Thursday, July 31, 2008

Californication

Last weekend me and JB went to San Francisco where we played the excellent Bootie party at the DNA Lounge. We stayed with our mate Dan of TicketFly and even got a day to chill and drive over the golden gate bridge and go check the beautiful surroundings. Then we came to LA and Ian flew out to join us after his weekend of gigs in the UK at Global Gathering and Secret Garden Party Festivals with Geoff. Apparently Secret Garden was excellent fun and they played a tent where everyone wore headphones to the set. Monday we went to the Key Club to see Metal School, oh my god, it was ace.... Like the Cuban Brothers of Rock... Seriously funny i actually haven't laughed out loud that hard since seeing the Cuban's at our MITU night in NYC. Girls obligingly strip as a regular part of the show, every Monday night at the Key Club. Tuesday we were at the Edison which was a sweet venue, an old LA power station. Last night we played right before Lil John & T Pain at the Oakley party at the Key Club on Sunset, which was sick. Now we are chilling at our friend Nick's house in the hills. Been making an approximate video diary of our time in Cali, will pop it up sometime.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Tippy Toes

One month no writings... I moved apartment and been otherwise sorting out my belongings. Firstly had a killer Vimeo party in Brooklyn.


Ian & Geoff played to around 6,000 folks at the new Oxegen Festival in Ireland, ridiculous amounts of clips appeared on youtube:::

Played with Nikka Costa a few days later at the Bowery Ballroom here in NYC, we did a remix for her a few years ago so we made a video for it for her show. Then i had a jam with Reggie Watts & Abe Seiferth at the Lucky Cat, what is now our local since we moved. Me and Abe are occupying the same building and working on a few tunes together for fun but also a house tune with Reggie. Abe and Reggie also do the Tippy Toes disco band with the dudes from Hercules & Love Affair. They have a few shows coming up and i will be doing the video jam with Reggie & Abe again in August. It's a fun set up, Abe on loop pedals , guitar and drummachines... Reggie doe's his comedy loop pedal thing and also brings a Virus keyboard that he knocks out riffs on and i play video samples off two DVJs.

Also recently I have become a massive fan of Drop The Lime who makes bassline heavy dance music well worth checking in detail. My friend Mark Miller also recently introduced me to the brilliant nervous comedic outings of Josh McCutchen which i also advise checking out.

Right now we just finished a wicked video remix for Inner Party System which we promised their label we wouldn't show till it's about to be released, I hate sitting on things in the internet age. We're also deep into making video mixes for Motown which is probably a while away from being out there but we are dropping odd bits in our live shows. It was super positive and super progressive that their reaction to seeing us jam with Motown was to ask us to do it officially for them.

I am flying tomorrow with Justin to San Francisco for the Bootie Party there. The parties in San Fran are always off the chain so super looking forward to it. Ian & Geoff are doing another festival weekender tomorrow their at Global Gathering then the next day their at the Secret Garden Party with our boy Eddy Temple-Morris. Then Ian is flying out to LA to do no less then 4 parties with me in 6 days the most killer off the chain one looks like Bootie LA. All our LA peeps come out for party!!!