Top of the Rock...

We went to the top of the Rockefeller building, which has another really good view of NYC. Seeing the city at night is quite incredible. Even being 80 stories up you can still hear the noises of the street quite clearly. It is an endless sea of lights, and it helps put in perspective the amount of people that call this city home.

Ground Zero...

We headed further downtown to check out the site of the 9-11 attacks. Once you are there you can really see how it would of been so insane, the area of the twin towers is quite large, and for that to come down in amongst all those other buildings really would of cause some crazy damage. The rebuilding process is well underway, the final result looks to be pretty impressive.

After Beer Pong...

When there was a blizzard the day before, probably the best thing to do would be to head home for a good sleep after beer pong. Not on the Do It Live tour. On the tour you tackle fellow band members into the snow...

Beer Pong...

You always hear about it, see it in the movies, but over here, beer pong is a spectator sport. If you feel like losing your memory for an evening, play beer pong. Fordey, the always competitive one, loved playing by the rules posted on the wall. He was at his competitive peak last night, as you can see below. Mind you, this game was against two girls...

Ice Hockey at MSG...

We took the tour to Madison Square Garden last night to catch the New York Rangers play the New York Islanders. The Rangers owned, winning 7-2. We were waiting for some gloves off action the whole game, it only happened once, and it was very disappointing. Everyone in the crowd was screaming to let them fight, but no dice. Also, according to the crowd, Mark Van sucks...

Shenlashlow enjoying the powder...

Patty, aka Shlenashlow, once again decided that he should do it live in our new found winter playground, the streets of New York city. Press play...

Poppin bottles in the ice, like a blizzard...

So the blizzard hit the city tonight. A complete transformation from when we walked out the door this morning. It was unbelievable to see people knee deep in snow walking down the street. Word is it will continue to snow through the night, we will see if we can get out the front door in the morning. Here is a few photo's from this evening.

A walk through Central Park...

When we left our apartment this morning, it had just started to trickle down with snow. After we left the American Museum of Natural History, the snow was in full effect. Central Park was now transformed into a white wonderland. We had heard news reports that there was going to be blizzard conditions, and we were pumped for it.

Getting our history on...

Today we decided to hit up some museums, first stop was the American Museum of Natural History, awesome planetarium display and some cool fossil's that Gam Dayla managed to take a photo of. (He did in fact take a photo of every single item in the museum.) We thought we would give only the coolest of cool interactive activities a go, one was a video, here is the result...

Tron'n like a boss...

What do you do when the city is quiet and a severe blizzard storm is on it's way to NYC? You take in a movie, but when you are on the tour you don't just 'see' a movie, we Do It Live and see Tron on IMAX in 3D. The effects in this movie are insane, and Daft Punk took film scores to another level.

Christmas Dinner...

After spending most of Christmas day opening secret Santa presents, sleeping and watching NBA, we made it out on the town to take in Do It Live family dinner. We found a nice restaurant in midtown Manhattan that had a Christmas Dinner special, complete with turkey, vegetables (which have been few and far between on this tour) cranberry sauce and some lovely lovely conversation. Just lovely...

Merry Christmas live from NYC...

Current local temperature is -6 degrees. Loving it. We had our own little secret Santa here in our apartment. We picked 2 names out of the hat to get each other presents. Our Christmas tree was some sort of shrub with a bow on it, but it did the job. There was about 10 hours of NBA on today with games back to back, not the worst way to spend Christmas day abroad. Hope all the tour fans had a good Christmas wherever you are, keep checking the blog, still have a week in NYC before we head to Miami.

Subway Stylin...

Public transport can be pretty boring at most times, that is of course until you hit NYC. If it isn't some little kid trying to steal your wallet, or some dude trying to sell you designer handbags for 5 bucks each, you get to see some of the dopest street performers. These guys were doing this all day. Melbourne train stations... Get better...

Empire State of mind...

Got ourselves organised enough today to go to the Empire State building. It is pretty awesome to see the entire city from so high up. The audio tour was great as it pointed out all the famous landmarks. Of course, we did it live while there, as you can see with the below photo we purchased in the gift shop. Zac looks a bit weird though...

More band members join the tour...

Seems like everyone wants to be apart of the Do It Live tour. My brother Haydo, his girlfriend, his housemate John, and NYC socialite Carlos met up with the crew last night in Brooklyn. Nothing like going bowling in Brooklyn, then have Questlove of the Roots spin some records for you for a few hours. Cool ass venue. Special thanks to MC for putting up with my brother and I's drunken shenanigans back at their apartment.

The Cage...

About a 2 minute walk from our apartment in NYC is the famous West 4th outdoor basketball court, nicknamed The Cage. We used the D-League ball we got at the NBA store and hooped it up with some 4 on 4 full court action in minus 2 degree weather. We had some fans who kept taking photos of us, not surprising, our skills were on full display for NYC to see.

2 more join the tour...

Just when you thought the Do It Live tour couldn't get any more live, it just did. Caleb and Hayden also known as King of the Sands and Dos, are joining the band in our horn section. They joined the tour at a place called "Piano's" in the Lower East Side. Awesome music, strong drinks, and like all bars, there is always one dickhead. One dude who thought he was on dancing with the stars, decided that he was going to try his moves right in the Do It Live dancing circle... Nah son... Then he started talking smack and taking swings, of course, I copped a fist in the eye, but because the dude was a complete clown, it didn't hurt. My face is still as pretty as it always was.

Times Squizare...

Times Square is exactly like Tokyo, lights everywhere, people everywhere, and so many things to look at. Of course, took the touristy photos. Headed to the NBA store, for ballers, it's like heaven on earth. So of the awesome purchases include an official outdoor D-League ball, Blazers pajama pants and NBA store training shorts. I think a few more trips to this store will be on the itinerary.

Blowing up our room...

So we arrive into NYC, get to our apartment fine, love the area, love the rooms, everything is good. First thing we need to sort though is the heating. It seems to already be on. It's some old school piping system that goes throughout the entire building. You cant turn it off in one of the rooms and it has a slight hissing. Fordey and myself are trying to go to sleep night one, and the hissing is building and building. Next thing we know it's a full blown noise and we think, nah son, not putting up with this, so we start to attempt to fix it. One thing leads to another, and the valve flies off and our room start filling with boiling steam. Awesome. We manage to get the valve back on, but no sleep until 7:30 am. Always an adventure on the Do It Live tour.

Touchdown in NYC...

We landed in NYC last night, somehow they cut an hour off our flight, get off the plane, freezing. 12 days of zero degrees is going to be fun. Also thanks to old mate for jumping in our photo last minute...

Cirque Du Soleil...

After fail nights out of us walking the strip trying to finding anything thats happening in this town, we thought for our last evening in Sin City we will do something else this town is famous for, it's stage shows. We ended up going to see Cirque Du Soleil's "Mystere." It was awesome, and to think there is another 4 different shows the Cirque company do in Vegas, all year round, it is really unbelievable they find these people who are able to do the things they do in these shows. Definitely recommend it to anyone visiting Vegas. Next up, tomorrow we leave for NYC, the city that never sleeps, with our current sleeping patterns, that will suit us all just fine.

Patty's Birthday and O-Tang joins the tour...

After the fail that was the first night arrival in Vegas, we shifted Patty's birthday celebrations to the next night. Zac Barry met us in Vegas and the 7 man "Do It Live" crew was complete. We thought we might as well dress up for the occasion, somehow that ended up dressing up the same, somehow that meant we looked like Mormons. The week before christmas we found out is ghost town in Vegas, no one around, clubs pretty empty, but you still have to pay premium. Everything costs here, everything... Another black mark against Vegas. Ah well, we looked good. If you are wondering where the birthday boy is in the photo? We gambled him on a game of Craps, and lost...

Vegas Fail...

What can I say about Vegas that hasn't already been said about Kwame Brown's basketball career... A massive disappointment. We arrive into Vegas in style, a baby stretch Hummer down the strip to our hotel, and that's where everything went bad. Planet Hollywood didn't have our rooms, and could only offer us rooms with one King size bed in it, and charge us extra, nah son... A few of the boys went for a stroll and ended up getting us bigger rooms, with our own double's, at New York New York. Our only hope was that things get better from here.

Nights out in Portland Part 2...

So after we met up with our boy Patty Mills we once again hit the town, but this time with a guide, our new friend Norm. He definitely was in the Aussie spirit rocking the Socceroos jersey, despite being born in LA. We hit an awesome place, no idea what the name was, but they played the music we wanted to hear (except Teach Me How To Dougie) and cheap drinks. The Aussie Aussie Aussie chants kept rolling all through the night. Good times. And if you are wondering about the hand signal? It's a Blazers thing...

Patty what? Patty Mills!

After losing our minds for the entire course of the game every time Patty Mills touched the ball, we hung around after the game, met his family, and got to meet him on the Blazers home court. Awesome guy, he said everyone knew we were in the building. Definitely a highlight of the trip so far. This is us, centre court, with his family.

We run the Rose Garden...

So before we all left on the tour, I emailed all the NBA clubs for the games we were going to attend while over here, and with the Blazers game, we wanted to get as close as possible to the court so we could all cheer on Patty Mills. One of the Blazers ticketing staff organised us some awesome tickets, 10 rows from the court, opposite the Blazers bench, so we thought we would go all out. Posters, signs, flags, and a lot of noise. Everyone in the stadium knew where we were from withing 10 minutes, with "Aussie Aussie Aussie" chants in full effect. It must of worked with Patty Mills getting 24 minutes of burn, with 8 points, 4 assists and 2 steals, and he played the entire 4th quarter, and the Blazers got the win. Of course we went off the dial when he scored his first bucket.

Nights out in Portland...

1st place we went to? Dead... Second Place? Dead... Third place, not quite dead but enough for us to turn it into a party and own what little dancefloor they had. Fordey is still in Pre-Season mode, working on his box outs.

Nike Employee Store...

So say we unleashed at the Nike Employee store here in Portland is an understatement. We all spent 30 minutes walking around wondering where to start. Now all we need to do is bribe the airlines to let us on the planes with all this extra luggage.

Balling at the Bo Jackson Centre...

Today I got to do something I have been wanting to do for a very very long time. Visit Nike World HQ in Portland, Oregon. It really is quite unbelievable. It's a massive place, different buildings everywhere. Had a look at the "Michael Jordan Building" (of course) and managed to find our way to Bo Jackson Centre, which is a 4 level gym. We found the full length basketball court on level 3, and decided to have a bit of a 3 on 3 session. It was a jeans and tee's game as we didn't have the right gear, but it was good just to put up some shots on a court that Michael Jordan has shot on.

I can't believe she said yes...

We arrived into Portland, and my friend Becksy who I worked with at Nike Head Office in Melbourne agreed to let the "Do It Live" tour band members stay at her place. We are going to try slow down our rock star habits for this leg of the tour, we promised not to launch her TV out her window. We are definitely putting her out in a big way so a big thanks to Becksy for putting up with our shit.

Patty, does it live...

So we are winding up our last night in San Fran, and Patty decides he wants to do it live, in the spirit of the whole tour. Check the before and after...

Jeremy Lin runs these streets...

Even though he didn't get on, even after our cries from the crowd to "Get Jeremy On," we still had to show respect to the one player that runs the bay area, ya boy Jeremy Lin. Fordey copped probably the sickest pick-up of the tour so far.

Golden State...

Seriously, traffic, get out of my life... We headed to Oakland tonight to watch the Golden State Warriors take on Minnesota Timberwolves. Game started a bit slow, but then Monta Ellis took over, dropping 19 in the third. Awesome to watch, dude finishes so well. Highlight of the game, was this...

Golden Gate...

Got our tourist on again today, took a drive over the Golden Gate. The nickname for San Fran "Fog City" was definitely living up to it's name, with the fog on full display. The actual bridge is incredible, and the view we got from the top of a hill on the the other side was even better. Listening to Patty and Fordey talking about derivatives was not though. Maths is for the classroom, not the Do It Live tour, except when I need Fordey to figure out the tip.

And then there were 6...

Our bass player "Cream" arrived on the tour today. We took him out to Berkely where he will be doing a stint at college, seemed like a very cool town. We somehow managed to find the one venue open on a Monday night, and thank god there was a Mel's diner across the road, no late night salads this time though...

Pre Drinks...

Probably shouldn't end up with corn chips throughout your bed and parts of the hotel falling on your head... Or should they?

San Fran = The American Melbourne...

San Fran definitely feels like Melbourne, from the trams, to Fisherman's Wharf, it just really has a Melbourne feel. Some crazy guy in the street asked us where we were from, we told him Melbourne, he began to rant about how San Fran and Melbourne are sister cities, talked about our prime minister, seemed to know more about Melbourne than me.

The origin of doing it live...

People keep asking where the whole "Do It Live" theme comes from, well, for those who haven't seen, it came from this video.

Football in San Fran...

Sunday Football seems to be where every single person in San Fran goes on a Sunday arvo. We ended up parking "Van Damme" in what seems like Oakland, and walked past a million trucks all with Bar-B-Que's connected to their engines cooking up food. Don't know what it is about opposing fans though, they all want to start something with the home team fans around them until they get kicked out.

Going to jail...

Relax parentals, none of us got arrested (yet), but we did jump on the ferry to Alcatraz for our first official bit of touristy stuff. Very cool, if you ever go, get the audio tour with the headphones, very cool way to do it. As we arrived at "The Rock" there was a very light fog building, and by the time we left, the fog was that thick you couldn't see 5 meters in front of you.

You don't make friends with salad...

So after competing in what seemed like some sort of "Burgerthon" since arriving in the states, I did something I never thought I would do, order something from the salad menu. After leaving a night club here in San Fran that I can only describe as the very very ugly sister of Melbourne's Icon Bar from another Galaxy, we dropped in to a late night food spot. I didn't want to do it, but in the famous words of R. Kelly, my mind was telling me no, but my body was telling me yes. A chicken salad was ordered... I've changed...

I'm so Hollywood...

Dressing up to go out in Hollywood is pretty standard, paying extra money to skip the line at the club is pretty standard, tipping the waitress a few extra dollars to get those drinks a little stronger is pretty standard, getting kicked out of the club and falling asleep in the hotel room doorway, that's Doing It Live...

Santa Monica...

So we took a drive in "Van Damme" down to Santa Monica, very cool place. Checked the Nike store, boys picked up some stuff, checked out the pier, took some photos, by this point we were all very hungry. We were trying to find somewhere for dinner, somewhere classy, upmarket, something to give us a bit of a different selection from all these burgers we have been eating. We came across this one place, and all prerequisites went out the window, as you can see...

Tip This...

So it seems you have to tip every single person here in the states, it costs you a dollar every time you want to go to the toilet! Saw this guy dressed as a Transformer so thought it was a good photo op, pose like a champ, get the photo, cost me 2 dollars.

A Fish Named Derek...

First NBA game I've ever been to, cross town rival, and it went down to the final shot. As you can see, we lost our shiz...

Let Me Upgrade You...

Beyonce must be one of the "Do It Live Tour" gods, because we were upgraded. Thanks Jigga's wifey. For the Clippers v Lakers game we were meant to be in the 300 section, at the very top, but our good friend Ashley at the Clippers hooked us up in the Press seating. Staples Centre is bananas.

Maybe it is a crack den?

Spoke too soon... Massive flooding of the toilet, ankle deep in LA toilet water... Love it. Off to Lakers vs Clippers!

L.A.YO...

Touchdown in LA this morning at 7am, zero sleep on the plane, but flight was pretty uneventful. Pick up our whip for the next week, a black minivan we have called "Van Damme." Have I taken so wrong turns and ended up driving into on-coming traffic? Most definitely. Arrived at our accom in Hollywood, and was not the crack den I was thinking it was going to be. For $20 each a night, it's pretty decent. Severe lack of sleep will hopefully not prevent us all from Doing It Live on our first night in LA.

Missing flights...

So as you can see, we are at Sydney airport minus 2 people, Patty and Brenton. Seriously, all they had to do was wake up. Get better...
Flight to LA boards in 5 mins, no sign of them yet. The Do It Live Tour may be rolling 3 deep for a while.