Illy "The Chase" Tour.

Melbourne rapper ILLY began his "The Chase" tour last month, and the portion of the tour is now heading along the East Coast. Starting on Thursday in Byron Bay, Friday in Brisbane, then back down to Coolangatta on the Gold Coast. The Byron show is free entry at the Beach Hotel, The Brisbane show sold, but tickets are still being sold for the Cooly show. Head here to buy tickets. Show is supported M-Phazes.

http://www.illyal.com
http://www.myspace.com/illyal
http://www.facebook.com/illyal

http://www.mphazes.com
http://www.myspace.com/mphazes
http://www.facebook.com/mphazes

Byron

Dull life inspires innovation. Today I decided to pay a visit to one of the best spots on the east coast. Byron Bay. Armed with a camera with a wide angle lens (although looks like a deep fisheye) and with some weird editing, here is the result. Love the area.


Cape Byron







Cape Byron Lighthouse







Lawson Street

Afends. Peril In Paradise.

Shopping district.


Cool graffiti.

Lone dog.

Aquarius Cafe.

Circle.

Clarke's Beach

Lone Surfboard


Trek Home.


Tunnel Vision.

Afends Eyewear

Byron boys are about to release the high summer range this weekend online and in their concept stores, but yesterday they released their eyewear to the online world. Would of blogged about it yesterday, but felt I was over blogging. Head to Afends.com for more.





Check out their latest story clip they released earlier in the week also. aww sheeet.

Anthony Prince - Bank Robbing For Beginners

I remember the story of in Vail, Colorado back in 2005, when two Australian dudes robbed a bank of $A170,000 dollars ($US130,000), yet didn't do a steady job to cover their tracks. They were branded the "Dumb & Dumber" bank robbers, and certainly didn't give Australia a positive image to the Yanks, yet again their image can't be so marvelous. Well 5 years on, both Luke Carroll and Anthony Prince (yes not Dumb & Dumber they have legit names), have served their time in US prisons and returned home to Australia, yet neither of them decided to speak about the incident, until now.

Anthony Prince was 20 at the time of the incident, and now has decided to release a book about the ordeal humorously titled "Bank Robbing For Beginners: A Story of Criminal Stupidity & Its Very Serious Consequences".

Here's an extract from his official website anthonyprince.com.au

"Born in Auckland, June 1985, and raised in the Byron Bay hinterlands my upbringing was carefree and lacking of nothing. A tight family unit and catholic school guidance nurtured my youth until, when I was 19; I travelled to the states on a snowboarding holiday.

This period proved to be a life changing time, my behaviour deteriorated into reckless acts of crime and decisions that would haunt me for a lifetime. I was straying far from the boy I'd been raised as.

After serving four years in American jails and prisons for armed bank robbery with a toy BB gun I begun to change the path I had subconsciously taken through study, exercise and self-analysis; always assisted through the love and support of many mates, family and unknown friends.

This unique experience has brought much benefit to my life through the growth and knowledge experienced and new perspectives on life gained. From the telling of my story I’ve seen people laugh, cry and listen in disbelief as the twists and turns of my journey unfold. I have been criticised by many for my decisions but praised by more for the good they have realised from hearing this story.

This greater utility makes telling it more worth while.

I hope you enjoy and thanks for your interest!"

Check out the Australian Story with an interview with Anthony Prince at the link here and look at this other clip below. There's a Today show clip buzzing round which I can't find though. Fail.

http://www.anthonyprince.com.au

Buy the book online at: http://www.panmacmillan.com.au

Afends Shades

Afends are dropping their sunglasses range November 15th, got some sweet looking shades coming. Scope their site and fagbook for more insight.


http://www.afends.com
http://www.facebook.com/afends

AFENDS High Summer Preview

Check out the high summer catalogue from AFENDS, set to drop November! Links below.



Click here for the AFENDS HIGH SUMMER CATALOGUE

Afends "Time Flys" Summer Range 2010.

Byron Bay boys AFENDS has just made available the first batch of their summer range at their online store at midnight last night.
Plenty of interesting creations floating around, have a geeze.

Check out their summer collection in online lookbook format here: SUMMER RANGE

http://www.afends.com

History Of Pete Versus Toby

Byron Bay revellers Pete Versus Toby turned to the Bondi/Sydney markets to bring awareness of their brand to the Australia world. Four years on since they started, they have developed a independent following, and have set up two stores down in Sydney, the first one is called "PALESTINE" which is down in Bondi, their latest shop is called "ZION" is down in Darlinghurst.


Photo rights go to Pete Versus Toby.

The PVT lads..

Recently they have created a section on their website/blog entitled "HISTORY OF PETE VERSUS TOBY", which features every design the company has done on t-shirts/singlets etc. Also giving in depth detail on the background of the design and where the inspiration grew from. Here are a few of some of my favourites below, but be sure to check out the whole lot, either on their site or for you facebook fanatics, they got an album up there as well.

Blurb Rights go to Pete Versus Toby.

"12. Non Smokers Die Everyday

Marco Zirov illustration
Dedicated to the late great Bill Hicks. Some people spend six hours a day at a gym, and constantly cling to a water bottle. Some people sit with their friends and talk and have a cigarette. Some people deal with the fact that we are all going to die one day. Some people desperately try to avoid the inevitable. Moral of the haiku, do what you wanna do..."

39. Smooth Criminal

Paschal Grenquist collage
For some strange reason MJ's people never heckled us about this print, I guess they had enough court problems of their own... At the markets people would come up to us and say, "are you guys trying to glamorize child sexual abuse?" we replied "no, we just think that any of his song titles would be funny next to a picture of him and children, pretty young thing, the girl is mine, dont stop till you get enough etc... it just works... hahahaha"

"89. FREE* Madonna
We are all so desensitized, nobody even thinks about the fucked up world we are living in, everyone uses sex as a sales tool. We are highlighting this fact
We were on a current affair for this, wow Australia is starving for some entertainment, don’t worry we have only just started shorty…"

"106. Enlightenment
taken in Venice Beach California. You are already enlightened, the sun is setting, just chill out, slow down, there is nowhere to go. Everything is gonna be ok…"

LINKS:

http://www.peteversustoby.com

History Of Pete Versus Toby

History Of Pete Versus Toby on FACEBOOK

afends sydney store partay!

If you're in Sydney tomorrow night, get down to White Revolver in Bondi, Byron Bay based clothing company Afends is having a party to celebrate the opening of its sydney concept store "Syd Vicious". Definitely a party not to be missed. They've just released a preview of their summer range due to drop in august. Sweet!



http://www.afends.com

Parkway Drive New Album - Deep Blue

The boys from Parkway Drive have released the first glimpse of their new heavy upcoming album "Deep Blue", with the first single "Sleepwalkers" available to listen on their MySpace page. The band has also posted new album trailer and behind the scenes videos of the recording process. Album is out June 25th in Australia, June 28th in the UK and June 29th in the USA. Hardcore fans get ready for this explosive new album.











Heres also a promo video about the Europe Never Say Die Tour they've released from their Youtube Account.




And heres a clip of lead singer Winston McCall and guitarist Luke 'Pig' Kilpatrick doing some tow in surfing and bodyboarding. The audio track has been disabled, thank you WMG you bunch of cunts.



Pre-order the album now at:
http://www.parkwaydriverock.com