These events aren't limited to a particular city as Fat Kats have held events from Courtney down to Victoria, and have always been well received. Even on a few occisions I have had the pleasure of playing one of his events.
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1. When did you first get interested in Dance/Electronic Music?
I guess, late 90's with Prodigy Daft punk and what not and it moved deeper from there.
2. Who or what has been your biggest influence
I think with our group of friends, we sort of influenced each other, if that makes any sense, as for promoting itself, it was from Dave Hartwell from Knightmove and Casey from 4play. They showed Fk and Dizzy the ropes, they were sort of on their way out as we were coming in.
3. What has been the craziest experience while promoting?
There's been a lot of surreal/crazy moments, most of which are not moments you'd want posted on the internet. I guess one of the better PG stories is during a Long Weekend Spin Sunday at the Press Room. We had UK Rugby team bus pull up and 50 odd of them pile in; Huge jockey-looking brits who loved their house music. To add to this, a Veteran of a battle that I cannot recall, came in and put 1,200+dollars on the counter for everyone to drink in memory of his fallen comrades. With 3$ hiballs and 160'ish people in attendance, this lasted pretty much the entire night. There is something about getting free drinks that makes people forget their, usually well known, drinking limitation and go for broke. An unforgettable night for those who can actually remember it.
4. Equipment Set up for the DJ Does it matter as a promoter?
Directly? No, however, all you have in promotion is your name, and if DJ's arrive and you have no monitors and non-standard equipment like vestax decks etc, they're probably going to be upset and be quite vocal about it. To be honest, I barely know how to set up decks, I know enough to know that I shouldn't be the one dealing with it, so I rarely am. If you don't have a proper set up, or don't at least warn the dj's ahead of time of said improper set up, you're a bad promoter.
5. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
I gave up pipe dreams of professional promotion years ago, promotion teaches you a lot of things, listed prominently among them is being realistic. I'm unsure where I'll be in 10 years, I suppose I should have some idea. I'd not be adversed to throwing the occasional show, much like I do now, but as an occasional hobby type thing.
6. What is one piece of technology you can’t live without?
Internet access, and whatever device delivers that. Pre-internet promotion is something I don't even want to think about. You gotta respect promoters from the 80's and 90's, they weren't making FB events and spamming their friends list. That shit was real, and I've done enough of hand-bombing, car window flyering to know that relying solely on it would be effing rough.
7. What is the best musical festival or show you have attended or thrown?
Best show I feel we ever threw was Pixel. It was our last 'rave', and I just think it was as complete as we ever came to throwing the 'perfect show', minor drama/issues and containing the proper elements of a party. Best I've ever attended? The ones that impressed me themost were probably: Fun House by Noble house, Sip 3 (in the tents), Mid Summers Night dream, and VEMF of course. Mostly due to the budgets and set ups that were involved. Once you understand, first hand what's involved in throwing a show, it gives you a different gauge to appraise things on.
8. Who is your favorite producer or band at the moment?
It changes week to week, right now, producer wise? probably Glitch Mob. This weeks band is probably NIN, they're my favourite band anyway, but this week especially I've been rocking them. It's the Autumn weather.
9. Worst Habit?
Procrastination certainly; I need constant motivation/harassment orthe threat of an impending deadline. Thankfully, I preform very well with a metaphorical (or perhaps literal) gun to my head.
10. What is your dream vacation?
A road trip with my friends. One of my favourite vacations ever is the ones we all took on our mini tour. Here is the videos for it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qJePZw4cOo
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