| SUMMER / FALL WRAP-UP So as usual it’s been a while since the last update. So here is another big entry covering the second half of the summer and fall. So many great things happening in the mix right now, it’s hard to keep up, so my #1 suggestion if you are an avid blog reader, is to FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER (just request to see my tweets) and BECOME A FACEBOOK FAN. Also join my VIP CLUB…you’ll get a monthly newsletter and be the first to hear about new Mix CDs. There are links to all of this at my website: www.DJStickyBoots.com. Both of these are updated daily and will give you a great view into what’s new with me. Read on here though for the highlights of the last 4 or 5 months. AMERICA’S BEST DJ TOUR AND RESULTS The first highlight of the summer was my very own tour date on the America’s Best DJ Tour which was sponsored by DJ Times Magazine and Pioneer Pro DJ. The tour crossed America over the summer and allowed fans to not only see some of America’s Best DJ’s, but vote for us too! My date was in June in Ogden Utah, just north of Salt Lake City. The event was held at The Vault, one of Utah’s premier young adult clubs, and was sponsored in part by my good friends at 97.1 ZHT radio. AJ Carson himself came out to host the show, and we had a blowout crowd. The club is housed in an old bank building from the 20’s and is authentic right down to a VIP lounge in the old Vault. Check out a few pics below. The show was also written up last month in Club World Magazine so the tour stop had great press coverage.   
The results are now back in the voting for America’s Best DJ, and I ended up once again in the Top 15 in the country thanks in large part to all you fans reading this. THANK YOU so much for your votes and support over the summer! The competition was considerably tougher this year with some big time DJ’s flexing their muscles, so to finish top 15 (#14 actually) is incredible. Props to DJ Z-Trip who won this year….amazing turntablist and actually one of the developers of the new DJ Hero video game. Impressive! SUMMER GIGS ABDJ Tour was not the only game in town this summer, as I kept busy with a ton of private events each week and a few other notable club appearances, including my annual pilgrimage to Tippy Dance Hall for their “Hollywood” night. I’m not exactly Hollywood, but it’s always fun to roll out the red carpet and see 1000 Indiana teens flock to the middle of nowhere on Lake Tippecanoe to get sweaty to my dirty beats. DJ Hef throws a great party, so if you are under 21, get up with Tippy next summer. I was also happy to once again be heavily involved with the Elkhart County 4-H Fair hosting both the Cheerleading competition and the Fair Queen Pageant. Another energetic batch of young ladies competed this summer the be the prettiest, smartest, and “cheeriest” and it was a lot of fun as always. Thanks to everyone who made it out to the fair to say hello. In August I played for the 2nd annual “On the River” Festival in Downtown South Bend which featured 1,500 Tons of sands dumped in an empty lot on the river bank complete with a tropical island bar, a huge stage, sand volleyball tournament and amazing music all afternoon and evening for an entire weekend. Thousands attended, and I was pleased to be the headlining act right before the fireworks on the last night. Great times for a great cause as the entire event benefitted the South Bend Center for the Homeless. Shortly after that festival I was part of the event production team for the “B1 Block Party” back to school concert event at the University of Notre Dame. This featured one of the largest portable stages I’ve ever seen, a light rig that rivals most outdoor concerts and 2 giant LED video screens (think Las Vegas) with a 5 camera HD video rig all focused on some killer college bands. The headliner was Jewish rapper Matisyahu, which I have to admit, is a little ironic at a Catholic University, but he killed it and 5000+ students rocked the show. I supplied the Video text-to-screen system, and we processed over 6000 texts in an hour of use at the show. Pics below.   
Finished up the summer with a great Monday night show in Cincinnati hosted by my buddy DJ Toad. “Toad Wars” featured myself, Toad, Terry Moran from Boston and several other of Cincy’s top jocks battling for galactic supremacy at the biggest Monday night party on the Levee. Jefferson Hall was the venue and the packed house went home rocked in more ways than one. Thanks to Toad for the invite! 
As a side note, during the week this fall I started hosting a couple of new team trivia nights at local venues for something different. Team trivia is a lot of fun, free to play, and a great way to blow off some midweek steam over beer, awesome music and the game. Plus you can prove definitively to all your buddies how smart you really are. We do trivia now at Olive or Twist in Elkhart, IN, and soon at Legends of Notre Dame in South Bend, so if you are local to N. Indiana, come check it out. You might win some great prizes and you are guaranteed to have some fun! Visit the facebook group: Michiana Trivia Nights for more info. NEW AFFILIATES My mix show, The HyperMiXx, continues to pick up affiliates, this time thru alternative platforms from traditional FM radio, as I added a handful of cellular and web radio stations. You can now hear my show on your AT&T cell phone directly using AT&T Radio (those of you with iPhones can already get the show with a variety of apps including iHeartRadio and Move-Radio) and on the web the show can now be heard at HitzRadio.com, and 1Dancefm.com PLUS my schedule has been expanded on the very popular iDanceRadio.fm. I had been a monthly featured mixer, but you can now enjoy my show every weekend on the station. Check out www.DJStickyBoots.com and the MIXSHOW page for complete listings and links, and consult each individual station for air times and schedules. NEW MIX CD’s As always I continue to release a new mix CD with “best of” segments from the Top 40 flavor of The HyperMiXx, and this summer has been no exception. Please visit the MIX CD page of www.DJStickyBoots.com for a complete listing of my newest CDs and songs. December 2009 is out NOW with some of the biggest hits of Fall, so get on it! Plus remember to follow me on Twitter and Facebook for exclusive offers for free mixes and sales. Followers get all the perks! PERSONAL On a personal note, I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and is enjoying the start of the Holiday season…whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, the winter solstice, or just a break from school, it truly is a wonderful time of year. My Thanksgiving was a quiet one spent with my wife and family, but I’m ready now to finish 2009 strong thru the rest of the year. The Christmas tree is up, my dog Zoey and cat Picasso are trying to figure out how to knock it over, and all is right in the world. It’s been a busy year around the Sticky household with some major projects started and finished over the summer, most notably, the start of a complete basement framing and finishing in my new house. We have been finishing off 1500 square feet of basement into a couple bedroom, a large family room, storage areas and most importantly, the brand new home for my personal studio. The studio is a custom built space, specially designed for my mix show and production work and is shaping up very nicely now. We’ve done all the framing and construction ourselves with the exception of finishing the drywall and laying the carpet, so it’s been a LONG project. There’s still at least of month of work yet to do, but I will post pics of the completed studio as soon as it is….uhhhh…complete. Stay tuned! Next summer’s project is a huge deck on the back of the house, but after this basement project, that sounds easy! Many thanks to my wife, and pets who have put up with a lot of frustration, noise, inconvenience, sore muscles and evil drywall dust on every conceivable surface. Speaking of sore muscles…have you tried out P90X? Holy crap this is an incredible total body home workout program! You may have seen their infomercials on TV or ads in Maxim and other magazines, so you might be skeptical, but let me tell you, my wife and I have been doing the 90 day classic program now for 5 weeks, and it’s results city. The program is incredibly intense, so if you’re a wuss, don’t bother. I’ve always been serious about my fitness, but as I get older and my schedule is tighter, I’ve been looking for a program that I can do anywhere, with simple weights and equipment. P90X is the solution and will completely work you over and shape you up. I even took it out on the road this summer on tour…awesome. Tony Horton is an evil genius (and I think he’s in love with Dreya Weber), but don’t hold that against him. Check out P90x.com, do your best, and forget the rest. And finally I got to send props to Moosejaw.com for the love they showed me last week. I happened to find a small mistake in their current catalog and since they are an uber-fun, progressive minded company, I tweeted them about the error. They were great sports and did a Twitter vote with their followers as to what free gift I should get for finding the mistake! It was a lot of fun and was some killer cross promotion for both me and Moosejaw…plus I LOVE their product line. If you need warm, comfy, awesome outerwear, check out MooseJaw. You’ll love it! |
