the rolling london dancing thread

Admittedly I haven't been for a while and maybe it's just by comparison with places like (the horrible, vile, revolting) XOYO but yeah, I would agree.

true, Beyond the Clouds was perfectly fine. but the Terje night will be incredibly rammed - especially as they've completely forgotten to book anyone for room two

Yeah it's not splitting the big draws out over both rooms that causes the issue, although Lowlife was sold out and that was alright WRT dancing space.

the number of london club venues that are actively pleasant is tiny though. east village and uhhh, ummm, er.

i intend to go to this though

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actively pleasant sounds like an unfairly high standard to set to me. i'll settle for a venue that's just not grim and hope the night i'm there for does the rest of the work.

So tempted by Bloc. But kinda put off for the reasons Mr DC mentions.

incidentally what's happening in the dance tracks poll nominations thread? is it still just nominations? i can never bring myself to click on a thread with so many new answers

i haven't really been following it enough to know, but I kinda started losing interest when people were suggesting keeping it to house and techno (not that there's any prob with H&T but it does ignore huge swathes of potential noms for better or worse)

i am hugely pro limiting it to house and techno, maybe i can psyche myself up to clicking on it again

seems like it'll be a good poll! so many classic tracks i'd forgotten about

xp to mattdc..... lowlife crew care about you having a good time though, it's not just about taking your money which is what puts me most of the big venues in london. don't really understand why you'd pay £15 to get into a place that's too rammed to dance and you can't sit and relax and talk. especially these massive event things where the big name djs usually end up playing boring crowd pleaser sets and everyone is just waiting for the hits. blah, not for me.

places i have enjoyed so far this year, boys club in dalston, passion in hackney, new empowering church. seating areas, buffet food, smoking indoors, byob, friendly people, no-name djs, no queues, no aggro.

Plastic People still seems pleasant to me?

do you still have to queue for 20 mins to get outside?

not their fault btw, didn't the council impose some sort of zero tolerence bs on them or something? so security went into airport mode

I still like The Nest.

does plastic people still have sauna-like temperatures and no air con?

yeah i like the nest.

smoking indoors = automatic disqualification from being considered pleasant

went to andy blake's night in brixton 'world unknown' a few weeks ago...that shit is the real deal!

a mate of mine goes to that religiously, fucked if i'm going south of the river though

the DARKEST, LOUDEST room imaginable. crazy selection of music: a lot of weird rare stuff i'd never heard but he dropped frankie goes to hollywood at one point heh. he just has the knack for making ppl dance. gay dudes making out at the front, rastas at the back smoking weed. worth the trip i promise!

world unknown and body hammer are both great nights

So, I was pressured into going to Bloc (on the Friday only). Line up looks good, and hell if I managed to get home from the shit-pit that is Proud2 I should be able to get back from wherethehellthisplaceis.

Not going to free rotation now, almost feel tempted by bloc but when it comes to it...no

bloc line-up = YES
bloc everything else = uhhhhhh

going to ikonika's ep launch @ rhythm factory this weekend, ft mr beatnick, d££mnds, optimum etc

Rhythm Factory must have a new booker, they have some great line ups now. Haven't been there for 18m or so although it's metres from my door..

I walk past it every day and at some point in last couple months noticrd lineups were suddenly good

also doing happy hour and Thai food again I see. The next Alfalfa night is a possibility.

never heard of that night but i like xandru

OK folks, what is up on Friday? i feel like dancing

ya i just came in to ask the same question! annual assessment panel on friday, PROPER MASH UP required for us all afterwards.

rhythm factory is real close to me too! will keep a eye on the line-ups. could be a return to the golden (actually terrible) days when they were doing t bar at that place by aldgate.

i might go to that juan atkins things next friday

Goddamn it I'd love to go dancing Friday but as ever I'm too poor. Do let us know next time though. Am I too old to be going out all night to clubs at 31 (1/2)? I have no idea of the average age of London clubbers as most people may age from the area I live wouldn't be seen dead at a rave...

Bought tickets to Nick Hoppner at Corsica on a whim. (I hate to be going back to Toronto in September, where a year = like 3 weeks here, dance music event wise).

dj neptizzle in dalston

Bill Patrick is playing in town on Friday... at the Russian bar... Would go to that if I were around. There isn't a whole host more on (but Sat is a different question). Also dog latin - 31 is not too old to go clubbing!

Just booked Ibiza trip again.. (I know it's not London Dancing but I'm excited..)

is there even an ibiza thread on ilm? i went a few weeks ago would be fun to talk abt it somewhere

yes, there is, no posts for 8 years though! Would like to know your thoughts. I love the place but I know how people hate it...

Never been ibiza...or croatia for that matter

Like the look of sunwaves, romania. labyrinth japan looks kinda nice too

london dancing tips!

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Saturday, 27 October 2012
£15

Room 1 - Innervisions
Dixon
Âme

Room 2 - Permanent Vacation
Tensnake (live)
Todd Terje
Prins Thomas

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Sunday, 29 July 2012
£10

Studio 4
X-Press 2 [4 Hour Balearic Set]
Jonny Rock
Carsten Klemann
Derren Smart

Studio 5
Prosumer
Tama Sumo
Elif Live

Holy shit @ 27th October lineup.

Oh, "Secret East London location" :(

niiice. i'm trying to take advantage of a relatively free summer as much as possible, so bookended by beauty and the beat next week (has anyone ever been?) and some kind of disco weekender at the nest with aeroplane and todd terje at the end of august, but that leaves me a lot of gaps to fill.

what's the 'secret east london location' thing all about? 9 times out of 10 it's a normal club which they presumably have booked from the beginning, so...?

I've never had a less than great night at BATB and the new years party was easily the best night out dancing I've ever had.

Best bit of the night- coming up from the downstairs chill out room to find my sister leading a conga line full of people wearing these comedy glasses we'd bought back from Xmas with the parents. Soundtracked to some ridiculous tribal crusty disco acid funk amazingness through *that* soundsystem. One of the few nights I can look back on where there's no dark /weird /ugly shit everyone just had a blast start to finish.

Also lol at when the venue owner came over to Cedric to tell him he's got one more song, Cedric kinda looks at the packet out dance floor, turns the volume up and gestures 'I can't hear you' to which owner dude laughed and the party carries on for another hour or so with the lights on.

Quite tempted by Diskjokke and In Flagranti in Dalston tonight actually.

Everywhere in London seems to be competing to set themselves up as a shelter for displaced ravers.

i was at BATB on new year's as well. i think i had a great time but the only music i can remember is the smiths.

I need to fucking get out more.

We went to Fabric in the end, dull and clumpy for the first hour or so and got progressively better. Weird highlight was Petre Inspirescu dropping a significant section of Debussy's La Mer over some skeletal house.