The Mississippi Cookout..

As the flyer said: Grilled meats and beats by the river. I'd actually never made it out to a party on the Tamagawa, the lure and convenience of Yoyogi always having had won over any temptation to head out there, but this time I was very glad I did. A small but dedicated group of party goers were well into their day by the time I arrived, and despite a couple of visits by the boys in (dark) blue, the party went on until mid-evening. Will definitely be hitting the next one..

Ooooze Big Beach Party..

One of the many beach parties held in Kamakura through the summer, beats by Carlos Gibbs, Dave Twomey and others, frivolity and bikini clad loveliness from everyone else..

Post hanami: Parklife vol. 7

The Parklife party took a little while to get going, but once it did, driving beats provided an apt soundtrack to the post-hanami daze that it had all become..

Back to business..

Driving beats returned to the park today, perhaps the gods were smiling.. The same crew that so often put on the Sunday afternoon raves across the road during the summer were having it large on the main stage of the Yoyogi park events area. Apparently it started at 10, but the way most of the punters were grooving I suspect that for many of them it was 10 pm, and the night before. It was a real party too, a people falling down and loving it party, complete with cheeky stage dancers, bubble machines, and huge queues for the toilets.

In short, it rocked..

Yoyogi Park Rave: On...

The yoyogi park rave was alive last night with pumping beats and party people everywhere. This was most certainly the best one I've been to in a long while, and the dude in the suit who's set just kept going and going was so awesome that I'm not even gonna try and describe it in words.

The pictures tell the story..

Yoyogi rave party: Shut down by police!

It wasn't a very happy Sunday afternoon for doofers that didn't go to Nagisa, as the police in Yoyogi park area of Shibuya decided to clamp down on the bands and Dj's that provide weekly free entertainment for so many people that enjoy hanging out down there. I knew this rave had started early as I could hear the bass pounding all the way across the street at the Kyushu festival, but the beats were short lived as the the boys in blue decided that this sunny Sunday afternoon dance party was not to be. In the end, frustrated partygoers moved on to Ueno park.

All the pleading in the world wasn't gonna get those beats started up again..