James Brown Memorial @All City, Reading

*written by AirOne, Mar-shki, Elle Roc & Soul Baby

We went to Reading for experience and inspiration but mainly to remember the main man James Brown and his unfortunate death on Christmas day.

When we got to the entrance we had to get stamps on our hands to show that we had paid to enter. And over 18’s had wristbands so they could have access to the bar. It was proper funny because they wouldn’t let TrubL have a wristband because they thought she was a JNR. Then after about 5 minutes of haggling with the bouncers they let us in.

We went in all excited but nervous as not all of us had been to jams before. It was quiet at first, there were no big names there yet. We stood out of the main circle and just warmed up with a little top rock. AirOne was the first to start top rocking out of us and one of the most experienced JNRs. As it started to get more busy it started to get more tense and the music started to get louder. Circles started to form and get thicker.

Big names started to arrive such as Alien Ness, Mouse, Ata and not to forget B-girl Granny from Germany wearing her tribal jersey.

As soon as she arrived we couldn’t stop smiling she was so gangster it was unbelievable she broke some sick moves and as she was about 60-70 it was amazing!

Mar-shki was the first to break the anxious circle surrounding the JNRs, unlucky for him he stuffed up his backspin set but it just made him stronger for the next time he went in. We all started to go in one by one and people were well impressed with our dope B-Boy/B-Girl throwdowns.

We were getting comments from a lot of the other B-Boys...

Pointman
…Peace to The Cambridge kids for coming strong as well as the H20 peeps and the wales boys for doing their thing…

Bboy Balu
…P.S Who is the kid in the Green nike anorak and New Era hat? U badboy...

(sourced from www.ukbboy.info)

It was quite disappointing really as there was only about 5 James Brown tunes played in the whole night . All of the JNRs went in about 8 times and every time we got better. After about 4 hours of dancing we finally decided to wrap it up for the night. But before we could go home we decided to go and grab a well earned healthy burger and chips from the local Kebab Shop.

Overall it was a very successful night and all of us gained experience and had a lot of fun.

JNR Sinstars (L2R): AirOne, Soul Baby, Mar-shki, Elle Roc