so wednesday night i travelled to kingston for the rebel alliance tour, having missed the camden date for paddy's farewell ting. in all honesty, i went purely to see the skints play but was pleasantly surprised at the other two sets: chris murray, an acoustic solo artist and mouthwash, a london based ska band. unfortunately random hand couldn't make it for reasons i don't actually know but it woulda been cool to be introduced to them as well

night started off somewhut quiet as spragg and i stood to the side (where the switched-on radiators were aha) head noddin' and boppin' to chris murray accompanied by skints jon and jamie. not quite jason mraz style but did remind me of, was upbeat and strong and his voice was ..pleasant and relaxing.. for lack of better words. earned our respect from the beginning with his alkaline trio t-shirt and wkd facial hair hah. enjoyed the singalong bits where the crowd chirped 'i need water, i need love' a lot. reckon it was something i would bust out whilst chilling with a few friends and that

after chris murray was the skints. playing basically all the songs from the album cept sociopath (which was a shammme) they deff got us moving. wasn't all that aware of what was going on behind but definitely remember getting a skank on and headbangin' a couple a times. think the songs that stood out ta me were contemplations and bright girl, atmosphere was definitely epic when everyone around me were shouting 'don't hold no fear'. ar shit and change the channel was up there in faves as well. umm, oh yeah, broke into a laugh when someone said 'i think they need some saxual healing' before marcia's wkd sax solo, too good. whole set was awesome doe and the heat was rising fast (with the help of the radiators which were ON). only downer was when i got pushed from behind and jogged josh's mic stand, didn't quite get knocked over but was pretty worried i'd fcked things up!

then came mouthwash. had never heard of em really til this night but surprised how fast i got into them. after a couple of songs standing and feeling the beat etc i put my dumb hoody down and joined the rest of the crowd with tha dancing and killing. no idea what the songs were called (apart from one i recall being 'that girl') but highlights were those upbeat choruses that turned up the sweating even more than it wo. couple a small punches/elbows in the face but no bruises so that's aiite, do remember sophie properly falling over at one point ;)

overall, brill night and £7 well spent. definitely beats this weird music coming from the flat either next to mine or above. probably upstairs tho, my upstairs neighbours can srsly suck it, they keep me up every night aha, i'm out.. peace xx