BOMBS AWAY : LIVE SET

Bombs Away performed live at Rumaz Nightclub in Hervey Bay a few months back, Here is a little from their set :)

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BOMBS AWAY LIVE AT RUMAZ

Bombs Away Live Set (Hervey Bay - Rumaz) the-maddest.com by themaddest

I had been frothing over this event for a few months now, ever since I first interviewed the Bombs Away guys and lined them up for a gig at Rumaz Night Club back in my home town Hervey Bay.

I finished off work early on Friday and headed into the Valley to hire 2 more CDJ2000’s from Brisbane Lightsound as they required 4 and the club only had 2. Didn’t end up leaving Brisbane till around 12:30ish so didn’t arrive back in the bay till around 4ish and went straight to the apartment we got for the night. Around 8 I got a message from Matt in Bombs Away saying that their USB hard drive that they use to put all their music on was playing up and asked if I had any spare, I only had mine that had my music on it and there wasn’t enough room on it to fir all their music anyway so me and Fraze went for a drive and brought them a couple new ones and dropped them off. Went back to the apartment to keep drinking and we were picked up by the Rumaz buss around 9:30. When we got to the club there were already bulk people there! Was looking like it was going to be a good night. I then receive another message from matt saying that the USB’s still aren’t working :P I told him to just bring their laptop to the show and Marcus (Rumaz resident DJ) will probly be able to work it out. Bombs away arrived around 10ish and luckily Marcus was able to sort it all out, pretty much saved the whole night haha.

Rumaz had hired some massive speakers for the event and had even hired some insane lasers and had their strobe light hooked up properly which lights the place up like the sun! The rest of the night gets a little blurry, with us just walking around the club carrying bottles of spirits that’s probly to be expected. I remember playing a pretty killer set :P still don’t think Hervey Bay understands Dubstep haha but they will learn. Bombs Away fuckin killed it!! Recorded a bit of their set which I will post up here hopefully before the weekend, so everyone who wasn’t there can hear what they missed out on. I also have about 30min of footage to edit and put up :P still gota do the Bliss and Eso footage though so don’t hold your breath for that :P

If your photo isnt up here then it probly didnt make the cut :P But just add me on facebook and I will put it up or send it to you :)

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All photos were taken by my Girl Friend, Her blog can be found here http://nicolegillard.blogspot.com/

TODAYS PLAYLIST

Getting Excited For Bombs Away Tonight!!! Heading back to the Bay around lunch time, USB with all my music on it went through the wash last night :P so about to plug it in to make sure it still works.

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ELECTRONIC VIBES : A WEEKEND TO REMEMBER

Electronic Vibes......what can I say, turned out to be nothing like the weekend I had imagined haha, so many stories and so many lost memories.

I finished work early on the Friday afternoon and rushed home to get ready. Since parking at the airport costs a million dollars I asked my house mate Gaz to drive me in. Ended up getting to the airport at 1:40 for my flight that leaves at 1:45, and by leaves I mean left and by 1:45 I mean 1:40, FML. Re-booked and was on-board and on my way ro Rocky at 2:30.

Landed in Rocky around 3:30 and caught a taxi into Rocky and hung out at the Leagues Club waiting for my friend Dan to drive up from Gladstone to pick me up. Had a few drinks and put some money down on the dogs and managed to win $40 or so, that just about covers my re-booking fee...things were looking up! Dan picks me up some time after 4ish and we go for a drive and buy singlets and shorts for the festival tomorrow and also to look for food and somewhere to sleep. The first place to go into, im pretty sure it was called the Ambassador Motel?, some random guy that resembles a hobbit but with only half a hobbits dress sense comes out of the bar area and im pretty sure he didn’t even work there and asks us what we wanted, even though I thought it was pretty obvious we were there to rent out a room for the night from this fine establishment he must of thought otherwise. He went on to tell us it was $120 a night, now if you look up this place on google you will see its defs not worth $120 a night, I might of given them a loose button from my pocket and the half eaten cheese stick that was on the ground just outside their reception door, but $120....I think not. So we left that place and went onto the next few, and we began to notice getting asked the same question at alot of them. "Are you after one bed or two"...bitch please! Now sleeping in the same bed would usually not bother me to much but the fact that they were asking and if we had of said "Yea sure one beds fine" they would of defiantly thought some sus shit was going down that we declined the One bed and moved onto the next motel. We ended up getting a room on top of an Irish pub called O'Dowds, unpacked all our things and then went and brought some pizza. We had decided against drinking on this first night because we wanted to not be hung over for the next day, but that did not end up happening. After finishing most of the pizza and placing the last couple pieces in the draw at the end of the beds we went down stairs and ordered a couple beers....which turned into a lot of beers and copious amounts of money spent on the pool table, lucky it was happy hour and drinks were cheap :) After a few hours spent at O'Dowds we headed up towards the clubs, we had decided to wear shorts out for some reason and the first club we went to told us that we would get in there but anywhere else we would not get in wearing shorts and we would also need to go put on our "good shoelaces" if we were to even think about going to the Heritage. We walked into this club withdrew some money and walked straight back out and up to the Heritage...where they let us straight in. But once inside we did realise that we were the only ones in there wearing shorts haha. Hung around here for a while and had a couple more drinks, Im pretty sure the DJ in the RnB section just had the soundtrack for Need For Speed 1 on repeat, walked up to the other end and heard someone dropping Skrillex - Cinema, so who ever the DJ was up that end that night +1 for you. We left here and walked back to O'Dowds and went to sleep.

The next morning I woke up around 6:30, way to early!!!! Pretty sure I was still a bit drunk from the night before and just starting to rim the edge of my hangover :( I got out of bed an hour or so later and we went down and brought a coffee from the cafe across the road. After a couple sipps I was feeling 100% better and we decided to go to the Jetts Gym that we saw the day before. Went there but no one starts work there on a Saturday till 8:30, lucky for us there was someone just walking in who kindly held the door open for us, win! After that we headed back to the room and decided to cut our shorts and singlets that we had brought the day before. After doing this we filled out gatorade bottles up with Vodka, Water and Freak3d. Now the Freak3d might of been the bad move here, im still trying to work that out haha. Took our bottles down to the pool table area and played pool and gave money to the juke box for the next 3 or so hours untill we decided to call a taxi to go to the buss pick up area. Now this is where the day starts to get a little hazy. We were dropped off at Stocklands by the taxi driver and went upstairs to coles to get money out. We then went down stairs again to wait at the buss stop and we met a guy called Dean that was over form Blackwater for the festival. Hoped onto the buss and it took us over to where Electronic Vibes was being held and as soon as we got off the buss there were cops with sniffer dogs there, but they actually looked liked seeing eye dogs so they might of gotten that one mixed up and picked up the wrong dog? anyway, went inside and straight to the VIP section and brought 3 drinks for us all. Oh and we had also smuggled in our gatorade bottles filled with Vodka, Water and Jack3d which we were filling out drinks up with as we finished them. I dont really remember finishing the gatorade bottle, and im not sure what happened to it but this is where the day gets really really patchy!! I remember heading over to the Dub Stage and hearing someone drop Bass Cannon and then we went up to the boiler room where I very vaguely remember tearing off my singlet and wearing it around my waist and also remember me and Dan going to the Merch tent but I have no idea what happened there. The next thing I remember is it was night and Bombs Away were playing, they finished their set and I walked off back up towards the entrance where i randomly met up with dan. Police had put a lockdown on the event and no one was allowed to go in or out so we snuck around to a side fence and jumped it to escape. Hoped onto the first buss we could find and got a lift back to stocklands where Dan passed-out in front of the gym we were at earlier that day. Now at this time it was only like 6:30, and we both have no idea why we left so early!? :( We called a taxi and it took us back to O'Dowds. Dan walked in first as I tried to remember where we had hidden our room key. He went straight to the bar and asked for a jug of water but was told by the lady that he needed a shirt on to be served, just as she was saying this i walked in with my ripped and tattered singlet and the entire bar just stopped to watch us. She asked if we were going to go upstairs and party, she must not of heard us order a jug of water. We went up stairs and thats when i realised i had lost my bank card! so i called up and cancelled it and then went straight to bed for the next 3-4 hours. Woke up and realised that it was only 12am and that we could still make the after party if we wanted to haha but neither of us were in any sort of shape to do that so we just walked down the street and brought some pizza and a poweraid and went back to the room and ate our food. It was at this point that Dan decided to empty his pockets only to find my bank card, which I had just cancelled earlier, FML FML FML!! I do not even know why he would of had it but anything could of happened earlier that day.

The next morning I woke up feeling horrible, I decided to check my bank account to see how much I had spent over the entire day....$60....$85....$40.....$40.....hang on $85! you cant get $85 out from an ATM?! Dan then checked his account and he had a random withdrawal for $55. We spent the whole morning trying to remember where this money had gone to and even now we still have no idea. My theory is that after we had ripped our singlets we went to the Merch tent to buy shirts and hats? and thats where that money went? I have no idea what would of happened to the shirts and hats but that is the only explanation I can think of. We left the room and walked back down to the coffee place from the day before and ordered a big breakfast and an orange juice each and that made me feel a little better, went back to the room and hoped back into bed. Cleaning lady came around at 11:30 and knocked on our door waking us up. We cleaned up our room which had cuttings of our shorts and singles everywhere and took everything down to the car. There is not much to do in Rocky during the day so we decided to just go to stocklands and hang out there for a few hours until my flight. While there we ran into the guy we met the day before, Dean. He told us how he didnt really see us to much a few hours after we got to the festival and that it got realy good just after we left :( still no idea why we left so early. We were sorta hoping he could fill in some of the blanks from our day. We left stocklands and Dan dropped me off at the airport, I went to check in and the lady said to me "Your Keen" I was a little confused as I was only 50min early, she then followed to point out that my flight was not till 2:55 the following day! FML!! I decided I would just re-book it for later that afternoon but then realised that I had no way of paying for it as I had cancelled my card that was in Dans pocket the night before!! FML FML FML!!! I ended up having to call up my dad who paid for the flight, $150, when my original flight was only $87 :( massive fail. Anyway my flight wasn’t till 6:10 that night so I just hung around the airport for the next few hours and had a little sleep and watched some tutorials on how to use Ableton and Reason. Finaly boarded my flight back to Brisbane and landed around 7:00ish.

All in all it was an awesome weekend!! It could of been better if things flowed smoother and I didn’t have to spend as much money but I think thats what made it so good, the adventure! Electronic Vibes as a while was pretty good but there were a lot of things that they could of done better, but its to be expected as its still an extremely young festival. As for all the footage and photos that I was going to post up....sorry :P....was way to hectic to be getting photos and im so glad that I decided to not take my video camera long to the actual festival caus Im pretty sure it definitely would not of made it back home with me haha. But yea, this Friday night Bliss & Eso!!! so will be getting plenty of photos there to make up for it :) + birthday on Friday!! YEW YEW!!! and also heading back to my home town on Saturday for the Pub Crawl in Maryborough on Sunday :)

ELECTRONIC VIBES : THIS WEEKEND

Only 5 days till Electronic Vibes!!!! Flying up to Rockhampton on friday, picking up a couple VIP tickets for me and Dan then sorting out some sort of accomodation and then EV on Saturday!!!!!!

Tickets are still available, so if you still want to go all the info can be found at http://www.electronicvibes.com.au/

Not realy sure what its going to be like yet, im not realy expecting to much from the venue but I know that what ever the venue lacks the line up will make up for :)

Bombs Away
Bag Raiders
Evermore
The Potbelleez
Tommy Trash
Hook N Sling
Timmy Trumpet
Havana Brown
Tom Piper
TV Rock
The Surecut Kids
Danny T
Kurrupt
Micky Dubz & Rabbles MC
Rave Radio
Pushy Vagrants....ect....ect...ect

So yea, thats it realy, yes I know your all going to say "there are no realy big headline names in there" and you can think that all you want :P have fun sitting at home playing with your dick. Cant see it being a shit weekend, well no worse then hanging around Brisbane doing the same things i do every weekend haha :P taking my new HD video camera along with me to get some sweet footage of my adventure aswell.

3 mixes of what im looking forward to the most :)

Bombs Away
Bombs Away Radio Mix - Live show draft by Bombs Away

Bag Raiders
JJJ Radio week 4 more house mix by bagraiders

Kurrupt
Kurrupt Live Mix Feb 2011 by BassCreepz-Kurrupt

TODAYS PLAYLIST

Just booked my flights up to Rocky next weekend for Electro Vibes, so amped for it!!! Playing out to look like my most expensive festival yet though so have to make the most of it haha will be good to get away from all the usual stuff for a weekend though :) Also just sorted out my tickets for Bliss and Eso on the 10th of june, which also happens to be my birthday YEW YEW!

TODAYS PLAYLIST

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INTERVIEW TIME : BOMBS AWAY

Interview with Bombs Away, interviewed by Jed Gillham

Playing at Rumaz Night Club on the 17th June

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Alright, so you've obviously known eachother for a long time but how did you first meet and when did you both decide that you wanted to form Bombs Away?

haha well we met when our mum brought Tom home and was like, hey, here's your new brother, then Sketch beat him up for about 15 years, We bought Dance eJay when we were like 10 (actually we were meant to buy Dance eJay2 but sketch got the wrong one and we had a fight) as we grew up Thomas went down the hiphp/beatboxing route and Sketch played shitty trance, then they met up again over Breaks and moved to electro from there.

Youve made a few bootlegs and remixes so far, how do you go about choosing which songs your going to do this to?

66 so far actually haha, we just find something we like and play with it, usually its for our sets, then we end up releasing it or someone steals it and puts it online haha

So your biggest songs at the moment would have to be Big Booty Bitches and Swagger, did you ever think when you were making these that they would become so well known?

lol we did BBB in an afternoon and it started going crazy at shows! we ended up re making it and releasing it and it went crazy! Swagger is a bit of a head nod to the stuff we listened to growing up, it was fun to do and we're stoked its gone amazingly, it was never aimed at radio so thats been a huge surprise.

The vocals for Big Booty Bitches are so deep and I'm sure just touch the hearts of anyone who hears them :p how did you come up with such catchy vocals?

haha they were actually written by friends of ours in the states, but they affected us so deeply we had to turn them into that song lol

What's some of the craziest stuff you've done at a show?

we're actually usually the sensible ones, untill we hit the goon, lol then we cant really remember what happened, so i cant answer this question haha

Your playing at Electric playground on the 14th of may, what can we expect from your show?

we actually are working out weather we'll die if we jump off that massive stage! i'm pretty sure we will.

What sort of music is Bombs Away listening to at the moment?

we're listening to so much diverse stuff atm, bass klephs remix of Whine ya waistline is SO FUCKING funky thats getting a workout, and on the other end is spectrum Barretso-Chase rocks it hard,so does Disco Fries - Killer and Oh Snap's new one - Who let the Douchebags in, its pretty funny and rocks hard.

Your song supersoaker is set to blow up once it hits a few more ears, what are your plans for it?

we're releasing that one internationally with a massive push by Universal worldwide, hopefully it'll be one of those songs that you end up sick of cause everyones smashing it haha, the remix pack has some of our idols on board so we're really excited!

What else can we expect from Bombs Away in the rest of 2011?

we're on a huge tour at the moment to launch the WILD NIGHTS 2011 cd which we've just finished mixing, its pretty much hitting every city and most towns so we're basically just traveling and writing new music on the road.

Any final words for the fans and future fans out there?

get drunk & let me see your swagger!

nah, lol, if you're bored come hang out on our FB, we're usually online

www.facebook.com/bombsawaymusic

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Blowing Up!!!

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