A lot of people have been asking me the same questions of late:
"What have you been up to" and "When can we expect the album?".
First of all over the last few months there has been heaps of stuff going on, both musically and personally, even if its not visible yet.
Musically I am still working on the album. Have had to take some down time from finishing the recording as CMD as a studio has moved. We are now located in Lillydale and have been hard at work gutting the new location and building a 100% custom recording studio/film editing suite that will predominately focused around the independent artist in the Hip hop, Metal and electronic scenes. (For those playing at home before hiphop metal/punk rock was my first love, playing drums).
ETA on when we will be able to be booking clients is still unclear, as first priority once building is completed is to finish my album, then it will be full swing into recording the music that I know and love so much, at an AFFORDABLE rate for musicians like myself that otherwise would not be able to push onto the next level. Theres some pics below of the reno's when they just started. Looks totally different now. Will post pics when everything is completed.
I am also writing a side project which will be an acoustic EP. This is also in full swing in the background!
Personally, I turned 21 on christmas eve and celebrated with a house party. I was humbled by the loving/caring people I've managed to surround myself with. Cannot describe how appreciative and humbled I was by everyone who made the night and my life so special. Lovely pic of me drinking "Goon From My Flask".
I've also just got back from a trip up the south-coast of NSW, surfing, reading and writing. Was great to clear my head for a week and spend sometime with my Uncle who runs a personal training studio in Malua Bay.
If anyone is interested in working with one of the best PT's in the country and in the area this is their page (made me spew during our workout, and I'm a gym junkie :s)
For those of you who don’t already know,
the next couple of months for me live shows will be kicking into over drive.
For the first time ever (around my other commitments atm L) I am pretty much booked out for shows. This kicked off this
weekend with a trip to Fremantle for LucidFest 2012.
Note to self: Never fly tiger airways.
Ever. Again. I am writing this whilst on the flight back to Melbourne so the
displeasure is fresh.
(Nekminute I’ll probably be flying with
tiger as I cant afford to be on a plane that wasn’t from the 70’s. I mean,
c’mon how long has it been since you’ve been able to smoke on an airplane and
this thing has ashtrays. Seems legit).
What also doesn’t make me feel to great, is
(whilst on this flight) I finished a report for uni about the Nimrod aircrash
from 2006. Feeling safe.
The way their, domestic flights check in is
what, usually 60mins before. Tiger, specifically stated “Check in BEFORE
4:30am” for a 6:30am flight. Got to the airport at 4:30am, guess what, they
don’t even open until 5. F*ck You. F*ck your baggage allowance rules, f*ck your
attitude. *$@#
Personal bitching about airlines, and
illogical situations aside, we made it to Perth airport in one piece, so it’s
all gravy baby.When I say we, I am
talking about the crew. Aaron Rogers (who you all should know by now) and Josh Mergard.
Josh is our film man/genius/outta the box
advertising ideas man/philosopher. Josh came along for the trip to document
some behind the scenes footage, to film lucid fest, and to film a video clip
for one of our affiliates Chronicle of Perth.
Josh is also essentially the Zen master.
Here are some of his quotes from the weekend, and I sh*t you not. These aren’t
even taken out of context, as the context that they were in had no relevance to
what he was saying.
“Time is irrelevant. The meaning to life is
death”
“If I had a rock melon in one hand, and 12
banana’s in the other and peeled them. Diced them and made a salad with then,
this would be easier”
“I’ve never smoked crack, accept for twice”
“Its just like Zoolander, except none of
this happened”
“It’s a straight back stand up blow job.
When a midget is standing up and giving you head, you eat a pawpaw and the
juice drips on his head”.
^^^^^^^ This right here. Yep. I nearly died
from laughter. Said with such conviction and sincerity. And yes, he said and meant
‘him’.
Anyway, got there Friday and met up with
Vie. First time meeting the dude, had a great time hanging out over the
weekend. Ended up playing a joint set with him, which was sick. Nothing makes
me happier than after a show when people make comments like: “You’re a natural
born performer”, “How do you have so much energy? That was great”.
Honestly though, the set felt great,
getting the props afterwards is just gravy.
Vie has an EP titled “ENTER” that will be
out on Monday, check the first track released from it below
Vie is another affiliate of ours, and
really glad to have him on the team.
Daniel Ray opened the night; have to say I
was very very impressed with this guy. IMO he shouldn’t have been the opening
act by any stretch of the imagination.
Chronicle closed the night spitting his UK
grime inspired raps. I still can’t figure out how he flows like that hahaha.
The day before the show (Friday) we filmed
the video clip that we had set out to for his track “What’s Left”.
Can’t wait for it to come out, it was
Josh’s ideas for the clip, and Josh doing the filming but everything else was a
real group effort to get things done. And would you believe that our lighting budget
was $0? You’ll understand when you see the clip.
The trip was loads of fun. Had a great
time, cemented a lot of new relationships within the Perth hiphop community,
stayed in a kick-ass place on the beach in Fremantle, got a bunch of live
footage. Fremantle you are a truly beautiful part of this country, and I
enjoyed every second of being inside you!
If you wanna catch me live in Melbourne,
I’ll be playing with Chance Waters 31st of August at First Floor,
and then 1st of September with Bastian Killjoy at Revolver upstairs.
All right, so like with lots of things in
my life I start them and never go back to them… thankfully I have a little more
drive with music than I’ve had with this blog! Lol.
I have a pretty big catalogue of things to
discuss with hat I’ve been up to recently with music, so I think I’ll extend
them to a few posts but first thing first:
SUPPORTING THE FUNKOARS (yep. Little ol’ me and THE Funkoars)
This was a little bit of an up and down
with the promoter calling me and offering me the spot… then calling back and
saying there was not going to be any local supports, then a few weeks later
calling me back to re-offer the spot to me. I have to say I'm very glad that he
called back. As with all support slots they the deal is basically you get to play,
but you have to sell pre-sale tickets. Not that Funkoars tickets were hard to
sell, but still you have to actual do the legwork to move the tickets.
The night itself started for me at sound
check. Rocked up to Dj Reflux with 3 mics in hand rapping Funkoars songs
because no one else had turned up for sound check… things like: “I hate my
group, I hate, hate my group” were thrown in between verses… me and the sound
guys had a pretty damn good laugh.
Anyway, this show was great for me in many
different ways. Not only did I get to open up for/meet the Funkoars, I got to
play a hometown show for the first time in years, and when I looked out into
the crowed I was in awe of how many people had gotten in early to see me play.
I swear though half of the people there went to my high school (Frankston) at
some point hahaha. Check out some pictures from the night below: All photo's were taken by Dylan Nie you can find his blog here http://dylanisrestless.blogspot.com.au
The other supports for the night included Maundz, Briggs and Backyard Funk.
What a fantastic night.
I THEN however got up for work the next day
to proceed to just clean shelfs and the windows for about 8 hours.
