Immediately after the festival show in Sydney. On Flickr by Steve Schroeder.
Australia, we are finally back in you!
We're touring with a large and hectic festival called Future Music, and playing two shows with our festival-mates CSS on the side. Different cities, same bands -- and same DJs, canned mixed drinks, lanyards, glow sticks, mud, and heaps of profoundly toned shirtless Paul Oakenfold fans.
TOUR GOAL #1: Convert as many people as possible.
TOUR GOAL #2: Meet Pharrell Williams.
On a serious note, we've been looking forward to visiting Australia and learning about the Dreamtime. Hopefully, by the end of this trip, we will have had the opportunity to talk with many people about our ideas.
We started our voyage in Melbourne, after flying from L.A. with our main man Steve Schroeder (A.K.A. "Dod" A.K.A. "Doddi" A.K.A. Dundee" A.K.A. "Mr Bitch") in tow. Steve was gracious enough to spiritually replace our scheduled new touring member Adam Forkner as the third vertex of the YACHT Triangle. In Melbourne, our amazing friends we-don't-deserve Kellie and Cameron took us on a thorough, secret, 10-point tour of city sights, which took us from an 88-story experience called THE EDGE to an Aussie Rules Football or "Footie" Footy game, ending with some comprehensive karaoke. Thank you, guys, for consistently being awesome (and very tan).
Then we played a show in Melbourne with CSS at the Prince of Wales, which was a very nice place. The show was great for us, except that Claire hurt her ears with our music.
From Melbourne, we hopped on a Qantas flight (incidentally, Qantas is one of the world's great airlines, the only airline whose flights and food we actually look forward to) to Sydney for our first Future Music Festival show. We rode buggies around the festival grounds (a giant multi-lane horse racecourse) and played to some very enthusiastic people in mustaches and hard-hats. After the show, our buggy broke down in the middle of a field and we hung out with the racecourse maintenance men and talked about the Australian Football League, which Steve (Dundee) is now very involved with.
Sydney is still very beautiful.
The next day we took a 5-hour flight to Perth, the most isolated city in the world. Perth was having some kind of crazy heat-wave. We watched N*E*R*D from the side of the stage, saw two dozen kids jump the fences of the festival, and told as many people as possible that everything was just "Perthect." There was another music festival happening in Perth that day; Jona saw Trent Reznor in the hotel elevator.
Now we're back in Sydney with a day off and another show with CSS looming on the horizon. Thanks to Qantas, Cameron & Kellie, Gus, Daniel Bogan, the Ruby Suns, Matrix, CSS, and everyone who's come out to the shows thus far. Aussie rules!
Lou, yes, of course.
We're compiling a comprehensive Australian -ie / -y glossary and needed to know this. Thank you!
what is with the new corporate website? you guys getting all empirical and shit, so what's the next conquest?
opinion on vegemite?
is vegemite team yacht approved?
is vegemite on the team yacht backstage rider?
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Hannah,
The corporate structure of YACHT can be a bit perplexing. YACHT, Inc. is a corporation in the state of Delaware (for tax reasons). The touring act that you see is YACHT Acts, an LLC incorporated in our fine home state of Oregon. The separate legal structure for the touring act allows us to add and remove touring members without adding and subtracting employees to YACHT, Inc. YACHT Acts employs both Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans as private contractors. Additionally, the YACHT Trust is a non-profit organization in the state of California which handles a lot of the "good works" of the YACHT organization. Members of the board include both Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans, as well as a number people from the musical and film world you have probably heard of. The other aspect of the organization is YACHT Works, which is incorporated in Gibraltar, and which is used for international shows, touring, and distribution (Gibraltar is much like Delaware as far as taxes). YACHT Works is also the company that holds YACHT's properties in Portland, OR, Marfa, TX, and Tangier. All of this is in reality even more complicated than this explanation, but we are not financial or tax experts. We do recommend you talk to your own financial advisor (we recommend The WEL Group).
YACHT heeds empiricism as the raw material of ideation, but not as the sole basis of belief. YACHT acknowledges that every individual relies on the assistance of their own arbitrary and largely self-constructed interior dialectics to make the barrage of light and sound that flood our senses sensible at all.
Remain in Light,
The YACHT Trust
The show at the Prince of Wales was fantastic; especially that completely evil remix of See a Penny!