Evie's London Escort Blog

I was out walking out and about in London yesterday enjoying the rare bit of clear sky and mild air… it was glorious out wasn’t it, it was almost like a proper Spring day for the entire day- I wandered down around Marylebone way, and had a thoroughly good time- Though I undid all my good exercise with a piece of pecan pie and a latte, but hey ho! It’s wet and shiver-y again today, making me bloody glad I got the weather when I did and made a good go of it.

Anyhow- One thing caught my eye while I was out. It was a poster for a gig/festival type thing- And the big headline names right up at the top caught my eye. One was Grandmaster Flash.

I’m absolutely positive that every person on earth knows the lyrics to White Lines, it is just a test you have to pass at one stage or another. That is a song with a classic sound, and it’s genius that it has never got old, you can play it anytime.

The other big headliner on the poster was Salt n Pepa.

Now I was totally into Salt n Pepa when I was a kid… Their album very necessary came out when I was probably 9 or 10, and I taped their music video for Whatta Man with en Vogue off MTV so I could dance to it without anyone spotting me

(Probably everyone has done that with something at some point!  I caught my brother dancing in a bathtowel to the Prince song “Batdance”, so I know I’m not alone… when he was a kid that is, not recently   ).

I was wayyyy too young to actually understand or comprehend some of the very suggestive lyrics in S&P’s music thankfully, but fortunately was still precocious enough to know I’d get in trouble for listening to them and had to do it quietly). Anyway- So Salt n Pepa were probably the most awesome people when I was a kid.

Only today as I wikipedia the album does a lot of that come back to me, and I remember on the album they had a short verbal PSA (Public service announcement) which depicted a woman trying to tell her partner that she was HIV positive, and the man denying it and etc etc.. I probably didn’t get that either at the time, but now reading the transcript I think it’s a f**king well done bit and very clever, and was probably 100x more effective to teens or young adults at the time than any government ads might have been (I’m assuming the USA did have some sort of health service warnings about STD’s on tv, before the abstinence-only brigade of the last decade decided that condoms will result in promiscuity, not the other way around).

So Salt n Pepa were pretty terrific just for having that bit of dialogue on their album, and rather ahead of their time too. And ‘Push It’ was an absolutely dynamite track, and I cannot believe that it came out in 1986.

Anyway- That was an aside, and it just all came back when I saw that poster.

The poster also had some other big names like Roots Manuva, and Autechre. So some names that have been or are relatively well known and are all playing this gig!

Then I looked down at the bottom of the poster.

Where do you think this gig is taking place??

BUTLINS Holiday Resort, Minehead.

And with that, the mightiest oaks in the forest all fall down. Butlins. I don’t want to hate, because I know that they’ve never attained really lasting number one success, and everyone has families and needs a paycheck and must do what is best for themselves… But Butlins???  It’s like they fell down and when they woke up it was This is Spinal Tap.

I googled butlins and the first two images to come up were:

and

Whereas Salt n Pepa:

Bad Ass. What Happened?

At least we’ll always have Push It

xxx