February 2010
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Tomás Ford's Disco Bunker SELLS OUT! 10pm Show...
We’ve sold all our tickets to the 8pm Disco Bunker show. But don’t fret. We’ve decided to add a 10pm show, which you can book tickets for now. Above the 10pm show is a listing for the 8pm show, which reads SOLD OUT. I am enjoying that a little more than I probably should.
I’m really excited. You’re coming, right?
Here’s the dodgy press release I knocked up in...
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King Of The Silent Disco at Future Music Festival...
In what will no doubt be a fucking awesome way to come down from the excellence of my Disco Bunker shows the night before, I’m DJ’ing at the Future Music Festival next Sunday from 6:30-7:30 in the Silent Disco. Come by and visit to warm yourself up for Empire Of The Sun, The Prodigy, Booka Shade and Boys Noize :)
Wooohoooo!
(Mad photoshop skillz. I haz them.)
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Lady Gaga Has Her TV Eye On You
Oh Lady Gaga, you are so batshit crazy. I love you. If you haven’t seen her performance at the Brit Awards yet, even if you don’t like her usually,click the link below, it’s probably the closest thing I’ve seen to the kind of big production art-pop performances Laurie Anderson and Grace Jones used to do in the 80’s.
UPDATE: Oddly, Tumblr won’t let me post...
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Get Your Pass Into The Disco Bunker! Next...
Look, tickets for this thing are burning up faster than if I doused them in oil and threw napalm on them. I’ve been talking to people though, and I get the sense that there’s a lot of people who want to come, and in fact fucking plan to come, who haven’t bought tickets yet.
We’re at the stage now where the 8pm show is just about sold out. We’re considering adding a...
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Kinetic Carnival
So I feel like I need to make up for the intense lamenitude of that last tune a little by posting something pretty awesome. Supermarket are an audio visual funky techno duo I played with at a show at the Crown And Anchor in Adelaide last year. They’re some of the most interesting video artists you’ll meet.
Following that set, I suggested them to Ivan who is the director of...
Australia! Good News!
This has recently done the rounds on Twitter. It’s an authentic eastern european party bomb that captures the grace, beauty and most importantly the dignity of our wide brown land and frames it in glittering disco.
It’s shit, I know. But you have to watch if only for the dancers doing “the kangaroo”.
I Went To Bangkok, Instead I Had A Holiday
OK: So I should write about my trip to Bangkok or I’m pretty much not going to. As regular readers of my blog/twitter/other forms of computer addiction will know, I went to sunny Thailand at the end of January. And it was teh cool.
Trying to remember all the stuff we did is pretty difficult. We were only there for four days but we crammed in enough stuff that it felt like a much longer...
Schticky. Graney.
This is starting to feel like my theme song.
I’m actually going to go see Mr. Graney tomorrow night at Rosie O’Grady’s in Perth. You coming?
UPDATE: He’s actually giving away an mp3 of this thing at his site.
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Tata Young. She's So Rebellious It Hurts.
Continuing my Thai pop bender, I just came across some serious so-bad-it’s good awesomenitude. Tata Young’s “Sexy Naughty Bitchy”. Listen to how rebellious she is! She’s all like “I pick all my skirts to be a little too sexy / Just like all my thoughts always get a bit naughty / When I’m out with my girls, I always play a bit bitchy / Can’t...
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Super Laneway Festival Crowdsurfing Fun
Epic fun at Laneway. Thanks to Jacinta Matthews for the shot.
Dancing With Myself
OK, let me explain, because some people, particularly Perth underground party kids, are going to see me posting a Harlequin League clip on my blog and be all like “WTF?” at me on Facebook. To them I say this; sure, on one hand they are one of those noisy guitar-pop bands that you see at every festival and half the gigs around town. But chop that hand off and look at the other...
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lanewaylanewaylanewaylaneway
Holy shit. Laneway Festival was awesome.
I had three big LED video screens to play with, a crowd of people who were looking for some party action, a big-arse stage on the road between Central Tafe and the WA Library, a bottomless rider bar, a ton of pent up energy to put into the show, an awesome timeslot, an awesome lineup… we like these things here at Tomás Ford. That was a super-fun set....
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Final Music Video Post. Mind In Ruins.
My mind is still in ruins from this grant application. But I just had my mind blown by this hyper-psychadelic bizarro freakout from Dan Deacon. It’s twelve minutes long but it will destroy your ability to control yourself. Nice work.
Die Antwoord
Sorry, I know it’s two music video posts in one day, but this video just blew my mind. Watch it.
Just Back From Bangkok
Got plenty of Bangkok stories to tell you, but not today. Today I’m writing a grant application and listening to a dvd of top 40 songs from around asia I picked up in the market there. This has led me to discover the intense lameness/awesomenitude of Super Junior, who are kind of like an all male, thirteen member, semi-acrobatic Korean version of S Club 7, but with a revolving door...