MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS WORLD TOUR
A two month tour starting in North America with Justice, across the UK with Digitalism and throughout Europe with Klaxons, Mstrkrft, Surkin, Crystal Castles and others…
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
6/10/07 : Los Angeles
The first leg of the trip is a tour of North America with Justice. Have had fun with these guys in the past and knew this tour would be a blast. Also onboard along the way are Busy P, So Me and DJ Mehdi from the ED Banger stable. A fun introduction for us into North America.
7/10/07 : San Diego.
The first show of the tour in San Diego. Good times.
7/10: Californian Carpark
From the beginning I kept getting mistaken for Gaspard from Justice. The previous weekend I shared a cab with Xavier to some after party where Justice were Djing. As soon as we arrived a bunch of Justice fans took their photos with me (Gaspard) and started giving me free records. By the end of the tour i just put on a french accent and went with it. Being a mock member of Justice has its perks.
8/10/07 : Los Angeles
The first of two sold out shows in LA at the Henry Fonda Theatre. It felt very Hollywood. You’d walk through the crowd and bump into all these other big bands, B-grade celebrities, suits pretending to be studio execs etc.
8/10/07 : Hollywood Boulevard
They treat you like rock stars in this city. Without knowing what was going on, we were pulled into a Limo and were sped off to the Viper Room for another afterparty. Here’s Kavinsky and DJ Mehdi trying to open the sunroof.
8/10/07 : The Viper Room
Busy P Djing. Every party is filled with people with cameras who take hundreds of shots to put on their blogs the next morning. You have to be careful what you get up to because every night is well and truly recorded. “What happens on tour ends up on MySpace”. That’s Mark the Cobrasnake on the left who’s become a celebrity photo blogger type guy (I don’t know the proper term) amongst other things. We went to his house afterwards and slept in his backyard.
9/10/07: Hollywood
Graumann’s Chinese Theatre. Not sure what’s going on here…
HEADING NORTH
10/10/07 : San Fransisco
Soundchecks are a short window for jams before each gig. Here’s Xavier and Chris our tour manager jamming on Sweet Home Alabama.
11/10/07 : Oregon
Amongst all the crazy sold out shows and afterparties and monkey impersonations etc there was also a hell of a lot of driving. The U.S. is a huge country and we were driving the whole tour from coast to coast. However seeing these changing landscapes and amazing vistas along the way made up for it.
11/10/07 : Some Portland hotel room
We DJ’d before Justice at their Portland show. This town has a really cool music scene. Hoping to get back here again soon
13/10/07 : Vancouver
Vancouver we love you!
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