Interview with The Potbelleez....

You've heard the music, you've seen them perform now time for the inside scope.

Following their recent break The Potbelleez are back in the game and 2013 really has gotten off with a bang for these boys! They've just signed a record deal with Ministry Of Sound, released the new hit single "Saved in a bottle" and fresh of the press a Australia Wide Tour

I recently was lucky enough to have the chance to catch up with Lead Vocalist Ilan Kidron and discussed what 2013 has in store of him and The Potbelleez. Check out the press release below regarding their up and coming "Saved in a Bottle" Tour and also the



I was talking to Ilan whist he was in the studio and you could hear his enthusiasm for 2013. He mentioned firstly their Record deal with Ministry of sound. We quickly turned the discussion to "Saved by a bottle" and I asked him what what the inspiration was for the video "We all played ball rush as kids and wouldn't it be great to bottle great memories up and I think that music creates memories or reminds you of the past, I guess what I am trying to say is music creates memory's and that truly is the reason behind the video and the song" Saved in a Bottle is out on February 15th and is when you can get your hands on the "Saved in a Bottle" tickets below! If you haven't seen the new video check it out BELOW!



2013 could see a number of writting collaborations from lead vocalist Iland Kidron he was recently in the studio with Tina Arena and is due to write with Ricki-Lee and Stan Walker "I just really enjoy writing music its a passion, its inspiring to work with different people and build me up as a writer" Previously in the past it has been said that they would no longer do Albums and doing EP's "I love albums and the signing of MOS will enable us to bring you some exciting new music that will shock everyone"

They showed their love for WA whilst discussing their upcoming tour "There is something in the water and WA treats us well and we treat WA well, we will be playing our new EP when we are on tour its pretty much all finished up now and doing a lot of great bootlegs and the boys have been planning something incredible" They are due to hit the stage at the Melbourne Grand Prix everyone is going to be pumping at the Grand Prix anyway so imagine when these guys hit the stage they will give the people the part of the buzz they are missing.

I decided to take the interview more toward the boys and wanted to discuss who "maybe" the women in the women in the relationship "Johnny's the single one, he is a bit more off his leash but Dave and I both have families" he explained the regular contact and how his wife, Samantha Rebillet, is a film maker so she is also very busy so it's hard when they go on tour but they still go and have a good time. "We all have a laugh and take the piss a bit and not take things to seriously, its different when we are in the studio obviously but its so different when we are on tour"

I asked Ilan due to their tours and partying what was the funniest thing that one of that done, he was on the edge of explaining something but I sensed hesitation and bailed "it all involve's copious amounts of alcohol and not much memory, going to Ireland with the other's being from Ireland we will always take it to the next level when we go there"

My final question to him was "if you were stuck on an island what would be the two things you would have with you and why" his answer show's his loyalty to his family especially his son and his wife "I would have my son, but can I say I would have my family as I don't wana discount my wife and copious amounts to eat and drink" he then decided to rethink the question "If I was stuck on an island I want my family and bloody good tunes" you know being the party type and all!!

See the dates below for details on where you can get your tickets on February 15th.... Maybe the show will give you a memory to save in a bottle and if you cant wait until then watch them at Marquee @ The Star in Sydney this Friday! Click Here for details!

MEDIA RELEASE                                                                                                            TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2013

ANNOUNCE ‘SAVED IN A BOTTLE’ NATIONAL TOUR

New Single Saved In A Bottle available Friday February 15

The Potbelleez are back!

To coincide with the release of their brand new single Saved In A Bottle which is available this Friday Feb 15, The Potbelleez have announced a run of tour dates that will see them hit all major metro markets as well as a number of regional dates around Australia from March 16 through to May 4 2013.

The band who are renowned for their high energy, engaging live shows, will be premiering some of the new material written during their recent stint in Paris, London and Norway as well as delivering many of their standout crowd favourites including; Hello, From The Music, Are You With Me and of course, Don’t Hold Back.

Saved In A Bottle sees the band at their anthemic best, with radio already embracing the track and the video receiving over 100,000 views on You Tube in 3 days – making it the most popular Potbelleez clip to date!

Finding inspiration and studio time overseas has seen the band explore a bigger international sound for 2013, whilst still remaining true to their roots and delivering another signature Potbelleez anthem.

It is this signature sound and the ability to deliver an incredible live show that has made them one of the most in demand touring bands in Australia today.

Make sure you check out the live shows at the following locations:

SAVED IN A BOTLLE TOUR DATES:

Saturday, 16 March                          KING STREET HOTEL                                                             NEWCASTLE, NSW

                                                                Tickets: Available on the door only

http://www.kingstreethotel.com.au/

Sunday, 17 March                             Melbourne Grand Prix                                                     MELBOURNE, VIC                                                                                                Tickets: www.foxtix.com.au

Wednesday, 20 March                    HARVEY ROAD HOTEL                                                        GLADSTONE, QLD

                                                                Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com.au                             

Thursday, 21 March                           MAGNUMS                                                                           AIRLIE BEACH, QLD

                                                                Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com.au                                                             

Friday, 22 March                                MOVIDAS @ MACKAY GRAND SUITES                            MACKAY, QLD    

                                                                Tickets: http://www.facebook.com/movidas.club

Saturday, 23 March                          THE HERITAGE HOTEL                                                          ROCKHAMPTON, QLD                                                                                        Tickets: available over the bar &

                                                                via http://www.dashtickets.com.au/

               

Friday, 5 April                                      HARD ROCK ROCKS THE BEACH                                      SURFERS PARADISE, QLD

                                                                Tickets: Free Admission

Saturday, 6 April                                 VILLA NOOSA HOTEL                                                          NOOSA, QLD                                                                                                        Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com.au             

Friday 12 April                                    HQ COMPLEX                                                                      ADELAIDE, SA

                                                                Tickets: www.oztix.com.au

Friday, 19 April                                   THE ROXY                                                                              PARRAMATTA, NSW

                                                                Tickets: www.oztix.com.au

Friday, 26 April                                   CAPITOL                                                                                PERTH, WA           

Tickets: www.oztix.com.au

Saturday, 27 April                              HP UNDERGROUND                                                            DARWIN, NT

                                                                Tickets: THE TAP BAR – Mitchell st, Darwin 89815521

CASUARINA SPORTS CLUB – 89206900

PALMERSTON SPORTS CLUB – 89390600

http://www.facebook.com/HPUnderground

Friday, 3 May                                      WAVES                                                                                   WOLLONGONG, NSW       

                                                                Tickets: www.moshtix.com.au

Saturday, 4 May                                 PACHA SYDNEY                                                                  SYDNEY, NSW

                                                                Tickets: www.pachasydney.com

                                                                                                                                                               

Website: www.thepotbelleez.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Potbelleez/6891619274

Twitter: www.twitter.com/thepotbelleez

www.ministryofsound.com.au

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Single Review - Ruby Rose & Gary Go - Guilty Pleasure

You all know my love for music - especially music which I can shake my booTAY to...

Now I am a fan of Ruby's music she is always so energetic! I saw her on tour with Jessie J, Nicki Minaj and I also saw her at Future Music Festival in Sydney 2012. For a small girl she is packed with oomf! Not only is her stage presence fun I think her music also represents her fun too! Guilty Pleasure is available NOW on iTunes and admittedly I am a little slow here but I am in WA so please forgive me ;)

This song is one of those songs you could be out in a bar, sitting on a seat chatting away to your friends and then you hear the intro - immediately your eyes open wide and you grab your friends arm and they be like "what"... you are simply waiting for the bit that makes you go from "I think its Guilty Pleasure" to "It IS Guilty Pleasure, omg I love this song" and off you go with your friend on the dance floor and singing the words as loud as possible - hey right now you could be partying on your own and still feel like your having the best time ever. The beat is fun and the mixture of male and female vocals I think add's to this record and then the beat drops and the melody kicks in... your hand's are up in the air, you're biting your bottom lip, your eyes closed and your head is back... the vocals and beat then drop back in and your in ecstasy and you cant stop dancing!

The ending is not how I thought it would be - however at the end of the song you wont have the awkward moment where the next song starts and you need to walk away - you can just glide to the bar ready for the next drink and a cool down after dancing what your mumma gave ya!!

Guilty Pleasure .... Whats yours??

Check out Ruby and her realness on twitter HERE
Download the song on iTunes HERE

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Swan-k Taxis.... I hate them!

WOOOOO it's saturday night... me and a girl friend hit the town excited, had a ball and a few drinks! Exactly what I needed after the January I had :)....

Imagine then getting a taxi and then being asked to leave the taxi ON THE HARD SHOULDER..... ON A FREAKING FREEWAY!... I just complained and they asked me to e-mail... Take a read lol... I will update this post as the so called "investigation" unfolds....

Hi Rohani,

Thanks for your time earlier today.

As discuss on Sunday 3^rd February at approx. 3:30/4am (time is abit vaugue) Myself and my friend got in the taxi on the Bridge over the train station in the middle of NorthBridge and Perth CBD.

The minute myself and a lady friend of mine got into the taxi we sensed that he didn’t want to take us to Fremantle – but he told me it would be $50 off the metre – so naturally being so late and after a few drinks I just paid him. He had an issue with my friend holding a half-eaten kebab which she wrapped up – again he got rude about this. We went onto the freeway and my friend (who had a few drinks) lost her balance and a little of the kebab fell out – when I say little I mean hardly anything. It fell on this guys leather seats so thankfully it wasn’t fabric so my friend picked it all up put in back into the kebab and then proceeded to use her dress to wipe the seat. He went mad at this and on the bridge on the freeway heading south he decided to stop in the hard shoulder and try and kick us out there – I told him I would give him an extra $25 to clean it up – he wasn’t having none of it. He drove to the next exit and pulled into a BP garage – Im pretty sure it was Mill Point Road. He then was kicking us out!

I didn't realise this but he had the metre running – he told me he was going to deduct the $19 or so dollars off the $50 I gave him. Admittedly I got rude and threw in a few swear words at him but wouldn’t you at 4am when you want to get home and he is reacting so irrationality?? I told him no way! I gave him $50 off the meter to take me home, he failed to do so, so I wanted all the money back if he wasn't going to carry on the journey after a few moments of me and him having a verbal disagreement him getting rude to my friend in the back I managed to take photos of his ID stuff and then I told him to go F**K himself and then got out the taxi – leaving us in the BP garage where hardly ANY taxi’s go passed and waiting nearly an hour for another one.

His TAXI ID is 8536

His TAXI License number is 41317 (I do have pictures of both of these but can’t seem to attach them

My thoughts on the above

• ·         I feel his manor and behaviour was disgusting – there are hardly ANY taxi’s as it as at that time of the morning and we don’t expect that behaviour from someone who is apparently providing a “service”
• ·         Stopping on a hard shoulder of a freeway is dangerous and offensive we are not animals.
• ·         Dropping us off is ok – but to then tell me you are going to deduct you “on meter” fair for what was and “unmetered journey” is ridiculous… had I not have paid him upfront I would have simply got out the taxi and not handed him any money, of which I am sure you would do the same?
• ·         To think he did this to anybody is mad! Imagine how my lady friend might have felt, scared intimiated?? Yes all of the above she wasn't to know what was going to happen!

I hope you take this matter seriously I wouldn't expect a friend/family member or anybody to talk to a dog the way he spoke to us and I hope he doesn't do it to anybody else….

Kind Regards,

Tony Kimber

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MOAGG is 2 years old today !!!

Today marks my blog being 2 years old - wow what a journey!

My readers have experienced, with me, my ups, downs, highs and lows of my life down under. You Watched me settle into my life in Sydney and then start it all again in Perth. You where there when I needed people most with you inspirational emails, comments and tweets. See my readers are not just "readers" your in fact an extended virtual arm of my friendship circle, the kind of people I would want to be around in my real life.

I have had inspiration on this blog including the beautiful Miss World Australia and Project Runway contestant Jack Mackenroth talk about his journey with HIV. I have been lucky enough to be invited to some of Sydney's incredible events like "March into Merivale" and also some awesome Competitions/Giveaways including diet plans, CD's and event tickets !!

I hope year 3 (2013) brings me as much fun, laughter and new followers just like my current ones who I can tweet with, talk to and have fun with.... I know I haven't been on as often towards the end of 2012 but this year is the year of me, my mind and soul and this is a place I can relax and do what I want :)

Again thank you for all your support, advice and laughter :)

Don't forget to tweet me HERE

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yeah so where do I start?

*coff coff*

Yeah, so, ermmmm where do I start?

Firstly sorry its been a while since my last post - I have been nothing but busy what with a 3 week break out of Australia, Christmas, New Year and January has been a SHOCKER of a month!

I have still got emails and noticed people still looking at my old material and this year is a magic year as my blog will be 2 years old. I have moved to Perth and been trying to get my blog out here and working toward obtaining the same momentum I did in Sydney, which lets be honest isn't that easy! along with being way to busy with work but 2013 is my year ob Mind, Body & Soul. So this year is all about me (well when isn't it lol)

2012 saw me somehow have the "want" to go to the gym so I have now long over 20kg - wooooooop - and I am now just under 90kg I am 6" 4 so I hold it quite well ;) so now this year its time to bulk on (he says sat here eating a kingsize kit kat) I have noticed a difference in definition a little so just taking pictures weekly to make sure I notice it and spur me on - you can see them at a website called bodylog - its basically an online before and after site to track your progress but allows you to follow others and give them "kudos" for changes/pictures and its good inspiration too :) check out mine HERE

Unfortunately I lost a close friend of mine just over a week ago and her funeral is 22nd January and I couldn't be there, I will write something and post it tomorrow as my way of saying goodbye and my last final words to her :) she was a great friend and I have nothing but fond memories of her - she was just 28 with a 1 year old daughter... She was apart of our Power Rangers gang along with Harry and one of my sisters - long story but it was awesome fun :D I love her and miss her so R.I.P Hayley Marie :) xxxx

2013 is going to be a big year for myself and my partner with lots going on although I am HEAPS excited to be going back to the UK for a trip in December to see all my friends and family!

Over and out for now but I wanted to check in and just keep you updated and let you know I am back and ready to carry on posting again :D

Much Love xoxox

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15 things I will do to get my own TV show....

Good Morning, Evening, Afternoon or Goodnight depending on where you are in the world right now!

I am a fan of have guest bloggers on my site and also contributing on others - and this time I potentially could be contributing on the website www.gaydar.com.au which is a dating site for gay men and the website I met my partner of nearly 6 years :) also www.gaydargirls.com for you lesbianos!

They have asked me along with some others to write a posts on "15 things I will do to get my own TV show" which I think is very fitting as this would be something I would LOVE to do as per my twitter bio (on top of being a social media whore too)

Let's face it, getting on TV has become very difficult, you need attitude, charisma, charm and intelligence I mean look at those Big Brother lot, so much intelligence I bet NASA are shaking in their boots! No seriously though, getting on TV is a very competitive market and her is 15 things I would do to get my own TV show...

Create a sex tape 

Oh no wait lets be more creative here Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton and Pamela Anderson have done this so its needs to be something a little more sophisticated... but in saying that there is no gay sex tape??? hmmmmm.. haha lets be more serious here...

Live in a "slum" for a month

I would live in a "slum" in India or Brazil for a Month for a reality TV project - let's face it we ALL take water, baths and even having 4 walls for granted and we see documentaries of the slums but people never living in them? We could always have a hotel on standby for the night times just like Bear Gryllls does?

Travel the World

For free.... yes for free! How good a TV show would that make!! I am pretty sure I could get around the world by blagging my way around it!! stick a TV Camera is someone’s face and - BING free flight or hotel room haha I can see me now running around every hotel in Perth trying to stay the night because I can’t get a flight anywhere...

Swap lives

Now THIS would be a great experiment - swapping life's with someone else, living their life with their family, friends, job, car, house and lifestyle! Can you imagine the possibilities swapping with a multi-millionaire spending the day on his $50million boat OR a farmer and shovelling horse s*** out the paddocks lol... I would sqeel like a big girl if I had to do that!!! YAK!

Go undercover

a TV show where you are secretly being filmed - I know the likes of "Ali G" and "Jackass" have been done but this sure as damn it would be heaps of fun to do although I can’t imagine getting smacked in the face would make good TV as this is probably what would happen to me! Or join an "anti-gay" group to get an insight into why they are the way they are!

Become famous

A tv show following me on my journey to success, stardom, fame and money! Move over Perez Hilton because Daddy is coming to get ya! - ok maybe not to that extreme but that could be funny? hmmmm maybe not... moving on

Video Bomb

So you've heard of Photo Bombing - you jump into random photos - well Video Bombing a live TV show!! YES! now THAT is one way to guarantee you get on TV. Imagine it sitting in the audience and during the live show taping you just go and sit my skinny white arse in between the girls on "The Circle" and start chatting and then watching me getting THROWN off haha

Invest!!

I would get as many loans, Credit Cards and money as I could and spend it all creating a fake outlandish lifestyle in order to get rich friends and get in with the rich and famous!! That way I may end up if $150,000 worth of debt but it will pay dividends when I become famous for doing nothing and in turn getting my own TV show!!

Live in LA

Fly to LA and call myself a "dancer" "singer" or "actor" because everybody in LA is one of these even if they work in a coffee shop - that way I will get a leading role or release a solo song with a catchy tune, a stupid dance routine and sing about how drinking coffee makes me feel good!!!

Adjust

Adjusting and not yourself tends to get you pretty much anywhere in life especially if your good at adapting to the environment or people you are around and that comes with my job! You have to speak with people in their way in order to let them let us in to their little bubble - oh my! This became quite a serious one hmmm I kinda like it!

Live!

Although I am 23 I don't "live" to the extend I probably should - I have to many fears, I think way to deeply into things and I don't "live" For example - I won’t go into the sea in case I get eaten by a shark or I won’t do a parachute jump in case the the second chute fails because the first one already has! I have a huge number of fears and maybe trying to kirb these mofo's would help me get my own TV show? TO HELL WITH IT! Maybe my TV show can be about this!? booyyeeahhh * rings channel 10 *

Use people

By saying "use people" I don't mean literally use them but I mean surrounding myself with the right people, in the right industry who can help me achieve this.... the TV biz is no "audition" industry not solely an audition industry - its more of a who you know kind of industry, so if I really wanted my own TV show that bad I would be flirting with the right people and standing on-top of the wrong ones this may sound nasty but reality is this and unfortunately people will sleep with people to get somewhere... not all the time but a lot of the time!

Be "socially" accepted

By this I mean be a social media WHORE who loves Facebook, twitter and all those kind of sites... I don't love these sites I NEED these sites... I sometimes think I should go to REHAB for this I honestly can't keep away from it! I think also the more followers/likes on Facebook the more out there you become! I have over 1000 likes on FB and over 13,000 on twitter! I am actually the 31st most followed person in Perth ;) but again let’s face it there is only 35 people living in Perth lol

Take over the WORLD!

haha this WILL get me my own TV show... Watch out Osama... oh no wait - he is dead isn’t he?

I. WOULD. BE. ME!

I would do a heap of things to get my own TV show - I love to chat, socialise and be funny! I make people laugh, smile and feel good - don't mean to blow my own trumpet an all but this is what I’m told. I would do Big Brother, I would live in a slum and yes I would even contemplate tackling my fears head on - but the one thing I would do with pride, honour and with my dignity in tact - is be myself 100% I wouldn't be fake in anyway shape or form... 

Now I have wrote this and as much as I would like to be a www.gaydar.com.au contributor its made me think that I could create my own little "YouTube" TV show and tackle my fears haha... lets see how today goes firs!!

Much love xoxo

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