Water Your Lawn

I'd like to tell you a story of how inspired I was from this past weekend.


Hosting a show on your own can be very nerve wracking, tiring and stressful. Most people don't even think about the amount of work that is put into a party, even on a small scale.

Nevermind the promotions, the Facebook blasts, the invites, the booking of talent/staff, and ALL the things that happen before the show.

I arrived well before the show started, and luckily I had my friend Colin Hargreaves (wicked DJ btw!) to help me lug all the gear, consisting of:

2x sub woofer, 2x top speakers, 2x monitor speakers, lights, and an endless amount of cables. This doesn't even count the DJ gear!

Once everything was in place, it all had to be hooked up. I had only experienced setting up two speakers and one sub max, along with my DJ gear for a show, up until now.

Boy does it get way more complicated, if you add even one more piece of sound gear. One seemingly insignificant electrical error could completely sabotage the whole sound. You could get NO sound even, just from plugging one cable to the wrong input/output/left/right/etc etc.

Long story short, it was finally all ready to go. To be completely honest, it wasn't the best night for people to be going out and partying. Why? It was the first sunny weekend of the summer so everyone was at the beach, it was UFC night that night, so many big shows the night before, and the venue isn't quite located centrally downtown.

This is when the worry started to set in. What if I lose money? What if nobody shows up?

By the end of the night, as I was hauling all the gear back into storage (which took over an hour in itself after the party was done) I realized something.

All this hard work, stress, planning and execution....pays off.

I witnessed my real friends and fans gather to an unlikely place, at an unlikely time to support someone that they truly believed in. And they danced their asses off.

These people didn't need to be reminded twice about the show, they paid the cover, decided they were attending a long time ago, and all this without concern of if the party was gonna be "good." In the end, they all had a good time.

I believe that everyone involved, the DJs and the dancers, were there for the right reasons. This was not a glamorous VIP club party, this was quite the opposite. Results will never be the same, and I'm actually quite happy that they're not.

Because I do this for the music, and the people gather for the music. The night proved sustainable and this Unified Underground Movement, keeps on moving.

Thank you everyone for participating in the show, and everyone who is reading this article. Hopefully this gives you a reason to support your artist friends, because they need to eat too!



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