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Stones Throw x Fool’s Gold Discotheque tour
Last April for Coachella weekend, Fool’s Gold teamed up with Stones Throw for a party at the Ace hotel. The idea behind it was basically: “come hear some music that you won’t hear elsewhere this weekend”. No electro, not even any rap, just classic disco and old school house. It was our first collaborative project with Stones Throw, which is surprising since I’ve been tight with those dudes for years — they even released my first record back in 1999.
The party was a success and left us wanting more… So we decided to do a lil’ tour. We’re doing a boat party in Vancouver, playing by the waterfront in San Fran, doing a Lollapalooza afterparty in Chicago and, well, getting tax-free goods in Portland.
Check the full show listings after the jump. Come see us in your town. Bring your best dancing shoes. We’re here to move your hips. And if you have an artificial hip, we’ll make it squeak. I’m not really sure what that means.
10,000LB Hamburger Tour recap video!!!
The amps were on 11. We danced through to the morning light. I bought a horse. It was a memorable odyssey, that 10,000LB Hamburger Tour. Relive it with us one more time!
Thank you to everyone who made it out to one of our shows. To all the special guests as well. To everyone who garnished that burger. Thank you.
Oh and we still have limited stock of the tour tee! Grab it here before they’re all gone…
Around the World Pt. 23: 10,000LB Hamburger Tour wrap-up
As posted on the fab Fader blog.
Time for the final recap of the 10,000LB Hamburger Tour; the second serving, if you will. For those just catching on this lasted all throughout July, traveling across North America on a tour bus with Treasure Fingers and Theophilus London. We did an extensive run across enormous Canada. Normally I have a rule: no more than 4 shows in a row. I’m not sure how but that rule got broken, or bent, and we did a 5 city blitz. The day before that started I was in Vancouver and decided to get a massage at my hotel to try and ease the tour wear-and-tear. Then we went to our first Canadian show in Victoria, which involved putting the bus on a ferry. There’s something pretty phenomenal about putting an entire bus on a boat. But hey, Archimedes wasn’t kidding, buoyancy is very real. We also saw some porpoises in the water as we were leaving the docks. How do you recognize a porpoise? By its fin! In Victoria, about an hour or two before my set my neck started stiffening up. It got bad really fast and I had to play my set whilst in pain. Damn massage! On the lighter side, a girl asked me if I was Amish.
I’m hoooome…
I just got home from the month-long extravaganza that we called the 10,000LB Hamburger Tour. What a rapturous adventure! Of course there will be a full blog recap this week. But in the meantime here are a few of my favorite pics since the last post.
(B&W pics by Pooya Nabei)
And a little bonus for the road:
Around the World Pt. 23: 10,000LB Hamburger Tour
From the fab Fader blog.
I’m about halfway into the 10,000LB Hamburger Tour so I think it’s time for some stories. We started off in the South, which I think is a bit unusual. Most tours go through the South in the middle, it’s typically the hardest leg of a tour because the distances are so long. It’s tricky finding decent food on those long drives so the name turned into a self-fulfilled prophecy: We ended up really eating hamburgers all the time. I’m gonna get fat! Someone pass me a parsnip or something.
10,000LB Hamburger Tour
Extra! Extra! This summer I’m taking a horse and carriage across this fine continent and will circumnavigate it with the help of Rye Rye and Treasure Fingers in an operation that I call the 10,000LB Hamburger Tour. There are also some festivals and Bacardi B-Live dates mixed into the timeline so with all that combined I very well might be hitting YOUR town! Expect the unexpected, this will not be like your average club gig. Check the dates:
6/17/09 NEW YORK, NY – ULTRA LOUNGE (BACARDI B-LIVE) +
6/18/09 BOSTON, MA – HOUSE OF BLUES (BACARDI B-LIVE) +
6/19/09 PHILADELPHIA, PA – ELECTRIC FACTORY (BACARDI B-LIVE) +
7/02/09 CHARLOTTE, NC – THE FORUM (BACARDI B-LIVE) +
7/03/09 ATLANTA, GA – OPERA (BACARDI B-LIVE) +
7/04/09 ORLANDO, FL – HOUSE OF BLUES (BACARDI B-LIVE) +
7/05/09 TAMPA, FL – CZAR *
7/08/09 MIAMI, FL – LIV *
7/10/09 AUSTIN, TX – AUSTIN MUSIC HALL (BACARDI B-LIVE) +
7/11/09 HOUSTON, TX – WAREHOUSE LIVE *
7/13/09 PHOENIX, AZ – CLUB RED *
7/14/09 SAN DIEGO, CA – VOYEUR ^
7/16/09 SAN FRANCISCO, CA – THE INDEPENDENT *
7/17/09 PORTLAND, OR – ROTTURE ^
7/18/09 SEATTLE, WA – CHOP SUEY *
7/22/09 VANCOUVER, BC – RICHARD’S ON RICHARDS ^
7/23/09 CALGARY, AB – HI FI *
7/24/09 EDMONTON, AB – STAR LITE ROOM ^
7/25/09 TORONTO, ON – TIME FESTIVAL
7/30/09 OTTAWA, ON – RITUAL NIGHTCLUB *
7/31/09 NEW YORK, NY – WEBSTER HALL #
8/01/09 MONTREAL, QC – SAT *
8/07/09 CHICAGO, IL – LOLLAPALOOZA
8/08/09 LOS ANGELES, CA – HARD FESTIVAL
* with Rye Rye and Treasure Fingers
^ with Rye Rye
# with Treasure Fingers, Theophilus London and Jack Beats
+ with MSTRKRFT, Major Lazer, DJ AM, Jazzy Jeff and Drop The Lime
Finished my record. Now Jay-Z is calling.
OK so the 2 sentences in the title aren’t exactly related but they’re both pretty exciting. I haven’t talked much about this record thus far and the powers that be are saying you’ll have to wait a few more weeks to find out exactly what it is. But I can say this: I finished an A-Trak record, it’s longer than an album but it’s not an album… although it is all original production. I can also say I’ve been working on it for weeks and weeks and I can finally breathe! Until my phone rings.
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