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Viva Tour 2008

Steve Lawler, Audiofly and Tiefschwarz embark on a mammoth bus tour of North America from October 16th - November 1st 2008. As well as keeping exclusive diaries for Beatportal, Industry Boy will join the boys on their bus to blog live from 26th - 31st October.

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Steve Lawler’s Top 5 tour tracks

5 November, 2008 | 4.32AM

Written by: Industry Boy
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Wrapping up our Viva Tour live blog coverage is the man himself, Steve Lawler, who reveals exclusively to Beatportal five tracks that have dominated his club sets during this mammoth North American tour.

“Throughout the whole tour there have been some tracks that I’ve played during every set and they represent the sound that I play, taken from different times of the night,” says Steve.

Here are the big five tracks of the Viva tour. Get set.

Viva Tour: A weird night in Albuquerque, New Mexico

29 October, 2008 | 2.15PM

Written by: Industry Boy
Filed under: Music News: audiofly tiefschwarz

Imagine walking down the street of a small city in the middle of America on a Tuesday night.

You see a shitty looking bar called the Moonlight Lounge with black plastic bags over the windows and a few teenagers wearing baseball caps smoking outside.

Across the quiet, yellow windswept street you hear the faintest sounds of music, a deep thumping bass and an occasional hi hat that blows over the wind.

‘Hell, might as well have a beer there,’ you think. Seems as good a place as any.

Viva Tour bus crabs (cribs), by Anthony Audiofly

28 October, 2008 | 10.22PM

Written by: Industry Boy
Filed under: Videos: audiofly

Anthony from Audiofly takes us deep inside the smoke-infested electronic music van otherwise known as the Viva Tour bus.

For 12 days these DJs have slept, eaten, peed (no shitting is allowed) and smoked on this bus as it travels across North America and it’s starting to smell (which you can’t tell through our video).

Steve Lawler’s mobile Viva studio

28 October, 2008 | 1.28PM

Written by: Industry Boy
Filed under: Music News: audiofly

From these photos you’d imagine Steve Lawler and Audiofly to be sitting in a posh music studio in London, but we are in fact on a tour bus traveling through the Arizona desert at about 50mph.

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Viva in Montreal: Audiofly

27 October, 2008 | 6.08AM

Written by: Beatportal
Filed under: Videos: audiofly, tiefschwarz

Check out Audiofly mightily warming up the stage at Tribe in Montreal for Steve Lawler on the first leg of their North American tour.

Lawler and Audiofly take on San Francisco’s Harlot

27 October, 2008 | 4.46AM

Written by: Industry Boy
Filed under: Music News: audiofly harlot

11.42pm Steve Lawler, manager Dave and a small entourage of San Francisco friends enter a backstreet glosser known as the Harlot.

It’s a plush kinda place, with a tightly designed interior that’s part goth, part hunting lodge.

“It’s a shame you couldn’t see the warehouse,” says one of the entourage as we walk towards the DJ booth.

Tonight’s party was supposed to be at a secret location, an illegal warehouse, but last week the cops busted the joint.

Viva Tour rolls into San Francisco. Just.

26 October, 2008 | 10.16PM

Written by: Industry Boy
Filed under: Music News: audiofly

Stepping onto the Viva tour bus today in a parking lot in downtown San Francisco, felt like walking into an after after party in the last stages of a wind down.

Anthony from Audiofly was hunched over in a corner smoking; peering into the distance at an imaginary mirage, that no doubt promised some sort of nourishment.

“I need food. Where’s the food man?” he muttered.

Steve Lawler and the other Audiofly Luca wandered into the front cabin wearing neon sunglasses, their gaunt faces displaying days of cyclical excess and strain.

The circle of life for these men recently has been like a video of an explosion, that you rewind to watch over and over again.

Viva Tour through Audiofly Luca’s sleepy eyes

24 October, 2008 | 11.13PM

Written by: Industry Boy
Filed under: Music News: audiofly

Despite being the sleepiest DJ on the bus, Audiofly’s Luca has managed to scrabble an amusing account of the Viva Tour thus far, through his eyes.

In his post, Luca reveals how Steve Lawler has renamed Audiofly Ant & Dec (well known TV presenters from the UK) and how he’s being bullied by everybody, in good sport.

Here’s Luca’s snapshot.

Viva Tour comes out shooting

24 October, 2008 | 5.42PM

Written by: Industry Boy
Filed under: Music News: audiofly

The Viva Tour is well underway, and when I join Steve Lawler, Audiofly and Tiefschwarz on their tour bus on Sunday hopefully I’ll be able to document some of funny things going on and some of the excellent music that’s being played.

I’ll be blogging live from the Viva Tour bus from Sunday October 26th - Friday 31st October taking in San Francisco, Albuquerque and Dallas as well as countless small towns and freeways, but ahead of that the boys have been sending over their videos which, quite rightly, reveal them to be teetering on the verge of insanity.

In one of them, it’s revealed that the boys went to a gun store and played around with shotguns and ridiculously large magnums as part of their ‘discovery’ of the ole’ USA.

Anyway, try understanding these three videos, if you can. Next week looks like it’ll be a lot of fun.

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Viva tour: Montreal sets it off

24 October, 2008 | 3.49AM

Written by: Beatportal
Filed under: Videos: audiofly, tiefschwarz

This first night of the Viva tour starts strong with Steve Lawler dropping some aural nastiness on the dancefloor of Montreal’s Tribe nightclub.

Follow Steve Lawler, Tiefschwarz and the Audiofly boys with their Viva tour diary here.

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Steve Lawler’s Viva tour diary: Part two

23 October, 2008 | 2.37PM

Written by: Beatportal
Filed under: Videos: audiofly, tiefschwarz

Continuing the North American journey of Steve Lawler, Audiofly and Tiefschwarz on their Viva tour, Anthony from Audiofly gives us an update on the latest joys, sorrows, trials and tribulations the boys are experiencing while on the road.

In this video we see them having a joke while shopping in a department store in small town America.

Click through for the latest diary entry which recaps the first leg of the tour.

Steve Lawler’s Viva tour diary: Part One

22 October, 2008 | 3.25PM

Written by: Beatportal
Filed under: Music News: audiofly tiefschwarz

On October 16th Steve Lawlerhttp://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif and Audioflyhttp://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif embarked on the maiden gig of a thirteen-date North American tour in Montreal.

Taking in dates right across the continent, the British-based artists will be bunking up until October 28th when German brothers-in-arms Tiefschwarzhttp://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif will join Lawler for a performance in Albuquerque and then for the remaining four dates.

Seizing the chance to throw a little creative curve-ball into the mix, the tour bus has been fully equipped with with studio facilities to accommodate the DJ/producers’ musical urges between gigs.

The aim is to get an EP locked down for release on Viva music before the end of the tour, but, as you will read below in Steve Lawler’s first exclusive diary entry for Beatportal, life on the road is tough…

Steve Lawler’s Viva tour dates

16 October, 2008 | 3.56PM

Written by: Beatportal
Filed under: Music News: audiofly tiefschwarz viva tour 2008

Steve Lawler, Audiofly and Tiefschwarz embark on an epic bus tour of North America from October 16th - November 1st 2008.

You can catch the play by play of their tour as they update their diary entries here on Beatportal with pics and videos of their antics.

As well as exclusive coverage from Beatportal, Industry Boy will join the boys on their bus to blog live from 26th - 31st October to cover the action as it happens.

Click through for the full Viva tour schedule.