Tattoo Jam 2012
SATURDAY 13th OCTOBER - DONCASTER
RACECOURSE
After given a few weeks
to let tattoo jam sink in its time for the write up to one of the best events
Riff have ever been invited along to.
We were running slightly
late to the event and didn’t make it there till just gone half four meaning we
had already missed a handful of the acts on the main stage, but we did make it
in time to witness the Tattoo Awards Judging, which meant we got to see some
quality tattoo work. As soon as we arrived we had a look around to weigh up
what we would be working with, after a long, long, very long walk around the
entire complex we settled down in front of the main stage to watch all of the
judging entrants, after about an hour or so we headed upstairs to look at the
tattoo museum which was an interesting exhibition to help pass time by. After a
nice drink (food was extortionate, £10 pounds for a cook at home pizza no thank
you very much!) we headed down to see Millie Dollar captivate the crowd with
her very erotic burlesque complete with nipple tassels, there wasn’t a single
man in the house not looking at the stage, I wonder how many tattoo artists
slipped or drooled on their customers during the performance too! After Millie’s
performance it was time for the best of day judging, where people who had their
tattoos completed on the day were judged for the best one, shortly after the
run of entrants were completed it was time for Sickboy to keep the crowd warmed
up, a circus performer who likes pain, an awful lot. He came leaping on to the
stage with an apple and a chainsaw revving away and immediately everybody
cringed and covered there eyes, the apple went into his mouth and the chainsaw
was used to carve and ’X’ into it, fairly crazy right? Wrong, it gets worse!
Blind folded he did the same trick again, the woman stood in front of me couldn’t
bare to watch as she mumbled towards me ’What the fuck is he doing?!’ but much
to her delight it got a lot worse, introducing a clamp through his elbow skin
to lift a very heavy steel barrel with the skin the clamp had pierced, I
genuinely thought the woman was going to throw up all over my shoes at this
point, she was not happy, and she seemed to be a bit happier when he decided to
staple notes to his body, which wasn’t too cringe worthy, but as soon as a
plastic bag containing a light bulb appeared she turned to me again and I lip
read ’For fuck sakes he is mental’ and she was not wrong, he smashed the light
bulb up in the bag and began to eat them as if they were a bag of crisps! He
closed his short pain riddled set with some syringes piercing his face, cheeks
(right through one side into his mouth!) and through any other piece of loose
flesh he could grab hold of, thoughts from the woman before he went off you
ask? ’For fuck sakes he needs help, thank god that’s over’ she was clearly
impressed, next the awards were to be handed out to the winners of the afore
mentioned judging ceremonies after the quick process we had another quick walk
around filming a tour of the bottom floor (which will be uploaded for you all
to view!) before heading upstairs for the grand finale, Cake Fighting! For
those of you that have no idea what Cake Fighting is let me elaborate, two
girls in very skimpy outfits, one children sized blow up swimming pool and to
top it off milk, cream and trifle, lots and lots of trifle all mixed together
in one sexy messy manner. Everybody left at the convention was upstairs waiting
for this event, tables were set out nicely for everyone to sit and enjoy a
drink whilst cake flung towards them, and the girls didn’t disappoint putting
on a very entertaining show and something completely out of the ordinary.
All in all the event was
very successful I thought, very packed out and very, very lively. The announcer
for the event, Paul Sweeney really knew how to work the crowd and made the
evening very enjoyable and memorable.
A great day out and a
very exciting event to cover, hopefully we will be allowed back next year!
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