Originally uploaded by Scootie.
This weekend I went along to the G.O.D. (Gospel Of Dance) Halloween party. The party was put on by the GOD, MDA, Reason and Smile Police crew and was really a sea of good costumes and hard dancing :)
It was also interesting to see a bunch of the people from the previous night at 3D, as the music styles were fairly similar to the 1st floor hard trance :)
Originally uploaded by Scootie.
Another installment of the excellent 140 parties put on by John Edwards and crew. I like this party a lot, not just because the guys who play are so good (they are, believe me) but also because by putting the party on at 3D I basically get three parties in one, hard trance downstairs, 140 tech/trance on level 2 and Psy trance upstairs. So we end up with lots of really nice people at the parties, because those music styles tend to engender nice people, but we get a variety of groupings. Young energetic 'kandy' kids downstairs dancing up a storm and shuffling (rocking) to their hearts content, a more mellowed out and older crowd on level two, having a drink and a chat and getting dragged onto the dance floor by the driving techno beats, and smiling stomping psy trance people on the top floor, hippie-like in their outlook and fun and games shenanigans :)
Originally uploaded by Scootie.
Went to my first occurance of the Interview parties at Tilt this Saturday, and it was a bloody good party. Finally managed to see Mike Nichol play, which is amusing because I'm met him out a dozen times, in the company of Jules Plees and Ben Evans, but never actually heard him play, and he's bloody good :)
Even though Tilt is a fairly small place, they definitely packed it out with a good bunch of people, with some of the usual suspects and some new peeps. A good night all around :)
Originally uploaded by Scootie.
Today was my last day sailing the wide accountant-sea at KPMG. After 9 years, 11 months and 2 days I
left the firm to start a new job as a Solutions Designer at CSC, a job I don't really know how to do and
something I haven't actually done before.
In my time at KPMG i've done just about every type of IT job that I was interested in, and a few that didn't even exist until I was put into the role. I've learnt a lot about providing IT services and honed my operations skills to quite a sharp point I believe. And now i'm moving away from the operations area and into design, working with a team to help put together designs and cost models for new infrastructure pieces for existing clients of CSC and occasionally to work on bids to get new customers.
KPMG was an interesting place to work and despite having had some bad times there were also a lot of good times, especially meeting a whole raft of really good people, forming the basis or seeds of just about every friendship I have at the moment, many of which have survived past the time the other people have left the firm, indicating that they are worthwhile friendships indeed.
The firm was quite generous in sending me off, giving me a very nice farewell gift (a portable hard drive to download images off my cameras without needing a pc - geeky but very useful) and also providing a significant financial input into my self-organised farewell drinks at Stellar Bar.
Originally uploaded by Scootie.
Another round of the Technoir party, and a simply wonderful party at that. These guys really have what it takes to make a fun and friendly environment, and the warehouse they are currently using has proven to be a useful and flexible place to hold it.
preparations
Originally uploaded by Scootie.
It had been a while since I had popped in to Stellar to check out the House Party crew, so we figured it was time again.
It's always fun down there, although Mudgutz didn't really like the music at all, but I like it :)
Originally uploaded by Scootie.
Time for Godskitchen again, one of the original 'large' dance parties we used to go to, and still going strong. This year it was a bit of fun because Elektra was playing in one of the rooms and so was Dee Dee. It was fun and strange to see DJs that I see so often up behind the large stacks belting out the tunes :)
The event itself was pretty enjoyable, lots of good music and I ran into a lot of people that I know from other trance events like 140. I also had some time to hang out with Calvin, Kathryn's new boy, so my official verdict is: he's good enough to date my friend :)
Originally uploaded by Scootie.
Went to Sydney for work for one day to do a Secret Squirrel photo shoot and to be involved in the Infrastructure team day.
It was a good opportunity to say farewell to the Sydney team i'd been working with for years (nearly a decade in some cases) and get some free dinner off work :)
