EURODANCE TOUR PART 3

Hanging out in the clocktower, Hampstead, London:



So I forgot to mention before we left London for Helsinki we went and checked out our homie Alex XXXChange who was playing at Cargo with Boy-8-Bit. Then afterwards we all headed to Fabric where Sinden, Zinc and Fake Blood were on the bill. It was such a great night of music - my head was spinning from the awesomeness.


So back to Helsinki, after the show there we were able to hang out for a couple days. It was such a great place. It's safe to say The Smalltown DJs are now officially "Finnantics"!


The Top Billin Crew - aka The 5 equally powerful and intelligent monarch rulers of Finland - Sampo, Jussi, Heikki, Leo, Nenis:


Heikki showed us around the city


And we got to take part in some traditional Finnish activities and games, like "Figure out which letter isn't on the side of this building"


"Reindeer Rodeo"


Followed by "Reindeer Soup" mmmmmmm - cute AND tasty.


and "Let's burn down the airport with these giant matches"


As the snow started to fall that was our cue to leave town, destined to return at some point


After Helsinki we headed to Cardiff, Wales.


The people there were great, and despite being only a couple hours from London, some of the Welsh speak their own language

To translate: "Gwyl Y Gaeaf Caerdydd" means "12/11/08 - 4/01/09"


We had a blast, it was the one year birthday of Plan B at Basement Bar - Stu and Rodski were running tings


Then we hopped on a plane to Shannon, Ireland - for the last show in Galway.


We were greeted by a band of small but talented singing Leprechaun Santa Clauses


The Irish have their own language too (Gaelic I guess?)

This means "Merry Christmas from Galway" (I think) - either that or "Get out of our town Canadian Scum"

The Irish also have their own beer


We eased into it

and discovered that Guinness does taste way better in Ireland

So we had more


The last show was a great one. The Irish folks were super funny and nice. Cant wait to go back.

I think you can see Newfoundland from here


Streets of Galway


So that's it. Great times were had. Evvy chunes were played. And we learned to live a little bit along the way.

Big Ups to Ali B, Shaun at Fabric, Sinden, Skream, Dom Stanton, Steve and Rob at Faze 2, TOP BILLIN, Brendan, Stu & Rhod, Antoine, Sweet Fred, Zizek Soundsystem, ASkillz, Fuzzbox, The Orange Rooms, Dre, Joanna, and all the party people we met.

HIPGNOSIS BOOK

Dear Santa,

I know I've been a turd again this year but it'd be really great if you gave me this book for xmas. 

Thx, Neil

PS what's yer Twitter ID?

BARRETT'S PRIVATEERS

Everyone in Ireland is awesome. The accent is the best on the planet, they all sound drunk.

When I lived in London, Ontario (the bad London) on Tuesday's we used to go to this Irish pub an the house band always played this song. I couldn't stop thinking about it when we were pounding Guinness in Galway:



CHUNE EVVY

IT'S THE RECESSION

Speaking of snow... if sheer quantity of listens is an accurate indicator of how awesome an album is (it is to me) then I gotta give album of the year nod to Jeezy. Still playing the shit out of it. Added relevance as we sink further into the economic dump. Need that thug motivation. No food, no jobs... still got bills though.

So right now I'm living in my best friend's vacant apartment as he cavorts about in sunny Costa Rica. The reason for this is that I'm dog-sitting. For some reason, when anyone finds out about this, they burst into laughter at the thought of me looking after anything. I don't find it funny. Also, he's 110 pounds, and a Rottie. I'm not scared of anything. First time in my life thoug, that I've touched dogshit through a plastic bag. Doesn't make you stonger, just resentful I thing the dog secretly relishes the fact that I'm bound by law to do this. At any rate, just so you know, I'm a (temporary) guardian. Unrelated, never having kids, as of now.

Also, marking a first, put snow tires on my car, which meant I fucking changed 4 tires. I'm pretty fucking stoked on that, given that I can't even put the chain back on a bike, so let me have that one for a bit. What have you ever done that's so great? I change tires. Like I said, I'm stoked. Or, I was, until I got towed from behind the Hifi. At least the tow truck had decent traction behind.

Anyway...I hope you didn't read any of that.


Here's a nice song:
Digital Emotion - Go Go Yellow Screen

I'm gonna put it on a mixtape for the dude at the impound lot.

Also, Mike and Pete are still gone, and I've been dj'ing bafefoot.