Soma Rasa - Tour Diary - LA # 2
April 26
All has come together, we have arrived LAX at 7am and jump in a van with the Boat People and head straight to the hotel. We are greeted by Tina Radburn from QLD Trade and Innovation (LA office) and she takes us straigt to a local diner where we realise that we will not find good coffe for 2 weeks. First day was crazy, no sleep for 40 hours and we still cant sleep, we are all wired, and head straight for the steet as soon as we can. Jobs for the day are to head into the Sean Healy Presents office who is booking our Key Club show on Sunset Blvd. Just of Melrose Ave, the office is a hub of LA hip hop show bookings. We pick up a stack of invites and tickets to our show to start handing out
to everyone that we meet. Next mission; record shopping, lead by Sam we find some wicked stores with an hour from arriving. Back to hotel all trashed 1 am and dan and bill cant get to sleep and head for some clubs. 2 am we find a cool club called the Rainbow Room "LA rocker paradise", we end up drinking beer with the bass player from Whitesnake and Lyrics Born.
April 27
Handy arrives form London and we start showing him about despite his jetlag. Tonight we headed out to a club in Silverlake (about 20 min from West Hollywood) called The Little Temple, this place is tigt, 2 rooms playing straight up hip hop and a live band in the back room. The venue is made up of about 5 small rooms with people just lounging around and guys breaking in any space they can find, sweat was flying around the room.
April 28
Today is a work day, 12 hr rehearsal at Swinghouse studios.The set is tight and totally going off. we are all vibing and Kina and Mc Handy are coming up with new ideas all day / night. Everywhere we go we travel by Cab and quickly find the cab drivers a great source for a chat and local knowledge. Digital Underground cant't make the rehearsal as planned due to travel delays and we reschedule our rehearsal with them to our hotel on the next Monday night.
Metaphysical (Digital Underground / Element) w/ Soma Rasa
@ The Plush Loung (Key Club) May 5 '06
April 29.
This morning we head into 103.1 FM for an interview, the number 1 independedt radio station in the US.We bump into the Spazzy's and Dan greets them with an american accent pretending to recongnise them whilst taking photos of them "oh my god it's the spazzy's"; The Spazzys are flattered and dan later confesses he is not American and is from a brisbane band called Soma Rasa. Tonight we head to the Bel Age hotel were there is a welcoming function put on for the Australian bands perfroming during the week, XXXX on tap and Australian wines - things get meessy fast... Kina is introducing everyone to Motley CruesManager while the rest of the band finds a table close to the beverages - First ones there and last ones to leave, we head back to the hotel for an afterparty and end up inviting the people from the rooms around ours and the Boat People turn up along with resing dogs manager who is also in town. Handy is Djing some fresh UK breaks at fullvolume from from his iPod while everyone spills austrialian wine all around the room.
Sampology : Soma Rasa - Plush Loung May5 2006
April 30
Bree (our VJ) arrives from Brisbane and wakes us all up and makes us confront our hangover that we worked hard for the night before. We shower and head straigt to the closet diner for breakfast and more bad coffee. Sam reminds dan that we need to get our diary written for scene and we race back to the Hotel.