No stranger to getting sweaty with Australian audiences, Ed Banger heavyweight Busy P has become something of a regular fixture at Australian events and festivals in recent years and the now the French electro house head is set to follow up his ‘hosting’ role at last year’s festival with a return to Parklife in 2010. But if you were worried that you’d be seeing the same old Busy P show this year then think again, the man known to his mum as Pedro Winter is bringing Australian audiences something very special for this trip.

“When Fuzzy asked me to come back for Parklife it didn’t take long for me to answer them, but I told them that this time when I come back I want to think about trying something different,” Busy P began. “I imagine that Australian people would be sick of seeing my little white arse so it was important to make these shows new and different.”

So what exactly will be new and different in the big man’s sets come September when Parklife kicks off? According to Pedro, he’ll be enlisting the talents of Ed Banger’s saught-after graphic designer So-Me – the dude behind all the Ed Banger art and clips as well as videos for Kanye West and MGMT – to bring a new live dimension to his festival sets.

“We’re calling it the Busy Pictionary show and this is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time,” Busy P said of the planned sets. “I will bring So-Me on stage with me and we will plug in his computer while I’m DJing so he can react live to the music I play and what the crowd do. He’ll be drawing, photographing and doing some more stuff that I can’t tell you about now and translating that feeling and the energy onto the screen.”

As cool as that sounds, Busy P stresses that despite the live element, he’s not pretending to have a ‘live’ transformation like his frenemies The Bloody Beetroots.

“People shouldn’t think ‘oh, Busy P is playing live’,” he laughs. “I’m not bringing out a Busy P pyramid or anything like that, it’s still me DJing, but now it will have So-Me with his digital screen having fun with the crowd and probably making fun of me a lot. I really just want to interact with the crowd and do something completely different in each city. It will be fun.”

Making the ‘live-but-not-live’ shows even more special, the Ed Banger boss told inthemix that Australian crowds will likely be the only ones to see the hybrid show.

“This idea was something I thought of last time I was in Australia because the crowds are always so much fun and they react to everything that you do, so I don’t think we will ever do it in Paris or in Europe.”

Busy P plays the 2010 Parklife festival presented by inthemix. For all the juice on this year’s festival including the lineup, interviews and videos, check out the All About Parklife page and see the festival dates below.

Parklife 2010 dates:

Gold Coast – Saturday 25 September
Perth – Sunday 26 September
Melbourne – Saturday 2 October
Sydney – Sunday 3 October
Adelaide – Monday 4 October

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