Mighty Photos from Ultra in Miami last week!

Thought I'd share these with you lot... 

The mighty Rukes took some great photos from Ultra at the Miami WMC when I played there last Saturday - if you click here, you can see the whole set (of me) on my facebook gallery. Amazing gig. Respect!

John B Livedates Update April 2008

Been checking up on my diary and updating the myspace gigs listing so here ya go... 

Number 1 @ Drum & Bass Arena!!

Gwwwaaan! Get in there!

Thanks for the support guys!

Grrrrawwr

I think Hayley's gotta be the only Hot Babe to ever read Chaucer on Miami Beach... ;-)

A few photos from Ultra

Played at Ultra in Miami last Saturday, for the first time in a few years, and had a great time. Weather was amazing (last year it rained) and turned out to be a mighty fun day. My set went down fabulously, although most of us only got 40 mins, but I made it count! ;-)

We caught the end of Union Jack on the main stage when we got in, and just had a wander about taking things in after that. Subfocus was on before me on the DnB stage & played a few tunes I will DEFINITELY be blagging asap - totally up my street electrohouse-meets-dnb-stylee. Quality!

We hung out with my mate Casey and his roommate Jessica. Possibly the only goths there. Factor 50 sunblock in full effect hehe...

What an unfortunate name...

For a porta-loo... (As seen backstage at Ultra in Miami with my namesake)

Home sweet home...(?)

From this:

To This:

In the space of 24 hours! 

Didn't expect to come back to a mighty snow storm! Guess i won't have chance to sport my speedos again for a little while...

RIP Deadmau5 Mk2

Just got back from the US tour, and found another poor Deadmau5 in the loft :-( 

As much as I hate the idea of them all running around up there (thankfully there don't seem to be any scuttling about) its still sad to find a dead one. Gona have a big look around there this week to see where they're getting in...

Yeeehaw!

John B is currently sitting in Dallas airport, my flight to Little Rock, AK got cancelled but luckily they got me on the next one in a couple of hours so I'll be able to make the gig!

Had a nice flight over here from Miami, although was very sad to leave it behind. Am trying to gradually get back into UK style, started with trying to catch up on eastenders via torrents of the shows from the last 2 weeks. I can't beleive they buried that guy alive! Thought it was funny and random watching match of the day from the weekend on my iPhone, somewhere inbetween Miami and Dallas. I bet I'm the only person in the world so far that has done that. Booyah!

Just had some very dubiously shaped nachos and evesdropped on a couple of waitresses at the bar/cafe place that blatently hated each other. This week has definitely been a time of calibration and honing my skills for picking up on intra-female subtle-but-pretty-evil bitching. They had it.

Anyway, I will be using the rest of my wi-fi time do delete all the bollox myspace comments that people leave for me 'new tracks uploaded' - 'glittter sparkle blah blah' - 'yo hollah at your boy just stopping by to plug my crappy Hip Hop demo' WHATTTTTT. Go away.

Ok, gate change again - I'm off. Lots of love till later...

Don't know who was more embarrassed...

Ok, so this is embarrassing, but funny at the same time I guess... Came back to my hotel room THIS, this afternoon. We must have left it ruckled up in the bed, and the poor maid must have found it, and basically left it ceremoniously out after remaking the bed and cleaning the room! Arg! Lucky we leave on Friday...

Quick Hi from Miami

Gotta get ready to go play the big rave that is ULTRA in a minute so I'll make this quick... WMC been pretty good so far, played ViRam last night - my set went down mighty stylee, thanks to everyone that came and checked it out. I got a whole 2 drink tickets from the promoters, which only bought Hineken. Quality VIP stylee right? 

Been to some cool pool parties the last few days, chatted with Zinc, Fresh, Justice (in French, briefly), Digitalism, A-track, Craze, Chromeo etc etc. Managed to avoid hardcore Drum&Bass with 10MCs parties so far, and got a decent layer of sunburn going on too! Oh, and Jogged every day, and not got that drunk! That is no mean feat for Miami! 

Got lots of free Swag from Armani, and a gazillion demo Cds. OH AND THE CUBAN COFFEE YESYES. HOW I MISSED YOU.

I'm waiting for it to rain so I can do a proper debriefing on here, so until then...

xxx

This WMC

I will mostly be wearing Short Shorts.

Ah the mighty Sushi of Miami!

Got into Miami on Sunday - and hit my my ultimate favourite sushi spot immediately - SUSHI ROCK. MMMmmmm. This is their 'Dragon Roll'. Killer. Tempura Shrimp with avocado and all sorts. John B recommends...

Scarey Man-thong on the beach in Miami...

As seen on the beach today...

Bird vs. Lufthansa Regional Jet

The Jet won...

Got home a bit late today, our plane hit a bird on takeoff from Stuttgart and had to abort the takeoff at the last minute. There was squashed bird guts all over the front of the plane so a nice German man in a facemask had to come and clean it off and we had to all get off the plane while they checked to see if its beak was stuck in the engine...

German efficiency prevailed though, even though we got off the plane, bussed it back to the terminal, then reboarded and bussed it back to the plane again i think i was only about an hour and a half late. Big up Lufthansa. I got a few photos on my iPhone, but none of the bird guts - will upload in the morning - I'm whackkked - only 2 hrs sleep on Friday, and only 4 last night, complete with a hardcore night terror paralysis nightmare thing! Quality!

oh Vienna!

ok so I'm officially a geek. Posting this from my iPhone in the BA lounge at Vienna airport on free wi-fi. Nice

I'm also absolutely shattered! Had a rockkin gig at CCX in Nove Zamkey in Slovakia last night but had to be up at 645 to get back to the airport. I'm about to fly back to Heathrow, change terminals, wait, then fly to Stuttgart then drive to Ulm for my 4/4 set tonight. I'm on 2.5 hrs sleep...

Also to twist the knife I found out I could have just flown straight there from Vienna at 5pm. Not fair! Again...

Hope you liked the new podcasts I put up on Thursday and I just spotted that the 2nd part of the live mix was linking to the wrong file! Oops! Its fixed now so u can grab it!

Ok I'm off to get on a plane. Pray for no screaming kids behind me! John B must zzz

Ghost mouse...

Just been up in the loft to grab a few things, and moved my big suitcase, the one I only use for long tours - gona need it for the USA one next week... 

Anyway, looks like either the deceased mouse from the moustrap had tried to get in and have a home, or a new one did some nibbling... I'll investigate fully on Monday and let you know if he's back, or it was a parting nibbly gift... May have to eBay a new mighty arsenal of mousetraps for up there. 

IF THEY TOUCH MY WINE IT'S WAR!!

New Redux Mix Just Posted

I've been hard at work podcasting this week...

Just posted up the new Redux ElectroTechno show on my podcast page, and if you're already subscribed to my podcast in iTunes it should be happily downloading right now!

In case you don't know, I do 2 types of podcasts, my normal DnB ones, studio mixes or sets recorded live when I'm at gigs, and then also I do this Redux thing - a guest slot on the Redux show for XM Satellite radio in America where I play the other stuff I love, Electrohouse, Techno, Minimal, whatever - basically 4/4 tracks that are fabulous and electroey... It's DJ Simon's brainchild and there's a bunch of us DJs rotating guest slots, like Larry Tee, Tommie Sunshine, DJ:Unknown etc etc.

Anyway, heres the link to the file if you want it and the tracklisting (yes I actually did one for once!) Please forgive me for the amount of Kiko tracks in there - I guess I just got a bit carried away!

http://www.ilovejohnb.com/JohnB_Redux_March08_192.mp3

Tracklist:

1. Dis Moi - Club Duluxe
2. Ace Spectrum - Kiko
3. Ginger Up - Lethargy
4. 102 - Kiko
5. Grace - Miss Kittin
6. Emonimal - Wehbba
7. Faces of Life - Kiko
8. Elektrotrans - Jor - El
9. Solar - Kiko
10. Galaxia - Kiko
11.Weasel groove - Lutzenkirchen & Blende
12. Time - Chewy Chocolate Cookies
13. Bodycrash - Buy Now

Pirate Party!

My mate Brian, the promoter from NY just send over the flyer for my gig there in a couple of weeks... PIRATE THEMED PAAAAAAAARTY. In RochestAAARRRRRRR.

Too many MCs upset the B

With the Mighty DJ Hype in the minibus

First off I ought to say sorry to anyone that turned up to the London gig on Friday night - when I got there about 230am they'd shut the night down so I just got paid and left. It was a last-minute kind of event and I don't think they really had time to promote it prope

rly, but I'm sure the next one will be cool - I really like that venue, and didn't realise its where they do the Slimelight. Definitely gona go there to get my goth on at some point...

Germany on Saturday was great, flew to Hamburg and was then driven to Bremen for the gig, had a good chat to all the other DJs and had some traumatic moments in restaurants... First one was being the translator for all 7 of the other dudes and interpreting between menu/dj/mc/waiter. Then at the airport on the way home Hype nearly choked to death on a peice of bruschetta, and then the other guys eating with me sent back all their food for various random reasons. Worked out Ok in the end, but a bit embarrassing at the time...

Bremen Ravers

The gig in Bremen was great, I've played at that venue a few times before - its always rammed and the crowd is well up for it. My set went really well, but I had to put up with 2 or 3 MCs for most of it, I don't think anyone took a breath for like the first 30 mins! Normally I just tell the promoter no MCs and get the mic for myself just to say 'Hi' to the crowd every now and hype them up in my own way, (in Drunky German usually...) but when its a big sweaty rave with a bunch of Uk guys flown in and wandering round the stage there's not a lot I can do, especially if the mics are going into a separate soundman mixer. So yeah, had to just lap it up really - apologies if you couldn't hear the music as well as usual! ;-) (I'm not having a go at MCing in general by the way - I realise it requires skill, and has an essential place in the DnB scene - I just prefer to have very little or none on my sets, my music just isnt suited to traditional DnB MCing for the most part...)

More photos from the gig in Bremen here & here...

Ok, rant over!

Oh, and good news for those of you that grab my podcasts, I'll have some new ones very soon. I managed to get hold of the master copy of my set from the Apokalypsa party in Czech Republic 2 weeks ago. Initially I spazzed out - they'd recorded it without my knowledge, and then whackked it up all over the internet, again without telling me, which is a big no-no and Dj bookings contracts always stipulate its not allowed - but the big deal was how ILLLLL I was that day (the photos earlier in the blog should demonstrate) - so I was worried my set would have been totally poo - but in fact, its ace! So yeah, I'll be putting jingles over stuff to disguise all the new unreleased stuff and should have it up tomorrow. I'm doing a couple more of the 'Redux' electrotechno sets too for the XM Radio show so will podcast them for you also. Got loads of great new tracks for the gig that didn't happen on Friday and the gig coming up in Ulm, Germany on Saturday...

Ok, Tescos delivery here, gotta go - talk soon folks...