post-beanie

Buy a new hat

Raise a glass to a stranger

Have a mental breakdown

fall through your toilet door

dance in punk to heels

Talk porta loos at Field Day

Smile

Raise a glass to a stranger

Dance

Explain

Look at the jumper, and the hair, the floor

Kiss girls with long hair

Wear your hat

Play a guitar

Beat the drums

Take some fucking photos

Chose your shoes

Call her

Talk about calling her

Say everything is alright

Think about how it’s not

Write a melody

Chat about your art project

Freak out

Fall through the toilet door

Que to fall through the toilet door

Grab her hand

Shake his hand off

Drink

Raise a glass to a stranger

Smile

Don’t think about work

Dance to Dire Straits

Buy a new hat

Go downstairs

Sway

Smile

Fall down the stairs

Grab the banister

Find Male Bonding

BB

Male Bonding, Plug, Warm Brains

Marquis of Landsdown – 18/02/11

All photos © Amanda Barokh

Mazes – Most Days (Fat Cat, 2011)

Last night I was walking up Kingsland High Street dodging pools of vomit and droves of boys in beanie hats and Barbour Jackets.  I  had a cold, I was weary.  I was like, ‘Fuck this. I’m through with Dalston.  It’s all bullshit.’

I started making a list in my head of remote places I could escape to.   Just as I was starting to think that The Reykjavik Howl had a pretty good ring to it I found this in my inbox:

Mazes – Most Days

 

And I realised, shit yeah, there might some barf outside Efes but there’s also some really good shit on my doorstep.  Most Days is a big fat slab of sunshine cutting through the clouds of an interminable winter.

A Thousand Heys, the album from these Dalston-based boys, is out in April and it’s sure to be the soundtrack to the summer.