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Get Physical on the 16th, innit?

RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Lex, and other people: NANCY SINATRA LONDON MAY

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 25 March 2005 04:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Greg the Nancy Sinatra date is the DAY AFTER VITALIC. I am in distressed shock.

Maybe, if it has not sold out and we are feeling OK the next day, we can traipse over to Shepherds Bush and buy tickets on the door. But it's going to sell out, innit... and I'm not risking buying in advance :(

Ellen Allien is playing The Poke on the 22nd. I am considering it.

In other events, who's up for Get Physical on the 16th?

The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh crud, I've done nothing about the get Physical yet. I'm still up for it at the mo.

Meantime, I want cheapness all next week, in order to stretch my money further. And I want to be drunk and wake up in strange bedrooms with no idea how I got there.

Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Is anyone but me tempted to dance by this?

Get ready to worship the gods of shoegazing once again
as the SONIC CATHEDRAL opens its doors for worship for
the third time. Party like it’s 1991 to classic
shoegazing sounds from the Velvets to the Valentines
to Ulrich Schnauss – plus an electrifying live
appearance by AMUSEMENT PARKS ON FIRE, an acoustic set
by former Ride singer/guitarist MARK GARDENER &
GOLDRUSH and surprise guest DJs.

SONIC CATHEDRAL
THE NIGHT THAT CELEBRATES ITSELF

THURSDAY APRIL 28
THE LEGION
348 OLD STREET
LONDON EC1

AMUSEMENT PARKS ON FIRE (electric set)
MARK GARDENER & GOLDRUSH (acoustic set)
+ SURPRISE GUEST DJs

7pm-12midnight
£5

We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 07:50 (nineteen years ago) link

It's your last chance to catch Tiefschwarz at The Key in Kings X this Saturday. As far as I know anyway - they'd only booked 3 nights in the place last I heard.

Drama Society playing as well, plus some blokes from Phonica.

MattR (MattR), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I think it might be sold out ALREADY :(

it is probably for the best. i won't have drunk since marianna's birthday => vitalic is gonna KILL ME DEAD, plus finals start two weeks after! eek

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh fuck, I can't make this Saturday. I'd kind of presumed they'd be playing every month.

Ah well, they'll play again.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 April 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link

bump, for the 22nd/23rd, whats happening people?

charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Amyl makes a brief, unpopular comeback after I decide to end it all on the dancefloor with a flick of my lighter.

Plus-Tech Whiz Kid (Disco) (Barima), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Think that'll cover the whole weekend?

Plus-Tech Whiz Kid (Disco) (Barima), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Ellen Allien is playing The Poke on the 22nd. I have never even HEARD of this place let alone been! I can kind of take or leave the rest of the line-up though:


THE POKE
Friday 22nd April (10pm - 6am)
Jacks SE1


Main Room
ELLEN ALLIEN (bpitch control, Berlin)
CHRIS CLARK (warp) - Live
DMX KREW (breakin/rephlex)
CEEPHAX ACID CREW (breakin)
CYLOB (rephlex)
JOHN POWER (furthur)

Room 2
GLOBAL GOON (rephlex/ globalgoon.com ) - Live
LEKTROGIRL (rephlex/lektrolab)
DIGITONAL (seed dj)
LJ KRUZER (uncharted audio) - Live
OCTAVCAT - Live
SUN OV (f&s)
KONE-R (uncharted audio)

The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 15 April 2005 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, is that what you were looking for, Charlton?

Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 15 April 2005 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link

perhaps, i think it looks alright!

charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 15 April 2005 11:58 (nineteen years ago) link

you better grow a beard now or you won't get in

Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know what to do with myself.

Plus-Tech Whiz Kid (Disco) (Barima), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Except, turn into Gareth, hmm?

Plus-Tech Whiz Kid (Disco) (Barima), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Gareth with a painful beard.

Plus-Tech Whiz Kid (Disco) (Barima), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:42 (nineteen years ago) link

the beard with headband would've been a good look, but i fear the moment has passed.

$V£N! (blueski), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link

that moment has indeed passed

anything happening this weekend?

charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link

the beard with headband would've been a good look, but i fear the moment has passed.

Oh, but I rocked this back in 2000 without much success with the wimmin.

Plus-Tech Whiz Kid (Disco) (Barima), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

weatherall and john tejada at jamm in brixton tonight, vitalic & the hacker tomorrow at cargo. it's sunny in london today.

pete b. (pete b.), Friday, 29 April 2005 07:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm thinking of seeing Tejada in Brum on Monday. Who wants to DFA at the Social this Tues?

BARMS, Friday, 29 April 2005 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link

OH GOD WHAT AM I GOING TO WEAR ON SATURDAY!!!

Should I wear...

a scarf?

Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, what else is on tonight?

BARMS, Friday, 29 April 2005 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Luxembourg are playing tonight in Camden but I'm starting to have second thoughts about going because I'm tired and my hangover isn't lifting and I've just had shitty news from an editor who ignored my emails for A MONTH after I already had the go-ahead from another editor to do AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF WORK and I think I may have exceded my weekly quota for actually dealing with ex boyfriends.

Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link

You coulda just said "I dunno"!

BARMS, Friday, 29 April 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry, I'm in a bad mood now and needed a rant.

My abridged answer is: Luxembourg are playing in Camden. That is something that is going on tonight. (Here I am, brain the size of a planet and I'm giving club listings, etc, blah blah)

Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I think you need more than one event, big brain! Soz about the bad mood.

BARMS, Friday, 29 April 2005 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Vitalic people - where should we meet? What about that bar we went to for Marianna's birthday, at about 9.30?

Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, forget that, its a bit of a trek. Foundry?

Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Am easy for Vitalic meeting, anywhere really. who is coming? I know of me, Matt, Marianna, Pete?, and a few non-ilx friends of mine.

also, I think I have a spare plus one should anyone want it, Greg is suffering from impending finals.

The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link

The Big Chill is OUT because scary bouncer man wants my babies.

marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I am reading this thread with a sad sad face :(

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

IT'S NOT TOO LATE GREG

The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link

OK.

Marianna and I have arbitrarily decided on 10pm at the Bricklayer's Arms on Rivington Street to meet up. Does this suit all?

The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Whoops! It's actually on Charlotte St.

http://www.fancyapint.com/main_site/thepubs/pub133.htm

marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Saturday, 30 April 2005 06:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Hello! I am back and aware of these dancing shenanigans tonight. I'm all over Vitalic like white on rice, and as for a meeting place, I see I've been beaten to the punch re: Bricklayers Arms, which I like. I usually suggest the Dragon bar (my personal fave), but it's not a good spot for us to meet - too packed and loud. At the Bricklayers you can just hang out on the street, and it's a stone's throw from Cargo...

Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Saturday, 30 April 2005 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link

So since I've been away for 3 months, what goes on in dancing places these days? Are there dancing robots yet? Are there any fashion trends or faux-pas I should be made aware of?

Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Saturday, 30 April 2005 10:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow. That fancyapint review is one of the nastiest I've ever seen. Clientele: wankers. Ouch.

Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Saturday, 30 April 2005 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha fantastic. I am looking forward to this pub already.

Considering our Seal exploits last night were a complete disaster of unrivalled proportions, I'm looking forward to dancing at a club with people in it. Fucking old men and their acoustic guitar gigs.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 30 April 2005 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I had forgotten that The Hacker and Agoria were playing as well tonight! Yay!

I presume I'd thought that Vitalic would be so unbelievably awesome he'd, like, EAT everyone else or something.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 30 April 2005 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't even know what a vitalic is. I'm at Emma's office, scanning my comics and arguing with my editors and will be until Dr. Who comes on. Argh. Does anyone in Brixton have a TV we can borrow for an hour around 7pm?

Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link

NEW PLAN NEW PLAN

Meet at Cargo at 9.30pm to avoid guestlist fuck-ups.

A vitalic is a good good thing, Kate!

The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 30 April 2005 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Say hello to Mr Vitalic for me.

Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link

From Tuomas's random library lust thread last year:

If only I had some credible excuse to go and talk to her

...like inviting her and everyoen else in class to your excelent feminist booze-vitalic-n-sauna party next weekend? hello?

-- :| (...), October 19th, 2004 3:36 PM.

What's Vitalic?

-- Tuomas (tuomas.alh...), October 20th, 2004 9:21 AM.

It is very loud and fast and goes 'wumwumwumwumwumwumwumwum' and there is lots of banging.

-- Matt DC (runmd...), October 20th, 2004 9:22 AM.

Er...

-- Tuomas (tuomas.alh...), October 20th, 2004 9:23 AM.

It's Matt's fantasy version of himself.

-- Alba (albab...), October 20th, 2004 9:24 AM.

Har Matt Superstar.

-- B.A.R.M.S. (b4rim4_...), October 20th, 2004 9:32 AM.


I would totally film a makeout party in a sauna with Vitalic on s/t duties.

-- B.A.R.M.S. (b4rim4_...), October 20th, 2004 10:41 AM.

i'm worried that Tuomas' friend has a secret crush on him and is being all torn up inside now that his attentions are directed at the Icelandic Maiden.

Well, let me assure this isn't the case! But yesterday I got the feeling that Finnish girl who sat next to me in the class (and thus prevented me and the Icelandic girl winding up near each other) and began chatting up with me might harbour some sort of interest in me, which makes the situation even more complicated.


if she's checking you out while in class, chances are she thinks you're cute as well, but is also being shy.

I thought of this at first, but my low self-esteem said to me, "She's super-pretty while you're not exactly cute yourself, she couldn't possibly be interested in you.". Of course, the Icelandic girl might think exactly the same. She certainly isn't pretty in the conventional way, nor even in the Björkish elfin-kinda-way, I think what drew my attention to her is that her appearance escapes all the categories I can think of.

Alba, what is the "bend and snap" technique? And I still don't know what Vitalic is either...

-- Tuomas (tuomas.alh...), October 20th, 2004 11:09 AM.

Vitalic is Ronan's Viagra.

-- B.A.R.M.S. (b4rim4_...), October 20th, 2004 11:12 AM.

Matt wants some but he don't get none.

-- B.A.R.M.S. (b4rim4_...), October 20th, 2004 11:12 AM.

Okay, a quick googling reveals that Vitalic is some sort of skin cream. But what does it have to do with partying?

-- Tuomas (tuomas.alh...), October 20th, 2004 11:16 AM.

You spread it everywhere and get down.

-- B.A.R.M.S. (b4rim4_...), October 20th, 2004 11:17 AM.

vitalic is moisturizing like you wouldnt beleive.

-- :| (...), October 20th, 2004 11:20 AM.

what is the "bend and snap" technique?

In other words, for smooth lines, use Vitalic.

-- B.A.R.M.S. (b4rim4_...), October 20th, 2004 11:23 AM.

I am all about that Alter Ego exfoliator these days.

-- Matt DC (runmd...), October 20th, 2004 11:29 AM.

Garni- *gets shot*

-- B.A.R.M.S. (b4rim4_...), October 20th, 2004 11:32 AM.

Why didn't I think of that? That's twice this thread has made me feel like a failure.

-- Matt DC (runmd...), October 20th, 2004 11:34 AM.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I still don't know what a Vitalic is. The Windmill is sold out, so we are dancing in the office and watching the cops raid every house across the road.

(I didn't go to Luxembourg either last night so I don't know what I'm doing posting this thread anyway.)

Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Just got in from Superpitcher/ESG. Both were great, as was the half of Jake Fairley's live set I saw before my legs finally gave way. The Sky Was Pink slowly mixed into Brutalga Square = dancefloor heaven. What was NOT great was getting there at 9pm and discovering none of the above were on until midnight. *Everyone* was there for ESG so all the djs beforehand were semi-ignored, which resulted in very little dancing and a distinct lack of voibe. It didn't help that one of the guys seemed to be having trouble with the idea of segueing records together - I don't think I've ever heard so many gaps between tracks in my life.

I got a very sad text from Matt DC at about half two. Apparently Vitalic had his laptop nicked and so couldn't play :-(

RickyT (RickyT), Sunday, 1 May 2005 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link

No guitars.
No leather.
No laptop.
No fun.

:(

Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 1 May 2005 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, the rest of the night was pretty good. Very good voibe in there and whatever that last tune The Hacker played was amazing.

Agoria were a proper oldskool-fest, weren't they? What with LFO, Strings of Life, that big Trans Europe Express thing and whatever that trancey record was that Rob went mental over. Very nice indeed.

And for the first time ever I've made it home awake on the night bus two nights running.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 1 May 2005 09:29 (nineteen years ago) link


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