"Soyboy" video shoot

Sunday 10th November 2019
Blackfriars Street, Canterbury

Luke "Pyramid Youth" Dodson was shooting a music video for his soon-to-go-viral song "Soyboy" at Laszlo's place in Blackfriars Street, under the umbrella of the mysterious local World Peng organisation. It was effectively a wild houseparty with Nancy on camera duty, and the dresscode went something like this:

shamanic kombucha goddess / paisley underworld spirit / quantum steampunk wizard / cosmically triggered kimchi psychonaut / forest glade pixie nymph / Joe Rogan's DMT guardian entity / Kentish river pagan / four-dimensional disco monster / cyber-discordian traplord / beetroot raggamuffin / bin-dive druidess

I showed up as Professor Appleblossom in my labcoat and ended up playing a DJ set, starting with rowdy dancehall and hiphop, gradually drifting (via some surprises) into deep-chill spiritual jazz for the late-night crew.

We then somehow ended up watching hurdy-gurdy videos, including this, after I remembered the name of an extraordinary player I'd happened to see trying out an instrument at the Saint Chartier instrument makers' fayre in 1999: