Nike 6.0 on Tour with Picaresque & BLORR Stop 5

Stop #5 at Landshark in Jacksonville Beach, Fl.

It is tough to compare these stops on this tour, being that every town has its own little flavor to offer… But that said, it is gosh darn sweet as pie to come home and play for all your wide eyed, smiling, gorgeous friends. Landshark was the host to our Wednesday night premiere. Filled with flats-screens on every wall and a house system that boomed the Picaresque soundtrack (which deserves its own WOW volume 9 commercial its so darn infectious) into the bodies of the eager audience.

An audience that was sprinkled sweetly with all the top dogs in Jacksonville… From Red Bull head honcho Ryan King perfecting the Wazzy shuffle, to Asher Nolan and Jay Dodson boogying down and of course decked out in the latest Jagmania Apparel. Poolt, Mikey and Crego from Jax’s top surf communtiy sites GHive and SurfJaxPier all came out to be a part of the activities as well… That along with young shredders and too many of our amazing friends to count made Landshark a vortex frothing with sleazy, sassy energy hypnotizing all who came too close.

I do believe during BLORR’s ecstatic set I saw our film-maker Mikey Detemple pull off a one-handed cartwheel over Styxxx, the Sultan of Sleaze as we like to call him…. and if you’ve seen the bamboo chutes for legs on Styxxx, you know that’s one high mark to clear. After Wednesday night it is a safe assessment that surfer dudes and dudettes alike really like to dance.. Love to Dance!!!

The lovely crowd cheering for an Encore til BLORR had no choice but to whip up some more B.S.R.R. was PROOF in the rice pudding… whaaaa Ewwww.  But really it was… (oh and for those of ya not AIM savvy.. B.S.R.R. = Booty Shaking Rock n Roll motha truckerrssss).

-Cookie

Come check out stop #6 tonight (May 18th) at The Terrace Theatre in Folly Beach, South Carolina!

For a list of all the upcoming stops visit myspace.com/blorrmusic.

 

Stop #4 at The Compound Board Shop in Sarasota, Fl.

It was a dreamy day in Satellite Beach. What else would I be doing but laying by the pool with a handful of pretty ladies and listening to my buds Page and Plant reminiscing of wild nights from their 73′ Asia tour….  Just having a laugh and bronzing my hide. Right around the time Jimbo was explaining to me just exactly what a Taiwanese Disappearing Ping Pong show was, I got a call from Toots and a text from Hot Damm at the same time telling me to get my butt in gear for Sarasota…. It was time to GO!!

So for the third time this week we headed for the Gulf Coast.  We reached theCompound thunderin in our Nike 6.0 Mobile with plenty of sunlight left to this Friday.  It was a refreshing shin-dig to pull up to if I might say… The Compound surf shop was buzzing with kids buying surfboards like they were hamburgers, families trying clothes on, and teens chasing each other around the clothing racks. We were met with smiles by the whole crew including owner Jacob Shields (who i must note was sporting some rad 6.0’s and a lovely tie dye tee as if instinctively he knew the evening was gonna get trippy and hippy as heck).

As the sun set,, the smell of the bbq grill filled the air and the Picaresque surf filmfloated its way into the eyes and ears of the Compound crowd, ranging in age from 4 to 40!!! Surfers and skaters, moms and dads, dudes and dames! After the film they all crowded around to watch BLORR play a mixed set of dance jammies and gritty delta blues…. Enthused by the magic witnessed the previous night at the Ra Ra Riot concert and thankful to have overcome that darn piggie flu just days before,, the boys radiated so much R n R through that surf shop indo boards and Volcom stones were swingin from the ceiling nearly onto Cookie’s head.

The stars of the night were definitely everyone who came out.. Hold the ahhh’s, I mean it peeps, it is quite the community the Compound has going there and they embraced Mikey’s Picaresque and BLORR with an abundance of smiles and high fives… Even a few shaka’s here and there.  So Special thanks to Rational Anthem who rocked the house to a close with some good ol’ punk rock, Amber who let me borrow her nail clippers, and Jacob and the crew for their hospitality. Now, off to Jacksonville Beach, home of Bastard Lovechild of Rock n Roll!  ya just know things are gonna get wierd. 

-Cookie

Next Stop is May 13th at Landshark in Jacksonville Bch, Fl. 

Check the pics below from The Compound:

 

 

Stops 2 & 3

 

 

Across the state we headed, piled in the Nike 6.0 tour mobile turning heads everywhere we went, sometimes pretending that it was us and not the sleek 6.0 Swoosh machine that rumbles with enough Diesel power to make Tim the Toolman Taylor get a half chub..  Friday night was Bradenton…  After a late start we made it to “Tequila Beach” to a mixed crowd of veteran drinkers and younger bar hoppers…  It is safe to say this may not have been “our crowd”, but thankfully there is substance behind this tour that pulls in even the unexpecting dames and dudes.  There is no denying the quality of Picaresque as a sensory film period.  A person that has never stepped foot in the ocean will be wooed by the dreamy visuals captured intimately by the 16 mm film the entire film was shot in.  And with the soundtrack as groovy as any compilation out, Game over Brosquitos! And even those manly men that had puzzled looks on their face after figuring out the luscious legs prancing around stage belonged to a man name Tootsie couldn’t help but hitting that cymbal that Hot Damm held over the crowd during tunes like “Sweet but a lil Sassy” and “My Terrific Tushhh”.  All while Cookie Sugahips sang songs of love and sleaze, rarely breaking eye contact with Tampa’s darling playboy Dustin Howard (who had a huge hand in putting these west coast stops together). Saturday night’s BLORRgasms were to be had at Daiquiri Deck in Mediera Beach.  Energized by a day of fierce volleyball matches… (so we pulled up in the Giant Swoosh, thundering like my belly after a plate of chimichangas and margaritas, thinking we were gonna take over the sandy courts, only to get owned by middle aged men and women half of which wearing knee braces hydrating only with Busch Light.)  Wait where was I… oh right… So Saturday night was here, and our excitement was as thick as the humid air!  We were all ready to be movin and shakin with our loved ones from Indian Rocks Beach.  Cougars were on the prizowllll, no one safe from them sneakin round every corner comin at ya this way and that… Thanks to Mikey DeTemple’s stand up comedy intros and an enthusiastic sound and light guy by the name of Glenn an extra sweaty show ensued with all sorts of strobing lights flashing off the glimmering silk dashiki that danced around Cookie’s body.  All while Hot Damm and Tootsie danced and teased those cougars with no remorse…  After a few kind police men lent us some jumper cables to start our battery dead van we were on our way… Tampa may never be the same..

Check the photos below from stops 2 & 3:

   

Stop 1

 

The tour kicked off on April 29th at a bar in Ft Lauderdale, Florida called Automatic Slims. A bar notorious for scantily clad bar dancing sweethearts and dude hair so hard it cuts straight through the Virginia Slim cigarette smoke that fills the air. Little did they know that a group of surfers, skaters, and tattooed hooligans fueled by waves of stoke were about to transform this place into a chapel of higher learning. A school of artistic vision and a time-transcending surf style courtesy of Mikey De Temple’s “Picaresque”. And what would this be without some after school activities? EnterBastard Lovechild of Rock n Roll… Leading by example in the ways of booty shakin rock n roll! Nike 6.0 fit right in with all the skaters and surfers hitting the indoor mini ramp while waiting for the video to begin. 

After everyone had there fair share of skating and Redbull Vodka’s Picaresque began. 

Shortly after the video ended Bastard Lovechild of Rock n Roll took the stage. 

Altogether it was a great night and kick off to the Picaresque Tour!  Next stop is tonight (May 1st) at Tequila Beach Sports Grille in Bradenton, Florida. Hope to see you there! For more info on the tour you can check myspace.com/blorrmusic & myspace.com/highseasfilm.