That past 3 nights have been quite frantic.
On Wednesday night my hands were hired to pick out songs for the ears of the kids that came through to B2B for the Joburg album launch of the new
New Holland album "Exploded Views".
Fun times.
On Thursday it was the same deal, except the Stellenbosch boys and I were playing Tings for their Pretoria launch.
More fun times.
I stayed over in "Beverly Hills", Joe's place in Pretoria. We were planning to wake up way early on Friday morning to make the drive through to to Durban for it's installment in the epic "My Faith in War" launch party series.
We didn't get away half as early as planned. We spent most of the day in the van, stuck in Joburg morning rush-hour and Durban afternoon rush-hour. Luckily we were joined in this misadventure by the ultra-affable boys of Cutout Collective who were sharing our van with us.
Bonus fun times.
The show itself was great. Cool (weird) venue, awesome sound, great turnout, Cutout slayed. We had a crazy fun time playing the new Doom songs to the super responsive crowd. Sadly my keytar malfunctioned, so I only got to rock the first 4 songs properly, but still i had a great time.
Fun fun fun times.
The only downside was something I'm beginning to call the Durban-Sass-Damnation-Curse. The curse been that of the 7 times I'm supposed to have played in or around Durban, I've actually only played properly twice. This has sometimes been thanks to horribly organised tours, asshole sound-men or other laughable mishaps. On Friday the organizer had forgotten she was supposed to have organised CDJs for me to DJ on after Kidofdoom. We discovered this around 6:30 at which point Joe and Dom flew into
Ultra Doggy Mode and phoned everyone they knew in town, eventually sourcing a pair of decks for me. Unfortunately this still didn't prevent the Durban-Sass-Damnation-Curse from kicking in. The lineup ran late and when it was time for me to start playing I was told the music would need to be over in 7 minutes and 38 seconds. Great.
Still, thanks to everyone that was a part of this great little 24 hour tour.
FUN TIMES!
and this:
Except not as furry and without sparkly jewellery to hold my split cheeks together.
Dogbox will be a series of bi-weekly parties held in Preoria's awesome "Hotbox Studios".
Peter and I were on our usual lights/ visuals duties. Similarly to how we organized the visual side of the "Trajectory" trilogy, we planned out a loose narrative journey to take the audience on. The difference this time was that, along with the primary set of visuals I played on a pair of plasma screens, we animated a second set of simple, graphic loops that we projected at the audience through smoke. It worked out pretty awesome if I do say so myself.
Outside of the success of this new experiment, I was just generally overjoyed with how things went. Peter and I have been plotting an audio-visual apocalypse for years now, and while we still have a long was to go, the launch tour was definitely the closest we've come to pulling it off.
Fuck yeah!
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