What a weekend!

Its been one for the blog!

This last weekend was full of all the usual fun at Tokyo Star. Friday night saw Andrew the DJ and Tomkat making us proud on the decks, while Saturday night left us all swinging from the trees!

However, nothing could beat Sunday when the Tokyo crew headed off to Emperors Palace to watch the finals of the RBF competition.

This Battle of the Bands competition saw our last week band-of-the-week finish FIRST! We’ve never been prouder of our friends in the green, Greenhouseffect! Beating out a hundred or so other bands for the top position, they’ve won a music video, a day of recording in the RBF studios, and a Jagermeister sponsorship deal! We would just like to remind the boys of the importance of sharing!

It wouldn’t be right to mention last week’s band-of-the-week without mentioning this week’s. And there is very good reason to! We have their replies to our little questionnaire we sent them…check it out:

Cutout Collective Questionaire:
Quickfire Boiling Pot
fave toothpaste:
The toothpaste in the bathroom at that random house you’re not quiet sure how you got to, belonging to the (hopefully pretty) random girl whose name you can’t quiet remember…
Or whatever toothpaste you use at the end of a four day music festival – that experience of brushing your teeth is normally bordering on biblical…
fave cartoon character:
Tim -judy jetson. can anyone say MILF?
Jason – Jacob Zuma
fave international act:
Tim - muse.
Jason - Radiohead
fave dinosaur:
Tim - the green one, with the spikes and shit.
Jason - Barny
fave local act:
Tim -sweat x
Jason- Toss up between anything Marcus Wormstorm and Sibot touch; and Mathew van der Want and Chris Letcher
fave boardgame:
Tim: mrs green in the drawing room with a candlestick? porno.
Jason: Does twister with bisexual scandenavian models count?
fave drinking game:
Tim and Jason: "how close can you get to puking without actually puking and still maintaining a reasonable amount of decorum whilst at tokyo star" - working title, rules unfinalised.

Intense Intimidating Questionaire:
1. how did you lovely men meet?

Jason - We went to school and acted in a couple of plays together… then one evening after a couple too many drinks at a mutual friend’s party we talked about starting a rock band… it never materialized, but we stared making really strange loop-based music together, then two of our friends joined and it turned into an indie-jazz-funk thing called Wanton, which took a break at the beginning of the year so we decided to put down our guitars and try something new… the result was Cutout Collective
2. what do you love most about tokyo star?
Jason - the one time.
Tim – the bar ladies
3. what's playing in your car?
Tim -kate nash. how gay.
Jason – 5fm or UJfm cause I only have a tape player that doesn’t work and a radio, but I’ve been listening to a lot of Elvis Perkins and also Four Tet at the moment
4. what do you want to achieve with cutout collective?
Tim - a synth sound that physically can melt off your face when loud enough.
5. tell us the craziest thing that ever happened with a groupie of yours?
Tim - well, once i actually HAD one. pretty crazy in its own right. usually they steal shit that i'm wearing. as if the tight white pants arent minimal enough.
Jason – Had a girl fly from another city to see me play… pretty awesome/crazy
7. how long have you been coming to tokyo? tell us WHY?!
Tim - how long? dude, like long. like many years now. since before i was 18. but maybe that shouldn't be up there? correction: since I was 18. and legal. very legal. why? for the drum and bass extremeness of course.
Jason – ditto…
8. any upcoming gigs we should know about?
We’ve got a to be confirmed tour to Cape Town in the first week of December. The dates will be on our facebook group once they are confirmed.
9. describe your music....
it is music made from instruments that shouldn't exist, mixed with instruments that almost exist, played backwards through a traffic cone and rerecorded on the other side using photographic memory. this is then re-enacted directly onto myspace through that wonderful medium of theatre.
Or, um, alternative-electro?

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Speaking of weekends, have a look-see what happening at Tokyo this weekend:

With exams officially ending this week, there is no better way to spend this Friday the 23rd celebrating freedom than by cruising thru to Tokyo Star, loading up on some Vodka slushies and hitting the dance-floor in drunken master style until the bouncer kicks you out in the early hours.
Bringing the heat to the dancefloor will be Richard the Third, who’ll be kicking off with some sa-weet glitch-hop to get your heads nodding, and some foot-tapping electro and punk funk to get your feet moving. DJ Fokolnonsins will be coming thru after midnight to deliver a thrashing set of breaks to get your hands in the air. In case none of this makes any sense, just make sure you’re in front of the DJ booth at 9 sharp and it will all become clear.

And if thats not enough for you, check out Saturday:

Its that time of year again! Get ready for the last 90s party of 2007: we bring you 1994! Come celebrate the end of exams, in what is sure to be a break-up party of note! Expect to hear the finest in 90s tunes to keep you dancing the night away! This Saturday the 24th, at Tokyo Star, where else?!
To find out more:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7083802188