Boom! Did Spank Rock deliver the goods at their Sydney Festival Becks Bar performance or what? High energy, fast and furious, bumping and bouncing Baltimore beats. The new “Lindsay Lohan’s Revenge” was wonderfully tongue in cheek. Amanda Blank’s lyrics and delivery were as tight as her black spandex catsuit. New tracks and old - from “Bump” to one of my favourites “Rick Rubin” - it was an electric performance.

Unfortunately, the same couldn’t be said for Peace Out who supplied the warm up. In 17 years, I don’t think I’ve seen something so bad, both musically and attitude wise. Terrible music selection, below par beatboxing, and a sub-standard attitude that was more in place with ‘wiggers’ hanging out in fast-food carparks on Parramatta Road. Please, tell me when it’s appropriate to yell out “Let’s get fucked up Sydney!” Hopeless. Talentless hacks.

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OK, so I’ve been a bit tardy in getting the photos for this one sorted out. Only took a few shots on the night, I was more intent on focussing on the music and having a good time, and that I did.

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House Master C

Having just celebrated his 44th birthday, HMC shows no signs of letting up. In what ended up being more like a reunion party, HMC along with Angelo, T-Bot and Scott T rewound the clock for a night of music, old and new at Cargo on Hindley Street West.

A mixed crowd, a combination of the headz plus the newer Garage club crowd meant the vibe was exactly that - mixed. However, it was great to catch up with so many old faces. HMC dropped many an old favourite, from Kenny Larkin’s “Integration”, “Humanoid” by Stakker, “Flash” by Fix, his latest under the Late Nite Tuff Guy monicker “I Get Deep” - a flavourful workout sampling the vocal from Roland Clark’s “I Get Deep” and a loop of Rework’s “Anyway I Know You” that was taken from Richie Hawtin’s “DE9 - Closer To The Edit” compilation, and of course - the one track that started it all for Juice Records, “Life Support System”.

I left around 4, and this was probably a a blessing in disguise - albeit one wearing leathers.

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A reveller takes part in the annual carnival in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, March 4, 2007
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Just prior to another storm hitting today. Hailstones more than 8cm wide were seen in Sydney’s north west. And you wonder why all the photos are dark and gloomy?!

Massive storms and flooding hit Sydney.

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