Re: the Tony Fordham/Danny Bukem doc. on BBC2 last night, wot a corker! It
was hysterical, we were all watchin it after videoing it & coming in from
the Blue Note early dis morning and were all creased up ... Tony Fordham,
Bukem's partner in Good Looking Records, is one well 'ard London wide boy
with one mega motor mouth but he's right on da ball, one dead smart, well
sussed geezer who takes no messin and he's dead funny.... When they were in
Tokyo and he threw a wobbly in a record shop when he noticed all these
bootlegs of Bukems stuff, tryin to explain to the Japanese guys who were
showing him around who hardly spoke any English ...
"They're doin fuckin bootlegs of me records man,
How do I sue a record shop?
How do I get em to court?
Fuckin bastards!"
and his wife Sonia, one fierce, wonderful lady from ooop North, she had the
huuumoungous task of trying to get the crew over to Canada, like a teacher
with a naughty bunch of lads, like a lollopin tangle of puppies straining
at the leash ... they drove her to distraction, Bukem only just gettin thru
immigration, Conrad fallin asleep on the plane and missin the stop! her
tearin her hair out & climbin the wall, thinking they hadn't made it over
the border, that they'd been done for drugs or summat, when they were all
out shoppin for Kangol hats! :) da little rascals!
Tony & Sonia, Respect! We loved ya!
but the essential core of the whole programme was captured for me in the
words of a girl, totally off er face, in the loos at a club in London ...
"This is drum'n'bass
this is not jungle that just goes wwah waah waah
just fuckin beats,
Danny makes fuckin MUSIC man
that is fuckin cool
and it touches you here (pointing to her heart)
and it touches you here too (pointin down a bit) ..."
A girl after my own heart, cos I'm sooooo sick of all these guys who think
Bukem and co are some sort of wussy side of jungle, the jazzy musical side
... not dark and hardcore enuff ... Down at our beloved (and sorely
missed) Speed every week, on the tiny little dancefloor ... that fuckin
holy trinity of Bukem, Fabio & Groove took me flying and soarin way, waaaay
beyond places i've reached on any other dancefloors, mind & body totally
intoxicated, totally ecstatic! ... fuckin hardcore on the feet and hardcore
in da heart man, no mistakin! ...
Aless
ps: and Phwwwooooaarrrr, Danny is one well tasty geezer! da cooolest man
with da cooolest specs!