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Hello from North Carolina
Here's a few pics from the tour so far - I've been using my video camera bit more in preference to the stills so not as many pics as normal... Sorry! Am in Charlotte, NC today, flew in from Miami - I've been down on South Beach for a few days, jsut chilling inbetween gigs. Did 2 gigs in Salt Lake/Park City Utah for the Sundance Film festival VIP biznizz last week, then Kelowna and Calgary in Canada. Its Charlotte tonight, then New Orleans for the Mardi Gras 2moro! I'll definitely be taking lots of pictures there, i think that's where all teh girls show their boobies!!! Wooooo! Anyway, here's some pictures!       I had a wierd dream while on the plane that I met Ronnie Barker, the UK comedian from the 80s (and still now i guess) very bizarre - i was trying to take photos with him at the airport (in the dream) but my camfone wasn't working and it was becoming tedious. Some annoying lady was babbling really loudly on her handsfree cellphone on this last flight, its starting to annoy me a bit, need to find some cunning way to annoy them back...
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5.2.05 01:33
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> Back from Germany - Lots of Photos to upload! <
Hi there folks - has been a long time since my last update - sorry! Have had some really good gigs recently, and got lots of wicked photos as a result (and some AMAziNg video footage too, which I have to edit up tonight...). Will have to do these pics in batches, the first lot are the remaining ones from the US tour in Feb. I think after my last entry I went to Miami and chilled out for a few days, hung out with Mr. Mendez & Stacey from Iowatest/Circle Management, and Alex M from TypeNew Music. Just hung out sunbathing in the daytime, wandering about etc - then had lovely jogs along the beach in the evening, and watched the sun set afterwards with a yummy fruit smoothie thing from the new shop on 15th & Ocean. Am really looking forward to going back to Miami for the WMC in March, I think I get in on March 16 and am staying for 2 weeks, so yeeeharrrr. Am working out hard so I can fit into my American Flag Speedos, watch out ladies!! haha...  Played a great gig in Charlotte, NC on the Friday with Kevin (Focus) from Basic Operations, who'd also been down in Salt Lake City when I did the Sundance Festival Event. Was mega hot in there, as usual my Adam Ant-esque makeup stripe ended up getting smudged everywhere! They got me a huge bottle of lovely Behringer wine which we all shared out in the booth, and the crowd were amazing, really loud! I met lots of cool people that night, North Carolina is a BIIIIG state and some guys had driven a long way to come out, so THaNks! Anyway, here's some pics:  Sheena (With AMAZING white fur coat and superb00bies) & Kitty Scratch (fully clothed this time!)  With Kim, Kevin the Promoter's lovely girlfriend.  Kitty scratch and her fabulous outfit! On the Saturday I went to New Orleans for a big "Zulu" party at the State Palace Theater - totally rammed again - came on after Mark Ferina, one of my favourite house DJs, was good to finally meet him. Mardi Gras spirit was in full effect, lots of beads about and even more boobie flashing than normal - which of course we loved!! RRRaaRR!      The Mighty Wildchild - best outfit of the night indeed - white "disco Sucks' suit, with far too many Dior Accessories - I was jealous!
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21.2.05 19:57
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> Estonia Last weekend!! Wooooo! <
Played 2 gigs last weekend, Friday night was in London, a night to promote the band "The Education" who I recently did a remix for (will put up a clip for ya later) - that was mighty electro-tastic, breakdancers galore, all sorts, but unfortunately I don't have any pics! However, I got Tonnnnnnnes from Estonia on Saturday, that really was amazing. Carol came over for the weekend too, so I whisked her off to Estonia with me, we had to get up mega-early to get to gatwick in time though, heathrow Airport is much nearer me, but no flights from there to Estonia, so anyway, we got there and it was fab. Very cold and snowy, but beautiful, and the club was masssssive and totally rammed to capacity! Got totally mobbed by the crowd, signed heaps of autographs and chatted to all the fans, was good to see so many people so very excited and in love with the music - parties out in Eastern Europe are always ace, but this was one of the best I've played for a long time. YeehaR! The first batch of pics here are from my camera, and then the next set are courtesy of the resident estonian photographer... OH, YES, almost forgot... The flight home was delayed by 9 HOURS!!!! 9 hOURS stuck in tiny little Tallin airport. I nearly lost my mind. Lucky Carol was there, and DJ Silver too, so we just hung out, wandered about, and spent the pitiful tokens they gave us on wine. Oh, and we used a free internet terminal thing to download transexual p0rn videos. Hahah! Anywayyyy... the worst thing was, our flight was 420pm and there was another one to Gatwick at 615pm - and they didn't tell anyone that we could switch, and initially the delay was only displayed as 2 hours, when they knew that our plane hadn't even left its source. There were plenty of seats available on the 615 flight and they made no godddam announcement, and when i went and asked, it was less than 30 mins to go before the 615 flight and they wouldn't do it because they couldn't switch our bags. We missed the deadline by like 2 minutes! AGGG. It jsut annoyed me so much that they didn't tell anyone that you could switch, for free, nothing, no info. Retarded. Then they kept on delaying the flight by an extra hour, it eventually left at 1230 at night. Hardcore. Estonian Airlines suck majorly. (I was still very nice and polite to the check in desk ladies though - don't get me wrong, I'm not a nasty air rage man). Anyways, here's all the pictures...   2 pics from the London gig at Clockwork in Islington        Snowy Tallin...             And here, hopefully these photos will help you empathise in the absolute boredom and dispair of 9 hours stuck in a very little airport... (Of course there are worse things in life, but geeez, it was pretty harsh... BlaH)  Check in   Being amused by 2L boxes of Vodka in the duty free... We resisted...     Romantic(?) dinner courtesy of Estonian Air (although the tokens only paid for the wine!)    Crew Arriving - to applause from gate area!   The Elusive Plane - finally here! Got home safe and sound anyway, and broke my record for flight delays which was previously held by Virgin Atlantic, at 7 hours waiting for a flight to NYC, which was then cancelled till the next day - but at least they gave me a 50% off token, so not all bad!
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21.2.05 20:36
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> Pictures from Mannheim gig - at the top of a TELEVISION TOWER!! <
On Friday night my mate Martin came over and we watched the whole 1st season of Peep Show, a UK Comedy TV show, hilarious indeed. Mattrick popped over too, and brought a supertopsecret PSP new playstation handheld thing - it was only in Japanese though, but really impressive...  Soooooo... I just got back from Germany yesterday - an amazing gig (yes another one!) in a club at the top of the Mannheim Television tower - 200m up in the sky!   EEEk! Lucky I made it, there was a massive snowstorm as we came into land, and I saw a car spin around on the AutoBahN, AuuuutooooBahhhN, they were ok tho. Had a lovely Jagerschnizel for dinner, and tried to talk German to the waitress, she just laughed at me! The club was already full by 1130 - totally to capacity, and by the time I got on at 2am it was like an oven in there - not good for makeup, or general looking hot, so apologies for my unkempt appearance in the photos! OH - And I filmed it and already edited the video - CLICK HERE FOR QUICKTIME MOVIE - that's a pretty big file (about 20Meg) so you'll have to be patient on the download time... Gona try to get on it and do that a bit more, have got soooo much footage from the USA tour to get through though, so might be a week or 2 before I get you the next one... Anywayy... The crowd was reallly up for it, a diverse selection really, young ravers and some old hands too, lots of hot chicks as well, which is always appreciated scenery (even though I'm taken) - I talked to people that had come all the way from Cologne, Berlin, Baden-Baden - proper DrumNbass or rather, Electrostep (perhaps?!) soldiers! Anyway, I'll stop blathering, here's the photos:  BOH!  View of Mannheim from the windows! Lucky I'm not prone to vertigo!  Check the guy's Jungle Camp shirt! Cool!  Round the back  Makeup running...  With some raver dudes  A nice German girl  View from the Decks  Crowd going mental!  The promoter premiering one of the new "john B is my homeboy" shirts (soon to be available on the www.beta-store.com!!!)  Another pic of the rokkkin shirt!! Hahah
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21.2.05 21:21
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> Slovenia at the weekend! <
Just about recovered from the weekend - I swear there's something funny in Slovenian Beer... Played in Ljubljiyana (sp) Slovenia on Saturday, which was Jolly good indeed. I had to fly out of Stanstead Airport though, cos there's not many direct flights out there, which was a bit of a hassle - Heathrow is 15-20 mins from my house which is mega-convenient, especially when my Dad drives me and I don't have a taxi to pay!! - but Stanstead is a mighty drive, took me 1.5 hrs, in clear traffiK - arG. OH, and i had to go on craptastic Easyjet - I really don't like that airline - I know its cheap and all that, but duDe.... long lines, and stupid boarding bizniz, no assigned seats, so everyone starts queuing up for the plane ages before you would normally need to, but if you don't join in then you get a crappy middle seat in already cramped knee-crushing conditions. GHaYYbaR. Anyway, it was ok, I was knackered and slept all the way so no biggie. Vent over.    Almost.(!) Yeah, so the gig was fab, the promoters over there are really cool guys, I had fun with em last time (we drove over from Klagenfurt airport in Austria that time!) so was good to hook up again. Was a different venue this time - a bit bigger, VERY hot (as you will see from my sweaty head and running makeup!!) and really busy! Things have been wikkid lately, all the gigs I've done this year have been rammed and full of really cool people, and cool atmosphere - there were even people doing 'the robot' dance all over the place this time! hah! I better get practicing before they outdo my RoBoTiK styleZ... Anyway, here's the pictures!            oh gosh, I had a wierd dream last night, I dreamed that my mate Matt Woods was walking around in my hallway, but slightly hovvering like a vampire, by my bedroom door (its glass) like trying to come in, and I was like "are you a vampire? - I'm not letting you in if you are, I konw the rules about that sort of thing, if I let you in you'll bite me, I'm staying in bed!" haha. Then he went away. I think its cos i clocked the guy on teh plane next to me reading "Salems lot"... anywayyy. So today I've gota go to the post orifice to post all the millions of packages & orders from my webstore - have had a lot of sales of the new T-shirts, which is relieving, I wasn't really sure what the demand would be - could have ended up lumbered with heaps of em! After that I need to get in the studio, I'm finishing off some remixes/reworkings of some tracks by a group called HydraBeats, from Belgium for my Nu Electro Label, then I'm going to be doing another Howard Jones remix, of one of his new tunes, which I jsut konw is gona be HEAVVVYeeee! OK, so better dash! Have a nice weeek people!
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28.2.05 14:33
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john b robot drum & bass diary
