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'A Trip With Ego' Tour Diary Part 1: Bali

16 September 2013 | 6:54 pm | Staff Writer

Now that EGO makes his way over international waters, we are getting him to document his trip via some brief words and iPhone photography.

One of our good friends happens to be audio visual mastermind, EGO. As one half of Nice & Ego, he burst onto the scene in a big way back in 2012. Now working solo, he's managing to put together his own reputation as one of the best AV/DJ's Australia has as its disposal.

After signing with the Modular Agency, he also announced a massive 'Trip With Ego' tour. The tour began as a 17 date Australia/New Zealand trip - but he also managed to grab some dates in Indonesia and South Africa. Now that he makes his way over international waters, we are getting him to document his trip via some brief words and iPhone photography.

This is part one of Ego's adventures - as he talks us through his time in Bali.

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"This leg started the way most do, me sifting through the wreckage from the last show to do a stocktake of what gear's gone missing."

1 Stocktake

"Unexpected twist - finding out there was a mix up with booking and I'd missed my flight. This is me on no sleep waiting at the airport at 5 in the morning to find out if I can get a replacement."

2 Waiting selfie

"Me, on a replacement flight at 11am. Pretty relieved / wrecked."

3 on plane

"Denpasar airport, 1 hour before my set. Chaos. A man named Ricky greets me at the gate, asks for my passport then disappears for a nerve-racking few minutes, before returning and rushing me through, bypassing customs completely.

Picking up my bags I lose him and some other customs guys usher me through the inspection but ask why I haven't got any customs clearance, I try explaining that this guy had sorted it all out, things are getting a little sticky when Ricky resurfaces and clears it up and shows me to my ride to the venue. "

4 Airport

"Venue pretty packed, screening looks amazing, and with 10 minutes to spare I set up and then we're on."

5 club 4

"Set done and its back to my villa to crash out. The villa is all kinds of rad. This is my pool."

6 Pool

"This is my bathroom." 

7 Bathroom

"And this is my main man Di Di who runs tings, including cooking me up this divine Balinese brekky."

8 Di Di

"A few days here in Bali now before heading on to South Africa mid next week. Yeew!!"

Stay tuned for Part 2 of  Ego's Tour Diary soon!

'A TRIP WITH EGO' REMAINING 2013 TOUR DATES

Fri 20 Sep – Johannesburg, South Africa

Sat 21 Sep – Assembly, Cape Town, South Africa

Sun 22 Sep – Cold Turkey, Cape Town, South Africa

Mon 07 Oct – Workshop: Heaps Decent, Redfern Community Centre, Redfern

Words by Tom Hutchins Ego

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