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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

EURODANCE TOUR PART 2

I just loaded this video and was reminded how fun The Rumble in Malmo was (sorry for the gratuitous arm pumping). Sweet Fred if you're out there thanks again my dude.

Also, here are some more pics from Malmo:
therumble.se
djungeltrumman.se

......after Sweden it was back to London where we had a day off to check out the city,

Lots of old next to new in London.

Checked out the legendary "Sounds of the Universe" record store, which is home to the great "Soul Jazz Records" label.

Nearby was the more traditional and cultured district of London:

Then we headed to Southampton for a show with Askillz at a club called Orange Rooms, great looking spot.

But why do they call it the Orange Rooms?

The show was tons of fun.

One guy kept bugging us to play "something off Doggy Style by Snoop":

The day after we poked around Southampton, there was a german christmas festival going on, but it was kind of a sausage party

Also - just to give you a little glimpse of how we prepare for our shows, it always involves deep mediation and focus. And hotel boredom.

After being back London we headed out for Helsinki Finland to meet up with the kings of the planet, our dudes from Top Billin. They run a label and a bunch of other stuff in Helsinki, and are basically top mates.

We got off the plane and went straight to the club. A great night.

DJ Flipperi & Anonymous

Fiskars & Jussi

Finland is a bit like bizarro Canada, they LOVE hockey, and drinking. They have a shot made from Fisherman's Friend and vodka it was amazing.

Also here is another unique finnish custom I guess

More party pics:

This is Nenis, he is the elected king of Helsinki and rules with a kind heart and heavy chunes.

Make sure to check out www.topbillinmusic.com

MORE TO COME........

Thursday, December 4, 2008

EURODANCE TOUR PART 1

Heyo everybody - this is the long overdue first installment of the Smalltown DJs Eurotour blog. So to summarize the tour so far: they are Euros, and they are dancing.

The people have been so awesome in every city. We started in Paris.

We played the Beat and Juice party for Antoine. It was a great way to kick it off, the club was called Casino Noveau and it looked great. The dudes Almost and Moody Mike were also on the bill.

The Parisians were mad cool, except we were only in the city for a few hours. We never even saw the Eiffel Tower, oh well. So then it was over to jolly old England, where we were staying with our good mate Ali B and his flatmate Dre. They are the best mates a mate could have. Ali lives in a clocktower, and so to quote Skeewiff: "He really knows what time it is":

Saturday we played Ali's night at a place called Paradise. All soul, funk and disco gems. It was the funnest night we've done in a while. Great club and great crowd, and to top it off, DJ Eleven was in town and came down to hang out and consume pints and party. It was a total blast.

Joanna Majeriisicieivinski then joined up with us in London. Thats why the pics get good from here on. She is a skilled photographer and awesome travelmate.

This is one she took of some super nerdy Canadian dudes:

And one of Mike in Brighton:

We did some sightseeing and touring around London, also filmed part of our new travel show for the travel show network:

Then that weekend we were booked to play Fabric, its a legendary club and it was so great to play there for the first time:

We did the night with Fuzzbox, Ali B and A Skillz. They killed it. The club was so dope inside and out - and really lived up to it's reputation. We had to bang it out a bit cause there was major drum & bass dudes playing the other rooms, but that suited us just fine.

Also Maya showed up to hang out, as well as a bunch of Calgarians who live in London. It was so great to see everybody jamming in London.

As Ali would say: "Result"

Saturday we hopped on a plane for Copehagen, then drove to Malmo, Sweden.

We played The Rumble (for the man Sweet Fred) which is like this legendary jam, they love to go crazy to all styles of music, it was deadly.

The styles were bonkers there

The party was so fun, we played a bunch of club, house, electro and some rap.

Once again: "Such a result"

ALso on the bill were these dudes from Buenos Aires Argentina called Zizek Soundsystem, try to check them out their stuff was great.

Then on the way back to London we saw proof that different species can live together in harmony:

TO BE CONTINUED....

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

CORRECTION: STEVIE NICKS

Dude I can't believe I forgot about fucking Stevie Nicks! Gotta make things right. She'd fit in at number 3 I figure, just after Joan Jett. Sorry Karen O, yer done.

This is the very first video I favorited on Youtube... I've watched it so many times. She was such as special flower back then... before she became a coke-addled goth witch.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

TOP 5 WOMEN OF ROCK

Any you guys out there like girls? I do. I like all types - brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, Haitian. All the pretty girls, and the ugly girls too.

But my favorite kind has to be the rock icon. Loooove me a cool-ass rock chick that has a couple hit records. Got the leather jacket, the Fender Strat, the black/bleached hair, the thigh high platform boots. Step on me with those. Ow, stop! OK do it again.

Here's my all time top 5 Women of Rock.

5. Karen O