HISTORY OF CONSPIRITUALITY 2007
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HISTORY OF CONSPIRITUALITY 2007 〰️
GEMINEYE AND ZADDIK MADE THEIR FIRST OFFICIAL PERFORMANCE AS CONSPIRITUALITY ON SATURDAY, MARCH 24TH, 2007, AT MISSION SPRINGS OPENING UP FOR JOSH MARTINEZ & THE PISSED OFF WILD ALONG WITH THE GROUNDBREAKERS. GEMINEYE OPENED UP THEIR FIRST CONSPIRITUALITY SET BY INTRODUCING THEMSELVES TO THE CROWD, SAYING: THIS IS ZADDIK MELCHIZEDEK, I AM GEMINEYE, WE ARE THE SONS OF ZADOK, AND THIS IS CONSPIRITUALITY
IN MARCH/APRIL 2007, THEY CONDUCTED A PHOTO SHOOT WITH BILL ATHANASIOU, ARRANGED THROUGH MOS EISLEY’S ROOMMATE BLAIR. THIS WAS A SUCCESS, FINALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME GEMINEYE WAS ASKED BY NDIDI CASCADE TO JOIN HER ON STAGE AT BACKSTAGE LOUNGE ON APRIL 6 ALONG WITH GREENTARA.
ON APRIL 21ST AT AN OUTDOOR SWOLLEN MEMBERS SHOW THAT SWEATSHOP UNION WAS OPENING FOR HELD IN NORTH VANCOUVER AT THE MAPLEWOOD PUB, MOS EISLEY INTRODUCED GEMINEYE TO FELLOW BANDMATE METTY THE DERT MERCHANT.
CONSPIRITUALITY RECEIVED THEIR PHOTOS FROM THEIR SHOOT ON MAY 17, FROM BILL, AND THEY QUICKLY PASSED THEM OFF TO BLAIR, SO HE WOULD HAVE CONTENT FOR THE NEW WEBSITE
A STRATEGIC SHIFT OCCURRED ON MAY 31, 2007: ZADDIK HAD DECIDED THAT HE WAS GOING TO RE-RECORD NAZARENE VOW WITH ALL NEW PRODUCTION PRODUCED ENTIRELY BY BIGBROTHER, AFTER HE HAD HEARD THE BEATS THAT BIGBROTHER HAD HAND CRAFTED FOR GEMINEYE’S: AN EVENING OF CONSPIRITUALITY. THE PLAN WAS TO RELEASE THE PROJECT UNDER THEIR OWN INDEPENDENT LABEL, CONSPIRITUALITY RECORDS. THIS PROMPTED GEMINEYE TO BUILD A MAKESHIFT BASEMENT STUDIO, ASSISTED BY BCIT SOUND ENGINEERING STUDENT NAMED VICTOR, WHO HELPED RECORD THE TITLE TRACK IN BCIT’S PROFESSIONAL SOUND STUDIOS.
ON JUNE 1, 2007, GEMINEYE PLACED AN OPENING SLOT REQUEST TO KYLE KRAFT (SWEATSHOP UNION’S MANAGER AND MUSIC CONSULTANT FOR BATTLEAXE MUSIC), LEADING TO A JUNE 16 PERFORMANCE AT OCEAN PORT PUB IN SQUAMISH OPENING FOR SWEATSHOP UNION WITH TRI FORCE OMEGA AND DJ ITCHYRON.
ON JUNE 18TH CONSPIRITUALITY GOT THEIR FIRST GLIMPSE OF THEIR NEW LOGO, WHEN KREVIII SDENT THEM A SNEAK PEAK OF WHAT HE HAD BEEN WORKING ON
GEMINEYE ATTENDED A SWEATSHOP UNION SHOW ON JULY 4 THAT MOKA ONLY HAD OPENED UP FOR THEM AT THE FAIRVIEW PUB IN WEST VANCOUVER. GEMINEYE INTRODUCED HIMSELF TO MOKA AND HANDED HIM A COPY OF SONS OF ZADOK’S FIRST RELEASE OF NAZARENE VOW PRODUCED BY DECEO ELLIPSIS. KNOWING THAT MOKA NEW BOTH ZADDIK AND DECEO, IT WAS THE PERFECT ICE BREAKER.
SHORTLY AFTER GEMINEYE HAD MET MOKA FOR THE FIRST TIME, GEM CONVINCED ZADDIK TO GO TO A SWOLLEN MEMBERS SHOW WITH HIM, WHERE ZADDIK WOULD RELINK WITH MOKA WHEN THEY FOUND HIM OUTSIDE OF THE BACK OF THE CLUB SMOKING AND SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS AFTER THE SHOW HAD ENDED.
IN JULY OF 2007 GEMINEYE JOINED A NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIAN SWEATSHOP UNION TOUR AS A SECONDARY DRIVER AND OPENING ACT AT THE QUESNEL HOTEL ON JULY 12TH, ALPENHORN PUB IN SMITHERS ON JULY 13TH, AND AT A WAKEBOARD FESTIVAL IN TERRACE ON JULY 14TH CLOSING DOWN THE TOUR.
IN JULY 2007 MONSTA MACK OF THE SURREY KINGZ, A GROUP HE WAS A MEMBER OF ALONG WITH SLIM THE KULPRIT (OKBAR’S BROTHER) OFFERED TO PAY FOR GEMINEYE TO RECORD A SONG PROFESSIONALLY AT PARANOYD SOUND STUDIOS IN PORT MOODY, BC, WITH JT EDMONDSON (JT420) OF THE GROUP REVERSE PRIORITIES (INDELIBLE). THIS RE-RECORDING OF “RIPPLES IN THE POND” WAS SUCH AN EYE OPENING EXPERIENCE FOR GEMINEYE, THAT WHEN HE GOT HOME HE INSTANTLY PICKED UP THE PHONE TO TELL ZADDIK THAT HE HAD ALSO MADE THE DECISION TO RE-RECORD THE ENTIRE "AN EVENING OF CONSPIRITUALITY" ALBUM PROFESSIONALLY AT THE SAME LOCATION WITH ALL THE PRODUCTION BEING DONE BY BIGBROTHER.
ON JULY 24 GEMINEYE RETURNED TO PARANOYD SOUND STUDIOS TO RECORD HIS VERSE FOR THE SURREY KINGZ “POSSE CUT” WITH JT420. EITHER ON THIS DAY, OR SOMETIME AROUND IT, ZADDIK WOULD GET HIS FIRST TASTE OF RECORDING AT PARANOYD AS WELL, WHEN HE LAID DOWN HIS LYRICS FOR THE SURREY KINGZ “POSSE CUT”. ON JULY 28 CONSPIRITUALITY JUMPED ON A LOCAL SHOW IN GEMINEYE’S HOMETOWN OF MISSION B.C. BEING HELD AT THE MISSION REC CENTER ALONG WITH VIOLATIVE CAUSE AND DJ CON TO OPEN UP FOR MOKA ONLY.
THE FOLLLOWING MONTH ON AUGUST 16, 2007, GEMINEYE JOINED SWEATSHOP ON A SMALL TOUR STARTING IN KELOWNA AT GOTCHA NIGHTCLUB WITH SPIT 36, DJ EXTREMIDIZ & SEEKZ AS OPENING ACTS, FOLLOWED BY MIX NIGHT CLUB IN VERNON ON AUGUST 17 WITH RENAISSANCE, SKETCH 1, DJ ITCHYRON, DJ EXTREMIDIZ & SEEKZ. GEMINEYE ENDED THAT TOUR WITH THE PRIVILEGE WITNESSING SWEATSHOP UNION OPENING UP FOR SNOOP DOGG ON THE POPKUM RESERVE IN CHILLIWACK, BC, ON AUGUST 18, 2007.
IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 2007, GEMINEYE JOINED MOKA ONLY AS HIS DRIVER AND OPENING ACT ACROSS VANCOUVER ISLAND, PLAYING TOFINO, UCLUELET AND NANAIMO ALONGSIDE NEW BEST FRIEND BILLY SLADE, WHO WAS INTERNING AT CAMOBEAR RECORDS, AN INDEPENDENT LABEL OWNED BY JOSH MARTINEZ. CONSPIRITUALITY PERFORMED AT THE JUNGLE IN NANAIMO ON SEPTEMBER 6 WITH KYPRIOS AND FATTY DOWN OPENING FOR SWEATSHOP UNION, THEN ON SALT SPRING ISLAND ON SEPTEMBER 7 WITH KYPRIOS AND SWEATSHOP UNION, AND FINALLY IN TOFINO ON SEPTEMBER 8 WITH FATTY DOWN, KYPRIOS, AND SWEATSHOP UNION.