SWAG MAN OF THE MONTH: TATTOO GUY INTERVIEW

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We saw this revolutinary awe inspiring tattoo on facebook and thought that we just had to speak to the legend behind the ink. Turns out hes none other than Essex lad Tom Lelyand, known to many as "Lairy Leyland" across the Essex scene. You can find the lairy lad strutting his moves (house shuffle) in a variety of the clubs there along with his occasional journey into London for the best in deep house.

We caught up with him and this is what he had to say.

Tom, SWAG blog here its great to speak to you - We woud first of all like to congratulate you on your tattoo. How did you come up with it? Are you some sort of genius? Its pretty original to say the least

yeah haha some people actually say that i am a genius, i mean nobody else has this tatto or i havent seen anyone in Essex with it so i think im pretty unique in that way. not many people really listen to deep house either so i think its a underground tattoo which will always remind me of the sessions we have had listening to hungry for the power on repeat for 12 hours on and on.

am hungry for the powder

Sick guy its safe to say you are one of the lads, anyone that sniffs cat has got SWAG bro...speaking of drugs whats the most mcat you can sniff in a weekend?

me and my mates usually plough through 3 ounce when we have a phat session but we arnt pussies we are still smashing the K constantly too. how do u think i got my nickname lairy leyland. its all about trying to find that perfect mix u know what a mean to help me to get into the music and that.

just to get into the music 

Ah yeah we know exactly what you mean, its all about sniffing as much drugs as possible so that you can actually enjoy the deep house...spot on mate! Whats your plans for this summer?

What do u think my plans are lol? we are off to ibiza its the only place i will ever go (apart from hideout) and i plan on going every single year...i just cant get enough of it, the drugs, the deep house, the shufflin, the snapbacks and the blazers. i fucking live for it all. hopefully in a few years i will be djing at dc10 if my djing carreer takes off. just played a few local gigs and that so far in essex but i know ive got the best tunes around. even joey essex came to one of my gigs and said how much he liked my tunes.

tom and essex don joey 

Joey Essex? No fucking way we love that guy, you must be getting pretty big then we might have to try and get you a gig in leeds soon. Have you ever been up here?

ye course i been to leeds its a sik night out. we went to teknicolor a few weeks ago to see finebassen oh my facking god  i was so ketted up but i still got a shag in them unisex toilets from some yorkshire slut. the crowd there was really cool i thought northerners wouldnt be wearing the same sort of fashionable clothes but i seen people reppin some nice blazers a undeground t-shirts like BOY london

yeeeee boi..BOY london!!

Yeah too right we know where its at in leeds. Been a pleasure talking to you Tom we hope to see you again in leeds sometime. Great work on the tatoo and good luck in your djing career...SWAG blog loves you.

thnx swag blog, hopefully see u in leeds soon!! X

SHUFFLIN MOVEMENT

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BIG UPS 2 my main man Ally Pally representin all da TRUE house heads dwn south, gotta say i'm also a big fan of CIRCY LOCO LEEDS and the shufflers movement is coming fam. Trying to get it going up here but i've heard you've gotta spin deep tech-house with a minimal and funky twist - which dunt sound owt like jackin to me!!

last tym i went to circy loco

I fort I clocked a couple ov girls shufflin at hectik last week but turned out they were jus join under on geebs pmsl

anyways been checkin out this new label recently that I wanna share wiv you peeps… its called WARM WAVES

they make the warmest deep house funky tech tinged bass beats going and it even sounds a bit like jackin but slowed down, like your in a kethole all the time lmao. Well can I just say that 'IT IS GOING OFF' up here in the north, absolutely love having a wobble to some deep house at the moment, proper chilling beats for a 4 day cat sesh after Uber.

a fuckin love house me

Its run by the biggest underground dj in the world right now, the god himself 'Jamie 'hungry for the powder' Jones lol. And some other dude i've never heard of - Lee Fizz or summat like that. ANYWAYS they are fuckin big in the game right now but some dickhead blog called Resident Advisor have just fully slagged em off on Facebook man, check it owt:

click ere to read dick ed interview

Well haters listen up!! dis is a reply from the all the shape cutting fam out there and we just wanna say that this is REAL HOUSE MUSIC


i hear that this lee fizzle is banned from IBIZa cos he used to sell bez..respect to the guy bet he isnt as much of a ket head as me tho ha ha wheyyy

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