GIRL TALK – Ringing in the New Year
Going on at around 11:30pm he had a good half hour to get everyone pumped up and excited, which was no problem has I mentioned before his shows are like the most over the top party you have ever been to regardless of what day it is. Obviously this was going down in the Really Large Room where I already was for Ghostland. Thankfully someone had the sense to move the backstage hospitality tent from no-man’s land a half a mile away down the corridor to right next to the stage.
By this time I had been chugging champagne, met this whole group of girls from San Francisco, was wearing some ridiculous hat and party favors and was generally getting down. The people at his shows in the past have been some of the most annoying and trying people I’ve ever been around at some of the festivals I have been to where he has performed. The indictment of the culture I layed out earlier is not far from a Girl Talk show in terms of shallow self-promotion, so normally I would never get on stage for this but hey, its New Year’s Eve. Let’s get do
Still in the Really Large Room, by now I had a little entourage with me of people I had met and picked up along the way as we kept the party going with MSTRKRFT.
Great set and after they were done and I went walking around exploring and just taking in the whole scene – in the Really Large Room they had and seeing everyone dancing and having a good time.
The GoGo Gadgettes
As I mentioned earlier about the evolution of the Raver Girl – alot of it its derivative of the Go-Go dancer, and over time even the go-go dancers have take a page or two out of the colorful and unique/sexy styling of the raver girls. Well it was only a matter of time before someone organized and branded a team of this hybrid – if at first out of competition and maybe later as necessity, and finally as commerce, as almost every event like this I’ve been to/performed at in Texas the last few years have featured just a team – and this one was no different. As I went exploring I saw these little mini-stages setup all over the convention center with members of this team doing their thing – I give you the GoGo Gadgettes
No word if their is a rival gang led by Dr. Claw (if you got that joke, you are old) – imagine if the tough but hot as hell punk looking cheerleaders from the Smells Like Teen Spirit video combined with Hugh Hefner’s Girls Next Door if they all went to an Anime convention and you have the Gadgettes.
Their bio describes them as:
Whoever wrote that is probably the most annoying person alive, but they do make good on what their saying.
The hour was getting late and when I would walk from room to room the walls were lined with those coming down, still glowing in the dark but necks barely bobbing.
Nothing makes me feel older than learning about a new drug at a music festival.
Did you know “Cotton Candy” is a mix of LSD and cocaine? To which I responded, “I DON’T THINK YOU SHOULD TAKE THAT!”
This was a banner year for us starting with endorsements at the NAMM Convention in January, to making national headlines with the insanity of our dueling showcases at SXSW in March.
April saw us hit California to host a suite at the Coachella site that brought the Big Four of Thrash all together in the States for the first time, and we managed to spend five nights with the Purple One while we were there.
The Summer was a confusing blur of mass touring that lead us to the Fall that found us back with the Big Four one again, this time on the East Coast with a legendary blowout at Yankee Stadium.
We were honored to participate with All Tommorrow’s Parties for their I’ll Be Your Mirror festival in Asbury Park a few weeks later and having the privilege to spend four days with Portishead.
After just celebrating one of the best Christmas seasons I can ever remember, we rang in the New Year with the above tale.We have got so much coming up in the New Year – appearances all over the country and much much more, stay tuned, Happy New Year and we will see you in 2012!!)
Mike Brooks
Loran Jatunov
Calder Wilson
Daniel Rorigue
Terry Walsh
Daniel Akers
Roger Ho