Amsterdam Dance Event hosts Sunglasses Kid's first ever live show
Updated: Oct 20, 2020
In October last year I pretty much won a prize to be a rock star for a night, when Joel at Urban Road Records'asked me to join a lineup of artists that included College (of Drive fame), for a night of 80s music and arcade machines.
During Amsterdam Dance Event, the world's biggest electronic music event, Urban Road Records threw an 80s party with arcade machines and awesome artists TimeCop 1983, College, Maethelvin, DJ Deveraux 85 and lil' old me.
After an epic night out on the town with fancy meals on a mother f******g boat, we hit Winston Kingdom club where TimeCop1983 and me did back to back hour sets.
In the video below you can watch me playing over 20 minutes of my set, which was a part DJ'ing and live keys to some new tracks from my forthcoming album, Graduation.
We had such a laugh, and I made a little VHS video diary to capture the whole crazy experience. Check out video diary below.
Doing a first ever live show at Amsterdam Dance Event must have been a pretty big moment. There is a big difference between making music in the studio and actually standing in front of a crowd, so I can imagine the nerves were there too. ADE seems like a great place for a debut because there are so many people around who are already there for music and discovering new artists. I’d be interested to know how the live set compared with the original tracks and what the reaction was like from the crowd. Events like this can also be a welcome break for students who spend most of their time dealing with deadlines and coursework, especially when an assignment…