De La Soul - Brisbane 3 May, The Tivoli

Rather belated review but none the less. I was kind of glad this show moved from the Big Top, West End(still yet to be completed) to The Tivoli, Which is by far one of Brisbane best venues in my opinion with good sound, locality, and bar setups(to bad about wallet raping prices for drinks)

The show was a sellout so we got in early and posted left of stage. Night kicked off with locals Tom Thumb and Sampology showcasing their beatsmith skills on the mpc's chopping up a routine of stabs and loops while blending it with some nicely chosen wax along with Tom beat boxing & dropping a 16 here and there. Was pretty damn entertaining & got the crowd drawn closer to the front for the next act international DJ Cut Chemist.

This dude was on some shit I've never seen before. Having a live video editor on stage through out his set, Cut Chemist would handy cam record live audio/visual of the crowd with some simple call response type shit, jump back up on stage, get his right hand man to load it to his setup then manipulate the visual which was played through a projector and displayed on drop screen and cut up the audio...make sense??It was a fuck bang of the sensory I tell you!

Then...I got real pissed! So the next part is rather blurry. I've never been a huge De La fan so I wasn't sure what to expect. Firstly the backing band took the stage consisting of horns, percussion, bass, drums and keys adding a nice thickend sound to all the joints for the set.
All I can really remember is Pos rocking out in a windcheater looking like a damn fool, some tracks from 3 feet high "eye know" "Me Myself and I ", dres from Black Sheep taking to the stage for some guest spot shit, and then finishing with the crowd in their palm going out on "Ring Ring Ring"

Fuck I was impressed!! 20 years In the biz these 3 would want to know how to get the party cracking and they nailed it 100%

The Review :
Punch On's 2/10 (I seen one guy when I left with his head all split nursing it with some ice)
Ladies 8/10 (Damn!! they were dolled up to the 9's)
Piss Price 2/10 (10 clams for a B&C. Highway fucking robbery!!)
Sound 8/10
Live Acts 9/10 (would have been 10's if it wasn't for long lost Australian Idol Joel Turner blubbering sounds into his hands with his seppo accent sidekick trying to rap over him for 10 minutes)

Flicks from a shitty 3mp camera.