Elston Gun to blast Christchurch “Peow! Peow!”

Holy smokes yo! Wellington outfit Elston Gun, who now features CHCH’s very own Tom from The Deceivers, are gonna be hitting The Bedford in Christchurch on Friday 23rd October! Elston Gun are a very slick rock’n’roll machine indeed and are inspired by the likes of the Queens of the Stone Age, The Kings of Leon, The Bronx, The Black Keys and of course the mighty Jimi Hendrix. Joining them from the garden city will be T54, Pikachunes, and myself, Dr Hitchcock.

T54 are a newish band on the CHCH scene and blew the punters away at the RDU RounD-Up band competition final, they didn’t win but heaps of cats thought they should’ve. And then there is Pikachunes aka Miles McDougall. This started as a solo project when Miles was laid up in bed after an unfortunate gaming accident (pika-pika), poor old Miles came off a little singed after going head-to-head with a raging flame-o-saurus. He also did quite well in RDU’s band comp winning the inaugural “Best Demo” compeition for his song “fire”. Oh yeah, I’m gonna be closing the night with a DJ Set of party rock’n’roll’n’what-not… any requests? Leave them below in the comments or tweet me baby @starliftertv ***

Event details: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174596931718

Elston Gun: http://www.myspace.com/elstongun
T54: http://www.myspace.com/postjoesampson
Pikachunes: http://www.myspace.com/pikachunes

See ya there!
Peace,
Dr H
xoxox

Ajax is coming to Christchurch… FUCK YEAH!

Hey there! Freakin’ rad news! For the first time evers Ajax, one of the most rockin’ electro mother fuckin’ DJs from Melbourne, will soon be playing some sweet, groovy and stonkin’ beats at Base in Christchurch (with many thanks to Samuel from YMC and Paul from Epaulette.tv). This is a big deal. I saw him play at Parklife 2007 while living in Melbourne and he played one of my favourite sets that day, up there with Digitalism and Justice. His DJ sets are a continual jam of electro bangers, indie-rock cock-flogs, and sexy arse sound assassinations. To hear what this guys all about tune into www.StarlifterRadio.com where his “dance til dawn – directors cut” DJ mix is on HIGH rotate. There is also a rumor that he’s gonna be making a cameo on RDU.org.nz. Ajax hangs out with the Bang Gang crew, is good friends with the cats at Modular Records and also runs a label called “Sweat It out” which has one of my other Aussie faves, Gameboy/Gamegirl, signed to it. Fucking yeah!

Here’s the deets:
Ajax
Base Bar, Christchurch
Thursday 10th October 2009
Support from Cool Kids Club (Wellys), Samuel (CHCH), Fat Shadow (CHCH), and Charlie&Si (dudz).
Tickets $15 presale from Cosmic Corner, Real Groovy and http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/tickets/ID/620/Ajax.utr

More deets can be found at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145175576227

So that’s the word, see you at Base on the 10th!
:: Dr HHH

Gun Metal hits CHCH

Visit Obscure.co.nz to win tickets to this rad gig!
Visit Obscure.co.nz to win tickets to this rad gig!
Hey all,
Some friends of mine are coming over from Melbourne to do a nationwide tour crunking some seriously dance worthy electro doof beats.
Here’s the story:
  • Music: Techno, Tech House, Noise, Minimal, Metal, House, Glitch, Funk, Experimental, Electro, Dubstep, Breaks
  • DJs: Kill Me DJ, Samari, Jem the Misfit

Electroluxxe promotions proudly presents ‘The Gun Metal Tour.

Dont just read it, watch the Video! – http://www.vimeo.com/5386383


Gun Metal Tour from Jem the Misfit on Vimeo.

After three years of hosting Wellington’s premier Club night, and a year smashing Melbourne the Gun Metal crew will be presenting their new integrated audio-visual show with a 10 day tour of New Zealand!

The tour – landing September 2009, hosts the team Kill Me DJ, Samari and Jem the Misfit!

Based in Australia, the three have already received acclaim for their production and ground breaking A/V performance’s. Jem the Misfit being the winner of Pioneer’s Pro DJ competition for visuals, Kill Me DJ having tracks released on Kitsune and Samari doing remixes for Pitch Black and Pig Out.

The sound looks beyond the fidget beats of Baltimore and into the stratosphere of tunes being played by the likes of ZZT, Oizo, Boys Noize, Edjotronic, Proxy and more.
Brandishing their metallic edged sound + visual experience across New Zealand, the crew will be playing four of the country’s top clubs and reaping havoc on the way!

Get set to experience a pumping four hour ride through audio warfare and visual carnage that is set to re-interpret club culture… This tour will be nothing but Gun Metal!!!

With special thanks to Wicked Campers for the tour bus, Radio Active, RDU, Radio 1 and RedBull.

Tour promo Video
http://www.vimeo.com/5386383

Samari’s Gun Metal Mix
http://www.divshare.com/download/6213958-0fb

Kill Me DJ Mix
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/727779445/9747365015b6ee9417e653a386a94f42

Jem the Misfit Visual Mix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3-SbF30xxl

Starlifter.TV – nearly/roughly 1 year old…

Dr H had something to say at a house party one night...

Hey yo!

October 2009 will officially be Starlifter.TV’s 1st Birthday (although I did back date some posts to June 08 from the old Mixtape Connection website). It has been a real joy and a total experiment. Over that time there has been some interesting changes. At some points it has been a personal blog, at other points pure promo for friends, it’s been a place to reflect on the music my friends and I like, but at the end of the day I wanted this website to be tool to build a community of passionate, open minded, musical party peeps.

What do you as a reader and part of this small community (we get around 100 different visitors a day) think about Starlifter.TV?!! Over the year I have tried many different things. If you’re a regular reader what do you keep coming back for? What do you enjoy reading about? What could there be less of?

Over the past year I haved tried to post as many free MP3s as possible but moving into the next year of Starlifter.TVs life I may try and limit this to Creative Commons (CC) licensed music and images as the CC philisophy and framework is an excellent alternative to the current Copyright licenses which are being used by big business to hold the [digital] world to ransom.

But yeah! What do you wanna see on Starlifter.TV? So far I’ve posted set lists for radio shows and DJ sets, podcast episodes, peeps Top 10s, videos of shit I find interesting, reviews of songs and albums, MP3s, party pics and interesting images, tunes from my band Electro Pussy Posse, DJ mixsets, live sets, lots of Christchurch music guff (that’s where I’m based), pictures of Zia from the Dandy Warhols (HOT!), interviews, blah, blah, you get the picture.

Have you been thinking about contributing? Do you think you’ve got your head around what Starlifter.TV is all about? Do you have things to say? How do you see the world? Are you a Photographer? Writer? Musician? Artist? Creative type? Well if you would like to be a greater part of Starlifter.TV and help us then buzz an email to me yo: drh (at) starlifter.tv or you could even send me a letter: 42 Hanrahan Street, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand. Otherwise free feel to leave a comment at the end of this post or above in the Google Friend Connect bar.

And I’d really like to thank all of the contributors to Starlifter.TV so far: Nurse NOS, Tom Darlow, Cara Totoro, Darlene Brown, Evan James, Erin Hutching, Sixtyten, Tom Cosm, Muz & Ezra from DeliciousMusic.co.nz and anyone else who I may have forgotten, you peeps POP!

Anyways, thanks for hanging with us here at Starlifter.TV and hopefully we’ll be seeing more of yo.

Mad love, peace and respect,
Dr Hitchcock
xoxox