Let Friday July 11th, 2008 (and the days following) go down in history as one of our most ridiculous days ever. We traveled 11 hour round trip to spend 12 hours in Los Angeles.
6:30AM: Wale picked up in SoHo and a few hundred miles away, I was picked up in Boston
8:30AM: We both boarded Jet Blue flights headed to Long Beach, CA; I was leaving from Logan, Wale from JFK
11:30AM: Land at Long Beach
12PM: Get stuck in traffic on the way to LA
1:45PM: Lunch at Cafe Midi on La Brea
Rest
6PM: Dinner with Interscope peeps at Mr. Chow’s
8PM: Arrive at Santa Monica Pier to a few thousand people waiting on Ronnie Renner to set the world record for highest motorcyle jump (see video below)
Redbull Experience at Santa Monica Pier
8:30PM: Wale takes the stage as the sun is setting on Santa Monica Beach and runs through his entire show repetoire:
Apache
Rising Up
Good Girls (Oohwee Remix)
Back In The Go Go
WALEDANCE
Uptown Roamers
Breakdown
Ice Cream Girl
Boyz
Dig Dug
Encore: 1 Thing About A Player
9:45PM: Head to hotel for check-in to use showers and charge phones
10PM: Pickup at hotel to head to LAX
11:30PM: Red eye from LAX to JFK
7:50AM: Land at JFK
8:15AM: Car to NYC
11AM: Photoshoot
Then we got a show tonight in DC, SOB’s tomorrow night in NYC (with an appearance on Hot97 before), then off to the UK Monday for a week.
Anyone who thinks this is easy…it’s not. But we’re loving every minute of it. This is what we signed up for right?
Photos and video courtesty of Paul Stewart over at Next Thing
No idea how to get tix but I’m sure if you show up it won’t be hard to get in. Free admission! Some dude is gonna set a world record for highest motorcycle jump
I love Mr. Collipark. He has been responsible for some of my favorite ATL records, but this right here…this right here is smh
courtesy of Cliche Records
I saw Seun Kuti and the Egypt 80 in concert tonight and was pretty blown away. Dude is Fela’s youngest son and is my age (26); seeing him play kinda makes me feel the same way when I see Gilbert Arenas. lol.
Anyway, Seun played with his dad’s band when he was 9 and has taken the responsibility of leading the band up again. Not sure what Femi Kuti thinks about all of this. Regardless, I recommend checking him out if he’s playing near you and hope that he and Wale get to work together.
Jul 10 2008 OTTAWA BLUES OTTAWA
Jul 11 2008 QUEBEC D’ETE QUEBEC D’ETE, Quebec
Jul 12 2008 WINNIPEG, FOLK FESTIVAL WINNIPEG, FOLK FESTIVAL
Jul 13 2008 MONTREAL MONTREAL, Quebec
Jul 17 2008 Festival de Casablanca / Marocco Casablablanca
Jul 19 2008 Festival Pohoda / Slovaquia Festival Pohoda / Slovaquia
Jul 20 2008 Festival LOVEBOX / London UK London UK, London and South East
Jul 23 2008 Redway, CA Mateel Community Center Redway
Jul 24 2008 Paleo / Switzerland NYON
Jul 26 2008 Globaltica World Culture Festival -Gdynia / Poland Gdynia
Aug 1 2008 Festival africa Bidon / Bidon FRANCE bidon
Aug 3 2008 Festival Bi Shill / Casstle –UK Casstle
Aug 7 2008 Festival Sakifo / La Réunion (FRENCH TERRITORY ININDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS) La Réunion, TOM
