Wednesday with my main band we are flying to New Zealand, I remember reading there are some people from here in NZ, hope you guys can come check out the band. Also performing is another great Sydney band who do Timba called Club Habana, they arrive Saturday and are performing at the Festival also.
We arrive Wednesday in Auckland, perfrom Thurs night at some nightclub, then Fri we perform at the Jambalaya Festival in Rotorua. Sat and Sun we have free and will be in Rotorua taking part in workshops at the festival and kicking back checking out the other bands/acts performing. We fly back to Sydney on Monday evening, so hopefully some of you guys from NZ will come down and say hello!
Check out our website (below), you can here some short samples from our soon to be released album. Not all the songs are featured though, but you get an idea of some of the styles we perform. Tunes will self load once you enter the site, have some patience, some may take a little while to load. (once you enter the site, top right hand side of page has the control options for the tracks.)
Hope to see some of you there!! Im off to get my bags n stuff ready... Lucky for me I dont need to take any drums, festival organisors and the club are providing us with 3 TOCA congas... ??? Will need to wait n see what they're like! Should be all good though, Im looking forward to it very much!
... Abakua, I think your combo soounds great, Bro´...nice arrangements, vocals, kick ass horns, and percussions... Keep on groovin´, baby!!! Con el latir, el maja...
Not long to go now.. bags packed.. Im off to do a gig now, I get back around 1.30am tonight, then leave my house at 4am to head to the airport, dayem! :laugh: :angry: 5am check in at the airport. Thats gotta suck. lol.
Congrats Abakua! Let me know when they are ready for purchasing... I would love to support... You should send a CD to JC; after getting some play on his radio show-that could potentially get you guys up here to play... The possibilities are endless... Sounds great!
Just got back home. Had a great time on our tour of NZ, though our schedule was very hektik with travelling, sound checks, gigs, hotel check ins and outs, trips to airports, media conferences, after party's, afterparty afterparty's, rumba jams etc etc
Still, we had a fantastic time, crowds loved our stuff.. Very nice part of the world NZ is.
I took around 300 pics or so, I will get them off the camera and upload some on to here in a new thread soon!