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^{The History of Our Name ...}

^{The
idea for the name came to both Djs Heptune and Mr Lob over
10 years ago as they were digging for some records and thinking
about a name for a new night they were putting on at Ace
Morning in Brunswick, Melbourne. The idea was for Mr Lob
and Heptune to put on a 'breaks' night so that they could
play some of the harder and funkier stuff they were buying
but not getting to play at their hip hop gigs. While searching
for records they came across the soundtrack to the tv series
Kung Fu, which if my memory serves me, had a track entilted Grasshopper.
At the same time we came across an album by the famously
unknown 'Dynamite Brothers' who had a track about weed!!
Inevitably, that was where the name came from. So not the
obvious as you all may be thinking!!}

^{Weedhopper History}

^{Weedhopper ran its first party, a 'Breaks Nite' on August 24, 2002 at Ace Morning in Brunswick, Melbourne and pretty much continued running that monthly breaks nite for two years. 2005 saw a bit of a break with the concentration more on the website and the occasional party. In late 2005 we returned with our weekly funk nite, 'The Get Down' which continues as we speak!}

^{From our beginnings Heptune was at the
forefront of our flier and poster design and went on to design
our first 8 party fliers (see Weedhopper
events page for images) and also the now famous 'Warehouse
Drive Thru' Weedhopper flier.}

^{Out of the parties grew lots of other activities like flier and poster design, promotion, distribution and a wicked crew of some of Melbourne's finest 'underground ' breaks, funk and hip hop dj's.}

^{From May 2003, as Dj Heptune took a break
from Weedhopper to concentrate on his own design and dj business,Terence
O'Loughlin from Tribal Logic Design then took on the design
of our fliers and posters. Terence went on to design the next
12 Weedhopper
fliers and also became our distributor, doorman
and cashier!}

^{Dj Heptune came back on board for awhile
and provided us with our business card design and various
fliers. Heptune has now struck out on his own and does some
fantastic work.}

^{Behind the scenes and throughout this time
Mr Lob has continued to work at keeping Weedhopper alive and
as an entity in some form or another, true to the spirit of
the original idea to keep it focused on funkee breaks, cool
designs and photography.}

^{Mr Lob has now also jumped on the design wagon and is also doing some of our fliers and posters, as well as providing the bulk of our photographs (see lob designs page for images)}

^{Also joining us in the design area is Leen
Designs, who created our sticker range and
the Get Down party fliers from 2006!}

^{Weedhopper
ran its last official party on Saturday 30 June 2007 at Workshop
in Melbourne. It was a huge night that encapsulated all that
Weedhopper was about and that was creating a great vibe for
party goers!}

^{Jump to
2010}

^{Weedhopper
Productions still continues as an entity to this day, with
the main banner still}^{carried
by Mr Lob, who continues to Dj
Weekly,
photograph and design
party fliers. While most
events now are billed as Mr Lob Presents or Black Caesar
Events, behind it all is Weedhopper's original idea and
that is to always bring a party to the people and to keep
it funky...}

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