So stuff has been really busy lately and everything is coming at me a mile a minute. The trip to Ohio was awesome. Candy Kids was a lot of fun, and the vibe was massive. The ohio scene seems to be just now getting back on it’s feet, and it definitely has an innocence about it that has yet to be corrupted. The sound and lights were a little minimal compared to what Arizona has going on most weekends, but it was enough to get the point across. It was very nifty to see the kids jammin out with my toys… a lot of kids commented on having never seen anything like them in ohio.. that warmed my heart. So, get out your red/cyan 3D glasses because all the photos I took at Candy Kids were in anaglyphic 3D!!! Maybe I’ll get around to separating them and posting the 2D images too… maybe… Major thanks to Eklyps for having us out and being such an awesome host/promoter. I really look forward to working with you again man… You’ve got great things going out there… Maybe we can collaborate on an event sometime!
Bubble bobble is 2 weeks behind us, and I’m just now getting around to my review. This is typical of my style, as I like to give things a while to set in and make sure I don’t miss anything. For those of you who are interested mostly in the photos, they are up in The Bubble Bobble Image Gallery (click for pix.)
To read the rest of my review click the link below
Photos from Industrial and Magic – Click here for Photos
Industrial Light and Magic went off wonderfully. The venue was lit up in a way that the 5th ave warehouse never has been. The music was all incredible, and all the djs/performers were absolutely amazing. There was a great response to WidgetPhreak’s set this time around. I’m seriously amazed that more Phoenix promoters haven’t been booking him. Mike Saga tore it up with the industrial that the Phoenix ravers have come to totally love him for! If you take a look at Sesso’s myspace videos you can catch some of WidgetPhreak and Mindbender as well as a few others.
This is just a peek at some of what ClixBagofTricks can pull of with a party. more to come!!!
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?
So this past weekend was Transformers, the first party thrown by my buddy Rodney with Carson. Overall the party was a good time, but nothing different than we see every other weekend. Aside from a few samples and tunes that were transformers related, there was nothing to indicate that this wasn’t Gobots, Thundercats, Mask, Teenwolf, GI Joe, or any other buzzword hijacked from our youth and recycled into a rave theme. That has become one of my biggest pet peeves. I LOATHE when a promoter will name a party, theme the flyer, then do nothing with the party to make it follow the theme. Why not just call it Double Plus Good Rave? Actually… that would be kinda hot… a 1984 themed rave called Double Plus Good Rave. Most people wouldnt get it, but you could turn it into a big web event with big brother watching. Eh. Maybe that’s too far ahead of its time. On the upside, I did score cool points by saving the day when the fire department caused some trouble. They made them turn on the breakers that lit up the exit signs which also turned on the lights in the back half of the room. Thinking on my feet, I gave the promoters several red glowsticks to crack and put in the exit signs, allowing them to turn off the lights and keep on raving… which leads me to..
Just Keep Raving… of course it looks to be another standard formula rave. Rent a building, put some local talent on the lineup, print some flyers with some sort of theme your party won’t actually follow, and charge more than you probably should to get in. $15 before 11 and $20 after with no out of town talent, no lasers, and nothing to really differentiate it from any other party just seems a lil much. Oh well, most of the kids in Phoenix don’t know the difference anyways so they’ll show up, pay their money, have a place to party, and never realize it should have been better. That’s why I keep throwing the events I do, because I like a party with substance, and maybe if I make the kids demand more, other parties will have to catch up or lower prices.
On an extra positive note, I did fix up the gallery so all the images fit on the page now, and also the images inserted into posts, and the random images ont he top right get the lightbox treatment. Just click ‘em and see. Pretty nifty eh?
