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20:32 on 17 Jul

well, basically antaris is the most positive festival i've been to. there was a massive abundance of smiling, great music (thanks to braincell, nigel, leung thai, parasense, yab yum/ajja, headroom, commercial hippies, and hilight tribe), great decor, good-ish weather (although turning up in a thunderstorm wasn't the best, it got better quickly, and stayed mostly sunny), and wonderful people. the food was excellent thanks to a great thai place that was making each dish fresh, and the mandatory crepes + chai too. i learned to play go with the help of psychedelics, and that was a good exercise of the brain. and basically, i laughed and danced.

in other news, i've been having acupuncture for my back (which is fucked from sitting in front of a computer too much) and it seems to be helping, but it's still early days.

musically speaking, i am actually writing tunes again, which is a great feeling. uni took all of my creativity for a year or so but now it's come back and i'm very very relieved about it. i'm also going to be playing a live set with joe+natty at the longest day festival which is going to be my first proper live set ever (not counting people's lounges etc) and i am excited.

then, there is BOOM in less than a month which is going to fucking kick ass, beachdown immediately after that, and then bestival to top the lot off. and then i think i will need to rest for, oh, 8-9 months again before the next round. antaris is a total definite for next year, who knows what else?

11:00 on 15 Jul

in my (slightly limited) opinion, antaris just became the best psytrance festival on the planet

10:45 on 11 Jul

yayay! finally i get to dance to some fucking good music in a field

i've been waiting for months for this, and tonight we fly out and stomp!

in other news, i've actually been writing more music - for the first time in a year or so - and it's coming along well. there's nothing to upload yet, but some day there will be

13:29 on 7 Jul

what's going on here then?

your opponent, mr kasparov...

21:57 on 6 Jul

yay, my wrist is better! i've been pretty down for the last 2 weeks because every time i put weight on it, it's been too painful to train. so i've been taking it easy, and doing lots of exercises to try and strengthen it, and this weekend i was able to play loads of capoeira (and even more music) and it doesn't hurt a bit. happy.

the best lesson was a fellow called maestre carlao, who taught us samba rhythms and a lot of very interesting background about samba, capoeira, and candomblé.

and next weekend, i get to stomp my little heart out in germany. yay, summer is here!!

07:42 on 1 Jul

we're halfway through another year already... time flies when you're having fun

also, some random fancy dress pictures are up, since they're funny.