Still Famous

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Shot Famous again, more beautiful people, starting to know some of the regulars, not such a bad crowd all in all.

140

DJ Inferno
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The commissars of 140 once again provide tractor-loads of tunes to the proletariat.

Fishy

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Another visit to the aquarium, this time with Kathryn and Brett. I think there are parts of this place I could visit every day. I wish it was free, i'd eat my lunch there in the big tank toom, or in the jellyfish room.

NYD

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Once again new years day was spent at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl for summadayze. Now this event usually comes under a lot of criticism, but I think too many people expect too much from it. It's just a really big party.
The people who come along and expect to hear the latest and 'coolest' music will be disappointed, because frankly, those tracks don't play well to 24,000 people. What does play well are the big and beefy popular hits that you can hear on every dance floor all over town, the tracks that we've all heard before, but still can bring a smile to your face, and when you get that happening with twenty thousand people, it can be pretty special.
Of course there's the usual amount of idiots and wankers, but there's also a large number of good people and that's worth it for me.

NYE

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Originally the plan was to have a quiet new years eve, in preparation for Summadayze on new years day, but of course this 'quiet' night turned out to be impossible. We ended up down at the St Kilda Sea Baths for the Carnivale party, which proved to be a lot of fun.

Smashing

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Another installment of live and lively music at Lounge by the Smashbang crew. Yet to disappoint.

Gatecrasher

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When I first started going out to dance parties and clubs, the name in dance music was Gatecrasher. So to find myself, shooting the latest and possibly the last Gatecrasher event in Melbourne, it was a bit of a thrill. It was even more exciting to see so many locals on the lineup, so many friends up on stage for one of the greatest labels ever known :)

Lasergun

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The guys from Lunmina audio visuals asked me to pop in to Lasergun and shoot the lasers for them, which was a good excuse for me to get one last trip to Honkytonks out of my system :)

Technoir!

Tim Boyd
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Technoir! Technoir! Technoir! oh yeah, there was another Technoir party, this time at Lounge, and fuck it was good. Christmas with the family that day too, but Technoir was the highlight :)

After Party Hearty

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After the Boat party there was the after party (kinda makes sense all written down like that). The party was FLIRT at Miss Libertine, a renovated pub on franklin street, old pub in the front, and new club out back. This is the second FLIRT i've been too and they are truly wicked parties. The sideshow included two of santa's helpers sharing their lifes blood, snorting a gigantic bag of charlie, and sucking seductively on large candy canes. What more could you ask for? :)

Boat Party Hearty

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Boat Party Ahoy! I don't really need to say much more than that. Smashbang and aLive join forces for a christmas party on our old friend the Victoria Star, and as usually, it got very messy, very quickly :)

Beach Party Hearty

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Hooray! Finally, summer has officially returned because the Beach Parties have started up again. Mike, Luvvy, Chris and the crew throw a top party, in a great location :)

Smashing

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Of course I didn't go home after the CSC Christmas party, instead I popped in to Lounge for another installment of Smashbang. Nothing beats fresh music, especially from this crew who really put on a great party.

a very CSC christmas

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CSC's Christmas party, and my first with the company, was held this year at the Richmond Union Bowls club. Quite a good location for a lazy summer's evening and especially good if you happen to live a few hundred meters down the road like I do :)

BugHAUZ

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After Clare's birthday I popped in to Stellar for BugHAUZ, the very last party to be held there. The guys that run the party are pretty cool, and I was especially happy to have Blinky playing there, as I hadn't heard him outside of the normal Techno/Electro environment and he really blew those breakbeat kids away. We used to tease people about listening to breakbeats, but the stuff that's around now is actually really cool.

Happy Birthday Clare

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Went to Lounge to help celebrate Clare's birthday and to generally have a few drinks and get some good tunes in :)

BBQ season is open

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Summer is here and Felicite decided to throw the first BBQ of the season down at Ormond. A bloody good day for it too, and a good chance to catch up with all of that crew that I hadn't seen in a while :)

Farewell Stellar

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Stellar bar is closing it's doors, so we all gathered for the last House Party to be held there and drunk it out in style. The house party crew were in fine form and the bar staff were, as usual, up to all sorts of crazy shenanigans. It's kind of weird but I won't miss the house party crew so much, since we see them anyway, but I will miss Jeremy, Bev, Lauren and Julia, as we won't see them out and about as much.

Dinner - Kim, Shaz and Joe

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I caught up for dinner with Joe, Kim and Shaz at a vegetarian restaurant in St Kilda called Lentil as Anything, which uses a novel approach to billing, you pay what you think it was worth. Which I thought would be annoying, but it turns out it wasn't too bad. The service was a little slow, but the place was packed so you expect that with most places it starts to slow down at that point. It was so packed in fact that at the start of the meal we were actually sharing a booth with a couple (who were ver kind to let us share). The meal was quite nice and the company was of course, exemplary :)

Rose & Pete

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Rose & Pete got married on 2 December and did Joe and I the honour of letting us shoot the wedding for them. It was a lovely ceremony, held in a winery out just past Eltham, and was really an idyllic location for it. The party up the hill later on was also spectacular, as was the gigantic conical wedding cake made out of profiteroles and toffee. crazy but wonderful :)