it come to the point where it just stopped ringing at all for a long while and the next calls were just normal and totally unrelated, but I got there in the end it was very late about 6:30 in the evening, but I was determined to get some work done has I did not want the hole day to be a total waste of time, so has soon as I got out of the car I started making my phone calls and rallying all the troops I could to keep the plan of this video shoot alive, has you may or may not of guessed some of the places which were booked to used for the shoot was or would be a total right off by the time we would have gotten there from one film location to the other, but my director Mr Speakz was very understanding about my effort and my willingness to salvage the concept of still filming even if most of the day and bookings had been lost, so we working has much with the plan and storyboard has much as we could, but worked around and adjusted the filming and planed scenes for what we had to work with, in the end, we filmed the rest of the evening into the deep hours of the morning and had to call it a day around 5am, so by this point we filmed more of less most of the footage we needed to get us back on track for the next scenes to be filmed in two weeks time, has you may of also guessed we did have to do a lot of major adjustments to the filming ideas that was planned and put in and place at the beginning, but I think we worked very hard and although a lot of it was totally different to the original plans I think we did very well.

I must say thank you to all the people involved who helped maintain the video shoot and supported it in what felt like our darkest hour.

I think that’s it for now peepz so I will be back next week with more updates, look after, take care and remember to stay tuned.

Your boy

Budgie

When the shit hits the fan

hey peepz ,
This week I've been kool with all the goings on , Thursday I spent the whole day in the studio recording the last vocals for my up and coming single, Friday went out to lunch with a few friends of mine down in Clapham, then went on when on to my cousins house and chilled out there the rest of the night, much needed time out though, Saturday I attended my friends photo shoot that he had setup, and I just came along to help out has I have experience in this area from my modelling days, and the joke part about it is, that I ended up with the camera in hands taking the photos has he had to disappear, which was fine by me, problem was I was just unprepared to do that job, talk about thrown in to the deep end!! but I did my best, after hours of taking photos of the selection of models, while not getting much of a break mind you and contently feeling like I’m melting from be hide the lights from all the generated heat, the Dem memory card from the camera was not working, I found this out while trying to upload the photos to the computer, the photos were on the memory card but the card itself which I found out in the end was a fake duplication of the real Sony memory kind which was meant to be used, has you can imagine I was livid, we worked very hard that day just to end up with a few crappy side shot photos taking by the other camera, the model Nadia who I spent most of the time with taking the photos for, was so understanding about it and did not make a fuss and was very professional in her conduct which was kool but I still felt like total shit for what happened.

Sunday however, I had to have another lazy day; hey I was worn out from all the heating at the photo shoot, so my body was having none of it. I did a have phone interview with some west midland college mag that evening before submitting to the sofa for the rest of the day though, I do have lots more info to tell you guys about the last part of my week but I’m trying to keep it real so I’m not gonna lie to ya, I just can’t be asked right now, but be sure I will make up for it next week,

Take care all and remember to holla at ya boy.

Budgie

A Big Bor & Alittle War

Hi Peepz ,
What’s been happening this week that I got to tell you , well this week has been pretty stranded really except for Wednesday I got some new film gear that was being imported in from the USA, has I’m starting up a filming company at the end of the year for music videos, documentary’s and short films.

I had to attend court on Friday, not for being rude or doing something real bad has most people would be expecting of me, it was about ending a management agreement from an now former management ass hole who will remain nameless but most people who know me will know who I’m talking about, I won my case so I’m very happy about that and now I’m free at last from the binding shackles of this fool, so thanks God for that! When people ask me what happened and why we ended up in court? All I can really say is that this guy was more like a rogue trader then a artist manager, he had very good references on paper and seemed to be well hooked up in the music industry, but what I came to learn is that he was a money gabbing whore who thought that I was not on top of my game and thus not keeping an eye on him, big mistake! Always remember peeps that a manager is hired to work for you so always keep an eye on what they are doing and that whatever they are meant to be doing on your behalf is in your best interests, because if it’s not, then what are they being paid for? Apart from that it’s been pretty boring and I have mainly spent most of my time working on my website still, not been in the studio much the last few weeks so I am starting to get withdrawal symptoms, Haha but next week I hope it’s a different story!

First of many?

Right, so here goes, it's my first blog so please forgive me if its kind of crap, I’m just gonna flow and say what’s on my mind and lets you know about any goings on, so anyways, had one crazy gig with a lot of nuts cases, one guy even came up on stage and trying to strip while I was performing but in the end I have to say the performance was brilliant in fact I think I was remember that night for a very long time, it was a laugh.

What else , yes I have started the long task of setting up a new website so that will be lots of fun (not) , which is not how I planned to send my next few weekends but I guess its got to be done, I will keep you posted on that note tho,

I am also getting ready to shoot my new video in a few weeks so a lot of planning is going on at the moment, it will be directed by a friend of mine, Speakz from Speakworld Entertainment who is amazing when it comes to filming, He always seems to be able to make a lot out of a little if you get what I mean so I think the video will turned out really kool, not really sure what gonna be happening in it yet but I got a meeting coming up this week to chat about it, which suits me perfectly. I hope the other actors in the video are gonna be easy to work with but I guess I will just have to wait and see.