Dirtyoldman and I have been bringing the chop back to the clubs the last month, playing as the banging electro duo “dirtyoldDisco”! It has been totally awesome to see how our hard hitting style of electro gets the floor asking for more! I’ve put up some photos from the last three shows we played. Thanks to all the people that took them, you know who you are

Photos after the jump!
After a hell of a lot of organising and pulling last minute miracles we threw a great Viral Session in Pretoria… Destrukto, Cutout Collective, dirtyoldDisco… awesome!

Some of the gang that joined!

Dropping the chop!

We played a cute little opener set at the Toxic Avenger gig, then got to drop a banger after the Team Uncool DJ set a bit later as well…Muckleneuk Massiv!

Representing as they say…

In the mix…

Classic chop…

The following week we got to play another opening set at Kitchener’s Carvery for the launch of Mtkidu’s “Shakawon” album. The opener wasn’t our classic awesome style but it was ok, we got some nods. After Mtkidu did their thing we closed off the night classic doD styleZ and dropped it hard… we were applauded.

Caryn Paryn and I… Holga love!

dirtyoldDisco in the dark!

The shows were all awesome, the other DJ’s brought it, we brought it, it was great. Come to our next show. I’ll high five you. One time.

^5!

So between now and the end of the month there are a lot of totally awesome things coming to Pretoria and Jhb!

This Thursday (20 August) my good friend Charles will be exhibiting along with a whole bunch of other talented people at Platform on 18th in Pretoria. The exhibition is called “Narrative Landscapes: Artworks generated from conceptual videos generated from personal narritives“. Check out the flyer in pretty .pdf format here, the map to the venue is here and the Facebook event is here!

Read about more awesome parties after the jump!

Then next week Thursday (27 August) will be the next installment of the Viral Underground parties, and the start of a (hopefully) regular thing in Pretoria dubbed the Viral Sessions! A nicely rennovated club smack bang in Brooklyn, Pretoria for only R25. Themba and I will be banging out an awesome electro set as the dirtyoldDisco alongside Destrukto as well as a mystery (for the time being) main live act! It’s going to be awesome, so be there! Check out a map to the venue here as well as the Facebook event here! Follow the Viral Underground on Twitter here!

Then the big one that I am most excited about is the Toxic Avenger, playing in Jhb! To top that off, Themba and I as the dirtyoldDisco will be playing a set as well! Yay! Check out the Facebook event here!

I hope to see you all at all of the events, they are gonna rock!

Take it easy
^5!

This year has been flying past me, way too many things to do in such a short time! Electrotrash has been growing from strength to strength with loads more content being added a lot more regularly (we even have a Facebook fanpage now… here ! University has been insanely busy but has also been really interesting so I haven’t minded too much.

Read more about partying on my birthday, The Bloody Beetroots, Indian food and more randomness after the jump!

[back, left to right] Andrew Pandrew, Nelia Face, Rick D
[front] T-Bone
[note: Caryn Paryn took the photo]

My birthday was last week and I was thoroughly spoilt by everyone. I also got to watch The Bloody Beetroots on the day which was a totally amazing experience. They played at the Alexander Theatre in Jo’burg, it rocked (see the event posting here)! Go have a look at their Myspace and listen to some of their music here. Check out photos from the gig on electrotrash here! Thanks to all you folks that rolled through and partied with me!

Caryn and I also found a new restaurant to go and eat at… It is a North Indian Punjabi Restaurant called Tranna situated in Hazeldean Square, corner of Lynnwood and Silverlakes Roads. It’s quite far out of the suburbs of Pretoria but well worth the drive. They have a “website”, but its more a badly scanned in version of their menu… go have a look at it at www.tranna.co.za. The Naan breads are amazing and everything else we have eaten there has been pretty darn awesome!

Drew brought me back the Justice – A Cross The Universe DVD… WOW! This is definitely rickommended (rickism’s are the new cool!)! I grabbed the official teaser for the DVD off of DailyMotion:

Justice – A Cross The Universe Official Teaser

Well I think that’s all for now…

Take it easy
^5!