So a whole month has passed already since I last wrote anything on here. Things on the island have calmed down a lot over the last week or so and it's starting to feel like living in small village again instead of the clubbing capital of Europe.
Really looking forward to going over to Belfast in a couple of weeks time. Going to be DJing over there again which is always a good look, but what is even better is that as part of the deal I will be picking up my Nintendo wii. I've wanted one for ages so can't wait to get that back here. That will waste a more than a few days time!
Had a really crazy night on Thursday. Me and Dawn were taken out for a meal by Jesus and his son, a couple of people that she has been teaching English too since we lived here. We still aren't sure exactly what his job is, but needless to say he definatly appeared to carry some weight. All night we were treated like royalty and didn't even get so much as asked for money or given a bill. It felt a little like being out for an evening with "the Godfather".
Without a doubt, the mentalist part of the evening was when without really thinking it through, Jesus invited me onto the "slingshot", and in a true "embracing the madness" way I just went for it. You can see what happened on the youtube video that with a bit of luck you will be able to see below. Happy days!
Monday, 1 October 2007
Saturday, 1 September 2007
Manumission
For years now I have wanted to to check out Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim, as he has been someone that I have really looked at as an inspiration when it comes to DJing. So last night we (a couple of friends that are visiting and me) headed off to Amnesia and the well renowned Manumission night. I knew that it was going to be a night to remember when the police pulled us to one side as we drove into the club car park to be searched. I have to admit that it wasn't a very good search and that we easily could have been hiding something, but none the less, I did think it was pretty ironic that out of everyone they could have decided to pull over they pulled over us, who I would imagine were the 3 soberist people in any club on the whole island.
Fatboy Slim played a harder set that I expected but was clearly loving it. He didn't play until 5:30am and finished around 7am which was pretty crazy, I would have liked to have been done and in bed well before then. The whole Manumission night was much more of a theatrical performance than I expected, it's easy to see why it is one of the busyest and most talked about nights on the island. As expected, there were quite a few breasts appearing at various points, but they had 2 old guys playing guitar, flaminco dancing mixed with some heavy beats and mc'ing, and easily the best breakdance crew that I have seen in a club setting (well, the only ones I have seen at a house night). They had a very small stage but one guy managed to just sort of flip over about 5-6 times in a row on the spot which was pretty impressive.
Finally got back to mine about 7:30, and then decided we may as well go out for a breakfast so got to bed about 10:00. Even living in Ibiza I haven't been out that late in a while. All in all a great but somewhat crazy night. I don't think that we will be taking any visiting teams to Manumission but it was definatly a night to remember.
Fatboy Slim played a harder set that I expected but was clearly loving it. He didn't play until 5:30am and finished around 7am which was pretty crazy, I would have liked to have been done and in bed well before then. The whole Manumission night was much more of a theatrical performance than I expected, it's easy to see why it is one of the busyest and most talked about nights on the island. As expected, there were quite a few breasts appearing at various points, but they had 2 old guys playing guitar, flaminco dancing mixed with some heavy beats and mc'ing, and easily the best breakdance crew that I have seen in a club setting (well, the only ones I have seen at a house night). They had a very small stage but one guy managed to just sort of flip over about 5-6 times in a row on the spot which was pretty impressive.
Finally got back to mine about 7:30, and then decided we may as well go out for a breakfast so got to bed about 10:00. Even living in Ibiza I haven't been out that late in a while. All in all a great but somewhat crazy night. I don't think that we will be taking any visiting teams to Manumission but it was definatly a night to remember.
Sunday, 15 July 2007
Polish Movies
Just got back from Poland and am now staying in one of the most random apartments that I have ever stayed in. I am in Berlin now until Tuesday when I will be going to the UK for a couple of days.
We have made a bit of a video diary thing so I will hopefully be able to upload a little video of the Poland antics but the most random thing from the weekend was Polish TV. I have been staying in a hostel in the middle of nowhere and we thought we would see what was on. We turned on the TV to discover Erin Brockovich. At first it seemed to be in English, but after a few moments of Julia Roberts talking a Polish voice appeared over the top. On it's own this isn't too strange, but it was in fact a man's voice. It soon became apparent that the same man does the voice overs for every charecter in the movie and when we changed the channel found the same voice for a Robin Williams movie on the other channel. Excellent! I did record a little of it so hope to get a clip up, I think you have to see it to really grasp the randomness.
Tuesday, 10 July 2007
German Dogs
I am now at my friend Basti's house in Koln, Germany and staying here until Thursday when we drive to Poland to DJ at the SLOT art festival. I think it's going to be one interesting journey. There were 3 dogs on the plane this afternoon, all with different owners, all in small bags. I found it all very strange.
Wednesday, 4 July 2007
Hospitality Ibiza
I am pleased to be able to bring you the news that I have been working behind the scenes alongside Hospital Records to bring you the very first Hospitality Drum ´n´ Bass night in Ibiza. Check out the flyer below. If you like d&b then you need to get here for it! But you will have to get a hotel. My house is full.
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Well it´s been a crazy couple of weeks and there is no sign of the pace slowing down at the moment. With Brian & Tracy (24-7 team leaders) away in France I have been the designated driver of the new 24-7 people carrier and had the privilage of coming to the rescue of a whole heap of people over the last week. From a guy who had been left on his own after comsuming a little more than your average amount of vodka and puking his guts up through the holes in a bench to a girl who was seriously distressed after an alleged drink spiking incident. All good fun. But there is one story that I have to share that without a doubt is the highlight of my summer so far...
Last night we got a call on batphone (as the 24-7 mobile has become known as), to see if we could assit a girl at one of the bars who thought she had had her drink spiked. When we arrived she was very upset and confused but we calmed her down and I went to go and get the van to take her back to her parents who were back at her hotel. Just as I went to walk past the next bar, two men came flying out and onto the floor. One of them was laying on top of the other and had put him into a strangle hold. The bouncer from the bar knew that he needed assistance and was calling on his radio to the other bars to send their bouncers over to help. It´s at this point that my instinct of working on the streets of San Antonio just sort of took over. I leapt onto the two guys and started to pull apart the arms of the man that was strangling the other one as the bouncer tried to turn them over so that we could pull them apart. After a couple of minutes I managed to pull back his fingers and a combination of that and the bouncer pulling his arms and we managed to seperate them.
The two men stood up in the street and the bigger one of the two went to carry on attacking the other one who had been shouting for anyone to "get him off of me". I looked up and realised that this was possible the biggest and meanest looking bloke that I have ever come accross in San Antonio. If he had have actually hit me then without a doubt I would have been hospitalised, but I reached out and put my hand on his chest, looked him in the eyes and said "please, just stop, let it go now". With that he grunted a bit and just stood there, almost frozen, then both men just walked off in opposite directions.
After that we took the girl back to her hotel and made sure she was ok, then went back to the bar to check that everything was ok there. Now I knew that this bloke I had asked to stop fighting was a mean looking one, but when the staff told me that he was a champion boxer in the army, lover of street fighting and a semi-proffesional fighter it struck me just how crazy the situation was. Some of the other door staff knew him and one of them said to me "If there is ever something I have seen that makes me believe there is a God then it´s what you just did there". I asked him what he meant exactly and he said "If any other person has put there hand on him and told him to stop they would now be in hospital".
To be honest I am really dissapointed that no one who saw the whole thing thought to get their video phones out. But I have got a reconstructed picture below. Just imagine this, but with a more messed up face and shirt on.
Last night we got a call on batphone (as the 24-7 mobile has become known as), to see if we could assit a girl at one of the bars who thought she had had her drink spiked. When we arrived she was very upset and confused but we calmed her down and I went to go and get the van to take her back to her parents who were back at her hotel. Just as I went to walk past the next bar, two men came flying out and onto the floor. One of them was laying on top of the other and had put him into a strangle hold. The bouncer from the bar knew that he needed assistance and was calling on his radio to the other bars to send their bouncers over to help. It´s at this point that my instinct of working on the streets of San Antonio just sort of took over. I leapt onto the two guys and started to pull apart the arms of the man that was strangling the other one as the bouncer tried to turn them over so that we could pull them apart. After a couple of minutes I managed to pull back his fingers and a combination of that and the bouncer pulling his arms and we managed to seperate them.
The two men stood up in the street and the bigger one of the two went to carry on attacking the other one who had been shouting for anyone to "get him off of me". I looked up and realised that this was possible the biggest and meanest looking bloke that I have ever come accross in San Antonio. If he had have actually hit me then without a doubt I would have been hospitalised, but I reached out and put my hand on his chest, looked him in the eyes and said "please, just stop, let it go now". With that he grunted a bit and just stood there, almost frozen, then both men just walked off in opposite directions.
After that we took the girl back to her hotel and made sure she was ok, then went back to the bar to check that everything was ok there. Now I knew that this bloke I had asked to stop fighting was a mean looking one, but when the staff told me that he was a champion boxer in the army, lover of street fighting and a semi-proffesional fighter it struck me just how crazy the situation was. Some of the other door staff knew him and one of them said to me "If there is ever something I have seen that makes me believe there is a God then it´s what you just did there". I asked him what he meant exactly and he said "If any other person has put there hand on him and told him to stop they would now be in hospital".
To be honest I am really dissapointed that no one who saw the whole thing thought to get their video phones out. But I have got a reconstructed picture below. Just imagine this, but with a more messed up face and shirt on.
Being a Christian and trying to live to them values means that I don´t really get the oppotunity to get involved in many fights. But I am almost looking forward to the next one now. What a rush!
Thursday, 21 June 2007
The Magic Of Facebook
Due to getting about 20 e-mail requests from other people I finally gave in a couple of weeks ago and joined facebook (http://www.facebook.com/). To my suprise I actually love it! If your not a member then join it and join the revolution. Just in case your wondering, I only looked like that for about 10 minutes, but you have to admit, it's a great look!
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