Do enough interviews, and you will learn a few things about interviewing. I learned never to interview a surfer on the beach before he or she goes out for a surf. Or after. It’s best to interview surfers away from the waves. Artists are like that. You don’t interview a painter while the brush is moving. I would say the same goes for DJ’s. It’s not that they aren’t personable at those moments, before, during, or after a performance…it’s that their minds are somewhere else…on the buzz of the beats they lay down or something else. I had the pleasure of meeting and watching Rocky, Diesel, and Ashley Beedle of Xpress2 on June 24 at Kudos. We had a few moments before they went on but things weren’t coming together too well for a chat. They were whining about having to rush around from Nusa Dua and having the dancers on at twelve instead of them but once they got on and started with a grinding mix of Donna Summer’s, I Feel Love; peace was found. That track set the pace of the show for the dancefloor and inside club section of Kudos. Outside, not as many folks had arrived to fill the car-park but since nobody seemed to know what they were going to do with them anyway if they had’ve come, probably better they weren’t there. Meanwhile, inside it was cranking with some old skool House with which the Xpress2 team is so famous. We were getting pretty smashed with help from Mr Harco and in the end, when we looked around, it seemed the boys had lost the crowd or was it getting too late? They put on an impressive two hour show and for a Thursday night it was looking good. Based out of the UK, these DJ’s/producers came together at the beginning of House Music - when it first began releasing two albums - but reformed again in 2000 as a collective and produced a hit album, Muzikizium, off the back of their hit Lazy in collaboration with David Burne. Bali was just one of the stops on their whirlwind Asian tour, and Xpress2 headed to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia the next day.