Terra Nine & Twisted Party People



Listen to an interview with Terra Nine [2.4 MB]

Well Friday turned into a top night, which starting with an unsual incident. As Chelfyn and I were striding along K'Rd on the way to our radio show, a woman came running up to us waving a card. She has a fashion shoot coming up and wants a tall, purple headed loon with a pink mohawk (me) to model. It's a hell of a boost to your ego when you're over 30, to have someone spot you in the street for a modelling gig.

Our radio show was a heap of fun and I interviewed a cool guy called Michael Westcot, AKA Terra Nine. He used to run a successful eco-company in Sydney, but sold up to move to Dunedin three months ago, and work full time on his music. He started Terra Nine in 1997, making and playing live ambient psy-trance with world music influences. His live show incorporates electric violin and viola. Being a fiddler myself (I'm classically trained), I was drooling at the thought of all the cool effects you can add to an electric violin. (Which is currently at the top of my wishlist if anyone from Yamaha is reading this!) You can find out more about Terra Nine and his music at www.assemblage.com.au

The Twisted party was a heap of fun at Bacios. I was door whore for part of the night, and was touched to see all the people who turned up and gave their money to support us. Thank you all! It was a quiet night for Auckland and the flyer crews who were out and about, said the Twisted Party was the busiest place all night. We all had a heap of fun, raised some money to help keep Twisted radio on air and ad free, and I met some fantastic people. Hopefully we'll be having another one soon and get even more of the Twisted Generation partying together. We're also looking for show sponsors so get in touch if you want to be involved in the Twisted Media project.

Other members of the collective are busy with cool projects. Kiwi rock band State of It are about to bring out a single, and Mohawk Media are helping with the video. Our best mate Clayton (Waterboy) is the drummer in the band. He 'beats the snot' out of those drums, has been known to break unbreakable sticks with one bash, and has melted the linkeage on his double kick drum pedal. If you want to see them in action and maybe be in their video, State of It are playing a gig at Papa Jacks in Auckland this Thursday.