I saw Tech, Kaliko and Stevie this past Thursday for a third time in the span of 10 years and still he managed to blow everyone away with his energy and overall performance on stage. Being Stevie's first time in Aus. I gotta say he tore the house down with his set which wasn't far behind Tech's at all. Kaliko did his thing and compared to the show before where I thought his song choice lacked, was a lot better this time around with his vocal range holding up impressively well.
Also, got to briefly chop it up with Tech and touch base since I last saw dude which was all the way back in '09 yet he still managed to remember my face and acknowledge me like I was family which was a true sentiment to how real and down to earth he remains regardless of his current stature and to my surprise even told the venue person to kick back with the time constraints as she was trying to rush me away in order to bring other people through which I was greatly humbled by; signed the last of what was remaining in my collection which happened to be my 12" Cloudy-Eyed Stroll/Mitch Bade VLS which was still sealed up to the point of him reluctantly unwrapping and briefly being mind blown of having within my possession lol, walked over and held it up to the other Strange personnel before parading it over to his woman as she took a quick flick on his phone for him and finally asked me if I really wanted him to sign it as he said quote "I don't want to fuck this up, I don't even have this shit dude" which again, without sounding like a stan I thought was pretty cool of him to give that much of a fuck about given what was on his plate at the time before I wrapped it up and got my move on.
So all in all, coming from a hip-hop head that's been to numerous shows, this again would have to be one of the dopest I've been to in terms of venue, sound, energy and overall atmosphere. Everything, minus the shitty support acts, ran like clockwork.
Finally, he told me to give Jed and everyone else since he last graced these parts his regards and seemed surprised that it was still somewhat frequented by us.
Ps. Shoutout to
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@ECF'NW
doing his thing as head promoter and keeping me in the loop with details for both shows.