About me:
Hi my name is Jakob, mums from Iceland and dads english so they gave me that name. some people call me 'Yak' -I don't mind, as long as you don't call me too early in the morning.
My job on this earth (at the moment) is to help get peoples creative ideas off the ground by linking people together. I believe that everyone has a magic and unique talent which sometimes doesn't get appriciated or harnessed, so I like to try to introduce people to others who might be able to inpire one another and get a project on the go.
I have been mainly running Antenna Studios in Crystal Palace as a place people can use as a centre for meeting and working on their projects, which are mainly music related but also many visual artists, photographers, designers, producers, dancers, film makers, skaters....you name it!
As well as running the studio business I play cello in a few bands which are kinda quirky and dark. I also write/record my own electro space songs on the computer.
These days I spend as much time playing as possible and balancing that time up with fresh mountain air, countryside and nature. I love the mountains.
I am currently enrolled at the University of Sussex doing an experimental degree in 'Engineering for Society: Environment' which is REALLY interesting.. a mix of engineering skills and social sciences and life science.
My dream lifestyle if I was superman would be to develop wind farming technology, design lighting and atmospheric glows, be a park ranger in Iceland or Britain, fly one of those new moller sky cars, make a film about the world being run by computers, document haunted places, make candles and drink mulled wine, support a tour of the worlds best music venues worldwide, act on eastenders, own a bar, weld a car bonnet to something, decode alien signals and master talking to people without sounding like a total hippy.
Who I'd like to meet: nice people. I do not accept friend requests unless I have some kind of association with them. I love hearing about new bands and artists but prefer a message first...
We are finally ready to start promoting my 'I Surrender' single with my album, 'Ella Trip' coming right after -yey!! What d'ya think to the video teaser?
Please drop by my page & comment on the new 'I Surrender' remixes as well, I'd love to know what u think of all the newness!
{03/04/09} - Needleandthread spring hop.. jamm bar, 261 brixton road, sw9 6lh.. 9pm till late.. £5 before 11pm, £6 after..
We be back.. arrh.. with a rather tasty gig..
The line up is likely to take the roof off Jamm with Speakers Corner Quartet at number one on the list. These guys have headlined the Jazz Cafe and opened for Herbie Hancock at the Royal Albert Hall, as well as working with some big names in hip hop.
In addition to this amazing headline, The Sound of Rum who are festival legends with lyricist Excentral Tempest at the helm, will also be on hand to build the vibes (Rob Da Bank is amongst there many fans). Plus Onyx Ashanti and Daisy Kelly Granger will add some serious funk and soul respectively.
In addition to the incredible live line up comes DJ support from the best around. DJ Snuff is a local hip hop legend, founder of first ‘Speakers Corner’ and then he English branch of the global hip hop movement ‘End of the Weak’. Another DJ who recently also re-launched a strand of a global network ‘Balkan Beats London’, DJ Malaka will be blending traditional folk from Eastern Europe with pounding dance music. Add Popcorn Charly and Drusus Germanicus to the line up and you have a funk fuelled, world eclectic vibe of top class music to take you into the early hours.
You are cordially invited to attend the Twang Guitars grand reopening - to take place on Thursday 4th December 2008 starting at 6pm.
The shop will be officially reopened by Wurzel of Motorhead and there will be other celebrities and key people to our organisation present, as well as members of the press.
During the evening we will have musicians playing and it will be a good chance for you to meet and have a drink and some nibbles with some very interesting people.
You are very welcome to bring along your friends and invite along any other interested parties.
Needleandthread presents... {yet another series of} dirty great big nights out.. {nearest tube : oval / brixton..} {buses: 159,N59,333,133,N3..} {running 8pm-4am, £5 all night..
friday june 6th'll be our last big shindig for the summer, at Brixton JAMM (261 Brixton Road).. its festival season, and the fields are calling us! so on that note, we have live bands; Stig Noise Sound System ~ 6-piece liverpudlian noise core.. Nouvelle Croix ~ gypsy swing masters.. get up and djan-go.. Hooverville ~ putting the cleaning implement into vaudeville.. Bonsai Big Band ~ serious groovery, funk, fusion, and hiphop classics.. Daisy & Archie ~ beautifully layered soulful lyricism.. Fat Tuesday ~ lung busting acoustic anthems.. Teknology ~ mc = mechanical construct.. DJs.. Martin Sage ~ broken noise, with musical interludes.. Mr Hovis ~ the bakers dozing..
Room two; Short Circoid.. Rootsix (Concrete Plastic / Ai records) ~ slick slices of melancholic detroit.. The Third Man (Ai records) ~ tough chunks of techno grit.. Patscan (Concrete Plastic) ~ angular slabs of electro clunk.. Uncle Smutfist (Short Circus) ~ a salty spray of breifcase beats.. Jones Deviation (Short Circus) ~ trackhead, with filthy needles.. SunMonkey (needleandthread) ~ party tunes, for squares, and loons..
Thanks for being part of the coolest sexiest little market in South London. We have 6 new stalls for 31st, strawberrys, orchids, lanterns, leather, burlesque & Feast! Hope to see you before though xx
Needleandthread presents... {yet another series of} dirty great big nights out.. @ JAMM bar, 261 Brixton road.. {nearest tube : oval / brixton} {buses: 159,N59,333,133,N3} running 8pm-4am, £4 before 9pm, (afterwards its £6 / £5 with flyer, or NUS)..
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its the night out you've been waiting for! so far, on friday march 14th, we have experimental lectronics, live bands, hiphop crews, artists, bizarre performances, live visuals, singer/songwriters, dj's playing funk, hiphop, reggae, soul, rock n roll, gypsy breaks, ragga, dubstep, breakbeat, jungle, drum n bass, dancehall, glitchcore, and generally good stuffness..
LIVE ROOM
DJ TENDRAW {gluerooms} VS. INFINITE LIVEZ {bigdada} -twisted toycore with vocal oddities.. FRAZER KING - Mancunian psych-rock, harmonic rebels.. QUEENS ENGLISH -lyrical hiphop, bouncing bass.. BUNTY - self-looping vocal beats.. GREETINGS - new lancastrian cross curiosities..
DJ’s
D-CYFER - junglist classics, and vintage drum and bass.. SUNMONKEY - eclectic party blend..
with appearances from the tealeaf collective, surreal musings of a goliath frog, decor by cafe cairo, an animated depa, and the ink-stained scratchings of illegal guff.. beleive me, it all makes sense on www. needleandthread. org
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Needleandthread presents.. {yet another series of} dirty great big nights out.. @ JAMM bar, 261 Brixton road.. running 8pm-4am, £4 before 9pm, (afterwards its £6 / £5 with flyer, or NUS)..
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this friday first of feb, we have; THE NEEDLEANDTHREAD LIVE AND WELL ROOM ExCentral Tempest ~ conscious lyricality, with Kwake on beats & bass.. the Pyrofessional ~ S E-London 5-piece; a blend of hiphop, drum&bass, soul.. ScaredyCats ~ hard-rocking two-tone, ska-punk type-thang.. Jonny Virgo ~ 4-piece who “could start a party in a morgue” - Mike Walsh XFM.. Conrad the Scoundral ~ homegrown grimehop, with a witty twist..
DJ's Mike Cupcake (pecknam.com) ~ mash-ups, party breaks & mad remix's.. King Solomon ~ reggae, roots, and rock n roll.. New Orda ~ good old fashioned, darkside drum n bass.. Mr Hovis ~ with his usual half-baked eclectication..
THE SHORT CIRCUS ELECTRIC CHEERS ROOM Spazmo ~ theme-step, volt-kilometer and gabba-the-hutt.. Con Brio ~ glitchy goodness for twitchy toes.. X13 ~ bliptek and stompy syntax errors.. Patscan ~ electrocharged socket science.. Jones Deviation ~ from amp to oohmmm.. Uncle Smutfist ~ convicted dex offender at large.
With Tea & Buiscuits in the Sympathy Corner, a Goliath Frog wandering between the rooms, causing mischief, and live art from LuxProdux & Illegal Guff..
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