Alright it’s now time for the unofficial Dojo Inspectors autopsy, I’m not sure if there’ll be an official, whatever, um, basically, now it’s over, I suppose I better discuss it.
It’s actually only the gig that’s over, and this relentless schedule of like tour and then gigs every weekend after that for 3 weeks, y’know, that’s over, and that’s good.
Dojo Inspectors isn’t over, really it’s only just begun, it’s that the trauma of doing gigs under pressure was a bit much, we had to peel back our commitments and ride it out, and I am satisfied I made the right decision to weather it out and come back.
Sure, we lost the opportunity to promote the gig and the release and make the gig more successful but we held onto the priority of making sure the release was decent and not burning out on desperate measures.
You can tell that I’m upbeat even though the gig didn’t go that great, because we’re still in it, we’ll be back on it and ramping soon as rather than needing a week or two to recover. The Dojo Inspectors full mix should be ready soon and then I can kick into the more solid consistent promotion I’m used to with my business.
So the real focus is the gig. We couldn’t commit the resources and so it didn’t go that great but we were up against it and it still seems like a quiet time of year with exams on and such, which really underlines how circumstance can effect a gig.
I did also play an awful set I stopped the wrong tune twice. Oh well I guess it’s forgotten now, that’s what these gigs are like, all we really have to carry forward is the lessons we learnt, which I guess are some interesting ones, perhaps some stuff I can’t really get in deep with in the blog.
It’s just as I probably mentioned, I am interested in what new possibilities might exist for special parties happening not in a club where the environment is totally predicated on the sale of alcohol.
If the main outcome of the night becomes all about leveraging the music to sell booze, I’m not sure if that’s a successful recipe for a vibe that’s going to go off.
I don’t have anything against young people but I do regard seriously the fact that they are coming from a different angle. I don’t think we need to exclude younger people at all, I just think we need to be aware that they come with a whole bunch of built up ideas that may not match
Kids never knew about raving, they never experienced a time when it was driven purely by music and not with this club vibe, and the drinking industry. I’m not going to go into too much except to tsay I’m being pushed further to the point where doing the private party – “nu underground” concept is becoming more appealing, or at least, I feel the need to attempt to go down this path to see wat lies ahead.
