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> Welcome 2006 <

Hi there everybody! Sorry it's been so long since my last update (I seem to always say that) - one of my new year's resolutions, well, the only one I can think of right now is to update this journal a bit more often, I think it's been rather neglected lately, and just become a picture gallery - not what I originally intended!

So I've been travelling and DJing a lot since the last entry, off the top of my head, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany, Spain, America, and probably a few others. I've got a big backlog of pics from some of those gigs too, will have to sort through them later though... PLayed really long sets at some of them, I think I did 4 and a half hours in Budapest - it was THAT good!

All the flying has been pretty hard going though, last weekend was a nightmare, but I made it through, i had Thursday night in Ulm, so flew from london to Stuttgart, then was picked up for 1 hr drive to Ulm, was still jetlagged from USA on NYE so frazzled already... The gig was ACE - had a really good time and it was rammed and the crowd really knew what was going on! I think i only had time for 1 or 2 hrs sleep after the show, then had to get up at 7am to get driven back to Stuttgart, then flew back to London cos there were no direct flights to Valencia... Went home and slept for 1.5 hrs, then back to Heathrow and flew to Valencia. Mad. Lucklily the Spanish don't go out till really late, so I was due to start playing at 430am, so i managed to catch up on a bit of sleep in the hotel. I've been having really wierd dreams though, its wierd, going to bed at 11pm then getting up at 3am to go to a club - I had some dream where I was running around the airport with all my suitcases but couldnt find the gate. In fact I had the same one last night, I was in Chicago or something and for some reason i just sat there and let the flight go but then got stranded. Hmm. Oh yeh, so Valencia was great too - I've been playing all the new album stuff and figuring out what order it should be in on the CD - actually recording that today, so it's been useful....

Hmm, other stuff. Ah yes. Airport toilets... WTF so I was in the bathrooms at Buffalo, NY airport, went into a cubicle to do it, OH AND I HATE AMERICAN AIRPORT TOILETS - what's up with the huge gaps in the doors and the huge space at the bottom? Hardly private! Heathrow totally has the best ones, well, not terminal 2, but the rest are fab, really peaceful, its almost a religious experience. America needs to learn about toilet cubicles. It might be ok for girls who like to talk to each other while they poo, and pass makeup under the divider, but NOT ME, I don't want to see some dude's shoes and hear him going 'eeeeeeaarrrruggggh-aHHHH'. RuouGH! Anyway, so I was in teh cubicle and I could smell some crisps, hardcore monster munches or something, adn hear someone crunching away, WHILE IM HAVING A POO. And this dude was standing right outside of the cubicle and I coudl see him through the crappy door gap thing adn he's standing there eating his lunch, pretty much looking thru the gap at me! WTFWTF! Ignored as best I could and left. THEN the guy goes straight into my cubicle after me still eating his lunch, complete with sandwich etc GROSSSSSSS.

Oh and there were some wierd chaps on the plane too, mainly revolving around "Coat Envy" or "Expensive Coat Protection Syndrome". I upgraded to Business Class on teh way to BUffalo, and some guy came on with the best fur coat EVVVVVar, but he seemed a bit drunk or not entirely with it. He was last on, so put it in the overhead bin, ontop of some other guys fur coat. OK. So then he dodders about more and goes to get stuff out of his coat pockets in the bin, but the other guy thinks he's going through HIS pockets and gets all antsy so they have a bit of an alpha male fur coat fluff off before the stewardess sorts em out. Later on in the flight fur coat man number 1 seems to be drinking a lot of G&Ts, and decides to call the stewardess over by clapping his hands, like a roman emperor or something, while most of the rest of the cabin are sleeping. I wasn't, I was watching with a rather surreal Joy Division soundtrack on my iPod. Didn't he konw that you only get to clap at Stewardesses in FIRST CLASS?! its only Business class darling. Oh and there was another coat man behind me too, looked like an extra from Lock stock or something, had a really gruff New Yawwwker gangster accent, but he had a classic whuudddayagonnadoooabawwwwdit outburst when someone almost put something on his coat. Nice one. I used to have a nice coat, but then i got drunk on new years eve eve and climbed up a big snowpile and got it muddy.

OK, that's enough rambling for now. Have coffee to drink and a pile of webstore orders to post. At least I'll get to see the hot girl at the post office again, it's been a while.

10.1.06 15:43

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> Wine Tasting at Washington Dulles Rules <

Hello! I'm back home now, was over in the USA last week for 4 gigs - got back on Monday morning, and I'm pleased to announce I think I got over teH laGG swiftly this time.

All the parties were great, Seattle at the War Rooms was even better than last time - was good to catch up with my friends over there, do the obligatory pilgimage to the first ever Starbucks and the Pike Place market and just chill out in the hotel and watch movies and have room service...

San Fran was on Wednesday, for the Compression guys, but at a new venue - was a really good, mixed crowd, a lot of elecroclashy types mingling with the junglists and all getting on very well. My electrosuperheroes Davidian and Mr Sleazemore came down - and we got to have a quick chat, but I got distracted by all the boobies and lost them. SORRY guys! I'll make it up to you in Miami! The glorious Marcy Meow was in attendance complete with 'the Twins' her fabulous new boobies - alas I didn't get to sign them cos she had a photo shoot to do the next day, but I did get a squeeze! :-)

Went to Santa Fe on Thursday and met some fab people! The party was a big Fetish party for a lovely lady called Joolz's Birthday, and I hung out with her, Scott & their mates. Had a really nice time, got on with them really well, and definitily think that's somewhere I'll be especially glad to go back to in the future and look forward to seeing them again. We went to a couple of bars on the Thursday night and I tried out my new chatting-up-girls-skills from a book my mate Cooper reccommended to me (I won't divulge the title in case of outing my techniques!) AND I ended up getting adopted by a group of SEVEN GORGEOUS LESBIANS! Hahah! Quality. The gig on Friday night was good fun too, playing to a room full of people all dressed up prevocatively and generally being very sexy. The only downside was no alcohol allowed - but that was a problem eclipsed by all the semi-nakedness. Huzzah. Oh, and thanks to whoever brought me the can of red bull that really had Beer in it! :-)

WEnt to Providence, Rhode Island for the gig on Saturday. Longish flight so I was pretty mashed but perked up by the time I got there. Tommie Sunshine was playing after me so I hung around to have a chat and check out his set. Fabulous as usual. The venue was definitely a good one too, SLAMMING sound system, my god - so loud, but totally crisp. BOH! Had one of those ghay rotary mixers though, feels like you're playing asteroids or something.

Trip home was ok, flight was dead so I got to stretch out for once. OH, but I got into DC pretty early, so had a few hours to kill, and like an oasis of pure heaven, someone decided to build a gourmet food and wine tasting place right by my gate... RESULT! So I hung out there for a couple of hours and had the nicest Sauvignon Blanc of the year so far! And met a very nice lady into the bargain. I'll have to fly through Dulles more often!

Other than that, just been finishing off the album stuff - did the mixes for both CDs yesterday, just checking the mastering and putting track ID markers in tonight. Then can start getting promos out and all that stuff that you probably aren't interested in hearing about... "Just get the bugger out!"

Haven't had time to get to the gym yet, so I guess that's on the list for tonight - oh, and I did my grocery shopping online for the first time evvvver today. Nice to wake up to the delivery man bringing me bottles of Tesco's Finest Chablis and Swordfish Steaks... Yeeehar! Might be going out tonight if I can persuade my mates to come out on a school night - last time I went out in Maidenhead, a couple of weeks ago, I had a really good time - went out with Doug/Martin/Nicky&her BF, they ended up going home - I met some girls and took them to the honeypot to check out the strippers and had a really good night, it's way better in there now they've done it up, like not scarey anymore basically - I've always had wierd issues with strip clubs, kinda make me feel uneasy, but I think I'm getting over it! Hah. I don't think that will stretch as far as actually having anyone strip on my behalf, but at least I don't shake anymore... Hahah!

Aaight, well I've written too much again - here's a miLLLLIon photos to check out - the first batch are from last week in the USA from my camera, then there's heaps from when I played at A38 in Hungary, check out www.drumandbass.hu for more - and then finally just some random ones off my cameraphone from wherever...

Lots of Love

Mr B

Not sure where this was from... Ulm Maybe

An old pic from Chicago on Thanksgiving

Oh, and it's been brought to my attention that I now have some look-a-likes in circulation... Hahah! OH dear!

With Marcy and 'the twins' in SF

BUDAPEST ( I didn't take these...)

RaNdoM stuff from my CameraPhone:
Grafitti in teh bathroom of the Claremont Lounge in ATL "Where Strippers go to die"

Cool dude at teh Love Parade in SF

Almost a private Jet...

Lovely Backstage spread in Germany!

Nu Electro Cocktails! NNNNice!

Appparently this is a robot...

Woman in shadow at centre of pic overheard loudly saying to her friend (in bar at Mexican Restaurant) "OMG ITS JUST LIKE BOY GREORGE WITHOUT THE MAKE-UP!". So I took a photo of her. No amount of make up could make that hoebag look halfway decent. Hah!

Shop made for me, in an airport somewhere...

No suprise to see a sign like that in SF...

Kade from suicidegirls by the pig at Pike St Market in Seattle. Just after we took that pic, a mother was with her kid and the kid shouted 'HEY LOOK AT THAT PIG" - I said "Hey, cuMMMawn, I'm not that overweight!". Not funny at all. The kid laughed though. Tough audience.