JUNGLE DRUMMER & FU
MONDAY
Fu: The week previous to this I lost my passport on the way back from
Poland. I had to get a seven day fast track passport and the arrival of it was
this coming Wednesday. With a gig in Porto on the same day as my new
passport arriving I start worrying that my passport wasn’t going to arrive in
time. I get a phone call from Jungle really stressing out about the possibility
of me missing the gig. He then told me not to tell the promoter because it will
stress him out and to instead get a random girl I had met two days before to
pay for my flights. Then he changed his mind, telling me to tell the promoter
and getting angry with me for not telling him yet. I sent a text to the promoter
Marco who rebooked me on the evening flight instead of the morning, which
left me with more chance of getting to Porto but still didn’t guarantee I would
get my passport in time. Marco also told me that if I missed the flight he
would kill me.
Jungle: I phone Fu about his passport I’m getting worried that if he misses
TUESDAY
his flight it will be the third time we haven’t made it to Porto in five months.
The first time a promoter cancelled the gig and told us not to attend due to
a shooting in the club a night before, but he told us on the coach while we
were on the way to catch the flight. It turns out this was bullshit and he told
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JUNGLE BY DJ FU everyone we missed our flights and ignored our calls. We were rebooked by
Marco from Garagem and due to various transport problems getting to the
Tuesday is one of Jungle’s many TV days, today his airport we missed the flight and Marco was left to tell the punters why we
schedule is tight and has a busy day ahead of him. He gets had missed our flights for the second time in three months. So for us to miss
up puts on Sky Sports News which he watches until it another show in Porto was unthinkable.
has repeated itself. Having realised he has no food in the
house he makes a rare trip into the unknown and gets on Fu: I was worried that missing another flight and the new levels of moaning
public transport to the local shops. He buys an overpriced Jungle would reach.
carrot and sage smoothie trying to be trendy. He gets some
shopping normally consisting of ready-made salads and
Covent Garden soup. Jungle will run after his bus that
has got to the stop only to be not let on as the doors have
closed. The next two hours he waits at the stop for the bus
driver to come back round so he can have a go at him for
not letting him on the bus. He is approached by a student
asking him if he was the drummer from the London
Elektricity DVD and tries to talk to him about what is the
best wood for drumsticks. The bus driver never returns and
Jungle gets a taxi home. He arrives back at and watches
Hollyoaks, then the next episode on E4, then Eastenders,
then normally the football until ten, then a repeat he has
already seen of UFC. He ends his day with his headphones
on as loud a possible listening to Remarc until 6am.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF DJ FU BY JUNGLE
Fu will get up at 2pm after going to bed late from fly-
postering on his own. When he wakes up he sees what
girls have poked him on Facebook and check his ten
email accounts. He then eats a healthy Pot Noodle or
Turkey Twizzlers for breakfast washed down by a glass of
Sunny Delight followed by eight lumps of sugar on their
own. He will then walk around Oxford to check that his
posters are still up from eight hours ago. Whilst walking
round as a minor celebrity on Cowley Road he will stop
and talk in the street to local trustafarian arse lickers WEDNESDAY
and chavs asking for free entry to his nights. He will
then have a quick healthy snack and eat pikey food in Jungle: I leave to get the plane from Gatwick on my own to make sure there is another plane
McDonalds and act like a poor Tory whilst checking the available if I miss the early one. I get to the airport with plenty of time to spare for the first time
stock exchange and the Chinese economy. Will then get in my life and get to Porto with no problems.
stalked by weird psychopath girls who develop obsessive
crushes on him. Whilst everyone else is sleeping he walks Fu: After waiting for my passport it finally arrives at 2pm and I go straight to the airport. I’m
round Oxford on his own, as he loves flyposting in the cold four hours early for my flight because I was scared I’d miss it again. I meet up with the Sigma
and rain. It’s his main passion apart from when he’s DJing guys with Master X and got our flight to Porto relieved that I finally made it. In the evening
in his pikey bedroom. Whenever I phone him he always we meet up and go for a meal with the other artists playing. Dillinja and Jungle talk about
manages to eat Haribos, make annoying scratching cymbal bells, snare wires and snare sounds the whole time. I wish I was sitting on the other
noises whilst slurping his tea really fucking loudly down side of the table talking about crossfaders, mid-90s hip hop and what a reverse flare is with
the telephone at the same time. Wooz from Sigma.
Tonight is Garagem’s twelfth birthday and when we get there the club is rammed already which
was wicked. Their lighting was great and the system was thumping. We enjoyed playing our
set with Master X and thought the crowd were wicked. Lemon D and Dillinja played a heavy set
both calling for the rewind of ‘Fade 2 Black’ VIP. Lemon D gave us his dubplate it and Jungle
smiled for the first time this week.
Jungle: We had a few drinks and then got interviewed at 7am in the morning. Fu was at his
receptive best and was falling asleep whilst the camera was being shoved in his face. He then
goes back to the hotel and goes to sleep. Whilst I have the pleasure of having no sleep and
going straight to the airport.
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