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i don't know if this is quite what you're looking for but i found it on the web and plus it's a cool picture soooo.....
New kids on the block
Meet Nick Grimshaw and Alice Dellal, the ringleaders of the new It crowd
Why, I found myself pathetically panicking the other day, am I not friends with Nick Grimshaw? I’m not sure that anyone over the age of 15 has even heard of him. Despite ever-increasing cameos in the tabloids, I certainly couldn’t have told you what he did for a living. It turns out the 24-year-old Lancastrian is in the birth pangs of his career as a Radio 1 disc jockey and yoof television presenter. Yet somehow — wit? charm? Uriah Heep levels of crawling flattery? — he has become better known as the party mascot for all those kids the fashion mags obsess over. The glue, in a way. Alice, Agyness, Pixie, Jaime, Henry — if you don’t know their last names, you have obviously been frittering away your days reading The Economist — are totally besotted. They call him “Grimmy” and spend hours together frolicking on Primrose Hill, boozing in the dive bars of Camden and corpsing for the paparazzi.
In the school cafeteria of London nightlife, Grimshaw’s table is where the hip kids sit. It helps if you are rock progeny — Lizzy and Georgia May Jagger, Kelly Osbourne, Peaches and Pixie Geldof — or a model, like Alice Dellal, Agyness Deyn and Daisy Lowe, or a TV presenter, like Alexa Chung, or you sing, like Lily Allen, or act, like Lily’s best friend Jaime Winstone, who is dating Lily’s brother, Alfie, also an actor. Phew. I don’t know how Grimshaw keeps on top of it all. Not that it really matters what the “Set” does: their gift seems to be for guzzling free champagne, dressing “eclectically” in the fashion freebies they are endlessly sent, or whooping it up at their favoured hangouts — Bungalow 8, Punk, Shoreditch House — behaving like most 20-year-olds would, given limitless access to booze, clothes and fellow celebrities. They are self-styled, punked-up Bright Young Things. All in all, they are just there to be “cool”.
Though, at a glance, I wouldn’t say Grimmy is textbook cool. More Wallace & Gromit than Dolce & Gabbana. So, how did he bewitch them? He says he met Alice Dellal, model and party girl, at the Isle of Wight Festival when she arrived with the Rolling Stones and he wanted to get backstage. His chat-up line? “Being loud and funny . . . I hope.” The others, he mostly picked up around town. “It started in 2006 when someone asked me to DJ at Proud Galleries and I ended up doing it with Aggy and, after that, we got asked to do it everywhere, though I was like, ‘We’re not DJs. We just press play!’ Then I met Alexa in the pub one Friday night, and she knew Agyness from modelling. I suppose that’s how people got the idea of us as this gang. Then there’s Jaime, Pixie, Henry and some others who you won’t have heard of. We still hang out all the time.”
What constitutes a good gang night out? “We don’t actually party it up that much [yeah, right], though I would say it should revolve around food and 15 people. I like The Diner in Shoreditch, but also The Ivy Club. It’s only a tenner for a burger there — same as Deliverance,” he nods approvingly. “I always went to Smash & Grab [the chic DJ duo Queens of Noize’s club night at Punk], but I feel so old now. Everyone is like 16. I’ve gone from wanting to go to Bungalow 8 to watching X Factor. I was watching it last night and one of my friend’s cousins was going to Matter [the new superclub at the O2]. I was like, ‘You can’t hear yourself speak there!’ Guess I’m getting on,” he says.
Or getting wise. Fair to say partying kick-started your career? “Yeah. Not going out and getting wasted — I never got annihilated — but meeting people, that’s all good. A gig comes up the next week and maybe they’ll remember you.” Grimshaw was so successful at this that he now works every day of the week. There is his weekend breakfast show and Sunday-night teen staple, Switch, for Radio 1, as well as Freshly Squeezed with Chung for Channel 4 from Monday to Saturday. His “crazy” schedule means the only time the boy (I would say It boy, if it didn’t make me cringe) can meet me is an unsociable hour on Sunday morning outside the Radio 1 studios. We sit in Villandry, around the corner, full of discreet, urban trendies. He orders toast at an ear-splitting volume (a volume he refuses to modify, despite my increasingly mortified pleas to “Shhh!”). It’s like having brunch with a foghorn. “Why are they all looking?” he bellows, as the trendies keep scowling over at our table. “It’s my voice, isn’t it?” Yes, Grimmy, it is.
Best not to nag him, though. For one thing, I suspect he could strike a dissenter from the guest list of every party in town. For another, this grating boom is clearly how he got himself noticed by his celeb mates in the first place. “Always been that way, sorry. I was unbelievably loud as a kid. Mouthy. Class clown. My mum had me when she was 40 and was like, ‘Oops, didn’t want that!’ So it’s been 24 odd years of trying to get attention ever since.” Well, now he’s getting it — and fast. After conceding that a total lack of musical ability ruled out any hope of starting a band, he ditched his native Oldham in 2006 and headed to London with little more than a couple of phone numbers in his pocket. Luckily, one of the numbers belonged to Mairead Nash — one half of Queens of Noize — whom he had befriended through MySpace (as you do) and who allowed him to move to London to stay on her sofa (as you don’t). So began Grimshaw’s voodoo-like hold on the hip women of the capital. Though he spent his days toiling as an intern at MTV, he used his nights to network. Whether at the Hawley Arms in Camden or The Griffin in Shoreditch, he began collecting famous friends the way most people collect their dry-cleaning. How? “I’m quite honest and open — people like that — and I’m not snide.” You can be cutting, though. Didn’t you recently say of Deyn’s attempt at singing, “I didn’t like it at all”? “That was sooo out of context!” he cries, suddenly ashen. “All wrong. I texted her to say not to read it.”
Hmm. I wonder if being part of his glamour crew might be less fun that it looks. Great for your career, no doubt, but Grimmy and co live by the maxim “None of us is as cool as all of us”, so he has to keep the banter up and not step out of line. It’s the same trick he uses in his work. His DJ patter is deceptively artless, but producers at Radio 1 marvel at his laser-sharp ability to nail a link to time. This duality can make for a slippery character. I quiz him hard for the real dirt on his celebrity friends — and what happens? The banter dries up. His affable joker front is rock hard.
He isn’t heartless, though. Aside from the profile benefits of his gal pals, I suspect Grimshaw is puppyishly in love with some of them, too. He hasn’t had a girlfriend since university, and tells me breathlessly that Winstone is “beyond beautiful”. Then he confesses that on the shoot for Style he went bright red when Dellal let slip to the photographer that he tries to get it on with her every Friday night. “Maybe I do,” he shrugs, blushing. “But she likes me, so that’s okay.” Is there anyone who doesn’t? “No,” he replies, after a pause. “I don’t think I’ve got beef with anyone.” A joyful smile spreads across the party boy’s face. He knows he’s got it nailed.
Nick Grimshaw presents the weekend breakfast show on Radio 1, 7am-10am, on Saturdays and Sundays
New kids on the block
Meet Nick Grimshaw and Alice Dellal, the ringleaders of the new It crowd
Why, I found myself pathetically panicking the other day, am I not friends with Nick Grimshaw? I’m not sure that anyone over the age of 15 has even heard of him. Despite ever-increasing cameos in the tabloids, I certainly couldn’t have told you what he did for a living. It turns out the 24-year-old Lancastrian is in the birth pangs of his career as a Radio 1 disc jockey and yoof television presenter. Yet somehow — wit? charm? Uriah Heep levels of crawling flattery? — he has become better known as the party mascot for all those kids the fashion mags obsess over. The glue, in a way. Alice, Agyness, Pixie, Jaime, Henry — if you don’t know their last names, you have obviously been frittering away your days reading The Economist — are totally besotted. They call him “Grimmy” and spend hours together frolicking on Primrose Hill, boozing in the dive bars of Camden and corpsing for the paparazzi.
In the school cafeteria of London nightlife, Grimshaw’s table is where the hip kids sit. It helps if you are rock progeny — Lizzy and Georgia May Jagger, Kelly Osbourne, Peaches and Pixie Geldof — or a model, like Alice Dellal, Agyness Deyn and Daisy Lowe, or a TV presenter, like Alexa Chung, or you sing, like Lily Allen, or act, like Lily’s best friend Jaime Winstone, who is dating Lily’s brother, Alfie, also an actor. Phew. I don’t know how Grimshaw keeps on top of it all. Not that it really matters what the “Set” does: their gift seems to be for guzzling free champagne, dressing “eclectically” in the fashion freebies they are endlessly sent, or whooping it up at their favoured hangouts — Bungalow 8, Punk, Shoreditch House — behaving like most 20-year-olds would, given limitless access to booze, clothes and fellow celebrities. They are self-styled, punked-up Bright Young Things. All in all, they are just there to be “cool”.
Though, at a glance, I wouldn’t say Grimmy is textbook cool. More Wallace & Gromit than Dolce & Gabbana. So, how did he bewitch them? He says he met Alice Dellal, model and party girl, at the Isle of Wight Festival when she arrived with the Rolling Stones and he wanted to get backstage. His chat-up line? “Being loud and funny . . . I hope.” The others, he mostly picked up around town. “It started in 2006 when someone asked me to DJ at Proud Galleries and I ended up doing it with Aggy and, after that, we got asked to do it everywhere, though I was like, ‘We’re not DJs. We just press play!’ Then I met Alexa in the pub one Friday night, and she knew Agyness from modelling. I suppose that’s how people got the idea of us as this gang. Then there’s Jaime, Pixie, Henry and some others who you won’t have heard of. We still hang out all the time.”
What constitutes a good gang night out? “We don’t actually party it up that much [yeah, right], though I would say it should revolve around food and 15 people. I like The Diner in Shoreditch, but also The Ivy Club. It’s only a tenner for a burger there — same as Deliverance,” he nods approvingly. “I always went to Smash & Grab [the chic DJ duo Queens of Noize’s club night at Punk], but I feel so old now. Everyone is like 16. I’ve gone from wanting to go to Bungalow 8 to watching X Factor. I was watching it last night and one of my friend’s cousins was going to Matter [the new superclub at the O2]. I was like, ‘You can’t hear yourself speak there!’ Guess I’m getting on,” he says.
Or getting wise. Fair to say partying kick-started your career? “Yeah. Not going out and getting wasted — I never got annihilated — but meeting people, that’s all good. A gig comes up the next week and maybe they’ll remember you.” Grimshaw was so successful at this that he now works every day of the week. There is his weekend breakfast show and Sunday-night teen staple, Switch, for Radio 1, as well as Freshly Squeezed with Chung for Channel 4 from Monday to Saturday. His “crazy” schedule means the only time the boy (I would say It boy, if it didn’t make me cringe) can meet me is an unsociable hour on Sunday morning outside the Radio 1 studios. We sit in Villandry, around the corner, full of discreet, urban trendies. He orders toast at an ear-splitting volume (a volume he refuses to modify, despite my increasingly mortified pleas to “Shhh!”). It’s like having brunch with a foghorn. “Why are they all looking?” he bellows, as the trendies keep scowling over at our table. “It’s my voice, isn’t it?” Yes, Grimmy, it is.
Best not to nag him, though. For one thing, I suspect he could strike a dissenter from the guest list of every party in town. For another, this grating boom is clearly how he got himself noticed by his celeb mates in the first place. “Always been that way, sorry. I was unbelievably loud as a kid. Mouthy. Class clown. My mum had me when she was 40 and was like, ‘Oops, didn’t want that!’ So it’s been 24 odd years of trying to get attention ever since.” Well, now he’s getting it — and fast. After conceding that a total lack of musical ability ruled out any hope of starting a band, he ditched his native Oldham in 2006 and headed to London with little more than a couple of phone numbers in his pocket. Luckily, one of the numbers belonged to Mairead Nash — one half of Queens of Noize — whom he had befriended through MySpace (as you do) and who allowed him to move to London to stay on her sofa (as you don’t). So began Grimshaw’s voodoo-like hold on the hip women of the capital. Though he spent his days toiling as an intern at MTV, he used his nights to network. Whether at the Hawley Arms in Camden or The Griffin in Shoreditch, he began collecting famous friends the way most people collect their dry-cleaning. How? “I’m quite honest and open — people like that — and I’m not snide.” You can be cutting, though. Didn’t you recently say of Deyn’s attempt at singing, “I didn’t like it at all”? “That was sooo out of context!” he cries, suddenly ashen. “All wrong. I texted her to say not to read it.”
Hmm. I wonder if being part of his glamour crew might be less fun that it looks. Great for your career, no doubt, but Grimmy and co live by the maxim “None of us is as cool as all of us”, so he has to keep the banter up and not step out of line. It’s the same trick he uses in his work. His DJ patter is deceptively artless, but producers at Radio 1 marvel at his laser-sharp ability to nail a link to time. This duality can make for a slippery character. I quiz him hard for the real dirt on his celebrity friends — and what happens? The banter dries up. His affable joker front is rock hard.
He isn’t heartless, though. Aside from the profile benefits of his gal pals, I suspect Grimshaw is puppyishly in love with some of them, too. He hasn’t had a girlfriend since university, and tells me breathlessly that Winstone is “beyond beautiful”. Then he confesses that on the shoot for Style he went bright red when Dellal let slip to the photographer that he tries to get it on with her every Friday night. “Maybe I do,” he shrugs, blushing. “But she likes me, so that’s okay.” Is there anyone who doesn’t? “No,” he replies, after a pause. “I don’t think I’ve got beef with anyone.” A joyful smile spreads across the party boy’s face. He knows he’s got it nailed.
Nick Grimshaw presents the weekend breakfast show on Radio 1, 7am-10am, on Saturdays and Sundays
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I know, I was looking at that image thinking, I wish it was just Alice. She looks great in that shot, and if Carl has time to scan the rest, it would be much appreciated by me also.
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if it´s not too much work..Atlantis, please say what you mean in future, I couldn't understand if you like the guy or not after your post!!
I am just finishing scanning the Alice article and will upload within the hour.
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thank you she looks fantastic!
btw whose this nick grmsahw guy why does EVERYONE have to hang with him i don't know some info please anyone......
btw whose this nick grmsahw guy why does EVERYONE have to hang with him i don't know some info please anyone......
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That's one hell of a zit on the end of her knee if it is!!!!
were they? I haven´t seen them on here... sorry
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i don't think those been posted there cool though
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some more alice myspace....
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fright night with jamie winstone
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