Sunday 24th July.
Amy Winehouse died yesterday...23rd of July 2011, never forget where I was. It was the BRIT School's 20th Anniversary Celebration and we were raving in the Obie Theatre having a BANGING time and Ace & Vis Radio 1Xtra Dj's and ex school students were djing when the news came in that she had died. I remember how the mood of the whole school and the event slowly changed the realisation that this Young Girl who had an AMAZING SOULFUL RAW VOICE and that was emotionally lost had died at the young age of 27. Her being an EX Brit School student and it being the 20th Anniversary of the schools existence also made the atmosphere abit weird, made some people feel like they were connected to her abit more. I loved her voice and her...I remember meeting, well seeing her outside across this bar/club opposite the GAP in Camden by the Odeon, and me talking loud saying "Is that Amy Winehouse" and her shouting back at me "Hello Love you alright?" SHIT I had the fattest smile ever, mouth was proper sore after from smiling all the way back home on the Tube from Camden to Morden, the LAST stop on Northern Line. Many people will say yeah we saw this coming but I was maybe one of those "Deluded" fans who said She'll recover and she'll make another banging album. I even have her on my Inspiration/Idols photo album on facebook from October 2009, the caption being "Singer, Crack Head, Mad, But Still a Role Model 4 Me & Inspiration Cause she's someone with full of LOVE and she's one of the best at what she does in my eyes..Amy Winehouse"
I was supposed to write this blog about BRIT 20, but I could go on for days about how amazing she was. Crazy how someones music and life can touch you so much right? ...... Someone told me their tears wont dry on their own for now...I feel their pain.
The even at BRIT was amazing, the school celebrating 20 Years of existence and their success. Seeing so many old faces coming through and so much talent in the building. Just a nice vibe. Feel "Blessed" to be apart of it and the school, and hopefully leave there next year and be able to make the school proud by doing what I LOVE doing which is ACTING. I was listening to Ace and Vis today on their radio coverage from the Celebrations at BRIT and one of the teachers who has been with the school since it opened in 1991 was being interviewed said "you get some special students who are very focused and know what they want and are willing to DIE for it, this can kind of look selfish to other students but its just them wanting to Succeed" & I felt that was almost like who I am and sometimes how I can be seen which can annoy people, its ashame cause I never want to seem selfish or someone that has an EGO but I am seen that way, but I hope people see the MASSIVE amount of LOVE I have and want to share with people.
Ace and Vis said something yesterday that just made me smile, "they can't stop us from DREAMING and getting our DREAMS we go to the BRIT SCHOOL"
Anyways Im off this, back to chasing the dream
Sunday, 24 July 2011
Magical 3days
14th July 2011 feels great, I feel blessed lol, because over the last 3days Ive seen worked produced by friends, when I say produced I mean some of us were actors, some of us were directors and some of us were writers watching our work being performed. Basically it's collaboration between the Warehouse and the Brit school. See's young playwrights producing new theatre for their generation. The writing is produced during script writing classes over the years and all the plays are directed by current(US) students. The work ranges from comedy to the surreal and from modern fairy tales to thrillers.
So the last three days has just been amazing like I said earlier I feel blessed and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be lying if I said everyone else did too *thinks about it* okay they feel something I just don't think they'd use the word Blessed. Cause I reckon everyone really understood how talented everyone else was, the vibe outside, in the theatre, facebook, twitter or even via texts felt really good, appreciative. It was also an experience that I reckon opened people's eyes in other things or made them realise I don't want to act, direct or write or I JUST want to do this.... or for some others thinking I don't want to do any of this but were still appreciative to what they were seeing.
Me personally I felt blessed(lool I really love this word) to be apart of this whole season and then be able to work with such an impressive play, with a tight bond cast and director. Our performances went okay, we stressed about it too much instead of just enjoying the moment.
But I didn't want this post to be too much about me, well the blog is about me, but I've just enjoyed these last 3days in Particular cause I saw everyone happy, proud for once another, creatively inspired showing Love for once like EVERYONE showing love..it was one of those days if Black Eyed peas asked me "Where is The Love" I would gladly directed them to the warehouse Theatre and The BRIT School.
So the last three days has just been amazing like I said earlier I feel blessed and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be lying if I said everyone else did too *thinks about it* okay they feel something I just don't think they'd use the word Blessed. Cause I reckon everyone really understood how talented everyone else was, the vibe outside, in the theatre, facebook, twitter or even via texts felt really good, appreciative. It was also an experience that I reckon opened people's eyes in other things or made them realise I don't want to act, direct or write or I JUST want to do this.... or for some others thinking I don't want to do any of this but were still appreciative to what they were seeing.
Me personally I felt blessed(lool I really love this word) to be apart of this whole season and then be able to work with such an impressive play, with a tight bond cast and director. Our performances went okay, we stressed about it too much instead of just enjoying the moment.
But I didn't want this post to be too much about me, well the blog is about me, but I've just enjoyed these last 3days in Particular cause I saw everyone happy, proud for once another, creatively inspired showing Love for once like EVERYONE showing love..it was one of those days if Black Eyed peas asked me "Where is The Love" I would gladly directed them to the warehouse Theatre and The BRIT School.
Saturday, 9 July 2011
"Big Dreams" Is In Full Effect
*Wiping tears from his eyes* Yes we start the blog with bad news, today we lost part of prince Jesse...due to my personal stylists assissant, cause my normal one werent in(Lied the barbers in croydon/selhurst) MESSED UP my hair, which resulting in me telling them to shave it off, and now I look like Seal's handsome lost brother. I envisioned a different hair style for my character I would be playing in the next production I'm in and showed them a picture and the guy does the opposite WTF!!! *breaths*
Okay so yeah this blog has been delayed meant to post it yesterday but I didn't and another blogger's blog(wilma) kind of inspired me to write abit more. So basically these last two months if you follow me on twitter or facebook or bbm or you just know me you would know I have been working on community theatre. A kids play about using your imagination, that was put together by Art, Techinical Theatre, Theatre & Dance. Hated it at first but ended up loving it, and I'm sure I'm not the only person that would say this. The long hours and the negative working enviourment and also the segregation between the strands didn't help, but somehow we came together. I think the turning point might of been promoting our show to the community of Croydon at their local shopping centre. The 2nd massive turning point for me and most people I reckon was the nignt before of our first show, realising that over 2 days we would be performing 5 shows to over 3,000 people.Weather it be organising a show, or dancing or acting in it, most of us were doing the thing we love, PERFORMING. It hit us That we were doing very things that we dream of doing for the rest of our lives at the tender age of 16/17 and that some people will never ever get the chance to do that, here comes the cheesy part..."That is what dreams are made of"
So now like Jay z says, "On to the next one" which is next week, the amazing play that i mentioned in one of my earlier blogs, "Pills" by Paige Fiddler being directed by the amazing Wilma who is also an amazing friend (she's probably trying to hold back a smile now) but yeah we got two shows of that, and I just want to carry that buzz, that flame that we got from ashcroft and push even further with this. I'm excited to get back on stage I don't feel at home at my own home, but I feel comfortable and homish on stage.
This blog is like all over the place and if this was an english exam I'd get a D cause it has no structure but this is how it feels when you have loads of feelings and are on a high, like Will would say "its a new thought, top of the head" cause right now its exciting times, two productions in 2 weeks. Doing what I love to do, ACTING! I had that feeling again where I really cannot and honestly mean it, I can NOT IMAGINE MYSELF DOING ANYTHING ELSE apart from ACTING. Thats when you know you in Love, where something is forever in your heart and you should never be apart...
Anyways im off this, going back to look at the mirror and cry over what the barbers has done.... *Tries to use his imagination* "MAYBE MAYBE MAYBE my HAIR GREW BACK NOW!"
Okay so yeah this blog has been delayed meant to post it yesterday but I didn't and another blogger's blog(wilma) kind of inspired me to write abit more. So basically these last two months if you follow me on twitter or facebook or bbm or you just know me you would know I have been working on community theatre. A kids play about using your imagination, that was put together by Art, Techinical Theatre, Theatre & Dance. Hated it at first but ended up loving it, and I'm sure I'm not the only person that would say this. The long hours and the negative working enviourment and also the segregation between the strands didn't help, but somehow we came together. I think the turning point might of been promoting our show to the community of Croydon at their local shopping centre. The 2nd massive turning point for me and most people I reckon was the nignt before of our first show, realising that over 2 days we would be performing 5 shows to over 3,000 people.Weather it be organising a show, or dancing or acting in it, most of us were doing the thing we love, PERFORMING. It hit us That we were doing very things that we dream of doing for the rest of our lives at the tender age of 16/17 and that some people will never ever get the chance to do that, here comes the cheesy part..."That is what dreams are made of"
So now like Jay z says, "On to the next one" which is next week, the amazing play that i mentioned in one of my earlier blogs, "Pills" by Paige Fiddler being directed by the amazing Wilma who is also an amazing friend (she's probably trying to hold back a smile now) but yeah we got two shows of that, and I just want to carry that buzz, that flame that we got from ashcroft and push even further with this. I'm excited to get back on stage I don't feel at home at my own home, but I feel comfortable and homish on stage.
This blog is like all over the place and if this was an english exam I'd get a D cause it has no structure but this is how it feels when you have loads of feelings and are on a high, like Will would say "its a new thought, top of the head" cause right now its exciting times, two productions in 2 weeks. Doing what I love to do, ACTING! I had that feeling again where I really cannot and honestly mean it, I can NOT IMAGINE MYSELF DOING ANYTHING ELSE apart from ACTING. Thats when you know you in Love, where something is forever in your heart and you should never be apart...
Anyways im off this, going back to look at the mirror and cry over what the barbers has done.... *Tries to use his imagination* "MAYBE MAYBE MAYBE my HAIR GREW BACK NOW!"
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