Bonjour Paris!

So - if you already follow me on twitter (I'm @JohnBBeta on there) then you will have seen these photos come up at the time off the iPhone - (yes John its very romantic to be twittering when you're in Paris with your girlfriend!) but I'll post them here for those of you that don't yet... FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER!!

I played in Paris a few weeks ago, for a fabulous chap called Pierre, but went for the weekend and took Hayley with me so we could have a bit of a chill out and see the city - I haven't ever really done the Parisian tourist thing apart from when I was a kid with my family, so it was wikkid to get back there and check everything out now that I'm old enough to appreciate the culture a bit more...

Friday was groovy, we got in early enough to have a decent dinner before the gig, SANCERRE baybeee - then rocked over to the venue (as about 300 mad Parisian Roller-bladers were doing a midnight mass rollerbladathon thing) nice and early so we could catch Alix Perez's set and just hang out and meet people etc ;-) Had a KILLER set and amazing energy in there, and some professional video filming people were in there, so I'm trying to get hold of the footage - it looked like they filmed the whole set so it'll be great to get that use for video podcasts, or a DVD or something... Original Sin was on after me for the harddddcore folk still around at 4am, but he was whackked out from flying in all the way from Toronto, so didn't really look like he wanted to be there that much - understandable though!

I can't remember the order we did stuff in, but we managed to take in a bit of the Musee D'Orsee (except we got there too late to spend much time in there), I had a crepe, walk along the river, ate SNAILS and steak Tartare (RAW meat mixed up with raw egg and stuff YUM), went on a boat ride on the river and saw all the sights there, including Notre Dame Cathedral (but no hunchbacks!) and then finally WALKED/CLIMBED up the Eiffel tower as high as you can on foot - 115m - I think about 650 steps! In 30 degrees C heat. BOOOYAHHHH.

Alas I didn't get to have a croque madame - but I made one when I got home to make up for it...

I AM THE TOWERRRRRR


Sex shop right by the hotel (classy)


Only in Paris. Heels that high riding a bike... Nice...


I'M EATING SNAILS BIZZZATCH

Todays facebook douschebag hater award goes to...

I posted on my twitter/facebook a status update last night thinking about how the inevitable blanket news coverage of Michael Jackson's death could have come at a bad time for Iran, pushing the Iran election protests etc out of the News at a time when the protesters need to be heard & supported etc etc - saying "MJ was a legend - but lets not forget about iran right now - they need our support and attention right now" & "if BBC and CNN etc are flooded with MJ stuff over the weekend - need to keep supporting iran and protestors when its CRUCIAL keep it moving". Don't get me wrong, MJ was an absolute legend obviously, and his death is a shock and I'm v sad about it like everyone else... but I think it needed saying....

Anyway, every now and then I get super-wierdo messages from people like this on facebook or (more usually) myspace so thought I'd share it with you ;-)



What a lovely chap ;-)

PODCAST 067 OUT NOW!!!

Taken from John B on twitter:

John B Podcast 67 up NOW! Live 3hr Electro/Techno/Minimal/ItaloDisco/80s Mega-Set from Zweibruken Germany in June: http://is.gd/1c4zC = SEX

More video from Warsaw: ROBOT LOVER

I saw the guy filming this, with a TINY nokia phone, but he was a pretty good cameraman by the looks of things... Here you see me dropping my new track "Robot Lover", doing a little dance, and you can admire my belly.

Hayley is now famous in Poland as "Jumping Boob"

This video from Thursday in Warsaw might give you some indication as to why...

Fun at Heathrow Car Park

Photos from John B @ Chateau Knarz, Ulm, 23.05.09

More photos! This lot are from my gig a couple of weeks back in Ulm, Germany for the Nu Noize party - where I was invited over to play a 4/4 ElectroTechnoRoboPunk80sWhateverTheFeCKILike set - as opposed to DNB... ;-)

As you can see, it was rammed, hot, and disco-tastic! Thanks to all the fabulous people that came down and robotixed it out!

You can check out the whole gallery on my flickr, myspace AND facebook. If I could post galleries on Twitter they'd be on there too baby (FOLLOW ME!).

Photos: John B @ Pirate Club, Niznhy Novgorod, 09.05.09

So I finally got all the photos together, gathered (with the kind help of my Russian fans & friends on vKontakte.ru) from lots of gallery websites, all Russian ones I find impossible to translate ;-)

As you can see it was an amazing show, ROASTING in there, so much so they got me 2 huge fans which worked a treat - except they blew my CDs about ;-) Had no time to hang around afterwards either, there's only one flight a day out of Nizhny Novgorod on a decent airline (i.e not a scarey Russian one!) at about 5 am - so I had to literally jet right out of there as soon as my set was done - straight to the airport, with all my makeup on and rave-dirt etc! Got a few funnny looks at Passport control but managed to totally sort myself out and get changed in the wierd little airport bathroom before the flight took off. I think I was only on the ground for about 4 hours from the point of landing in Russia to taking off again - that's a proper rave-commute ;-)

Anyway - here's some of the photos below, and as always you can see the whole gallery on my flickr gallery, facebook AND myspace (yes I spend a lot of time uploading stuff!)

Video from the P Diddy/Felix Da Housecat/Junior Sanchez Party in Miami!

Just spotted this on twitter this morning courtesy of Atrak - was hoping it would surface eventually, there were enough cameras in there and we did our best to get in front of them! LOL.

This was filmed when I was in Miami with Hayley, at the Ciroc Vodka Party hosted by the mighty P Diddy & Felix Da Housecat & Junior Sanchez during the daytime at the Victor Hotel, super VIP Pool binziz. We got there nice and early and had the best day evvvar - just lounging listening to genius music and being fed yummy vodka drinks, getting deeerrrunk and then attempting to dance...

Anyway - cheggggit (I'm in it for about 1 second at 0:53 - Hayley's bum is in it all over...)