❤️🔥The Best Night Of My Life ❤️🔥
Everything you need to know about the most iconic The 1975 show ever + SHIT YOU SHOULD COOK ABOUT!
MY ANGELS!!! Holy shit. Right now I’m running on four hours of sleep, sitting in a cafe on a gloomy Wellington day wearing my 1975 merch, and have been up since 5:30am recording an episode of The Shit Show with Squish (despite the fact that I have NO voice), all because I had the best night of my young LIFE at The 1975 last night. I’m going to write about it ALL for you below, with videos INCLUDED, so I apologise in advance for the length of this newsy but I wanna get all my thoughts down so that I can look back on this diary entry forever 🥺
BUT FIRST!!!
Next Friday I’m in Sydney to talk at Instagram’s Creatory Academy, for any aspiring content creators/ future Luce’s out there (bc YES you can run a company/ be a content creator without having to have your face front and centre!!)
The event is open to ALL aspiring and emerging creators, it’s on the 28th of April in Sydney, and you’re gonna hear from people like Tammy Hembrow, Brooke Blurton, ME, and way more cool/ smart ppl who will be giving tangible tips on just how the hell this all works.
You can RSVP here and secure a spot or get on the waitlist - it’s gonna be so fun - see you there! 🥺
🍃Lastly, happy 4/20 to everyone who celebrates🍃
I will never shut up about This 1975 concert
Shit You Should Cook About: Perfect scrambled eggs (yes, you’ve been cooking them wrong)
Fox is paying for its election lies, literally
Some stray links
Idk how to even start this
So! Last night I went to The 1975 (I took my little brother) and I had the best goddamn night of my life, so naturally, I want to take you through it (content sharing is my love language, remember?) First of all, we got in there and it was a GREAT crowd (made even better by the fact that I was literally standing right next to one of our angel SYSCAhood members who came to our Welly coffee catch-up last year!!! BYE we are all so cute.)
Anyway, lemme get to the point. At the very beginning, the lads came out (Matty sporting a new polka dot shirt - okayyyyyy!!) and started playing The Birthday Party (rare) in the WRONG KEY (rarer.)
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Then they played ‘Looking For Somebody To Love’ but had to RESTART (because apparently, we weren’t loud enough??? But I think there were actually some more technical difficulties), and then ‘Happiness,’ and then one of my all-time favourites - ‘UGH!’ (that’s the name of the song and the noise I made when they started playing it.)
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Next Matty launched into a monologue about how he’s trying to be himself more, which is a “weird thing to do in public - properly” he reckons. He goes on to discuss how he’s very messy, and he’s always been “quite proud of the fact that he’s not very good at being a celebrity.” But, then he said:
“Being single and a bloke is mental, and if you’re on the internet you go a bit insane, and I went a bit insane, and I made a show about it, which you said was really good, so then I went more insane, and I feel like I’ve been on MD or something, and I’m starting to come down now from my social experiment.”
And that’s true! When they released BFIAFL and started touring again, he did get on quite a come-up and go (as he says) a bit insane, where he kinda blurred real life with performance to the point where none of us could tell what was real and what wasn't. BUT from an incredibly biased perspective, this felt very sincere.
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He ended that little spiel by saying, “and in the spirit of sincerity…” so we all thought we were getting ‘Sincerity Is Scary” but we DIDN’T. We got ‘All I Need To Hear.’
I’m not gonna run through a play-by-play of every single song, but I will give you some of my other highlights, ok!
He dedicated “I’m In Love With You’ to all the boys in the audience and did a speech (that my little brother loved) about how men find it hard to talk about their feelings, and how they need things like concerts/sports etc to get together and talk. It’s pretty cute and soft:
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AND THEN he got all the house lights turned on, got a towel and put it on his head, sat on the floor, and sang “I Like America And America Likes Me” (I can’t even explain this to people who weren’t there, but here’s a vid, of course):
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HE ALSO PLAYED A LITTLE BIT OF WINTERING, AND OF GUYS (two other RARE performances, and ones that I prayed would be on the set but didn’t think they WOULD BE):
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And then AFTER the show was finished, he came out and said he was “shooting a film at the moment” and he’d love it if we could make space in the crowd for him to play something acoustically (AT THIS POINT WE ALL DIED.) He got into the middle of the crowd and started playing ‘Be My Mistake’ (AND LOOK AT THIS VID FROM SYSCA BESTIE LYDIA):
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And then someone from the crowd started singing ‘Tūtira mai ngā iwi,’ which is a māori waiata (song), and in the beginning, Matty was SO confused (as seen in the vid) but then he realised what it was, and I think he thought it was pretty spesh 🥺
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AND THEN I CAME HOME AND BEGUN THE EMOTIONAL (and literal) HANGOVER WHICH I AM STILL VERY MUCH FEELING.
Thank you all for coming on this journey with me, and let’s do it all again on Friday! xxx
NEW EPISODE OF CULTURE VULTURE!!
Chatting about Frank Ocean’s Coachella set and Imposter Syndrome - what more you could you want???
Shit You Should Cook About: Perfect scrambled eggs (yes, you’ve been cooking them wrong)
Shit You Should Cook About is written by London Laura - our resident ray of sunshine and co-host of Culture Vulture (our weekly pop culture podcast!) She’s a new London dweller, chief of romanticising literally everything, and will definitely ask you all what your love language is at some stage. You can find more Shit She Should Cook About over here!
Mōrena beautiful community!! Last night I saw my food crush (not Tucci) Alison Roman speak in London and listened to her talk about cooking, community, and the desire to *touch some grass* (read: open a grocery store.)
Kinda like Alison, food and story are intrinsically tied for me, and I know I said this last week (and am aware of fluff fatigue) but I cannot tell you how much joy it is giving me to hear what you are cooking and who you are feeding it to!! I never want this to be one way so please please please DM me pics / questions on yeast / what you want a recipe for (Luce has already requested choc mousse) because it is the best part of my day seeing your beautiful loaves or answering questions on how long to bake a slab of ricotta.
This week I was too distracted by the fruit blossom that appeared seemingly overnight (??) London (which you can hear all about on this week’s Culture Vulture) to cook much at all so we are taking it right back to basics - and another breakfast - shining a light on perfectly seasoned, buttery golden scrambled eggs.
I know I am CRO (chief romanticizing officer) here but I think that there is something heavily romantic about scrambled eggs. They are personal, they require communication as everyone likes them done differently, and cooked right they take at least a few moments of total concentration. They also - contrary to popular belief and many school camp cooks - cannot be done in big batches. One pan for 2-3 people is MAX capacity so at their purest they are meant to be eaten intimately, with people you love. Scrambled eggs were always made for me by my best friend Tess, who used to cook them painstakingly over a very tiny flame with a silly amount of butter, serving them to us when we were broken-hearted / hungover / sunburnt or all three. In the lockdown, the torch was passed onto my then flatmate now husband, who made me scrambled eggs every single morning, cooked hot and fast and served with 2 slices of vogels (the best NZ toast no question) and a dollop of tommie sauce *chefs kiss*. The recipe below is a mix of both of their approaches, an amalgamation of two of the loveliest people in my life, that I think produces the *perfect* scrambled eggs, a slow-morning breakfast reserved for weekends, best eaten in the sun with a plunger of black coffee and a piece of toast to scoop them onto in lieu of a fork 😌
To do this right I am going to ask you to forget everything you know about scrambled eggs - there is no whisking with milk, no heavy seasoning pre-pan action, and DEFINITELY no grated cheese or chilli flakes (you have the SYSCA shakshuka for that!). This is a lightly tossed, gently buttery, just combined egg in its purest form and I promise you you’ll never reach for the milk again. See u in the comments!! LL xxx
You’ll need:
4 eggs
1 tablespoon of butter
Salt / pepper
Pop a frying / cast iron pan on a medium heat and melt your butter (oil will mess with flavour too much!). Once it is almost melted, crack your eggs directly into the pan and with a fish spatula [luce note: that’s the plastic-y one, remember the mundane poll??] or wooden spoon / combine the eggs in the pan, constantly stirring and loosely combining them - the goal here isn’t to whip them up but to always be shifting which bit of mixture gets contact with the bottom of the pan.
Important - for the next 3-4 minutes you can’t. stop. stirring. so make sure your toast is toasted, avocado sliced and tomato sauce out of the fridge BEFORE you start cooking.
Keep stirring until things start to turn golden, they won’t be totally combined - in fact, my perfect ‘done-ness’ is patches of white and yellow - but everything should be cooked, no gloopy, transparent egg whites here thank u! Depending on your stove heat this should be roughly 4 minutes, and when they’re buttery (NOT rubbery) and just sticking together, remove them from the heat and season with a solid grind of salt and pepper. It’s v important to season AFTER you cook just before you eat as salt draws out moisture and you don’t want watery eggs, we want glossy & creamy ones! Pop onto a plate and serve with your chosen extras (pictured above with obligatory tomato sauce blob AND less obligatory anchovy - my most favourite food group).
Enjoy! xx
Fox is paying for its election lies, literally
Life mimics art - or does art mimic life? Idk either way, something Succession-ish happened yesterday - Fox News had to pay $787 million to the company Dominion Voting Systems for its misleading coverage of the 2020 election.
“Dominion Voting Systems has claimed that Fox News knowingly boosted lies about the voting machine company rigging the election against former President Donald Trump that caused irreparable harm to its business.”
This case was set to go to trial, but they settled just before that happened, and Fox has to pay up. But that’s not all that we learnt from the case! Even though we only got to day one of the trial, court filings have already revealed “text messages and emails among Fox producers, on-air personalities, and executives — including chair Rupert Murdoch — providing a rare window into how the network elevated false conspiracy theories, even as top Fox officials privately dismissed them.”
This is such an interesting case because for Fox to settle, they must have felt like they had defamed Dominion and had… shit editorial standards. And, according to Politico this settlement also “spares the network from weeks of embarrassing testimony that would have put the widespread internal dysfunction at Fox News on full public display” so I wonder what else they’re hiding?
And as much as I would love to think that this is a turning point for Fox News, I really don’t think it will be. Just a bit of a dent in the bank account probs.
Some stray headlines (literally just headlines because this newsletter is already hella long)
Teenagers charged with murder over shooting in Dadeville, Alabama (BBC)
UN says India to be world’s most populous nation by mid-2023 (AP News)
Man Reveals He Used AI To Win Coveted World Photography Award, Then Refuses Prize (Mashable)
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two of my favorite things in the newsy today : concert and food ! love u <3
Loved this newsie girlies! Luce DYING with the detail you have described this concert (and so sligly jealous hehe)
Laura!! Please invite me over for your next scrambled eggs feast bc the way you wrote about them just got me looking very sad at my own breakfast :( Have you ever heard of the Gordon Ramsey's scrambled eggs recipe? you add a lil bit of creme fraiche and YUM - deffo for when you're feeling fancy