She even played NETBALL with a mo!!!
I have the privilege of playing netball each week with Kirsten Mccosker. Not only is she an awesome player, but she is an inspiration and sure shows all you boys out there struggling to grow moustaches how its really done.
Check out some of my favs from the past month where Kirsten has donned a fake moustache EVERY DAY to raise $$ and awareness for men's health, specifically prostate cancer and depression in men. She is up over $11,000 raised now. Holy "MO"ly...
There are only 2 days left to donate to Kirsten. I did. You should too. Go HERE to donate.
Just donate your coffee money for today - then it's good for your health, and at the same time you're helping others with their health too :)
To find out more about MOVEMBER head here: http://au.movember.com
And Yes, she really did play netball with a fake moustache on. Funnily enough, we won that game.
I think the mo may have been a really handy scare tactic!
Claire Flannery > I HEART YOU
The gorgeous Claire Flannery came around the other week with some film cameras - NOT digital - and we had some fun and took some photos. It was such a hilarious afternoon. We may have potentially freaked the hell out of a poor workman working on my building at the time but boy it made for some funny pictures!
So much fun, and the photos are so pretty - no editing - old school styles :)
http://www.facebook.com/claire.flannery
$1,000 donation to The Wayside Chapel!!
With the help of the lovely Hollie Martin (as my trusted photographer) I spent the morning visiting my charity of choice, The Wayside Chapel, so I could donate the $1,000 prize money from the Vodafone HTC Summer Beats Competition.
Wayside's Marketing and Communications manager Laura Watts took us both for a tour around the building where we asked 1001 questions about all the different programs Wayside offers the local community - they do some great things! We got to meet (and have some photos) with some of the volunteers, and then we were lucky enough to be taken up to the rooftop garden where some beautiful mosaics were in the process of being created as part of an arts program.
The whole building is brand new, and the one next door is currently being renovated so I hope to stay in touch with Laura and get to go along to the grand opening next March!
Big thanks to Vodafone, HTC and The Projects for putting on the Summer Beats comp and providing the opportunity for me to donate to an organisation that does such fantastic work.
To find out more on The Wayside Chapel, visit www.thewaysidechapel.com or head HERE TO DONATE.
Heaps Decent in Hurstville
Hurstville by Heaps Decent
In the October school holidays Rowan and I spent 3 afternoons in Hurstville running some music and DJ workshops – and boy were we glad we did! The workshops were put on with the help of Hurstville council and were open for anyone to walk by and join in. The first day we took along some decks and gave a demonstration on how to DJ, which resulted in a dance off/battle and myself MCing on the microphone (much to Rowan’s amusement). We soon realised though that there were some super talented young people hidden away in Hurstville, and so the following 2 days were spent creating in what has turned out to be 2 fantastic songs. In fact, the organisers of the workshops were so impressed they even asked if the guys involved in these 2 songs would perform at a Hurstville Council event – which they did – and killed it!
The stand outs featured on these two tracks are now making the trip to Homebase in Redfern weekly on Mondays, and have since been creating some fantastic music in the studio with other Heaps Decent facilitators. I cannot wait to see how they all progress over the next few months.
In the October school holidays Rowan and I spent 3 afternoons in Hurstville running some music and DJ workshops – and boy were we glad we did! The workshops were put on with the help of Hurstville council and were open for anyone to walk by and join in. The first day we took along some decks and gave a demonstration on how to DJ, which resulted in a dance off/battle and myself MCing on the microphone (much to Rowan’s amusement). We soon realised though that there were some super talented young people hidden away in Hurstville, and so the following 2 days were spent creating in what has turned out to be 2 fantastic songs. In fact, the organisers of the workshops were so impressed they even asked if the guys involved in these 2 songs would perform at a Hurstville Council event – which they did – and killed it!
The stand outs featured on these two tracks are now making the trip to Homebase in Redfern weekly on Mondays, and have since been creating some fantastic music in the studio with other Heaps Decent facilitators. I cannot wait to see how they all progress over the next few months.
www.heapsdecent.com
HEAPS DECENT has a fresh new website with loads of content so you can find out about all the amazing projects that have been going on recently. CHECK IT!!!!
SOSUEME’S SILLY SEASON LAUNCH!
SOSUEME’S SILLY SEASON LAUNCH PARTY
Saturday 19th November/ ALL OF OXFORD ART FACTORY/ 8pm
Tix from: http://www.moshtix.com.au/
Hot summer nights, boozy afternoon picnics, christmas party invites flowing through thick and fast and week-long hangovers. Yes indeed, The silly season is nearly upon us and we are welcoming it with open arms by throwing one well concocted and rather large launch party - Oxford Art Factory, all three rooms, all night long.
A Molotov cocktail, expertly mixed with some of this summer’s best bands; Worlds End Press, Richard In Your Mind and Mitzi (to name a few), popcorn, cheap drinks and the cocktail umbrella on top - the one and only Smokin Joe Mekhael playing a mind-blowing 8 hour set in the Cube of Crazy. Incredible.
Not the easiest band name to roll off the tongue but one thats certainly got the tongues wagging, World’s End Press. Smashing it out of the park at this years Splendour In The Grass, this Melbourne band are bringing their disco pop jams and high paced, bounce off the walls live show up the coastline to showcase songs from their incredible debut album.
In an age where a wah pedal and a couple of beards are enough to get a band labelled 'psychedelic', it's great to see a band doing it properly. Sydney's Richard In Your Mind are this such outfit. Full of inventiveness and spark, they make beguiling, genuinely odd, mind-bending music, the kind as likely to veer off into a megaphone solo as it is an extended sitar workout.
Hailing from Australia’s most laidback and sunny city; Brisbane, comes 4 piece Mitzi. They make music and its good- Really good. Entwined by a backdrop of moving disco beats, syncopated guitar and capturing bass grooves lies the Mitzi sound- smooth, laidback vocals and a vintage analog warmth.
ROLL CALL....
live
WORLD’S END PRESS
RICHARD IN YOUR MIND
MITZI
TOUCAN
PEARSHAPE
TELEPROMPTER (single launch)
THE RELIGION
JORDAN F
TIM FITZ
Djs
NINA LAS VEGAS
JOYRIDE (dj set)
DJ HANSOM
HOBOPHONICS
KRISTY LEE
F.R.I.E.N.D/S DJS (costume set)
STONEY ROADS DJS
SMOKIN JOE MEKHAEL – 8 Hour DJ Set in the CUBE OF CRAZY
Saturday 19th November/ OXFORD ART FACTORY/ 8pm
Tickets available through Moshtix (http://www.moshtix.com.au/
Saturday 19th November/ ALL OF OXFORD ART FACTORY/ 8pm
Tix from: http://www.moshtix.com.au/
Hot summer nights, boozy afternoon picnics, christmas party invites flowing through thick and fast and week-long hangovers. Yes indeed, The silly season is nearly upon us and we are welcoming it with open arms by throwing one well concocted and rather large launch party - Oxford Art Factory, all three rooms, all night long.
A Molotov cocktail, expertly mixed with some of this summer’s best bands; Worlds End Press, Richard In Your Mind and Mitzi (to name a few), popcorn, cheap drinks and the cocktail umbrella on top - the one and only Smokin Joe Mekhael playing a mind-blowing 8 hour set in the Cube of Crazy. Incredible.
Not the easiest band name to roll off the tongue but one thats certainly got the tongues wagging, World’s End Press. Smashing it out of the park at this years Splendour In The Grass, this Melbourne band are bringing their disco pop jams and high paced, bounce off the walls live show up the coastline to showcase songs from their incredible debut album.
In an age where a wah pedal and a couple of beards are enough to get a band labelled 'psychedelic', it's great to see a band doing it properly. Sydney's Richard In Your Mind are this such outfit. Full of inventiveness and spark, they make beguiling, genuinely odd, mind-bending music, the kind as likely to veer off into a megaphone solo as it is an extended sitar workout.
Hailing from Australia’s most laidback and sunny city; Brisbane, comes 4 piece Mitzi. They make music and its good- Really good. Entwined by a backdrop of moving disco beats, syncopated guitar and capturing bass grooves lies the Mitzi sound- smooth, laidback vocals and a vintage analog warmth.
ROLL CALL....
live
WORLD’S END PRESS
RICHARD IN YOUR MIND
MITZI
TOUCAN
PEARSHAPE
TELEPROMPTER (single launch)
THE RELIGION
JORDAN F
TIM FITZ
Djs
NINA LAS VEGAS
JOYRIDE (dj set)
DJ HANSOM
HOBOPHONICS
KRISTY LEE
F.R.I.E.N.D/S DJS (costume set)
STONEY ROADS DJS
SMOKIN JOE MEKHAEL – 8 Hour DJ Set in the CUBE OF CRAZY
Saturday 19th November/ OXFORD ART FACTORY/ 8pm
Tickets available through Moshtix (http://www.moshtix.com.au/
Upstairs Beresford gets Creepy...
Playing Upsatirs Beresford tomorrow (Saturday) night again - sooo much fun to play there.
This time I'll be closing up after some local bands
KILL CITY CREEPS (NOV RESIDENCY)
+ Special late performance by Radio INK @ 10pm,
(Kill City Creeps 9pm), The Jungle Giants 8pm & Dj Kristy Lee till 1am
Free Door on the Night - or - buy your VIP Ticket & skip the queue $10.00+BF on moshtix.
OMG Pat has a robot parrot!??
He slays all the time so I cannot wait to see his super powers now that he has a robot parrot.
LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS!!!
Ching Ching, getting paid over here....
I'm heading back tonight one of my favourite places of all time to play CHING-A-LINGS with none other than the man of Hip Hop himself Ryan Saez.
It's been a while so it's bound to be quite fun indeed... 11-1am.
Hippity Hoppity!!
RIVERINA BOYS EP
Juvenile Justice: Riverina Boys by Heaps Decent
Check out the fantastic new Heaps Decent EP with tracks created by the boys from Riverina Juvenile Justice Centre in Wagga Wagga and produced by Heaps Decent facilitator Adam Bozzetto with special guests Joyride and Wax Motif. I did some guest vocals on track 4. Losing My Mind as well!
This EP was part of a project partially funded by the Music Board of the Australia Council for The Arts. The project sees Heaps Decent facilitators carry out music production workshops in schools within Juvenile Justice Centres in Lidcombe and Wagga Wagga. This program seeks to provide the young people within these centres with a voice, motivation and heightened self-esteem by engaging with their experiences through music.
The Juvenile Justice program focuses on songwriting, recording and music production. There has been a marked increases in the young people’s engagement and confidence over the course of the project. Through our relationship with Fuzzy as well as other industry professionals we are able to bring high calibre artists both Australian and international to these workshops and have found that this is inspirational and exciting for both the young people as well as the musicians with a number of them returning for multiple workshops as well as spreading the word about Heaps Decent to their colleagues.
Check out more here: Heaps Decent Soundcloud.
Check out the fantastic new Heaps Decent EP with tracks created by the boys from Riverina Juvenile Justice Centre in Wagga Wagga and produced by Heaps Decent facilitator Adam Bozzetto with special guests Joyride and Wax Motif. I did some guest vocals on track 4. Losing My Mind as well!
This EP was part of a project partially funded by the Music Board of the Australia Council for The Arts. The project sees Heaps Decent facilitators carry out music production workshops in schools within Juvenile Justice Centres in Lidcombe and Wagga Wagga. This program seeks to provide the young people within these centres with a voice, motivation and heightened self-esteem by engaging with their experiences through music.
The Juvenile Justice program focuses on songwriting, recording and music production. There has been a marked increases in the young people’s engagement and confidence over the course of the project. Through our relationship with Fuzzy as well as other industry professionals we are able to bring high calibre artists both Australian and international to these workshops and have found that this is inspirational and exciting for both the young people as well as the musicians with a number of them returning for multiple workshops as well as spreading the word about Heaps Decent to their colleagues.
Check out more here: Heaps Decent Soundcloud.
I WON!
Largely due to my very passionately voting friends - I actually won the Vodafone HTC Summer Beats competition. I won $1,000 to donate to the charity of my choice - I chose The Wayside Chapel.
I really enjoyed everyone's set - some stand outs for me were Andy Benke (who I think given another 5 minutes voting time would have been in the lead for sure!) Mike Who and of course the cutest (and nicest) lady to ever grace the decks, Starjumps!
Hopefully I'll have some more pictures soon...
HTC Summer Beats Party!
I will be playing a 15 min set of summer slammers tonight at the HTC Summer Beats Party at Beach Haus.
Joining me in the 15 mins of fame competition will be fellow DJs Domonic James, Andy Benke, Jake O'leary, Starjumps (woop woop), Mike Who, Backhanderz, Lunch Money DJ's Turbo and Murray Lake.
All those boys!
Wish me luck...
Melbourne Cup
It's Melbourne cup time again!
As an ex-Melbournian and one who for a short while lived right up the road from the races, I definitely understand the whole vibe about the big race day. The memories are so sweet - all the women walking home, high heels in one hand, Maccas in the other.
This year Sydney seems to be getting pretty excited as well for the main race day.
I'll be playing at The Argyle from 4-7pm first, then later heading to Ivy 11-1am.
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