Sunday, August 15, 2010

RAROTONGA: I went to Rehab in...

Yes, yes, not what you think people! We played at the Rehab Nite Club in Avarua, Rarotonga on Wednesday night.  On the day of the gig we went up to the radio station 88FM and ran a competition for a double pass, a collection of all my video clips and my Dominant Species Album with four remixes from Tiki, Katalyst, Forty One and The Nextmen. 
Instead of your usual question about a song or an album, the challenge was put out to the people for the first person who could get to the station with some pe'epe'e (freshly made coconut cream), pisupo (corn beef), rukau (taro leaves) and taro. Two people made it up to the station - it came in handy after the Afterhours at Scotty's.  Thank you so much for the food, it was a mean feed!
Big ups also to Scotty at Rehab and all the people who sold tickets and braved a windy rainy night to make it to the club, we appreciate the support immensely and look forward to coming back soon!

Also to the Pacific Resort - man I would come back to Rarotonga just to have the 'island fries' on the menu ya'll - you got me addicted to them! I cannot say enough about the quality of the food here - that Pacific Burger and Smoked Marlin with Paw Paw... didn't have much luck keeping the kilos' off on this trip either!  - big ups to Greg, Marcus and the staff at Pacific Resort - Fa'afetai Lava - we will be back!

Whaddup to Tini and the crew at The Roadhouse - thank you for making us feel like we are home when we rock into your place - the Roadhouse have a mean $5 burger meal plus there is a gallery in the space that you should definitely check out supporting some of the local artists including one of the brothers Papa Ataera. The brother works in pastels depicting the history of our people and challenging your understanding of Cook Islands culture and people. We are also proud to have the brother on-board the travelling Hip-Hop Lives Here exhibition. We love Rarotonga ya'll! Peace.

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