Firstly let me wish a Happy New year to everyone. I had a pretty good one which extended somewhat into the weekend and now with this weather I have decided to take a hiatus from all the craziness.

Went to Deep for new year and eventually ended up after much in between at Golden Gate on Saturday night. Was a very nice time but a certainly need a break, actually our pockets need a break! As usual after this festive season Ina and I are broke and as we’re both currently studying we are on a very limited budget. So time to chill a bit at home me thinks.

Anyway, it’s so freaking cold at the moment there’s definitely no point in going outside, as I’m writing this it is -6ºc and it will only get colder as the day travels along. Tonight I think I might just cuddle up on the couch and watch some telly or something.

Well, I will eventually make a new photo album but for the moment here are a couple of photos to give you an idea of how actually cold it is. Hope summer is nice for my friends and family in Sydney you bastards!!

So, a couple of friends and Ina and I went to see Crystal Castles at Club Maria the other night (Wed). We were quite hyped to see them, well I was Ina wasn’t so much, but unfortunately they weren’t anywhere near as good as I had hoped.

Now before you start slagging me off and saying things like “but it’s hard to do a live show when you’re an electronic act!” let me just say that after my 14 odd years of clubbing with bits of DJing/Promoting thrown in I’ve seen my fair share of live acts and this one was definitely below par. Pity really cause I really like their music but there you go, not all acts can do it great live. She was just screaming into the microphone making my ears bleed whilst he was stuck behind his little desk/portable rack box controlling what was most likely a CD player as I didn’t see a computer in sight. I could have forgiven him somewhat if there was a notebook as he could have been using Ableton but the way all the tracks were tied in along with the absence of a notebook I can only presume a CD mix was used with perhaps some adlib synth use thrown in.

There you go, my brief review…………have a listen to what they do if you like, regardless of the live show they still make some great tracks.

All in all it has been busy…ah……let’s see. Last weekend I ended up in some club not far from our place until 7 or so in the morning. That was Saturday night. Sunday was spent very, very chilled.

The weekend before that was in Switzerland with the family, strangely enough there was a bit of a heat wave and I was sunburnt. I guess I’ll never learn.

The weekend before that one was rather large also, went to an outdoor party at Schillings Brücke in the day and then to Spindler & Klatt in the evening where a couple of friends were playing a live gig. Was meant to go to a aprty on Sunday but I was fucked and couldn’t make it. Saturday really took it out of me!!

The weekend before that started on Thursday, which is typically not a goo place to start the weekend as age catches up on me, but hey. Friday is a bit of a blur, can’t quite remember what I got up to but on Saturday night we went to a play in which one of our friends plays a part, was really good. We then went to his bithday party back at his place but by this time I was feeling like death!! Stayed for an hour and had to go. Sunday I lazed around until I could motivate myself to go to Sunday Adventure Club which was quite full on, it was a day/night thing which I ended up leaving at around 2am. Really wondering now what I did on Friday, oh well.

Next weekend I’m off to Holland for yet another party Extrema sold out of 35,000 tickets so it should be a big one. Will report back!!

Doing well otherwise, not really sleeping all too well, going to see a doctor about that pretty soon. Take care peoples.

So, here I am again. Back at work, started at 10am…………way too early when you only get to bed at 5am. On top of that, I forgot that it was the Berlin marathon today and since I live in Friedrichshain and work in Charlottenburg it meant that no bus would send me over this way. None, like, they weren’t running!! Jumped in a cab and he said no go, got in another and he was up for the challenge. Nice enough guy, we chatted away in my shit (but improving ) German and ended up getting very close to the final destination. Made it to work, though unfortunately 8 minutes late. Thank God my place isn’t like Ina’s employment with Lufthansa cause she would be liable to lose her job for that amount of lateness!!

Anyway, Mount Sims was cool. Pity he wasn’t playing live though, I mean, he’s a good DJ but I would have preferred to hear his stuff live. Raumklang is a nice little club too, just not too sure about the people that go there. In a way, kinda reminds me of the Icebox back in the day in Kings Cross. It must be tricky when you have a nice club and organise good events but only wankers turn up. How do you stop it and get the kinda crowd you want in there? I have no idea……………….

Better get back to work though, wish I could sleep, that would be nice.

Oh, and yes, this is NOT the final look for my site, I am still working on it. OK!!