What's in a donk?

This is so good. It's the best documentary I have ever seen, ever. I read an article on this Donk thing everyone was crazy about up North in Vice a couple of months back and my friend recently linked me to the video on vbs.tv.

I don't know who my favourite character is, Willie the downs syndrome "harmony mc", the guy that compares Blackout crew to the Beatles or the guy in the record shop who is for some reason convinced that Wigan pier has a donk on it. I also like the fact that Mc Grimezie (known best for his political and provocative lyrics) has a biased opinion on how buzzing (which means good apparently) Burnley is. Burnley looks like a complete shit-hole. If I lived in Burnley I would have killed myself by now, which appears to be what most of the local population are going for with the amount of smack they take and battered sausages they eat.

To be fair to Mc Grimezie though, he does write hard hitting rhymes about things people want to hear and what needs to be said. Things like asylum seekers, Mercedes cars and aliens, you know, important things. I particularly like his fake American accent, it helps me to take him more seriously as a lyricist.

Basically just watch this film. It is one of the weirdest things I have seen since the documentary about the guys who sleep with cars. It won't enlighten you any further as to what exactly a donk is, but it will convince you not to live up north. I'm glad I'm not from there, or I may think this kind of music and behaviour was appropriate. After watching a short clip of the Wigan Pier rave my friend stood open mouthed and said "oh my god, that place looks and sounds like hell. I'm so glad I'm not from up North. This is what happens when people are too cold for too long. It does something wrong to your brain."

She may have a point, but you would never catch Eskimos behaving like that. Watch the documentary, it is amazing, and watch out for the orange girls singing the Katie Perry cover "I kissed a girl and I donk donk donk donk donk donk donk..."

www.vbs.tv