Back from the grave...

Okay, so I died a small internet death about 10 days back. My last post was probably the most poorly drawn frame of SMAC comics so far. In it, I cried about not getting through the long list of stuff I had been wanting to post on my first Excite Bike Rampage. The good news is I'm back from the grave, with more exciting stuff going down!

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KIDOFDOOM HAVE ALSO RISEN FROM THE GRAVE!

The first two reunion shows this weekend were magic. I can't explain how happy it made me to be able to share a stage with these humans again. My only wish is that somehow Peter Rodda could have somehow teleported over to join us on lights. The great part is there's more Doom to look forward to. The next show of the reunion tour is also the band's home coming playing Pretoria's Arcade Empire on the 12th of July!

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NEXT HI5 LIVE IS THIS THURSDAY!

Hi5 Thursdays, our new weekly series has been going great! A little less than two months old and we've already had some really fantastic nights. Our next episode promises to be yet another stellar Thursday as we host Joburg beat-ninja The Watermark High and Cape Town's Diamond Thug, up touring Gauteng for the first time!

RSPV here!

Excite Bike 1 Round up.

KIDOFDOOM ARE BACK!

 
There's a long gushy stream of words that comes along with this news, but with this #excitebike business pushing me forward, I don't have the time to get them all out. So take this as the micro-machine version of this monsterously good news.

KIDOFDOOM ARE COMING BACK!

This band have been one of the biggest things in my life. With them, I shared some of my happiest moments on this earth. You can click here for some of those moments that were documented on this blog. At the time it was clear the band wouldn't be continuing in the way it had I was pretty shattered.

But, after a long break, The Doomers are back! They have an awesome collection of dates planned around their triumphant return.

I'm very happy to announce I will be joining the band on visuals for the first two dates of the tour!

CAPE TOWN!

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JOBURG

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Both these shows are going to be incredibly special nights - so prepare yourselves, spread the word and see you there!

FMF - Thor Rixon

 The last time I was down in Cape Town I made some great new friends. One of these was a mondo-taleneted guy called Thor Rixon.

He recenetly put out a lovely collection of songs called Shared Folder.

CLICK HERE TO GRAB

THOR RIXON

SHARED FOLDER

Al Bairre - We Move On Music Video

Last week the super-swell Al Bairre released an awesome new music video!

SMACM008 VAMPIRE9000 - HONESTY EP ON THE WAY!

SMACM (the record label spin-off of this blog) has been rather quite since "Welcome to Limbo", the 2nd Jaysynth EP and our 7th release! But that's been changing over the past week and a bit!

We've set up a SMACM facebook page to draw together fans of the label and broadcast some exciting news. (Support for this has, by the way, been far beyond what I would have expected! Thank you so much to everyone who has liked the page and bonus thanks to all the lovely people that helped spread the word to their own friends!) We've also been consilidating all the label's releases on the SMACM bandcamp (so you can grab all the SMACM over there right now!)

But the really big news is that we've unveiled our next release! It's fulls me with MASSIVE amounts of joy to be able to say SMACM008 will be a little slice of genius called "Honesty", the 2nd EP by Vampire9000! If on Colours (Vamp's debut EP and SMACM's 2nd release) we heard Christian Henn reaching for the stars, with Honesty he's aiming for other dimensions! I really can't describe how fantastic this collection of four songs is and couldn't be more excited for the 18th of this month when we get to share it with the world!

Like Vampire9000 here and like SMACM here to keep up to date with the latest news in Vampville and SMAC-town!

EXCITE BIKE!

 

You are invited to even more awesome stuff!

It's actually a bit too much; I've been busy since Monday crafting a huge post about everything that happened over last week. The second half of the Dune Rats tour was just great and I had the DJ set of my life at Sowing the Seeds and all this other awesome stuff happened in between all that. I'm working on a post that does it all justice but damn! It's just too much! Especially with trying to juggle actual work as well - it's taking ages! So I'm quickly jumping ahead, letting you know about what new adventures you can join me on over the next three days!

Tonight, Ri and I are trying something new with our regular Thursday night party, Hi5! This Thursday will mark the first Hi5 Lounge! The idea is, the last Hi5 of each month will be a free hang-out where Ri and I play whatever we want and get our friends in to come DJ with us. If you'd like to be one of those friends, grab some CDs, swing by Kitcheners tonight come kick out the jams with us!

RSVP here!

Then on Friday, Eyes Like Mirrors are making our return to our favourite venue in the city, the awesome Bioscope Independent Cinema! This the the most perfect place for us to do our cinema-rock thing and what more we're return to the Bioscope as part of a fantastic lineup of bands. Expect all kinds of audio-visual magic from A Skyline on Fire and The Watermark High who we're supporting! Really can't wait for this one!

RSVP here!

Buy tickets here!

Then on Saturday, it's time for Untamed Youth! It's really no secret just how much love I have for these cross-city disco freakouts. That said, I am especially excited for this next episode because I'll be going head to head with Data Takashi, the CDJ-wizard that was my full time partner back when I started DJing in 2005! Beyond the Sassquatch vs Data Takashi reunion, the lineup for this episode of Untamed Youth is solid gold from start to finish. You'd be pretty foolish to miss this!

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Well, that's what I'm looking forward to - hoping to let you know about last weeks awesomeness before all this hits. Fingers crossed that i can pull that off!