This coming Saturday, I’ll be performing at the Hoping for hoping Peacefest near Longtan. This annual event raises money for charities and features a host of local bands. If you’re somewhere in Taiwan this weekend, consider coming out to Longtan for this one.

I’ve uploaded a small snippet of the end of my set in Kaohsiung (in the video-section) – watch out for the lady in the third row having a great old boogie. You can’t tell from the back, but she was 60 if she was a day… here’s to us all bopping like that at 60! Thanks for the video, Patrick!

The photo-section has been update with pics from the gigs in Tainan and Kaohsiung…

I’m spending my first Chinese New Year in Taiwan and it feels a bit strange to be here without having to go to work. Strange in the best way possible. The ten day break gives me the opportunity to catch up on some stuff I’ve been meaning to do – like uploading a small clip from my performance with Jui-chuan Chang in Tainan on February 10th (see the link below). I’d love to do the Hey Kid remix with Juichuan in a club with people bopping, but I guess the bookshop was a good test. It was a great pleasure either way! I’m busy working on a second remix for Jui-chuan and it should be ready in a couple of days, so watch this space…

Just a couple of weeks to go before Em. and I are off to South Africa for three weeks for my brother’s wedding. We’re really excited, of course, but it seems the laws have changed since our last visit together two years ago and Taiwanese citizens now need a visa for the RSA. It means a trip through to Taipei tomorrow and we’re holding thumbs that there are no problems.

:^/

HEY KID – DISQUIET MIX – Live!

Emily and I are really settling into our new apartment nicely now. The Onse Plate studio is comfortably installed in a room filled with winter sunlight (pic above). I know, I know… it doesn’t look like much – lol! Since it’s basically all in software on the PC it’s truly larger on the inside, though.

Continuing the Eslite Bookshop tour, I played at Mitsukoshi department store in Taichung on Sunday. New pics are under the photos link. Our MySpace friend, Patrick Wei, came through from Taipei again and took some videos on his digital camera – he posted some on his MySpace page. Thanks, Patrick – I hope your arms have recovered from keeping the camera up for 45 minutes!