DJ Shadow
08/05/2008
Around 7pm I got a last minute offer to go see DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist at the Big Top. Things kicked off around 8:30pm from memory but somehow we didn't make it there till about 10:20pm giving us just enough time to booze up before Shadow came on.
The event itself was very different from what I expected. To no surprise the Big Top was packed out, but the music was a lot more varied and mellow than anticipated. I was expecting a big club-type party and instead it was very much a band-like performance. Seeing the boys in action, live, doing whatever crazy mixing scratching stuff they do was great. And even though I was all the way at the back, I managed to appreciate it all thanks to the massive amount of cameras (incl. a small one attached to Shadow's arm) being fed live onto massive video screens. No cool DJ Shadow photos, sorry, but here are some random friend snaps.
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| My buddy Carlito Mustafa |
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| Smushed mikly way |
Together with some friends I tried to catch the last train back to the city... we missed it by just 2 seconds. We decided to take the train to North Sydney to cab it to the city from there, thus avoiding the massive amounts of punters trying to get cabs at Milsons Point. Unfortunatelly this didn't work out too well as the train due in approximately 0 minutes and the one due 2 minutes later never showed up. As such we ultimately walked it to North Sydney, cabbed it back to the city, stopped at Maccas, and then rushed to
Chinese Laundry to get the weekly club shots in... Ibiza boys
Filthy Gorgeous were visiting for the night and put on a fab set. Unfortunatelly I didn't get there till 2am and had to shoot for a while so I didn't get to hang out and enjoy much of it :(
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| JD+Coke... mjum! |
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| Posing, as usual... |
Posted by Andy Vermeulen at 1:17 PM