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Sasha & Digweed Tour 2008

Beatportal's Industry Boy blogs live and direct from Sasha and John Digweed's tour bus as they embark on a monumentous rock star tour across America.

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Sasha and John Digweed’s top tour tracks

14 May, 2008 | 2.45PM

Section: Music News Topics: Sasha & Digweed Tour 2008
Written by: Industry Boy

As a final wrap up, John Digweed and Sasha got in touch with Beatportal to reveal the top 10 tracks from their recent North American tour.

Having played over 20 dates in one month, the DJs really road-tested their music, and as such this list is a definitive collection of dancefloor destroyers.

There’s no better indicator of a track’s potential than when it is played in front of thousands of clubbers in a hot club through a booming soundsystem, and Sasha and John Digweed played these tracks, night after night.

Here’s Sasha and Digweed’s top 10 tracks from the Spring Club Tour 2008, including videos of the DJs dropping the tracks, plus tune descriptions from the DJs themselves.

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Sasha and John Digweed Tour: personal notes

2 May, 2008 | 3.32AM

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Written by: Industry Boy

Here’s the long-awaited, final wrap up of Industry Boy’s North American tour with Sasha and John Digweed.

Below you’ll find his personal notes and musings on life on a tour bus with two of the world’s most renowned DJs.

Thanks for following Beatportal’s Sasha and John Digweed tour blog, we hope you liked the coverage.

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Sasha and Digweed answer your questions — part II

30 April, 2008 | 3.00AM

Section: Music News Topics: Sasha & Digweed Tour 2008
Written by: Industry Boy

Last week we asked Beatportal users to pitch questions to Sasha and John Digweed, which the DJs have now answered.

Continuing the conversation from yesterday’s part I, we’ve got part II of Beatportal’s exclusive interview after the jump!

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Sasha and Digweed answer your questions — part I

29 April, 2008 | 3.33AM

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Written by: Industry Boy

Last week we asked Beatportal users to pitch questions to Sasha and John Digweed, which the DJs have now answered.

Check out part I of their answers to your questions after the jump!

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Sasha and Digweed get set for Coachella Festival

26 April, 2008 | 4.39PM

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Written by: Industry Boy

Tonight is Sasha and John Digweed’s last show of their Spring Club Tour 2008, and everyone on the bus is getting pretty excited.

Sasha is going through his iTunes library on his laptop trying to decide what tracks to play, and Digweed said with a grin “We’ll probably have to play more big room tonight, well, big tent anyway.”

As the bus pulled up, some Coachella crew met us with a truck and we loaded up all the LED screens and DJ booth onto the truck.

The Frenchies (French Canadians), our video and VJ crew, then climbed aboard the truck and the pic shows them driving on the back of it.

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An intense night for San Francisco

26 April, 2008 | 1.52PM

Section: Music News Topics: Sasha & Digweed Tour 2008
Written by: Industry Boy

When we started the Sasha and John Digweed tour, the final date Coachella Festival seemed like a distant galaxy, a time and place so far away that we would first have to travel light years to reach it.

Well that journey is almost over. Last night Sasha and John Digweed reached the light at the end of that tunnel in San Francisco.

Even former marine turned tour manager Patrick Tetrick seemed more relaxed and happy before the gig.

“No one died, we didn’t lose anybody, we didn’t break or lose any equipment, the boys are happy, every show was perfect, we didn’t have any technical problems, the bus is still in one piece,” he churned out.

The list of accomplishments for him is long as it has been his responsibility to hold it all together.

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“I wouldn’t sit on that couch if I were you…”

26 April, 2008 | 2.00AM

Section: Music News Topics: Sasha & Digweed Tour 2008
Written by: Industry Boy

What I’m about to tell you is a rather shocking story, related to this rather fetching couch found backstage at one of the venues Sasha and John Digweed played at during the tour.

But the moral of the couch story has repercussions for every couch in every backstage area in every venue across the world.

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Sasha and Digweed’s truckstop gig

25 April, 2008 | 6.57PM

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Written by: Industry Boy

America is the land of dreamers and chancers, with opportunistic, optimistic Joes and Bobs on every corner.

No clearer was this fact demonstrated to me on this tour, then when we awoke at this truck stop in a place called Wee, in California (I’m not making this up).

Last night Sasha and John played at Roseland Theatre in Portland, Oregon and straight after the show we hit the road, with everyone snoring in their dark, warm human cubby holes.

The exciting and quite disorientating thing about touring is that you go to sleep in one part of the world and wake up in another part.

Yesterday it was cold and rainy in Portland, but when I stumbled out of the bus this morning the ground was parched dry, with a blue sky and a powerful sun glaring down.

The bus was parked at a truck wash; “We can’t roll into Coachella festival with a stinky old bus,” said Blake, the bus driver.

It looked like the bus was going to be there for a bit, so I looked across the truck stop at the various small shops and restaurants and spotted a sign for ‘Pizza. Spaghetti. Burgers’, above a shady looking, dilapidated building.

Spaghetti sounded like breakfast, so I wondered over to the restaurant which was called ‘Grandma Roses’ Kitchen’.

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Will the real Sasha and Digweed fans please stand up?

25 April, 2008 | 2.44PM

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Written by: Industry Boy

Last night, Sasha and John Digweed’s gig at the Roseland Theatre in Portland, Oregon was a little odd.

“It looks like a very old venue,” John Digweed said as the boys loaded up the equipment into the venue, and admittedly, the Roseland did have a Happy Days school gymnasium feel about it.

With the entire top floor full of rows of wooden pull down seats I had expected no one to go upstairs, but a couple of hundred actually took their seats in time for the 10.30pm Sasha and Digweed show to begin.

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In the spotlight: Sasha

24 April, 2008 | 8.24PM

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Written by: Industry Boy

Anyone who hangs out backstage with DJ Sasha before he’s about to spin better stay out of his way.

When he is pacing the room back and forth with a glazed look on his face, there is no room for small talk or random club chatter.

He’s in the middle of a pre-set DJ ritual and to anyone who doesn’t know him, he looks, well, pissed off.

“I’m not pissed off, I just get really really nervous before I play,” Sasha tells Industry Boy.

“All I’m thinking about is my set and I’m hoping that nothing goes wrong.”

“No Sushi Digweed!”

24 April, 2008 | 1.27PM

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Written by: Industry Boy

I guess you could call it the power of the Internet. Following yesterday’s shock-horror post about John Digweed being paralyzed due to a horrible bout of food poisoning, the crowd at Plush nightclub in Vancouver came up with a new chant.

Right at the end of John and Sasha’s set the crowd shouted: “No sushi Digweed, no sushi Digweed!”

Then as John attempted to make a dash for the tour bus, he was mobbed by a crowd of fanatic fans seeking autographs and photos.

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A close shave in Seattle

23 April, 2008 | 2.06PM

Section: Music News Topics: Sasha & Digweed Tour 2008
Written by: Industry Boy

Seattle almost didn’t happen last night for Sasha and John Digweed, thanks to the bête noire of travelers’ woes – food poisoning and flight delays.

Whilst John Digweed sat paralyzed in a hotel bathroom in Seattle a few hours before the gig, simultaneously Sasha was pacing a departure lounge in Heathrow watching his flight get pushed back and back.

It was a classic double dose of globetrotting helplessness and for everyone involved it was a case of hope and pray.

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Back on the road with Sasha and John Digweed

22 April, 2008 | 3.47PM

Section: Music News Topics: Sasha & Digweed Tour 2008
Written by: Industry Boy

Our live blog from the Sasha and John Digweed tour bus took a brief break because the DJs flew to Mexico to play three gigs and the bus remained in North America.

I’m now on my way to meet back up with the tour bus, Sasha, John and the rest of the crew in Seattle, where the boys are playing at club Showbox Sodo.

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Meet Sasha and John Digweed’s Mexico promoter

21 April, 2008 | 9.54AM

Section: Videos Topics: Sasha & Digweed Tour 2008
Written by: Industry Boy

Sasha and John Digweed’s tour bus unfortunately can’t fly to Mexico, so for the Mexico leg of the tour the DJs are doing it without their support staff.

That means no visual screens, no VJ and no Industry Boy.

John Digweed however was kind enough to send us this video interview with the promoter responsible for the Mexico dates.

The gigs in Mexico are a much larger production than most of the North American dates. Over 4000 people came on Thursday, the boys played to 3500 Friday night and on Saturday night over 5000 came.