Historic.

I've done a lot of gigs. Good ones. Bad ones. The huge, the tiny, the life-affirming, and the soul destroying. But never HISTORIC.

Well, until Saturday just gone, guesting for Laurie Wright at a sold out Scala in Kings Cross, with The Molotovs, A.R.T, and Super Swamp Jellyfish on support, and nearly a thousand sweaty and emotional people who are all still talking about it!

And I'm not sensationalising - 'historic' was the unanimous verdict. A huge culmination of a brand new wave of new young live bands in London waiting to burst into something bigger than itself, and on Saturday, it did. Packed to the rafters with people, excitement, emotions, and electricity in the air.

This is what we were all waiting for. It wasn't just a gig. It was a defining one for our generation. Live music has been officially and successfully reignited, finally catapulted beyond the underground, and with an utter VENGEANCE.

When Laurie messaged me about a month ago asking if I'd be up for hopping on this show, it wasn't even a case of 'I'll think about it'. I was gonna go anyway. Everyone and their dog was. It was the event of the year. But to play it? Man... WOULD I!

And let me tell you... what Saturday achieved is borderline unheard of. You know what music nowadays seems like. You know the state the scene's in. Turned out the missing ingredient over the last few years of seeming nothingness truly was just strength in unity. No true movement has ever occured with just one beneficiary.

I've been saying it for years, and we've achieved it in Sidcup, so to see it finally be achieved at a much larger scale is a testament to the power of working together and lifting each other up, and what Laurie and the Molotovs in particular have spearheaded.

Recently a group chat I'm in were observing about getting tastes of huge opportunities then back to normal life straight after. The Albert Hall one night and the corner of a Ladywell pub the next. Enormous festivals then empty social clubs. Conversations with celebrities then getting my ear bitten off by a drunk. No upward trajectory - just inconsistent spikes.

But now, seeing the continuing online frenzy that has no signs of fizzling out any time soon, I feel the trajectory is finally starting to happen for us. And most importantly - not 'me'. 'Us.' That factor is why things are changing. Anyway I think my next gig's in a pub somewhere!!!!

Blimey I love this scene. But as evident by this photo I'm still resistant to becoming a full time mod.

Thanks to Theo Winkley, Albert Jagger and someone at Rooz for the photos. Thanks to Laurie for trusting me to deliver, the band for being so welcoming and laughing at my rubbish jokes, and Reece Bailey for letting me borrow your sunglasses to calm me down from being scared x