Some shots from last Friday’s 3-Way Mix set at Sonar in Siena, Italy taken by FotoSintesi lab project. See more shots here.
Gigs
It’s going to great to be sharing a stage with these artists this coming Friday plus I’ll get to hook up with Kid Koala as a he’s part of the Deltron line up.
On Saturday I’ll be doing a rare vinyl-only set at the closing party of the Fumetto comics festival in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Check out these great photos from our gig with DJ Format at La Sirene in La Rochelle, France last weekend by Max Chill. Even more excellence on his tumblr HERE.
Poster for my solo DJ gig at Musicbox in Lisbon, Portugal on April 17th.
This May I’ll be playing in Sheffield at The Harley for the Thirsty Ear 9th birthday party.
This was for a gig I played on Saturday, I only saw it the day after but I like what they’ve done with the type.
We got back from Australia at 5am on Wednesday morning after what seemed like days of flying in cramped seats but it was worth it. The first mini tour of the Paul’s Boutique 3-Way Mix went well and I’ll throw out some highlights here rather than going into a prolonged tour diary.
Playing the Perth Festival outside and finishing before 10pm then going out into the crowd to chat and give away our rider. 
Landing in Melbourne to a torrential rainstorm, worse than back in the UK but being taken around by tour manager Joel to see local graffiti spots and ERT, shop sporting a tattoo parlour, recordstore, clothing, posters and spices.
Seeing old friends at the Melbourne show and rocking it despite the show being advertised as ‘Beastie Boys (USA) Paul’s Boutique feat. DJ Food, Cheeba, Moneyshot‘ (grrrrr). Finding out about ‘Vaporwave’, ‘Sea Punk’ and ‘Business Funk’ via a radio show on Melbourne radio.
Recording an impromptu mix of originals from ‘Shake Your Rump’ and ‘Hey Ladies’ for Jack Shit‘s show on FBI radio – you can listen back to it here.
Playing our best show in Sydney in front of more friends but ducking out of the proposed after party with Grandmaster Flash as it became a roadblock.
Taking the ferry to Manly to hang out with Moneyshot’s girlfriend’s ex-pat mates who served up the best BBQ.
Meeting up with DJ Hickory Dickory Dock who took me round various Sydney record spots, ending up at the excellent Revolve store near Newtown.
Off to Australia tomorrow for 3 gigs in the sun – can’t wait to feel warm again and hook up with the likes of DJ HDD and others. Posts on here may be sporadic to non-existent for the next 10 days but I’ve just finished a mix of 80’s pop remixes and re-edits that may appear on Solid Steel at some point.
One month to go until DJ Cheeba unveils his new, years in the making, AV show at Bristol’s Cube Cinema. After School Special looks at a century of drug use from both sides through music and film and there’ll be some special surprises for all who attend. It looks like it’s sold out already from the Cube website.
DJ Cheeba, DJ Moneyshot and I are touring the ‘3-Way Mix’ this year. That being a 4 deck, 3 DJ reconstruction of the Beastie Boys’ ‘Paul’s Boutique‘ album made from all the original tracks that they, and the Dust Brothers, sampled + more.
Here’s the first round of tour dates (more to come) with a graphic I made featuring all the sources they sampled, can you spot the Beasties? I made several versions + several Facebook timeline headers. Click for large versions.
DJ Cheeba, DJ Moneyshot & DJ Food – ‘3-Way Mix’ trailer from Solid Steel on Vimeo.
Here’s a little short I just edited to promote the ‘3-Way Mix’ tour DJ’s Cheeba, Moneyshot and I are doing at the moment. It was shot by Jim Alexander at Solid Steel‘s 25th anniversary party at Fire in London last December. We’re still taking bookings so, if you want to see this in your town or city then check the details at the end.
After seven years and nearly 100 events, I Love Acid is set to finish this April as they concentrate on different things. Luke Vibert headlines with Plaid, Mark Archer, Affie Yusef, Placid and, of course, Posthuman. I’ve played for them a few times over the years and it’s always good fun with a top set of people and an up for it crowd. Sad to say I can’t be there as I’m already booked elsewhere but nice to see my name in the thank you list they put up. More info and tickets can be found here and there will be a very special acid-themed Solid Steel the week before the final gig.
BELOW IS NOT A FLYER LINE UP – THIS IS A THANK YOU LIST! (I think they are regretting not making that more explicit going by some online comments)
Such a beautiful graphic, found on skipratmedia‘s site, tickets still on sale.
Tickets available from Resident Advisor or on the door.
Not long now until the London Solid Steel 25th anniversary gig at Fire closes out the year in fine style. Tickets available here…
Also, we just hit 90,000 plays on the original mix on Soundcloud! Thanks to everyone who listened, the new live version is longer, remixed and we aim to add video at some point in the future…
I will most definitely be attending this next year (in fact I already have a ticket). As readers of this blog will already know I’m a massive Ant fan since hearing ‘Dog Eat Dog’ at the age of 10 in 1981. Adam & The Antz were the first pop group who really mattered to me as a kid getting into music and their post-punk debut, ‘Dirk Wears White Sox’ went on to be my favourite without a doubt. Even so, I only saw him perform for the first time earlier this year, after several ‘shall I / shan’t I?’ misses and I wasn’t disappointed. Tickets available here.