This week I try to piece together what happened at Vice’s 20th birthday party, using information from musicians’ Instagrams.
From this call sheet posted by Gorillaz Sound System drummer Pauli Lovejoy, who played drums in the house band, we get to peruse the impressive list of talent who performed at the show. That’s a lot of sound checks, guys! I hope everyone made it to the venue on time. Just to confirm—that’s 123 Street Name, right? Not 122? Is the punk group supposed to fight the metal group or is Andrew WK going to find that too upsetting? He’s allergic to buzzkills, you know.Lil’ Wayne’s been doing two things on his Instagram this week: wearing oversized beanie hats, and sounding off about his label, Cash Money Records, accusing them of not releasing his new album, letting down his fans and holding his creativity hostage. I’m going to guess that he used part of his set at the party to address one of these things. I don’t want to get ahead of myself here but I’m ninety percent confident it was hats.The Internet already told me that Jonah Hill performed a cover of Drake’s Marvin’s Room, but now I also know that he ran into a high school friend at the show. The girl on the left is Zumi Rosow, jewelry designer, saxophone player, and, by the looks of her accessories, a catcher of dreams. She’s dating Black Lips singer Cole Alexander, and in my current fantasy, she met Jonah in a Saturday detention session, which touched her heart so deeply that she vowed to spend the rest of her days channeling Ally Sheedy’s look in The Breakfast Club.Here’s Pauli Lovejoy again, either hoarding all the backstage champagne or setting things up for bandmate Andrew Wyatt to make a classic pun in this caption. It took me a minute, but I totally get it now - très chic play on words Andrew! I hope it gets you lots of "clicks"!While others raged, Perfect Pussy's Meredith Graves had a moment in the party safe-zone universally known as the ladies’ room, where she shot this selfie with a friend. Everyone needs the other dancing girl in their dancing girl emoji, and I’m glad these guys found each other. Note to self: identity best friend, make sure to always coordinate outfits so our sideways hugs look like a yin-yang.And thank u, Nick Zinner, for this reminder that twenty years of Vice also kind of coincides with twenty years of Jarvis Cocker performing pelvis thrusts and strutting around stages humping microphones, dressed like he’s in a heartwarming British comedy about a teacher who joins a dance competition—and twenty years of looking like a superhero’s alter ego but also being a total superhero. Happy birthdays all round.
Emma-Lee Moss is on Instagram, obviously.
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