An obsessed fan, Zach Slow, bagged a date with Lady Sovereign by raising $10,000 to take her on a luxury night out. He got the money from donations to his website using pathetic pleas, such as: “this night is for ALL of us… the little guys… for everyone who’s had a dream that didn’t come true, we’re going to show the world that anything is possible. Sure, it will be ME sippin’ the champagne and handing SOV a diamond grill with MY name on it, but you will ALL be there with me… it will practically be your name on that grill. So let’s show the world the power of community.”
Sov, used to a happy meal and a fondle behind the local cinema, jumped
at the chance to go on the extravagant night out and met him after her
San Fransisco gig.
Zach used his money to good effect, spending it on:
Yacht and private chef: $5,000
Stretched SUV limo for 5 hours: $1000
First class flights to LA: $1000
Hotel rooms plus a suite at super fancy hotel: $1500
Overly priced primo booze for 7 people: $700
Tips for staff on yacht and limo: $180
Limo to airport: $150
Gifts: $200
Paypal charges: roughly $270
Once it was all over, Zach posted this message, which we think perfectly sums up the whole event:
“It’s hard to explain–maybe even impossible–how it feels to be sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge with nobody else around, under a sky filled with stars, and Lady Sovereign saying to you "lets smoke another blunt, Zach Slow!"”.
We did something similar a while back for our Grimewatch column. Our writer Clarence took grime MC Shystie on a date to the Natural History Museum. Clarence didn’t have as large a budget as Zach, but spent his money very wisely on a small plastic dinosaur as a present for Shystie.
Reader Comments
June 26th, 2006
Ad Roc recently remixed one of her tracks (’Blah blah blah’). Impressive
June 26th, 2006
too bad he’s a pedophile…he’s cute
June 27th, 2006
haw haw haw + - this is the kind of story I check viceland daily for, this shit made me spit out my coke
“let’s smoke another blunt Zach Slow” HAW HAW HAW
oh the website, the WEBSITE
June 27th, 2006
sorry I misquoted above
“lets smoke another blunt, Zach Slow!””
this guy is the TRON GUY of ‘06, get him on Kimmel quick
June 27th, 2006
Is Slow the guys last name or was that a nickname she gave him?
June 28th, 2006
Ha ha, good story indeed.
June 28th, 2006
Did he fuck that britt-wiggHER
June 29th, 2006
that guy is way hotter than her.
June 29th, 2006
Lady Sov is hurting, I don’t like that weedy shit one bit. she better slow down cause she is so fucking annoying right now. oooh, a role model for a generation of aggressively stupid english girls can memorize some rhymes, hello new generation revolution. it’s nothing to be proud about to be a chain smoking retard who talks like a baby while pushing yer baby down Asda to buy more 2-4-1 WKD and Asda Basics white bread and beans. her music’s a terrible terrible shit, how did this novelty act manage to bamboozle Jay-Z into thinking she was something other than a one month wonder? oh yeah cause he’s the same genius who thought working with Linkin Park would be cross pollination of the genres to end all and be all. and god she’s ugly with the wonky eye and all. bring on the next needle dick Ordinary Boys collab, my ears are wasting away from malnourishment and addiction since I heard that hott shitt. I see she also acquired FAT FACE since ”Hoodie” blew up and stormed the Top 43
June 30th, 2006
soverign has the most annoying voice this side of Urkel in a vocodor
June 30th, 2006
for 10,000 dollars this guy didn’t even get a kiss did he
June 30th, 2006
grime sucks - the sound of the voices sound like cockney frogs croaking. it’s even worse coming out of the fat throat of a white trash girl who’s a refugee from Jeremy Kyleland
July 11th, 2006
what the fuck” I can’t belive this shit people will put $ into anything, If ENRON still had a stock people would be lined up AGAIN for lies and the same results. Anyways props to the gamer who all you dumbfucks gave your $ 2
aye” bro, I hope u got laid..
May 25th, 2007
I think she’s cute a button and absoutely rocks!!
June 3rd, 2007
http://sexxearch.info x
October 5th, 2008
this guy Zach is proffesional add creator working for Goodby Silverstein, the world most famous advertizing agency, and the whole thing is just to test the power of virals and they used company’s resources to make this real. Funny thing though