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get physical is april 16th, i believe. has it actually been confirmed yet?

indie dancing can be planned here, too!

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 10:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

april 16, cool.

any sort of dancing! I mean I would love to find a decent R&B night in London, and people to go with.

also for gay dancing I'll be at GAY this Saturday for the Girls Aloud appearance.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

i have to go to 333 on friday for one of the ratpure. i think the idjut boys are playing as well.

the key is in weird railyard no-man's-land around the station, the kind of area in which you're supposed to walk in groups.

xpost - yes, i'd love some r&b dancing. whatever patience i had for techno has pretty much vanished.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

What do you mean by R&B? Old Skool R&B nights are always full of mods. Somehow I suspect that's not what you mean.

I will be dancing at the Shoegazing Club on the 24th February (at Legion on Old Street) but I suspect everyone else will be dancing at Freaky Trigger.

― Kate Kept Me Alive! (kate), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'd be into R&B too.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

I mean R&B like uhhh I guess chart R&B. plus maybe a little hip-hop. OR stuff like the Supremes. any R&B really!

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

any place where they play Ciara, too.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

my flatmate's sister keeps promising to take me to proper r&b/garage nights in east london, but so far she hasn't delivered.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

apparently there are good R&B/hip-hop/garage nights at the Stratford Rex, which is just down the road from me, but everyone I know is too scared to go :(

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

it would be the other patrons who would have to watch out, where stacey's sister is concerned.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:39 (8 years ago) Permalink

wow i was just thinking last night that 'we' should go to a proper R&B night - count me in, i'll even wear a suit and shit.

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

i'll go to the Rex with you Lex, seeing as it would be about 10 minutes walk home afterwards, wooo

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:55 (8 years ago) Permalink

Michael Mayer and Miss Kittin!! ...and I have an essay due the next morning.

There's also that norwegian night at Fabric with Annie DJ'ing on the 3rd March, isn't there? oh, dancing, I miss you so.

― cis (cis), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 12:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

for cheezy chart r&b i've been to that place in the trocadero several times, it's a midweek thing. jim'll remember what it's called and which night. it's quite fun, although i haven't been for ages so i couldn't swear they haven't changed the format.

i'm up for dancing pretty much all the time. although i haven't been 'proper' dancing to music without words for at least a year, so don't know if i'd be into that these days.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 12:06 (8 years ago) Permalink

the Rex is ON! for anyone who would be up for it. er, I don't know which are the best nights or anything, I'll have a look when I'm not at work.

cheesy place in the trocadero sounds promising too.

i think i might pass on March 3 for the sake of March 4.

Mayer and Kittin might be tempting enough for me to pass up my prior arrangement...

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 12:09 (8 years ago) Permalink

i need to put all these dates on the calendar or something

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 12:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

I have a terrible allergy to the word 'cheese' when it's applied to music. Bloody Oxford *mutter* *grumble*.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 12:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

miss kittin is pretty dull.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 12:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

I have a terrible allergy to the word 'cheese' when it's applied to music. Bloody Oxford *mutter* *grumble*.

i couldn't think of a better way of saying it...they've usually just got chart stuff (i'm sure ciara will be on heavy rotation) as well as stuff i've heard on the radio back in detroit but not so much on pop radio here.

ah! bar rumba, i think that's what it's called. tuesdays or wednesdays, i think.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 12:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

miss kittin was great when we saw her! it might have been the shaved head though.

i think we should all ruin our fridays for the sake of kittin and mayer. the thought of me lecturing on 4 hours sleep is pretty amusing, anyway. and cis, couldn't you just write that essay now, or something? i never was very good at the whole essay crisis thing.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

i want to be in Toby's class

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

the last time i saw her, i remember her mainly playing a lot of big-room techno. i didn't particularly want to be there to begin with, though, so that might have colored my view of the whole thing.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:23 (8 years ago) Permalink

I've never seen Miss Kittin, I love her purely on the basis of her records, especially I Com which I am in love with.

if only Cis was writing essays for Toby, then that would resolve itself.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

This thread is such A Good Thing.

"I mean R&B like uhhh I guess chart R&B. plus maybe a little hip-hop. OR stuff like the Supremes. any R&B really! any place where they play Ciara, too.
-- The Lex"

People may scoff, but Popstarz is totally where you should go. The bottom floor is sticky, but it plays all the above. And then you can escape to Pop heaven on the top floor, make out with someone on the balcony and then dance to schmindie on the middle floor when you're so drunk you don't care that they're playing Razorlight.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

Marianna not even I will ever be that drunk!

I have been warned off Popstarz as a Place Of Indie, though if there are non-indie nights then it will be promising...

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

what happens at the Scala on Saturday night these days? i remember it was Cookies & Cream (urban/hip-pop) for a while but no more i presume

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

Popstarz is kind of weird - they insist on having the indie room in the main bit despite the fact that it is always half empty because all the punters are upstairs for the proper hi-nrg gay disco which is, naturally, a quarter of the size and absolutely rammed.

And that little room off to the side where I saw all those big blokes grinding together to Beenie Man. That was weird.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:14 (8 years ago) Permalink

oh man I want to grind against big men to Beenie Man!

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

Also I just saw the words 'the Rex is ON!' and got all excited thinking you were talking about Rex The Dog. Damn you.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

OK I've just found out that my prior arrangement tonight (the Plan B night) is actually just around the corner from Plastic People! and to be perfectly honest Mayer and Kittin will be much more fun. I may show my face at the Spitz, then hotfoot it over to PP - I worry about the ltd tickets on the door selling out though.

is anyone else definitely going?

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 17 February 2005 10:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

i'd like to see Mayer but don't think i can do this really due to enormous list of things to do that will only increase in size further if i go clubbin' on a schoolnight, sob

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Thursday, 17 February 2005 10:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

i want to go tonight but i can't because i'm ill.

tiefschwarz on march 12th and get physical in april are definitely in the diary tho.

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 17 February 2005 10:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

*BAMF* Did someone mention dancing?

― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

i'm undecided about this eve, but leaning towards not going, i think.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

Rex The Dog should be playing around town a bit over the next few months. Keep an eye on Plastic People...

More aceness coming up, unfortuantly on the same bloody night:

Sat 26th Feb, Fabric - bPitch Control room: Ellen Allien, Tomas Andersson, Sylvie Marks, Smash TV. Steve Bug, Rub n Tug & Idjut Boys in other rooms.

Sat 26th Feb, Koko (ex Camden Palace) - Output Records Party: Tiga, 2 Many DJ's, Blackstrobe, Headman, Trevor Jackson.

― MattR (MattR), Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

xpost - yes, i'd love some r&b dancing. whatever patience i had for techno has pretty much vanished.

Miss L speaks for me - I need to rock to hip hop and r&b again, and good old pop for that matter, 'cause I'm too burned on this electro house guff now. I'll do Annie, Tiefschwarz, Rex, and Get Physical, but beyond that...Truth is, I may have actually had more fun at Club Seal than Vitalic (Psycho Pab excepted). I still want to go to Trash at least once.

Oh, and I have plans tonight, so no go.

― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:30 (8 years ago) Permalink

i've gone the other way from Lauren and Barima and lately enjoy dancing to/hearing out electro/techno more than I have for some time.

I haven't been to an urban (i'm just gonna keep using that term because i prefer it to anything else) night since Fez Club in Putney ages ago which was actually really good, even when they played Fatman Scoop for the second time...

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:38 (8 years ago) Permalink

You mentalists aren't going to see Miss Kittin?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

if it was a live set i would!

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

I mean, just go smooch on her at least. Give her one for me!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

i've gone the other way from Lauren and Barima and lately enjoy dancing to/hearing out electro/techno more than I have for some time.

You just stay outta our way then, bitch.

― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

Roxy, I would so kiss Caroline if I was going :-(.

― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:48 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'm still contemplating the Kittin. dunno. I fear a) tickets running out by the time I haul my disorganised ass over to Plastic People, and b) ruin tomorrow.

For those wanting to POP, I reiterate: Girls Aloud at GAY on Saturday!

Bah to the Feb 26 goodness, it is a friend's birthday then.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

Alex, be real, you know there's no way I'm going to see Girls Aloud.

― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

i'll miss the 26th stuff too as i will be in Svenska

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Thursday, 17 February 2005 13:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

But I thought we were going to Sweden that weekend!

― alix (alix), Thursday, 17 February 2005 13:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

for sure...

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Thursday, 17 February 2005 13:07 (8 years ago) Permalink

I was gonna comment on The Popstarz Debate but then I realised that I like and dislike club nights entirely on the basis of whether or not they let me in when I was underage, which is kinda useless to, y'know, adults.

I wish I could see Girls Aloud or Miss Kittin.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 17 February 2005 13:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

Truth is, I may have actually had more fun at Club Seal than Vitalic

Flattered and all, but you are a mentalist. The Output night on the 26th looks pretty fantastic. Is this a proper Black Strobe decksnfx thing?

Also, am I the only person who finds rebranding the Camden Palace as 'Koko' utterly hilarious?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 17 February 2005 13:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

come and see Girls Aloud, Greg and Barima! there are no reasons for you not to.

It's looking less and less likely that I will be chez Kittin tonight :(

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 17 February 2005 13:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

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Anything interesting happening on/around the 11th August?

― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 09:11 (9 months ago) Permalink

nothing at all?

― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 22:19 (9 months ago) Permalink

world unknown on the 10th

― jabba hands, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 00:38 (9 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Right now I'm at fabric for dixon, shackleton, joy o, etc. and I am getting really good work done on my MA dissertation!

― formerly EDB (ed.b), Saturday, 25 August 2012 23:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

No joke! I wish I was this productive all the time, no less while writing on my phone.

― formerly EDB (ed.b), Saturday, 25 August 2012 23:52 (8 months ago) Permalink

ha, people have found it quite amusing that my notepad is full of scribbled moments of club inspiration. move the body move the mind.

― emo mcgee vs ricky hitler (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 26 August 2012 05:16 (8 months ago) Permalink

Heheh, conversely people have been amused, but mostly baffled, seeing me reading academic essays during downtime at dance parties.

― formerly EDB (ed.b), Sunday, 26 August 2012 05:25 (8 months ago) Permalink

Hooo... That was a fun 14 hours at Fabric. And yes, Moodymann did play Nirvana! (seconds after I walked into the room and passed someone wearing a Nirvana shirt...

― Hills Like White Broncos (EDB), Monday, October 24, 2011 1:25 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol, last night Theo Parrish likewise played Nirvana.

So, the two and only times I've seen Detroit House DJs here they've both dropped Smells Like Teen Spirit in the middle of their sets. Am I missing something here?

― formerly EDB (ed.b), Sunday, 2 September 2012 08:07 (8 months ago) Permalink

Laurent Garnier is also a well known abuser of that track. I'm not sure quite how I'd react to it, it was a "gateway track" for me, but hearing it hundreds of times in my misspent indie club years has massively dulled the appeal. I feel the same way about Out of Space, which is often used by DJs in a similar way.

― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 2 September 2012 11:55 (8 months ago) Permalink

i was at the dfa thing at corsica studios last night, and fucking hell was it ever packed and boiling. i gave it a go but getting enjoyment out of that environment was beyond me. wish i'd sold my ticket and gone headbang to theo instead.

― tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 2 September 2012 14:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

If it's any consolation Plastic People was packed and boiling, too.

I just regret waiting until my last week in London to go to his monthly night.

― formerly EDB (ed.b), Sunday, 2 September 2012 16:08 (8 months ago) Permalink

Anything happening sep 13-24 and I do know about poptimism so that's already in the plan.

I am going to ask a question that may be met with raised eyebrows: anyone ever been to Slimelight?

(I rather like dancing to goth/EBM/industrial)

― homosexual II, Sunday, 2 September 2012 16:48 (8 months ago) Permalink

Don't expect to do much dancing, but I figure this will be potentially nuts, no?

― formerly EDB (ed.b), Monday, 3 September 2012 14:39 (8 months ago) Permalink

I think I'm going to that. Hans-Joachim Roedelius is 77!

― mmmm, Monday, 3 September 2012 15:06 (8 months ago) Permalink

Corsica still continuing to oversell their nights

― suare, Monday, 3 September 2012 15:18 (8 months ago) Permalink

Xpost: I didn't know he was even alive!

― formerly EDB (ed.b), Monday, 3 September 2012 15:21 (8 months ago) Permalink

I am so tempted by that on almost every level. AND YET: I hate Eat Shite; Become Shite so much that I would probably actually refuse to go to a night that had put them on the bill. :-/

― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Monday, 3 September 2012 15:23 (8 months ago) Permalink

the Playmoon nights look good - not sure if I've been to the crucifix lane venue or not

― suare, Monday, 3 September 2012 16:25 (8 months ago) Permalink

i contemplate pantha du prince, efdemin, lawrence and redshape on saturday in ldn fields

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 11:43 (8 months ago) Permalink

roman flugel is there too! tempting but those big name lineups just scream 'roadblock' to me (lol old). i'm thinking about factory floor/peter gordon at the ICA on the same night, and/or juju & jordash at corsica on friday.

― jabba hands, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 11:53 (8 months ago) Permalink

If I was still in London there would be NO question about that Dial night. That lineup could be in the 9th ring of Hell and it would still be amazing.

― formerly EDB (ed.b), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 12:06 (8 months ago) Permalink

I went to the Komische night. We stayed for Roedelius but could have done with some beanbags to lounge around on during the performance! After he finished we opted to leave for some house music so went across to Nomad. Never been there before, sound system not brilliant and odd crowd. There was a couple heaving petting in the middle of the dancefloor for at least an hour. It emptied out by 3 for Audio Werner who was really very good.

― mmmm, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 12:19 (8 months ago) Permalink

heavy not heaving!

― mmmm, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 12:34 (8 months ago) Permalink

i have tickets for the dial thing (a fiver back in july) but i'm mega-skint paying for a diploma at the moment, so i might pass, even the price of a drink or two is beyond my meagre budget.

it is an unbelievable lineup tho, and i could walk there in about 10 mins.

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 12:38 (8 months ago) Permalink

how was the dial night?

J&J live were good but it was a fairly sparse crowd and the atmosphere was a little flat. tama sumo livened things up afterwards. factory floor & peter gordon the next night were really, really great.

― jabba hands, Sunday, 16 September 2012 16:12 (8 months ago) Permalink

dial was good imo, the venue was decent, v v hot. tunes were good in fits and starts, half hour here and there, but overall a good vibe. flugel was v odd, he played what sounded like 05ish minimal stuff. efdemin played some great bits at times, and i think it was lawrence in the main room who was good.

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Sunday, 16 September 2012 16:25 (8 months ago) Permalink

venue was good but waaay too hot and overofficious security running around like FBI men gone wild (running to close a window someone just opened?)

efdemin/roman flugel played different kinds of things, no particular coherent theme but was good in places
pantha du prince was actually not too bad, better than i thought he would be

lawrence was easily the best tho, tapered a bit towards the end but great otherwise

― suare, Sunday, 16 September 2012 17:31 (8 months ago) Permalink

i felt guilty for bailing after being up for it but looks like it wasn't such a bad decision

― lex pretend, Sunday, 16 September 2012 17:37 (8 months ago) Permalink

<i>Corsica still continuing to oversell their nights</i>

Is that just a programming issue, with a relatively empty Room 2 as often happens at Corsica; plain over-crowding; or are you talking about having to wait with pre-bought tickets because it's overcapacity?

― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 16 September 2012 17:53 (8 months ago) Permalink

sometimes lopsided line ups with empty second room, and sometimes just plain overcrowding - not had any problems with waiting to actually get in though

― suare, Sunday, 16 September 2012 19:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

yeah, last time i was there the second room was like a pretty busy normal club while the main room was jam packed beyond any possibility of dancing.

― tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 16 September 2012 19:54 (8 months ago) Permalink

You just need to go to the nights no one wants to go to, like me. :D

― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 16 September 2012 23:19 (8 months ago) Permalink

So, I'm going to catch some rather deep techno this Saturday. Bleep 43 have Svreca playing at The Waiting Room in Stoke Newington.

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 13:56 (7 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wL1ULtKfAA8

O_O footage of the police raid on 93 Feet East

― Albert Crampus (NickB), Monday, 10 December 2012 15:38 (5 months ago) Permalink

It's all a bit keystone cops with the sped-up footage.

Seems like total overkill to me.

― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 10 December 2012 19:28 (5 months ago) Permalink

Svreca was absolutely brilliant a couple of months back, very highly recommended.

― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 10 December 2012 19:29 (5 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Cheeky plug, I’m going to be playing some records with a couple of friends in that Dalston at a venue called Power Lunches on Sunday 17th. Hopefully there will be dancing.

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 13:21 (3 months ago) Permalink

upstairs or down?

― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 13:38 (3 months ago) Permalink

It’ll be downstairs.

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 14:23 (3 months ago) Permalink

…and the day before I will be catching the every excellent Mick Wills in The Waiting Room, Stoke Newington. Highly recommended.

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 11:45 (3 months ago) Permalink

er, very excellent.

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 11:46 (3 months ago) Permalink

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