S P A C E C O W B O Y S

Damn it’s cold… I thought I moved to California to escape this (or maybe it was just my family I was running from?). Anyway that was a long time ago, and I’ve clearly softened up over the years; at one point I even moved to SoCal in a partial attempt to warm my ailing self… But soon after, I started dearly missing two things: my friends and Tahoe. Luckily I had SnowFest… that special time of year when both converge! I would always make the trip back for it… even when I lived in that terrifying part of our country called the Midwest (cold AND flat; what’s the point?), Always, the last weekend of February or the first weekend of March, this year it falls rather late: Friday, March 5th – Sunday March 7th. Yup that’s right folks I said FRIDAY! If you’ve never been to Squaw for SnowFest Friday, you’ve been missing out. Imagine Squaw weekday empty AND the Mog boomin’ slopeside! Needless to say a huge percentage of the peeps on the hill you actually know… and that’s just heaven, not to mention catching all the Friday afternoon and evening festivities, good tunes with the Mog slopeside, cocktails, fireworks, torchlight parade, some Absolut/Bacardi Babes and always one missing kid with a frantic mom that gets found five minutes after her panic attack climaxes in explicatives yelled at the dj. Then there’s the after-party at the Plaza Bar with the SC djs, SF hipsters, Kiwi lift ops, and those legendary Squaw cougars!!! Saturday day we rock it at Squaw with the Mog all over again. This year we’ll be doing our Annual Saturday night Snow-down again at the Lakeside in Tahoe City… It’s only December, and we’ve still got BoC at Kelly’s and The Space Cowboys Show at the End Up between now and then, but all those reports of snow up there just got me all excited and I wanted to remind you to book your accommodations now! Those who know, know the Cowboys love the snow, so let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

Happy Holidays from all of us at the Space Cowboys!

-pk.

We here at the Space Cowboys are very, very excited for our return to the playa. After our much needed break last year (twelve years in a row ain’t bad) we’re re-charged and ready to rock. We’ve got a great bunch of events planned, a great bunch of other camps we’re stoked to collaborate with; and of course we’ve got an incredible line-up of djs, from our own amazing crew, to our international “celebrity” friends, all excited to rock your world (or at least shake the dust off your ass!). We never like to ruin the surprise of great music, so you won’t find any line-up cheatsheets here (that just takes the fun out of it). but its gonna go a little something like this:

Monday night – The UNIMOG, SC djs & special guests go BLUE (Happy Birthday Chrissy!) at the Braindrop (11pm – 4am)

Tuesday afternoon The UNIMOG, SC djs and friends rock out the greeters! Just our way of giving back, and saying hello.

Tuesday night – The UNIMOG shows its dark side at False Profit.

Thursday sunrise – The UNIMOG & SC djs say arrrgh at Swashbuckler Sunrise (the saloon out by the fence).

Thursday afternoon – The UNIMOG strips with the SC djs at the Chinchilla Lingerie Show (3pm-6pm), somewhere behind our camp, listen for the Mog, or ask us before.

Thursday night /Frday early AM – The UNIMOG, SC djs, guests & a laser show rock the Flaming Lotus Girls’ SOMA. (1am- 4am)

Friday afternoon – The UNIMOG & SC djs Shissla & ShOOey rock out Rock Bottom (formerly known as the Deep End)!

Friday night – The Space Cowboys 9th Annual Black Rock Hoe Down at the Raygun Gothic RocketShip. With the UNIMOG, Martha, Jimmy, The Janky Barge, Garage Mahal’s Ganesh mobile and a flotilla of other art cars. We’ll have a BYO cup bar for your drinking pleasure, grilled cheese and bacon at sunrise. This IS the one not to miss folks, why do you think we’ve been doing it so long?

Saturday afternoon – The UNIMOG, SC djs and those Rock Bottom Deep Enders, get the dust off all afternoon at Disorient’s ArtCar Wash


There’s more to come…. but we know how everyone likes to plan everything out with the best intentions, if only to be distracted by cool beats and blinking lights!

Questions? Requests? Drop a line to pk (at) spaccowboys.org

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Swing by our camp, the ol’ RIPE Ranch at 3:30 & Esplanade!

See you out there!

Big thanks to those who came out and played with us on Sunday (not to mention your support)... Next time, we’ll see you there probably will not be water for miles! We will have a “beachfront location” though, you’ll find us parked at Esplanade & 3:30 for Burning Man this year! Though you know our motto: “have UNIMOG will travel”. We’re especially looking forward to our Black Rock Hoe Down, which will be right after the launch of the Raygun Rocketship on Friday Sept. 4th! If you’ve got any questions about our return to the playa give me a shout: pk(at)spacecowboys.org .

Thanks again, we look forward to rockin’ the block with ya soon!

Thanks to everyone who came on down to the End Up. I don’t think the club knew what hit ‘em. Thanks for the patience of standing in a line that we had absolutely no control over, but extra special thanks for packing the place and keeping that dance floor bumping all night long….

Next up is Snow Fest in North Lake Tahoe, the last weekend in February. now with a lakefront block party Saturday starting at 6pm!

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