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I’ve got quite a musical weekend ahead of me. Tonight I’m going out to see Raja Ram play, tho oddly its just me and one other friend going. Normally I would expect the whole crew to be out for a name like Raja, but the last gig we saw him at was at a terrible venue and I think that has left people a bit sour. Its also been said that he plays the same set every time. I don’t think thats quite true, but its not far off. That said, I don’t really see what the problem is with that necessarily – when people go to see Raja play they want to hear him drop a bunch of 1200 Mics and that is usually what he does. If you went out to see Simon Posford and he played nothing but Hallucinogen you wouldn’t complain, because you likely went to see him play his own music in the first place. I don’t really see what the difference is here. Well except perhaps that the old Godfather hasn’t released anything new for a while.

Tomorrow I’m off to play not one but two sets at a birthday doof in the bush. One old skool trance set using trusty old vinyl, then a full on psy set later in the night. The amusing thing is that the girl who’s birthday it is isn’t someone I really get along with, in fact you might say that our personalities clash rather badly. You might even say that we don’t really like each other. That’ll happen when you’re forced to live with someone for a year. Anyway, the point here is that DJ’s are a great big bunch of sluts and will pretty much play for anyone as long as they get the chance to play.

Happy Birthday Sarah