Live blog from the Get Physical tour bus

Live blog from the Get Physical tour bus

2 May, 2008 | 7.00AM

• Section: Music News Topics: Get Physical Tour
• Written by: Industry Boy

Having only just recovered from being embedded on Sasha and John Digweed’s tour bus for three weeks, I’ll be doing it all over again, this time blogging live and direct from the Get Physical tour bus as it goes around North America.

Being super glued to German duo M.A.N.D.Y. and Canadian-born DJ Heidi presents its own unique opportunity (and problems).

Whilst Sasha and John Digweed are megastar DJs with an established global profile, M.A.N.D.Y. and Heidi are more underground and will be playing much smaller venues.

Sasha and Digweed played five gigs a week and stayed in hotels every night, whereas the Get Physical crew are playing eight gigs in eight days, in eight different US cities - they will be doing the tour bus proper, and will actual live and sleep on the bus as it drives from club to club.

Sasha and John Digweed aren’t party animals whereas M.A.N.D.Y. and Heidi are known for carrying on the party late into the next day - they are the afterparty in fact.

The performances too, will be very different: John Digweed and Sasha are far from the animated performers that M.A.N.D.Y. and Heidi are (for an example of how crazy M.A.N.D.Y. can get, check the video below of them dropping Noze ‘Dance With Me’ at the Beatport Pool Party in Miami this year).

The music too will differ greatly - Sasha and John play deep, hypnotic progressive house and melodic trance-y techno, whereas M.A.N.D.Y. and Heidi mix it up, and will drop anything from twisted tech house and minimal, to old house classics and funky vocal techno.

Sasha and John Digweed are older and more experienced, whilst M.A.N.D.Y. and Heidi are younger and more rock and roll.

So get set for another exciting, insider blog; the story starts on Saturday.

M.A.N.D.Y.’s animated perfomances

The Get Physical Tour Dates: live blog

3rd May – Denver @ Beta
4thMay – Boston @ Underbar
5th May - Washington D.C. @ Fur
6th May – Philadelphia @ Woody’s
7th May – Toronto @ The Social
8th May – Montreal @ Tribe
9th May – New York @ Studio B
10th May – Chicago @ Vision

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