bonjour everyone and welcome to my blog update for august. im currently in a lovely villa 25 min from alicante writting this and its a scorching 35% deg with a nice cool pool to chill out in if i fancy a dip. why am i here??? simple’s (as the mearcats on tv would say haha) because im in need of a chill out and i have a run of 50 pritchard vs dainton gigs coming up on the run up to xmas but more on that later.
im staying in the villa (nik and bevs villa and the owners of the promised land bar and kitchen in cardiff) for 10 days with my lovely mrs vicci just chilling and catching some sun along with doing a shit load of training at the same time. the beach is 8 miles away so were cycling to the beach off road (let me tell you thats hard work in this heat) then doing a mile swim in the sea and then ride home to our villa to a 4 mile run. so i suppose were doing a mini triathlon every day. it feels ace doing it although knackering at the same time it doesnt half make you feel good. when done i cook us up a nice meal and polish off a few bottles of rose and do the whole thing over again the following day. the reason for all the training is so that im fit and ready enough for the cardiff half marathon but more on that later.
since i’ve been here i’ve brought with me 2 books tommy land (tommy lees aughtobiography) and evel kenival’s biography. i started reading tommy lee’s first as ive read the motley cru book ‘the dirt’ which is well worth a read as its ‘thee’ most rock’n'roll story of hedinism and excess i’ve ever read and being a big fan of their music i thought tommys book will be a good one to kick off with. i wasnt disapointed and was quite literaly on the edge of my seat reading it. fuck me sideways he’s been through some bad luck and more court appearences, fines, fights, death in his pool and generaly a load of shit by which he really didnt deserve much of it but more of a case of welcome to the mad world of HOLLYWOOD/AMERICA. getting involved which such a high profile actress and playboy model didnt help matters for him but throughout the book he came across as a really cool bloke and by the end of the book i felt really sorry for him. it tells a good story of succsess, excess, touring, family, lonleyness, fame and the price of it and it really shows how shit “some” americans can be to their own people something which is more or less now happening in the UK today. its a shame but thats life i suppose in the 21st century. read it it’s a really good book.
my second book evel kenival i was looking forward to as he’s been a hero of mine since i was a little boy and playing with that wind up bike he had out in the 70′s, if your old enough you’ll know what im on about. when i saw a documentry that louis theroux did on him a few years ago i was very disapointed to see he was a compleate prick. i dont know if any of you saw it but he was a proper NOB. still, i wanted to read his book as he’s done some fucked up shit in his time and lived a life few of us will ever experience if any. yep, right from the word GO it had me gripped. this guy really is a fucking pyscho. yes, he’s a dick but you cant take away his courage and maddness away from him. he never once went back on his word (sometimes a little hypocritical with day to day things but when i come to a jump never), if he said he was gonna do something he was gonna do it even if he knew he was putting himself in hospital for a few months and not make the jump at all because he didnt want to let his fans down. he spent 3 years of his life in hospital, cheated death god knows how many times once a few hours away from death from hep c and a failling liver but at the last min recived a donor, earnt 60 million dollars and spent $63, shagged over 2,000 women, drank more wild turkey whisky than anyone etc etc the list goes on. some say ledgend and he really is a ledgend because he was a first to do it all and he kick started the whole extreme sports thing you could say and looked up to by by the likes of matt hoffman (himself being a kind of evel kenival himself but on a bmx). but at the same time he was a very selfish man and very bitter about many things and in the end i suppose he became a prick but respect where respect is due.
ive decided to do the marathon again this year and i think im most prob gonna do it every year from now on. i dont know what it is but i really enjoy the buzz of doing a marathon. if you’ve done it before then you’ll understand. i know its only a half marathon but still its hard work running 13 miles but at the same time very enjoyable. i’ve applied for the london full marathon in aprill next year but still waiting to be accepted, if i do then it’ll be my first full marathon so fingers crossed.
once again im running for cancer reasearch wales and hopping to gather a bit of money for the charity. if you’d like to sponsor me you can at www.justgiving.com/mpritchardswyd it’ll be much appreciated and as you can see going to a worthwhile cause. i’d like to thank leigh from subway for gathering together a decent amount of money for my cause to which i’ll proudly be wearing their subway (too HOT to SPICEY???? HOT HOT hahaha) t’shirts on the day. my training for the marathons been going well, when im acctually at home i’ll start with my mile swim early in the morning at cardiff’s olympic pool then i’ll go for a run around roath park lake straight after. ive managed a distance of 6 miles which is approx 3 times round the lake acording to my nike + trainers. on the subject of nike + what an amazing invention, sync it all with your itunes put the little disc in your shoes whilst you plug a little plastic thing into your ipod set your distance and run whilst someone speaks to you through your ear phones telling you of your progress all wirelessly, now that is fucking mad. i love it and makes running so much more fun especially when you log all your running info onto the nike + web site, its like a facebook/myspace for runners in which it’ll tell you of your distance, time and callory loss and you can set your mates on it diffrent challenges, bloody brilliant and a massive congrats to whoever invented it.
the marathons on oct 18th so come down and show some support. unlike last year i’ve made sure that non of our gigs land on the night before the race as there is no way im running that 13 miles with 3 hours sleep and a whole bottle of jack daniels in my stomach, it almost polished me off last year hahahaha tit. im out to beat my time of 1 hour 42 mins so wish my luck people.
on the subject of gigs i got told the other day by my agent that were penciled inn for 50 gigs running up to xmas, BLOODY HELL thats a proper tour we have going on. this will be the longest stint me and daint have ever done and im looking forward to it. 50 gigs is a lot of party’s and a shit load of booze hahaha but im mentaly and phsicaly ready for it. how im gonna fit my training inn around it i dont know but i’ll manage. look at the bottom of this write up and you can see a list of the dates. were gonna be filming the whole thing and will be releasing a pritchard vs dainton live on tour with dj hudge dvd for you all to check out. i know for sure that me and daint are putting £10 each into a kitty for every gig and then whoever wins the least amount of spunky dunky competitions (part of the act and damn right wrongness) gets a ticket for 2 to las vegas for a holiday so it’s all to play for. who will be in vegas this xmas???????? me or daint??? time will tell. see you all at the gigs.
the 2 of us along with dj hudge www.djhudge.com have been touring most of the year to tell you the truth and have succesfully toured almost all the chicago rocks chain of bars in which there are 45 of them. we’ve now started on the jumping jacks venues and have done a few independent ones too and all have been an amazing laugh. a big thanks to chicago rocks for really looking after us whilst we’ve visited your premisses you really did do a good job and made sure we always had what we wanted and the same goes to everyone else too.
im also so glad that berties nightclub booked us for a string of gigs running for the summer months. i think we had 5 or 6 booked inn and to go back to newqay after not visiting the place for so many years was ace. i went to newquay 10 years on the trot for the boardmasters surf comp which is held every year for a week and is the best event. a whole week of surfing skateboarding and a party every night organised. the very first year i went there was about 1995 as i got asked to mc the vert ramp for all the skaters which turned out to be the best week i had there. it was just the experience of all these skaters wholed up in their own house for a week proper partying every day the kind of thing that reminds you of being young with no care in the world than where’s the next party, so amazing. i remember it was me, allie cairns, dave allen, andy scott and pete king. it was this gang of skaters that were to be going back and forth to newquay for the next 10 years even if the pack of us got split up a little as the years went by but we were all still there and the storys of what went down in those years are scared on my mind for ever. i met some really nice people there in those 10 years i.e the sports vision guy’s, jodie and carla, luke and all the surfers and i even met my good friend jamie baker there too and thats was the year it really went off with that psycho hahaha and the birth of bum off hill (now thats a compleatly diffrent story altogether) which is on the edge of the cliff.
anyway it was good to be back as i hadnt been for about 4 years due to working on sanchez etc so when i heard we were booked inn for all those gigs at bearties i was stoked. me and liz aka gene wildman went down early for the sat night so we could make a weekend of it and jodie let us stay at her house. i hadnt seen her for 4 years so we were looking forward to partying and reliving all those newquay nights out and it didnt disapoint. carla was djing along with luke in ‘chy’ bar so we went there which used to be the old KOOLA bar and then popped into the ledgendary sailors for a few. the place hasnt changed one bit and still had the same door men. they knew who i was as i’ve put them through hell over the years hahahaha and been chucked out quite a few times for various stupid things but i assured them i’d behave which i did. a good night was had by all which ended up with me on my todd in jodie house everyone alse asleep and me with a load of plant food everywhere and a bottle of wine, nice.
i woke in a mess and myself gene and jodie sat in front of the tv all day watching a marathon run of come dine with me whilst jodie made sunday lunch. i was staying in the royal hotel which is next to berties so me and liz headed there to get ready for the gig and wait for daint and hudge to turn up. a few games of pool later and we were all in the house and procceeded to go to our room in the club to get ready for stage. we had a good crowd all holiday makers and we were ready. the crowd didnt dissapoint and we had a good gig. woke up with a hangover from hell and jumped into my car to drive me and liz home. thanks to berties for booking us and bringing us back to newquay. our last gig there is the last bank holiday of the season so were hopping it;s gonna be a good un which im sure it will.
as my girlfriend lives in norwich i commute back and forth quite a bit so i went to visit her a few weeks back and got blasted by a bloody speed camera for doing about 90 mph which im still waiting for the ticket and fine in the post. my fault and i shouldnt have been going that fast either so i have to pay the price 3 points and a £60 fine which isnt good as im still on my 2 year probation as ive only been driving for a year and three quarters and if i get 6 points on my licence within those 2 years i’ll have to sit my test again. it’s a nightmare now as im driving at a snails pace just so i dont get caught. thats the last thing i bloody want is to re do my test when i took me 20 years to pass it in the first place.
after a few days stay in norwich vicci then came to cardiff for a week to spend some time with me and it was the weekend of my mothers 60th and it was vicci’s 29th too and they both share the same b day which is the 10th of aug, spooky. i had a gig somewhere in the country on the fri night but cant remember where but vicci came down that fri and my mate got her some work in cardiff so whilst i was gigging she was working in cardiff and i arrived home 5am sat morning just as she was coming inn so it worked out quite well. sat was the night of my mams b day so i headed to the mocha bar where tim, matt and jahan were nice enough to give us the downstairs bar for us to celebrate it and to baloon it up with my bro’s and sister in law. that done i went home to get ready and pack her prezzies one of which was a weeks stay at the villa im in now writting this. thanks again to nik and bev for giving up their villa it’s very much appreciated. we all went round to my mams for pre party drinks and headed into town for her party. my mother loves being pampered at the best of times so she was loving the night. a load of her friends turned up ones which i havent seen in years so it was good to have a catch up with all of them. dj hudge was nice enough to agree to dj’ing the night one of which i’ll doubt he’ll ever forget hahaha my mother gave him a set list of what music she liked which ranged from 60′s stuff to ac/dc, black sabbath, led zepp to the weather girls hahaha most of which im sure and know hudge aint got and never played before so he had to download a load of them from itunes. it was so funny hearing hudge saying “if my boys could see what i was playing tonight they’d……………” haha brilliant. in the end hudge said it was one of the best dj sets he did due to the fact that my mother not getting off the dance floor and headbanging to status quo etc, yes thats right she’s 60 years old but it didnt show. now you know where i get it from. all in all the night was amazing and we had a right laugh, my mother and father went home at about 2am and the rest of us carried on the party for them in crystal night club.
the sunday was a chill day then on monday the 10th it was vicci’s b day so the 2 of us spent it together in cardiff and on the tues we went to west wales to meet up with my mam, dad and my neice mia at a caravan park as my bro and sister in law went to the south of france for a little holiday. i havent been on a caravan park holiday for years but i wasnt let down. we stayed at a park in new quay west wales and it had everything there from outdoor pool to crazy golf oh yes the crazy golf i bloody love it haha. it was nice to spend some time with my neice as im away so much i dont get the chance to see her very often and everytime i see her she’s more grown up its mad. she was hillarious and we spent most of the time laughing a her. shes only 3 years old but she has her own personality and character already and some of the things that come out of her mouth you wouldnt expect a child of 3 years old to even say. im sure kids are growning up more quickly these days and learning at a quicker pace it’s either that or my neice is a cleaver bugger haha.
the weather on the first day was really nice and hot but the second day it pissed down all day and being confined to a caravan all day aint too cleaver but on the third day it was another amazing day so we spent it down the beach in which i got burnt, cleaver tit put some sun cream on. i spent most of the day swimming in the sea and seeing how far out i could go before i turned back haha to the delight of my mother. i could see she was getting worried about me, you would have thought she would have learnt by now after some of the things i’ve put her through over the years. i spend the other half of the day making a huge sand castle for mia one which im sure she couldnt wait to knock down hahaha or to be told by her “what do you call that?” i wouldnt put it past her she’s that cleaver. she was more interested in her fishing net haha. a good time was had by all and me and vix headed back to cardiff as she had to get home and spend some of her birthday time with her mam.
my new globe signature shoe with globe is gathering pace quite nicely and is looking well good thanks to the genius mind and design work of nathaniel jones who has designed every one of my previous globe shoes. once again it is an SWYD colab shoe with globe but with the rock and rave theme. due to my love of rock and rave music. the shoe is bassed on a swyd rock record and the same for the rave version and is on a hight top shoe and comes inn a nice record sleeve box. as soon as i know when they’ll be hitting web sites and shops i’ll let you know but when they do i’ll be doing a signing tour of skate stores with neil navarra dj’ing at every event so keep posted. neil navarra who is in partnership with me on the SWYD clothing and party side of things with me is also having a globe colab shoe being done as i speak through the godskitchen brand as he is the marketing manager for gods so be on the look out for them dance fans they’ll be hitting the shelves soon. check out the godskitchen web site for further deteails or follow neil on his twitter page for updates. on the SWYD side of things i told you in my last blog that we have some exiting things in the pipeline for SWYD but like anything in this day in age it takes a long time and money to get it all off the ground but were in negotiations and fingers crossed it will happen soon. dont forget you can still grab your SWYD colab boxers from bawbags at www.bawbags.com and dont forget a percentage of the sales of each boxer shorts goes to testicular cancer and to the monkey sanctuary in neath south wales helping disadvantaged monkeys who have been treated like shit by dodgy zoo’s, circuses and by bad owners. me and neil went to visit the sanctuary the other day to take photos with our new friends and to do an interview for a local fashion magazine on the SWYD brand. it was a good little morning outing to see these monkeys which crack me up. their so inteligent it’s unreal and one of them was even telling me to take my glasses off so he could see my eye’s and when i did he jumped up and scratched his chest to celebrate hahaha. i even went into one of the cages to feed some of the monkeys sweets. they like those new sweets ‘randoms’ so i was feeding them as a treat while i had on one my shoulder and another one eating them from my lips. top monkeys.
the summer has almost been and gone and im fucking gutted. it wont be long before the nights are dark again and were freezing our nuts off and i’ll be suffering with seasonal depression. if anything im gonna be suffering with depression because i still havent been to ibiza yet this season and im fucking gutted. i went last year a few times ending with a 2 week stint out there with jamie baker which was compleate maddness as you can imaging. it’s the place where dreams are made of and where excess is in abundance and the constant sound of dance music blasting from all directions ooooooh yes you’ve gotta love it. i can asure you the 2 of us had it and in the process i lost 2 stone in weight and came home looking ill but hey, thats ibiza. i met my girlfriend vicci there last year too which was amazing and now means were now coming up to our first year of being together, how time flies.
i have friends out there now for the season and hearing their story’s doesnt half make you jealous. im missing my fave night judgment sundays and really most nights that are held in eden. i dont know why but i always spend most of my time in eden and plastik but i love going to bora bora still pickled from the previous nights maddness. all is not lost for this year though. just as i thought i was going to miss my bit of time in ibiza i get a call off jamie baker who phoned to say “fancy going to ibiza??” fucking right i said then he said “right it’s all on me, im getting a villa and were gonna go bannanas” yeeeeeeeeh haaaaaaaaaa brilliant. i try and get a whole week out there but my agent said i could only squeeze inn a long weekend due to work and gigs. a long weekend is better than nothing and to tell you the truth i can do enough damage in those few days anyway. im going out on sept 17th – 21st and i’ve realised it’s the close of judgment sundays that weekend for the white party, perfect timing. IBIZA here i fucking come.
on the subject of dance music i’ve started on my decks again and mixing some hard dance tunes in my loft. after a previous spell in ibiza i wanted to give dj’ing a go so i bought some cdg’s and a mixer and started to learn how to do it. my brother who’s been dj’ing dance music for years tought me how to do it and let me tell you it aint no easy feat but i got my head around it a little bit and still finding it hard but these things take time. just as i was getting into it me and daint went and filmed sanchez gets high so i put them on the back burner for a while and never got back into them. their there so im gonna get into it and im gonna get a set going. thanks to neil navarra he’s gonna sort me a load of tunes and im gonna get my head down and pin a right banging fucking hard set together one which will hopefully blow my mind out of shape, the harder the better i say but saying that im into most dance tunes that get me going. lisa lashes was nice enough to give me some tunes too so lets put these bad boys at use.
oh, some other exiting news to bring to you. i recived a call from my agent asking if i’d like to be involved in some acting for a sitcom hopefully to be commisioned for channel 4. i cant say much now as were only just starting out and im going for rehursals in sept to read through the script. its gonna be three dudes one of the guy’s i know quite well and you lot will know of too so fingers crossed something will come of it. i did a short film about 7 years ago where i had to play i guy called niall who was a chav in an STD clinic who thought he knew everything about std’s but really didnt have a clue apart from trying to scare everyone in the waiting room. it was a very nerve wracking experience but when you get into the swing of things your nerves chill a bit so im really looking forward to giving this a go. as things progress i’ll let you know.
i also got a call off my agent whilst i’ve been in spain regarding some work and i couldnt belive what he had to offer but it will be life changing if i was to accept and i spent a sleepless night constantly thing about it. maddness, but again early days and and as soon as i get any news you’ll be the first to know.
well thats it for now i think. i’ll bring back my next update at the end of sept hopefully with plenty of stories from part of our pritchard vs dainton on tour and some stories of my ibiza trip followed by anything alse that goes on. find below our tour dates. i hope you’ve all had a good month. train hard party harder SWYD
pritch
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