Tour date – Feb.13.2008 – Sydney – Update 3
Here we are Sydney - all yours for the taking. After a tough night of eating, socializing, and drinking copious amounts of spirits with rock and roll greats like The Rapture and Cypress Hill, we managed to stumble into a taping of "The Liar" - a show for MTV that apparently has a bangin' after party. I guess we will see..
Sydney is a beautiful city, with Darling Harbour, Kings Cross, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge known as "the big coat hanger". With beautiful beaches galore, temperate climate, and 3 days to go, I'm sure that there will be more for the band to discover here..
Stone
Tour date - 02.17.2008 - Perth - Update 4
What's up Washington DC! Thievery Corporation is in Perth now, the most remote capital city in the world. Most people don't realize how big Australia is, yes it is an island, but one of vast and varied landscapes, wildlife, and people. Roughly the same size of the lower 48, this city is no longer the sleepy town that it used to be, with a spurn of growth lately, Perth is as cosmopolitan as as any other city with beautiful beaches and vistas abound. But first........
Today, we also played the Sydney show, precluded by a Thievery Corporation DJ event at The Basement yesterday night. The Basement is the longest running venue in Sydney, owned by the same family for over 30 years. The Dj culture is huge here, with young and old flocking to see the latest acts to penetrate the Aussie and world cultures. It was a sold out show, with Eric and Rob dropping the usual suspects, as well as some new science. I think it is safe to say that we made a lasting impression on the Sydney DJ scene. Sleep is not an option when you are in Sydney.
The Good Vibrations Festival in Sydney was amazing, and as i sit in my hotel in Perth, (a 4+ hour flight and two time zones away) I know that people in Sydney are just starting to wind down from a long day of celebration and sister/brotherhood there. The name says it all, Good Vibes all the way around. With the number of attendees in the multiple tens of thousands, it is also the largest in the four show run in Australia, sporting multiple stages and tents. The stage manager Boi (pronounced as BOY) was kind enough to let us get set up and start 5 minutes early, allowing us to play an extra song. We started with the Outernationalist remix, into Heaven is Gonna Burn Your Eyes. By the time we played Lebanese Blonde, the audience was capitvated; then we turned it up, closing with Warning Shots and Coming From the Top. Zeebo and Roots again managed to crowed surf through the sea of people, busting sick lyrics the whole time.
Ten minutes after the show we were wisked away from the festival site to Perth, which we will rock tomorrow leaving our mark on the ears of all Western Australia. Tomorrow is the last in this run of four here, and as the waves of sonic pressure roll over Australia from our shows still, I am actually a little sad that this tour is almost over, I've made so many friends, and not a single enemy. This tour may be coming to a close, but Thievery Corporation will be opening the doors and minds of your city soon. Be there or risk missing out on an experience of a lifetime.
Stone
About the author - Chris Garrett aka ‘Stone’ spends his time working as the sound and recording engineer for Thievery Corporation and music label ESL Music. With over five critically acclaimed albums to his credit since 2002, Chris has also worked on several film projects; engineering the sound for the documentary Disarm, as well as the Operation Ceasefire DVD, and is currently working on post-production for Babylon Central – an original, independent feature-length film directed and co-written by Eric Hilton, shot on location in Washington D.C. in 2006/07.
