We Love Sundays

...especially when we are graced with special guests such as Aeroplane, who played with us for the fourth time this summer.
After ten years, this night just seems to be getting bigger and better.
Long live Sneaky Sundays.



More photos of Sneaky Sundays feat. Aeroplane

Too Many DJs

Follow me this way, if you please...

This is a tale of a DJ dance party for DJ's (and some of their fans).

Twas a stinking hot night in Byron Bay, and the Great Northern Hotel held masses of perspiring kids who came to the YOLO party for one thing only. To dance.

There were a few people in the room who were dancing more than those sweaty kids though, and these were the sweaty DJs, having a dance party of their own up on the stage.

The dancing DJs included:
Aeroplane
Riton
Black Angus
Beni
Dangerous Dan
Gus Da Hoodrat
Nicky Nighttime
Fake Blood
2ManyDJs

And also a dancing singer:
Sam Sparro

There was also a conversation between Black Angus and Fake Blood, DJ extraordinare from the UK (real name: Theo), that went like this.
Angus- "Dude, your Hot Chip remix of Touch Too Much was the greatest remix of last year. Bravo!"
Theo- "What are you talking about? Really? I've never even played it".
Angus- "Wow. Follow me."

Touch Too Much is presently played to the crowd, whose reaction (not abnormal for this particular track) triggers an overly respondent Theo into dancing wildly behind Angus- now truly converted to his own tune.

Diggy Diggy Donut

Here's what the lens belonging to Morgan Hyslop saw on the night that Sneaky Sundays turned 10.



We love Morgan. Love her too at morganhyslop.blogspot.com

Hedonism at its best

More photos of New Years Day 2010

Somebody said to me on New Years Day... "What a shame that our favourite day of the year happens to be on the first day of the year".

Yes, it might seem most unfortunate that our favourite party on earth happens to occur on January 1st. Ordinarily, the Icebergs party on New Years Day provokes the feeling that it is going to be all downhill from here. But thank God 2010 is YOLO year, which means there will be many more days like this ahead. They might not take place behind glass walls overlooking Bondi Beach featuring Aeroplane, Beni, Black & Dangerous, and Miss Connie Mitchell- but it's safe to say they will be something of a similar description.

YOLO!

You Only Live Once presents A Party

This little chalkboard says it all. It's the chalkboard outside of the Great Northern Hotel in Byron Bay, because that is where the party is. It says "Tonight" because that's when it's on- TONIGHT Wednesday 6th Jan. And it says Sam Sparro, Riton, Black Angus, Dangerous Dan, Doom, Hoodrat, and Nicky Nighttime on it because these are the dudes who will be gracing the decks (and microphone).

The only thing that it does not say, because the man holding the chalk is either not a fan or has a bad memory, is that DJ Beni is also on the line-up.

Word! 2010 is YOLO Year!

Welcome to the 2nd hour and twentieth minute of 2010, the year that You Only Live Once will be bringing you the greatest things that only living once has to offer.
Happy 2010 YOLO, we are excited- not only because you provide us with a slogan that can justify all things ridiculous, irresponsible and extravagant, but because this year will be spawning the best parties, for the best people, in all of the best places. YO fucking LO.
Oh, and we're also excited because today is New Years Day, our favourite day of the year. You'll soon see why.

YOLO Hands

You can make lots of letters with your hands.
You can make lots of words if you find friends with hands too.
Here are four sets of four hands making the best word of all.
They are our YOLO Hands, and you're going to be seeing a lot of them.

Sneaky Sundays Turns 10

Click here for more photos of the night

These boys are looking rather good for 10. In fact, they don't look a day over nine. But yup, last weekend marked the 520th of everybody's favourite Sunday night... and this one was certainly the best of all them.

Sneaky Sundays has entered it's second decade with a brand new layout: the Discoteque AND the Terrace, the latter being the new space that has gotten all the DJ's as excited as... well, ten year olds. So it seemed fitting to start the celebrations outside, where U-GO-B, Dolso, and Miss Annie warmed things up while pizzas and waters were thrown down by the good little soldiers who were preparing to fight hard in the ten hour battle ahead.

And fight those little soldiers did. Except swap the violence for dancing, tears for laughter, and guns for glow sticks and party poppers. At 9pm, everyone thought it time to run from space number 1 to space number 2, where Black Angus spent two hours dropping classic after classic from the past ten years to an especially enthusiastic audience. This was mixed with a bit of old school Sneaky Sound System too, accompanied by Tricky Nick on the saxophone and MC Double D on the mic. Meanwhile, Doom kept the cigarette suckers on the Terrace alive.

Darshan, wonder boy, from Metro Area was the next one to step up. We loved him, and he loved us back. There was a lot of love in the room that night.

Then came some banging techno (and a lot of smoke, from our smoke machine who isn't ten years old, but whom we love anyway) from Black, Dangerous, Jonny Pow, Jimmy 2 Sox, Ajax, and Hoodrat, whilst the troops marched on and on.

And then it was the end of the night, and everyone thought, "Wow, ten years... (reflective moment)... this night is still fucking awesome."

Smokey Robinson once said, "Time flies when you're having fun", and boy did that soul dude know what he was on about. That was the quickest ten hours... I mean ten years, of our lives.

It's beginning to look a lot like summer



So summer really kicked off last weekend with the Fleetwood Mac concert in the Hunter Valley, where everyone and anyone gathered together on a patch of nice green grass on the Hope Estate to listen to a whole load of hits (which spurred a lot of drinking) plus a whole load more non-hits a.k.a. boring country songs (which spurred even heavier drinking). This made for 19,000 rather messed up people, around 200,000 wine spills, hundreds of lost items, dozens of broken cameras, and one amazing video.

Check it out. Our front row video of 'Go Your Own Way'. Featuring a pretty cool guitar solo by Lindsay Buckingham and general confirmation for the above. If you like pink sunsets and drunk girls, then there are photos for you too.

Stay tuned for our summer, happening YOLO style!

Road Trippin' from Brisbane to beyond

Follow the yellow brick road...

After last week's gigs in Adelaide and Perth in which Angus and Dan reached such a state of excitement that Dan punched himself in the mouth and woke up with a split lip and bloody teeth (a closer recount to follow)....we thought this weekend it was time to chill out a little.
Except, on the YOLO road trip, it didn't really work out that way.

It all started in Brisbane on Friday night at The Met, where cage dancers, stage dancers, a camel toe, and a big dragon got our minds thinking outside the 'chilled out and relaxed' box. And by dragon, we mean a really fucking big dragon that swooped down from the ceiling infrequently and totally unexpectedly throughout the night, red laser eyes scanning the freaked-out crowd as it flapped its wings, firing from its open mouth massive jets of cold smoke (Ibefa style) while techno music thumped around it. And someone else with laser eyes spotted Dan's t-shirt from inside her gilded cage all the way across the room, assuming the slogan was her ticket to pounce on an unsuspecting Dan in a dark alleyway. But she'd missed a key word on the t-shirt, that dancer girl. OFF.

Day 2 was the day of really good ideas and feeling happy as a result of those ideas. After patting each other on the back for not staying out too late the night before we piled into the car and started driving to the Gold Coast. On the way Dan had the first good idea, which was to stop in at Wet n' Wild. "Yay!!!!" all the YOLO passengers cried.
A few ten-second thrills and hours of standing in lines later, we got back into the car and soon developed the second good idea of the day, 'ditch the Gold Coast and go to Byron', the best and greatest idea ever. Dan said happily, sucking down a coca-cola slurpie, "today is a good day".

We arrived in Byron, haven of all havens, and were pretty pleased with ourselves for thinking to go there. In true YOLO style, we spent the afternoon and evening eating and drinking. Dinner at the Pacific Dining room, our favourite restaurant, was the third winning idea. It meant we were able to gorge ourselves with manuka coladas, coconut and chili martinis, grilled peppers, kingfish sashimi, roast lamb, and loads of other delicacies before driving up to Coolangatta for the gig at Neverland.

Saturday night at Neverland was, quite surprisingly, the favourite show of the tour. No camel toes or dragons this time, but loads of cool kids dancing in front of messy wall scrawl getting flicked in the head with a rad green laser and enough general vibe for Dan and Angus to deem it suitable to pull out all of their best tunes in a set that saw them having maybe even more fun than the laser-zapped kiddies down in front. Plenty more 'duck sauce' here, as always, and even some duck shaped mouths. Plus some babuhska dolls, curly haired kings, and an evil chick with bleeding eyes. Only at Neverland.

Day 3 was Geelong, but who the hell wants to hear about that. Not us. But they do have an awesome chinese restaurant in that little town. Its called Man Bo. Go there. And Top of the Hill Pizza, where the ham comes a plenty and old tunes flow at the mere cost of a two dollar coin to liven your sunken spirits. We are the champions.

No, we really are.

YOLO!

YOLO!

Click here for more YOLO tour shots

Check out our latest photographs for ideas of all kinds of fun things to do, if (like us) you have gracefully accepted that you only live once and have many more things to cross off your list. These things should most definitely include taking a trip on a seaplane, watching Black Angus and Dangerous Dan dj, visiting Sorry Grandma in Melbourne, having a vodka shot containing gold, caviar and a live fish, dancing with your eyes closed to one of Black Angus' after hours set and pretending you're in Ibiza, drinking a whole bottle of Don Julio 1942......

You Only Live Once in Canberra

More photos of YOLO Canberra this way...

First date of the YOLO tour was Canberra, or 'meeting place' in aboriginal, our nation's capital. A place where square buildings with square gardens, clubs that don't get busy until 4am, and Australia's largest (literally- 6ft'7) DJ/Promoter Huw all 'meet' together. We met a few things down there too- like a few too many bad cocktails. By the time it was ready to go to the club it was 2am. By the time people decided it was time for their feet to 'meet' the dancefloor it was 4am- and by the time a few girls decided it was time for their fists to meet each other's heads it was 5.30 and then it was time to drop 'Duck Sauce' and soon after be greeted by a beautiful hinterland sunrise.
Oh... and a local screaming to another local, "I'm gunna kill you, you skinny bitch!!!"
En route to Newcastle, where hopefully there will be less punch ups but certainly plenty more 'Duck Sauce'.

You Only Live Once Launch Party

Check out all the photos from the launch

Well, the CD is officially out and YOLO has caught the attention of every excitable party and music head around... as well as already stirring up some pretty damn good fun.

Thanks to everyone who came to our launch party and got completely lost dancing amongst a black sea of balloons; even if we couldn't see you we knew you were there...

The YOLO tour featuring Black Angus and Dangerous Dan starts in Canberra this Saturday. If you're anywhere in or around the ACT be sure to stop by Lot 33 after 8.00 PM. Check the Tour Dates for your nearest show...

Aeroplane Interview

You guys are considered these days as the remixers “du jour”. What makes you so damn good and how have you reached your current status?
We always made the same music. The only thing that has evolved is our technical skills. We always putted the melodies and arrangement first. That's all we can say...

You have worked for some amazing artists, who else is on the hit list?
Bertrand Burgalat, Soulwax, Sebastien Tellier, Au Revoir Simone, Sky Ferreira, Merry Clayton,..

Which artist have you most enjoyed/ been most excited about remixing for?
All of them !!! We just remixed Robbie Williams, it was quite exciting... Kind of a challenge...

Is there ever going to be an album of Aeroplane originals?
We're putting the final touch to it, It's gonna be released in 2010.

What's your ultimate goal for Aeroplane?
Reach the sky

What do you remember about your night at Sneaky Sundays?
25 crazy people around us behind the djbooth and 200 crazy people in front of us. And Dan jumping on the bar.

Lastly, how is You Only Live Once going to change your life?
Well, now that we know Dan is VERY dangerous...

The You Only Live Once Perfect 11

1. What’s your current state of mind?
Stephen : In Love.
Vito: Peaceful

2. Who is your perfect woman (or man)?
Stephen : Mine.
Vito: My Fiancée

3. How would someone else describe your ‘look’?
Stephen: Sweet.
Vito: Bad

4. Ultimate party moment to date?
Stephen: Without hesitation last time at Sneaky Sundays in Sydney.
Vito: Erol Alkan playing the New Late Of The Pier to finish his dj set in Manchester yesterday.

5. The most amazing place you have been?
Stephen : In the Coral sea.
Vito : Radisson SAS Hotel at Manchester Airport.

6. Favourite new song of the moment?
Stephen : Washed Out "Belong".
Vito: New Late of The Pier single.

7. Favourite old song of the moment?
Stephen : Agnetha Faltskog : "Wrap Your Hands Around Me".
Vito: Toto "Rosanna"

8. What would be your last ever meal? (you’re not on death row)
Stephen : Papardelle al Ragu with Parmesan cheese.
Vito: Belgium fries.

9. Best ever high?
Stephen : Walked on the moon.
Vito : drinking a Coca Cola with ice and lemon

10. What is your motto?
Ready to die on my feet, rather than believing on my knees (James Brown)

11. Finish this sentence: Because I only live once I'm planning on....
Moving to New York