casually epic

Walking into something out of back to the future armed with my new camera, last friday I spent a portion of the night at a private party in KG5 school. Poubelle international were asked to play this super cool catered birthday.

Ben (being a fan of back to the future) felt right at home on stage dressed like a greaser.

...the night escalated into mayhem. We partied pretty hard until sunlight.

Next day (a couple of hours after my head hit the pillow) was a pre-committed Wine Walk in Stanley. I was in no shape for a day of wine, but I pushed through and felt no pain all day.

That night going on essentially no real sleep I headed down to Kwun Tong to watch my friends' new band- The Gatling Gun Revival. 

Arrived to hear the last little bit of this guy..

Erik Piece

not my thing, but he did do a pretty rad bohemian rhapsody.

Then my pals Zane Stroud and Corey Tam took over.

The Gatling Gun Revival

I was super impressed! Had quite a sound. Most of the lyrics written by Zane and most of the music and melodies written by Corey. I am very happy for and proud of these dudes right here!

The Bollands

I heard alot about them. First time I had the privilege of hearing them. By far the best folk duo in Hong Kong (if not many more places). Holy smokes they where a treat for the ears! Check them out when you get the chance... you won't be sorry!

and the last thing I heard before I called it quits?

Dear Scarborough 

AKA - Josh Wong from Noughts and Exes.

I absolutely enjoyed hearing this. Such well written tunes and beautiful melody.

IMPRESSIVE pedal looping. This guy has some freaking skillz.

ANYWAYS- got lots of shit to do today and trying to hype myself up for this...

Should be a goodun'. As usual click the pic for event info

ASS TIME!

Remember when I said I was doing something stupid with the awesome HK band 

Poubelle International?

 

Check it out - making bad decisions and caring little about it!

Art Walk and Trash Talk

I will be taking part in the Hong Kong Art Walk this year thanks to Future Industries

Leo has been gracious enough to offer me a spot to put a couple paintings up in their gallery during the event.

The Hong Kong Art Walk is pretty cool (although, I've never been). It's Hong Kong's biggest charity/art event.... should be 'fabulous'. Go check it out if you can on March 14th. Once you have a ticket, there will be tons of beer and wine for you to guzzle all night.

Also doing something stupid with Poubelle International soon. They have a show this Saturday -----

Also, I might be on TV soon. Keep an eye out for that!

Sans Controle

Well, the Poubelle CD release show was quite a success! A very big production and quality at that! A lot going on and even more fun was had...

first things first. I got there pretty early to start setting up (and thank God I did since it took so long). The three artists were Matt Baily AKA NML, Shann Larsson, and myself.

Here is my ghetto tour of the art side of things (minus one painting that Shann brought later on).

Poubelle took the stage and were dead on. They played really well and had lots of fun up there.

The stage was done up with cool white sheets stretched all over the place, hard to explain without a decent picture.

About half way through the set a puppet show came on to 'mimic' the band... was pretty freaking funny actually. The puppet show was also projected on a screen behind them as to not miss a single dance move.

The night continued to escalate until I got very drunk and then the night just got blurry.

and this is how it ended.

Prep Work

so, I've been busy working on some paintings for the Poubelle show coming up and have missed a couple of cool gigs etc....

Redid this today.....

(just a little taster before the show)

BEFORE

AFTER

In other news, I stopped by Chocoolate the other day because they currently have a star wars promotion on. I bought enough crap that I got a free pillow.

Boyaaaa!

Poubelle International CD Release

So my buddies in the band Poubelle International are releasing their second EP at Grappa's Cellar on June 3rd. I, along with a couple of local artists, will be showcasing some artwork there. It should be an all around fun night and I highly recommend everyone who knows me come along.

Check out the face book invite HERE

Check out their website HERE

The details are this-

Friday June 3rd, Grappas Cellar

Jardine House, 1 Connaught Place, Central, Hong Kong.
Doors open at 9.30pm
Tickets: 150HKD (incl; one drink + CD)

Supporting acts by:
Modern Children – HK’s premier post-rock-indie-pop Arcade-Fire-esque big band
Songs For Children - Infamous indie DJ spinning Cold-Play-free gems all night
Robot DJ set – Thumping late night tunes in spandex

House Artists:
Danny Kostianos

now I just gotta do lots more work before the show.... wish me luck!

Days of Birth

Last night was OFF the HOOOOK! Well it was pretty rad anyways. The return of two great bands + a new sound system at the Wanch made for a dope night with a great line up and a fun birthday celebration for Ben McCarthy of Poubelle International.

Since today is a public Holiday (and coincidentally my regular day off, not really fair but whatever) Ben had a big birthday blowout with a ton of friends new and old....it went like this-

Corey Tam (or One Horse Town as they like to be called now) did a fancy set with a few new kickers!

Poubelle International were having a great time returning once again to the stage along with Zane Stroud now on the Bass Axe.

There, I made a poster for them, they don't even need to bother taking pictures or anything, that only took me 2 minutes.....

Then the return of Hungry Ghosts, also super fun rocking out to some good old HK music! Wish I had taken a picture of Luke Chow that night, he looked incredible!

Last but not least was DBK (David Bowie Knives) and they were great as usual, not much else to say except they make me happy to watch and laugh when I listen. I took no pictures last night, so this is a more word heavy blog than I usually post, but just deal with it.

Like I had mentioned earlier, the sound system at the Wanch is new and sounds superb, made last night even better!

Leaving shortly for Zane's birthday party so that should be super fun times as well. My phone can handle day time pictures, so expect a more visually stimulating post soon, mmmk?

-Here's a video treat for anyone who has made it this far-

ROOFTOP BBQ TIME!

What's the story Corey?

Corey Tam Band played the Wanch the other night, nothing new but its been some time since I've been to a show. Gotta say Zane has massively improved on the bass. He also told me that Poubelle International has asked him to play bass for them which is pretty rad! It's just a kind of rumor at the moment but those guys might be gig-ing around more soon.
New video from them - check it!

Anyways had a stamp card worth of drinks (possibly more) and discovered it was a bad choice for a Tuesday night! But all is not lost, Saw this girl Yan AKA Tyger Feb play again. Used to be in that once known band Hard Candy..... She is really good, great style and has super cute lyrics (mainly due to her chinglish) such as 'give me back my simpsons dvd collection, series one through ten'. ~ Pure awesome!

-Check out her stuff here at Tyger Feb

Monday night the star crossed boys and their wives swung by the house for some wii and cake action (it was Ross' birthday). That was a fun ol fashioned time!

Now I feel I may be getting sick, which super blows!