15/04/16: Not to put too fine a point on this, but A Man to Pet is mad.
Like, actually mad. It’s fucking great. You don’t get that kind of wonderful crazy too often and you certainly don’t often encounter it barrelling around East London dressed as part of the solar system, or something equally insane.
I once attended a party where she was dressed like the sun. Someone was running around screeching, “A Man to Pet is dressed like the sun! Not the newspaper, the planet!” and some anal bead quickly interjected “Actually the sun’s a star”. Oh fuck off. Whatever it was, it was amazing, so when we heard Petty was having a Jungle Party (complete with a poster that superimposed her own face on Katy Perry’s Roar video) we knew it was MANDATORY for QX to attend.
It did not fail to deliver. As promised, there was face paint, there were animal prints, there were feathers, leaves, (faux) fur. And it was ALL ON A MAN TO PET, who was running the show like a wild, neon Pebbles Flintstone on crack.
The tunes were a delight, the boys were bloody gorgeous and the fun factor was off the scale. If the rainforest is actually anything like this, then we really need to save it. HEAL THE WORLD!
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Words by Jaime Domingo
Photos by Freddy Krave Photography
