GUMBALL LA LAUNCH – LINE-UP ANNOUNCED

SUPERCAR DISPLAY – NOON
PARKING LOT 1550, NEXT TO SANTA MONICA PIER

First up, from midday on Friday 1^st May we’re staging a Supercar Display in parking lot 1550 next to Santa Monica Pier, where we’ll be parading the 100+ vehicles taking place in this year’s rally.

They’ll be everything from drophead Rolls Royces, classic Cadillacs and more Ferraris than you can shake a dipstick at. Not to mention a vintage De Tomaso Pantera and a bunch of Bugatti Veyrons.

FREE CONCERT – 7PM
THIRD STREET PROMENADE, SANTA MONICA

Head inland later in the day to Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade where we’re staging a free concert from 7pm onwards.

Appearing live will be LA based rap duo U-N-I, Cypress Hill’s DJ Muggs and Gumball favourites, The Cuban Brothers.

U-N-I (on stage 7pm) were named ‘Best Breakout LA Artist’ at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards and were cited by industry bible, Billboard, as an ‘act to watch’. Their life-affirming rhymes revolve around everything from limited-edition sneakers to cosmic existentialism and they apparently have an eye for the larger lady.

Click here for U-N-I website >>

DJ Muggs (on stage 8pm) is a founder member of Cypress Hill who to date have shifted in excess of 18 million albums. As well as being one of the creative forces behind House of Pain and Ice Cube, the DJ and producer who is also known as a serious re-mixer. Under the Soul Assassins banner, Muggs has re-worked recordings from the likes of U2 to the Beastie Boys and Depeche Mode to Van Halen.

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The Cuban Brothers (on stage 9pm) have been blagging their way onto the Gumball since 2000 in return for entertaining the rally entrants with brilliant left-of-centre song, dance and comedic consenting adult nudity. If you’re afraid of grown men in cat-suits (of whom one holds the world record for break dance head spins) then you might want to cover your eyes.

Click here for The Cuban Brothers website >>

AFTERSHOW PARTY – 10PM
VICEROY HOTEL, SANTA MONICA

Opening the night's entertainment at this celebrity bash will be British festival DJs Beef Warehouse who, in the last year played, every big UK festival, including Glastonbury and Reading, as well as club nights and parties across Europe, Australia and the US.

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Also appearing will be Sugar Ray's DJ Homicide, whose prowess on the ones and twos helped the Californian rockers to multi-platinum success. Aside of shifting 9 million albums with Sugar Ray, Homicide continues to deftly fuse hip hop and rock on his own radio show, Channel Zero, on Power 106 - and has dabbled in movie stardom with rolls in 'Scooby Doo' with Sarah Michelle Gellar and 'Fathers’ Day' with Robin Williams and Billy Crystal. 

Click here for DJ Homicide website >>

Celebrity spinner DJ Spider squeezes his late night Gumball set in between shows in Tokyo and an appearance at the Kentucky Derby the following day. Having cut his teeth on the road with DJAM and Mark Ronson, Spider landed the role as myspace’s official DJ and has since been on a whistle-stop tour of the planets hottest nightspots.

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