Click on the link to the right for more information. Here’s the teaser video:
If you spend any time looking through the gallery on my site, you’ve probably noticed that several of the galleries contain 3D photos. They are anaglyphic 3D meaning you’ll need the oldschool red/cyan 3D glasses to get the effect. A few of the galleries only have the anaglyphic photos, but I’ve decided that for the sake of those who have not gotten a pair of 3D glasses or don’t have any laying around, from now on I’ll be uploading the 2D as well as 3D photos. There will also be some 3D video posted from time to time. You will be able to find the 3D videos here on my site as well as on my youtube channel.
The photos from Power Surge 3 (the rave at stratus in Phoenix) are now posted in the gallery (there are 2D and 3D versions!!!)
For now… here’s a video of Showtek and the Power Surge 3 audience in 3D
Tonight is the night… this event is being held in a FULLY OPERATIONAL haunted house. That means the spooks, the ghosts, and the booms and bangs will be in full effect!! It is locate on the northwest corner of I17 and Bell. In the same plaza as the movie theater. The event starts at 8PM. Make sure you get there EARLY. I am doing my second suspension at 8 on the dot. Come see Phil York and Kutski tear it up! Time slots are listed below the even location information.
click here for the flyer and lineup info as well as flash videos of the headliners
The event is at the north west corner of I17 and bell. Go west of I17 on bell road and enter the movie theater parking lot. It’s on the west side of the complex.
Timeslots:
8-9 mando
9-10 Mindbender
10-1130 inertia
1130-1230 phil York
1230-130 kutski
130-300 starr n rize
8-9 cytheria v cap
9-10 matthew Harris
10-11 poss
11-12 kutski
12-1 matt dunn
1-2 plastic disease
2-3 robotech
This saturday all the stops have been pulled and THE BIG EVENT is going off. Phoenix hasn’t seen a party the likes of this one in AGES and most likely wont again any time soon. Seriously, acts like Dj Dan, Dj Irene, Woflgang Gartner, Milo, Crackerjack, and MY DAD Doug the Soundsmith all at one party!?!?! ClixBagofTricks is fully in support of this event and we will be there with lotsa new toys for y’all.
Click On This Link to get to the DontStayIn event page and make sure you choose the “I’ll Be there” button.
If you wanna see the full flyer click here!
Click Here for information and directions. The timeslots are as follows:
| Main | Side | |
| 9 | poss | Sid |
| 10 | Mindbender | Razzles & B |
| 11 | Integrity | Sparrow |
| 12 | Uberdruck | Starr |
| 1 | Brad Lee | Rize |
| 2 | Spear | Matthew Harris |
I’m a little bit of a bad blogger I guess… Life happened and so I got a lil behind. Anyways… the photos are up for
I wish I could go more in depth with reviews, but I’ve forgotten a lot about a bunch of the parties… the pictures kinda tell the tale. Anyways… more and more events are being added to the upcoming raves in phoenix calendar, so if you’d like your event added, please use the contact form at the top of the page. Also, new rave animated gifs are coming soon!!!
Blackout 2008 was simply massive. The sound in the main room was totally solid. Sadly since it was so busy I didn’t get to leave the table much but I did get to take a few photos which are up in the gallery (click to view the photos). Congratulations to Mando on a party well done and many thanks to Jillian for making things run smoothly even while under the weather.
So the photos have been up for a while, but I forgot to mention it. Bounce in tucson and Mindcontrol in phoenix have been posted. They were both pretty dope parties. Rave photos are usually up before I write about them so check the gallery often.
head over to http://www.twitter.com/clixbagoftricks and choose to follow me. This will allow you access to updates/locations for raves in the Phoenix, Arizona area as well as information about my current and upcoming events, and even better, occasional specials on products through the night at a rave. So, for example, if you’re following me on twitter and have yourself set to updates by SMS, you could get a text from twitter during the party letting you know that everybody who’s following me gets a free glow toy, or a buy one get one free deal, a free bottle of water, or some other happy goodness!!! If you’re having any trouble with twitter feel free to use the contact form above to get ahold of me for help. Also, if you’re a blackberry user, check out twitterberry for easy updating of twitter from your blackberry!!! Make sure you have device updates turned on!
Over the past few weeks I’ve been taking photos at parties and uploading them to the rave photo gallery but I havent been keeping up on the reviews etc. So here I’ll do a quick synopsis of a few parties. Click the name of the party for the photos.
Grumpy Bear’s Intervention - This was Grace’s first party an fell the night after Jason’s Other House. There was another party on the same night which led to a fairly low turnout. The music could have been better organized as far as genre and progression through the night. There also could have been a little more work done with theming. There was nothing about the night aside from the line of carebears in front of the main stage that really spoke to the name of the party.
These are the Raves of our Lives -Big Mike threw this party a week after Jason’s Other House. The party had a few fun competitions and while not heavily themed, had good organization and a strong vibe.
America’s Next Top Raver - Much like in office space, I found myself saying “I’m not even supposed to be here today!!!” My presence at this party was due to an aborted trip to vegas at the fault of a bad motorcycle battery. Oh well, next time around. The energy for the night felt off somehow, but Im not sure exactly what it was. Mike Saga tore the roof off with his drum and bass set and all the kids were diggin it. There was some fairly poor mixing I recall during some of the night, but I can’t place exactly where it was coming from as it was a few weeks ago.
HTID in the sun REWIND – Rize and company did a marvelous job with this party. The talent to dollar ratio on this party couldnt have done better. $10 for international headliners and a hell of a show. The event pulled over 1000 of Phoenix’s ravers. The music was amazing, the promotion top notch, and pretty much everything else rocked too… with the exception of the number of fights that broke out. Seriously until the past couple of years, I’d NEVER seen a fight at a rave. That crap was for the drunkards at the clubs who didnt belong to a community the way we do. I started seeing most of it when the sceneXcore kids infiltrated the rave community and brought with them their anger and attitudes. I’m not normally one to pick on subcultures, but seriously guys… take your eye-covering bangs, loads of eyeliner, emo attitudes, and physically agressive natures, and get the heck out of our community. Please and Thankyou.
So that about pulls it all together for the past few weeks. Lingerieve 2 is coming up soon, and its page will be up shortly. I’ll work on being more on the ball about keeping updated. Oh just one other thing. Google LOVES me apparently. If you go to google and type in battery operated tampon and hit I’m feeling lucky, it brings you right here. How awesome is that?
This post starts with a BIG congratulations to Harmony and Matt. They did a bang-up job on this party and again raised the bar for promoters in Phoenix, Arizona. It was refreshing to be in a new venue for the first time in a while, and I’ve gotta say the only downside was the insect life. The warmth combined with all the water in the ponds etc made for an icky amount of them. The setup and theming were 100% on par and the tunes were bangin.
I was a little saddened to see the stage that I was setup near shut down a little early for noise, but it was amusing when they played hulaish island music at a lower level until they let a few of the djs go on with reduced volume.
It was a good night of hangin out, jammin a lil bit, but mostly just hanging out. My helpers for the night spent most of the night disappeared or wandering around so I didnt really get to check out the other stages, but I still managed to have a bit of fun.
I know Harmony was freakin out at the beginning because of the size and implications this party carried, but it turned out great! If you got yelled at like a few people including myself did, I’m sure it was no big deal, just a case of nerves. Thanks to Patch, Metro, and Bones for stoppin by and keeping me company from time to time!
I brought out a couple of new toys this weekend, and a couple of old ones. The new ones were the cool foam led bonker toys, and the old ones included the ghengis khan wands which play music and sing “I’m with ghengis khan, we’ve been workin on his car” or something along those lines.
Pictures are up at: http://www.clixbagoftricks.com/v/raves/guaranteed_lei
The party this past weekend was called Secret. And apparently that’s just what it was. Attendance was rather meager and left something to be desired, but it wasn’t a BAD party… just nothing special either. Skittles made another decent attempt but fell just a little short. For being a secret party, it was at a well known venue, but that’s ok too. The night had it’s fair share of problems for me, but none of them were anything having to do with the party itself. Some people have heard what was going on, or made assumptions etc. If you wouldn’t mind, for my sake… just kinda pretend like you never heard anything, and it would help the comfort of all involved if it wasn’t mentioned or talked about. Because of the weirdness surrounding the evenings events, I regret I have no photos to post. I’ll be back in the swing of things next weekend. Also, I’ve been looking into some new types of battery operated tampons… so stay on the lookout!
Heaven vs Hell was a pretty well produced event that, like most in recent memory went off without too many hangups visible to the standard party goer. This seems to mean that either promoters are handling their business MUCH better or that they’ve learned to do a better job of hiding them from the public. Lighting was done pretty well, but I’m pretty sure it’s going to be the same light we’ll be seeing at most parties at Area Phoenix, being as it was the built in house lighting.
Congratulations are in order to Cole for putting together a very successful event. The event, held at Area Phoenix was totally solid on the indoor stage (I had to stay inside with my table most of the night) with the exception of the levels being off a few times during the Ikonoklast set. In fact, the only thing I didn’t like about the night was Ikonoklast. I don’t like to be a negative Nancy but I’ve never been very impressed by them, and frankly they remind me of a highschool band that never got to the next level but insisted on continuing anyways. The strand rocked it… and seein the girls from the family rock out made me smile on the inside… and feel a few other things on the outside.
