Little Video from Lodz

My man in Lodz, Poland - the mighty Moon B just sent over a quick video someone filmed when I played over there a couple of months ago (there are photos somewhere too but I lost them in the marass...).

Its pretty dark, but you can see the pretty lights, and see me sometimes, and hear Polish people screaming. Classic YouTube nightclub footage...

Photos from This Weekend...

Played a 4/4 ElectroTechnoPunk set on Friday in Kiev at Forsage club - MIGHTY as usual - really enjoyed not playing DnB for a change, and the pressure of playing stuff I wasn't super familiar with. Rocked it! Thanks to Bogdan and Topolsky & everyone out there. Oh, apart from the car with no seatbelts to the airport the day after. NO DEAD JOHN B!

Nice car - but no seatbelts. ITS OK I DRRRRIVE SPEEED LIMIT. FUCK no. Respect to Dima for not craashing though!

Kiev Kru Rockkkkin out!

Amuzing Ukraine Interview questions... About girls... ;-)

The Mighty Bogdan and Topolsky

Saturday was fun too - I flew back to London from Kiev then back out to Basel, Switzerland - amazingly I made the connection and even more amazingly my checked bag made the connection too. Don't believe all the bad things they tell you about Terminal 5...

There was a gazillllion of us at that party on Saturday, Me, Adam F, Bryan G, Aphrodite, Spor, Storm, Skibbadee, IC3, Swift etc etc - organising that many junglists into a minibus to the hotel is no mean feat - proved by a pit stop to grab a sandwich in a gas station ending up taking about 45 minutes and scaring a lot of people in the McDonalds. ENTSCHULDIGUNG!!!!!!

Drove over to Lahr for the gig anyway - I played as the sun came up in the outdoor area which was lovely - palm trees all around me, pretend beach sand and all sorts. Crap wine though... I think I'm going to change my rider to ask for Sancerre every time - OMG especially in Ukraine - that stuff was bllllluuueueueuerrrrrg! hahaha! Good for my liver to have a break anyway...

Here's a few pics I took on my iPhone and up on my mobile photos gallery...

The KING of the Jungle. Man this dude was OFF HIS HEAD. His pants had dollar bills all over them and well, a fabulous belly - like King Henry VIII. RULER OF ALL RAVES.

Too much Rave. He was alive though, just sleeping. On the Pavement...

Photos up from Warsaw

Mr. Kraff - the wonderful promoter from Warsaw sent over some photos from my gig over there a few weeks ago. I've popped them up on my flickr page and will have them up on facebook and myspace later on today too... 

Click here for the whole set...

Scariest Movie I've seen in a LONG time...

Won't be going up into the loft alone any time soon...

Was totally whackked yesterday, the gigs on Friday and Saturday were great - but I ended up running on only about 2 hours sleep yesterday, so by the time I got home all I was good for was takeaway pizza and a DVD... Ended up watching [Rec] with Hayley - and OMG it was ACE. Spanish language kinda cross between Blair Witch, 28 Days Later, the Exorcist and plenty of Zombie movies.

I won't spoil it for you, just check out the trailer here, but man - it woke me up...

I'm on Beatportal CRIBS! hahaha!

So, a few weeks ago the guys from Beatport.com came over to the mighty John B Towers to interview me, check out the studio and just generally get a bit of a behind the scenes look at what I get up to. Ah the glamour...

You can watch it here:

Or on youtube here:

Heavy Weekend coming up!

Hi folks - thought I'd just pop online and say hi... Gearing up for a big weekend - playing Kiev on Friday night, an electro/techno set so I'm excited about that - a good chance to play some different music and not have to stick to 100% dnb... Germany on Saturday night's gonna be big too - although I jsut heard my set time is 5-6am so I think they've got me on the last set - sun coming up stylee! Hah!

Just found a little video on youtube from last time I played at the Forsage club in Kiev, after Ed Rush and Rhymetime. I look a bit wierd - but it'll help you imagine what it's going to be like...

Playing London in a couple of weeks

Just thought I'd share these lovely flyers with you... I'm playing in London next Friday... See ya there!

My Birthday soon...

Booyah. 

Working hard on getting new music together today, first time I've been in the studio for a while - just been doing some re-edits and remixes for my sets - going well...

Am playing the Royal College of Art Summer Ball at Fabric tomorrow night so really looking forward to that, should kick off the Birthday celebrations too - I turn 16 on Saturday... ;-)

Also a quick shout out to Jorn and Denis over in Mainz - I played over at their party on Friday night and had a great time - MAD crowd!

OH, and if any of you readers have psychic weather-controlling powers, please help us pray for sunshine on Saturday - I don't want a wet BBQ biznizzzzzz!!!

My very own triffid

Just got these in the post today (yes it amazed me that they can post them too)...

Decided I'd like to try my hand at carnivorous plants again, and this time I wont poke them with pencils like when I was a kid...

Got a mighty Venus Fly Trap, a Sundew, and a North American Pitcher Plant (the big daddy). 

No flies are safe now in chez John B. BwahaaaaahaaaR!

Genius

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Yes. I took the insoles out of my old AirMax 95s and put them in my cowboy boots. GENIUS.

Snail

Found this dude on my wall yesterday. Biggest English Snail evAr!

I wanted to cook him in garlic butter. But I let him roam free instead. Slither free even.

New Tracks Up on the Webstore!

Hi guys - Ok this isn't strictly blog fayre, but I guess you guys that read this are my proper fans, so in that case you deserve a head start on some of these new things up on the webstore, seeing as they're so limited... 

Just a quick few links to some new products up at www.beta-store.com - the last 2 are VERY limited so get in there quick! ;-)

Glamour for Better "Architechs of Discotech" (John B Remix):

White Labels

http://www.betarecordings.com/store/index.cfm?

act=shop&process=full&id=340
Full Artwork
http://www.betarecordings.com/store/index.cfm?act=shop&process=full&id=341
mp3
http://www.betarecordings.com/store/index.cfm?act=shop&process=full&id=342

This is also up on itunes and most other digital download stores too so its easy for those of you that don't use vinyl...

Limited Edition John B Russian Mix CD "To RUSSIA With LOVE":

Regular
http://www.betarecordings.com/store/index.cfm?act=shop&process=full&id=344
Limited Edition Box
http://www.betarecordings.com/store/index.cfm?act=shop&process=full&id=343

BETA 20 // John B "When the Time Comes" b/w "Dancing in the Dark" // Test Pressings:

http://www.betarecordings.com/store/index.cfm?act=shop&process=full&id=345

Mad Weekend!

Ok. So I fixed the PC, now I can relax. I had to do some hardcore g33k motherboard bizniz though - but anyway...

Had an amazing weekend, a drunken one - being the first full weekend I've had free since I can remember... Hooked up with a bunch of mates on Friday night and went to Jodie Harsh's night, Circus, in Soho. Had a superduper fun time, took a gazillion photos, almost was in a fight on the way home, some of my friends actually WERE in a fight on the way home, and we met heaps of fabulous people & things.

Just went out in Maidenhead on Saturday night, only drinking Sangria. Ace move. Ate too much junk food though. Offset my mighty jogging skills for the week which is a shame...

All the photos are here on my flickr page:

PC Dead again

Arg. My PC has died again. Lame. I feel like half the time I'm just an IT support Manager for my house rather than a DJ/Producer. Arrrrrgggggg. Why can't computers just WORK!?

I want to do this to it

Couple of Photo Galleries up from last weekend in Canada!

I blagged all the decent pics I could find off people's facebooks & had some kindly emailed to me too, thanks guys! Collated them all on my facebook page so checkkkem out!

Winnipeg (Friday night): CLICK HERE 

Edmonton (Saturday night): CLICK HERE

Gotta say thanks to everyone that came out and both sets of promoters for looking after me so well! 

Oh, and Vinny & Barry - don't forget to send me one of those phones - OMG legendary! They actually work!

Made it to Edmonton!

Hi from Edmonton! I almost didn't think I'd make it though! The flight from Winnipeg this morning was delayed, then cancelled, then uncancelled - not the sort of thing you want to deal with on 4 hours jetlag sleep and a bit of a hangover! 

Air Canada are cool though and sorted it out so I made it and now I'm just chilling in the hotel here waiting for some room service before my wierd timezonefrazzledisco-nap...

Winnipeg was great last night, I really enjoyed it! Really fun crowd! Was cracking up at Mr Blaze grabbing the microphone and just going "Holy Shit!" every time I dropped a new track! Haha!

And special mention has to go to the lovely wine, all Canadian too, I was VERY impressed. I even had my own special wine server lady!

So yeah, thanks guys! See ya again soon, and Edmonton, see ya tonight!!

Video from Miami!

Just uploading this to youtube, facebook, podcast etc - thought I'd let you guys know first...

Photos from Miami on Friday

Here's a few photos from my gig in Miami on Friday at the Laundry Bar (can't take credit for these - blagged them off Vaginal Kamaz's flickr page - thanks!)

With Jenna, Jessica & Casey Killjoy

Dunno what was going on here...

As seen on TV in miami...

Got in from my gig on Friday night to see some WIERD stuff on TV...

"When You release the seed in your hand, God will release a harvest in his hand"

WTF?!?!?

Sexchatline commercials on the next channel. OMGOMGOMGOMG.

Wow - what a weekend!

Gotta be quick here, I'm about to check out of the hotel here in Baltimore - but yeeeeeehar this weekend has been crazy!

Miami was nuts on Friday, smashed the laundry bar 200% and what can I say about Starscape last night! I had the honour of playing the closing set as the sun rose up over the bay. Man what an experience. I managed to get 2 hours in - treated it really like a journey and went pretty trancey towards the end as the run rose. Really a beautiful experience. Thanks to everyone that was there with me!

Oh, and I found an unopened bottle of Grey goose, and some posh Gin under the decks... If they were yours, sorry! I promise they'll be put to good use!

I filmed quite a bit last night, so I'll edit it quick when I get home and upload this week.

Flying back to the Uk today, then a few days at home, then back out to Canada for more gigs next week! Don't tell Al Gore about my carbon footprint!!!

xxx

JB