the rolling london dancing thread

anything happening in late april?

Tief with Todd Terje, Morgan Geist + more, 28 April? I'll be out of town for it ffs, I suspect that Dundee's club scene on that night will not be quite as appealing.

todd terje?

http://www.corsicastudios.com/index.php/april-2012/586-tief-arpil-28th

lol oops/

anyone hitting mano le tough @ electric minds this w/e?

it's my birthday sunday and am meeting few berlin friends who are over for this with mano, on saturday. might go to electric minds tho i haven't been to a club for god knows how long, maybe 18 months.

i'm really distressed that i'm going to miss the terje/geist/etc night. (i am playing gamelan in york, so i'll at least be doing something fun, but still. ;_; )

in my almost six months here i've been pretty terrible with the dancing, not even been to fabric yet jeez. i'm planning on breaking that duck at the fwd>> + rinse thing in a couple of weeks, though. how does the £10 students before midnight thing work? is it possible to buy that kind of ticket, and if not is there the reasonable possibility that i'll turn up and it'll be sold out?

Tief with Todd Terje, Morgan Geist + more, 28 April? I'll be out of town for it ffs, I suspect that Dundee's club scene on that night will not be quite as appealing.

― Boo-Yaa Too Rough International Boo-Yaa Empire (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, March 21, 2012 7:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hellooooooo

me & my crew are all gonna be at terje/geist

if i was going out dancing this weekend i might choose jenifa mayanja @ the question mark bar, but given the amount of work i have to do, i am not sure that will happen :(

actually, jellybean benitez and quentin harris on sat looks IMMENSE, harris is so much fun as a dj, but...fuck proud2. i mean the venue itself is fine but fuck the location why does it still exist :(

yeah i've wanted to see quentin harris for a long time. is proud2 what used to be called matter?

oh yeah i also went to paramount a few weeks ago (the bar/club at the top of centrepoint). the view is insane! magda was playing who was easily one of the worst djs i've ever seen. still there was a horde of minus fanboys holding up camera phones for the whole set. luckily mr c came on at about 5am and played an absolute stormer of a set while the sun rose over london out of the windows.

what's the nest like?

pretty small, average sound, expensive. still gutted that they got rid of barden's the venue for another trashy kingsland road club like that. what's with all the terje/geist fuss? it'll be expensive and rammed and blah blah! if you can't get in to terje/geist there's a beauty and the beat on the 28th, which will be a much better night :-p

s1ocki - if the weather is up for it, i'd recommend visiting some london parks, make sure you venture south of the river and then carry on to brighton cuz that's easy/fun.

what's with all the terje/geist fuss? it'll be expensive and rammed and blah blah

It'll also be amazing.

ha i dunno, i've seen them both a few times and they've never really taken me anywhere, despite loving loads of stuff they've both put out

really excited about this 'the thing' party on friday, haven't been out dancing for a while! anyone else got their membership stone? gatto fritto + mystic rock. psychedelic party vibes.

maybe it's just the nights that i've been to but i've never had a problem with either the nest or corsica studios being too busy. kinda assumed the latter at least had a policy of not packing it to absolute capacity.

the sound in the nest doesn't really carry but i still rather liked it when i went last summer.

the terje/geist is at corsica which normally lets a sensible number of ppl in. would definitely go but i'm busy that night.

i went to see aeroplane at the nest once at it was awful. couldn't move your arms.

i went to corsica a month or so ago and the main dancefloor was mainly very unpleasant to "dance" in, i say dance, really it was shifting carefully in place, elbows tucked in, amazing sound though

corsica's been overfull the last couple of times i've been, kind of worried that it's a trend

the nest is better than bardens was. bardens soundsystem did my head in. as those interchangeable kingsland rd basements go, i think the nest is one of the better ones - i always feel relaxed in there. conversely how and why is the alibi still going, nothing about it is any good apart from, sadly, some of the people who choose to play there.

i can cosign the paramount views, gorgeous.

wish i could relocate corsica studios to somewhere slightly less hellish to get home from :(

The only time Corsica's felt really overfull to me was the Berghain/Panorama Bar night and that was sold out way way way in advance.

i just miss having a slighter bigger basement venue on kingsland road. people are putting stuff on at power lunches but that place doesn't make enough money to pay people from outside of london/uk. alibi seems to be the place to go if you aren't too fussed about what music is playing. corsica's doing an awesome job with bookings; the egyptian lover night the week before geist/terje, the kompakt night this friday. i really love corsica, but i've never had an amazing time dancing there, the vibe is sometimes a bit hostile and you're constantly having to let people past/through.

yeah, that, really.

basically i am just (predictably) trying to figure out if i should see optimo at dalston superstore a day before their lovebox gig, or the nest a month earlier

see optimo at every opportunity imo

^ gets it

crackle box otm, i like todd terje but he's exactly the kind of dj i don't really want to go and see in london. i just assume nights like that will be too crowded and too full of fucked ppl who aren't bothered about dancing. this prob makes me sound like a dick but whatever. todd terje at a festival, or in another country, sure, bring it on etc. if it was just morgan geist on the bill it would prob be more fun :(

xp otm about optimo too, yep

...who i just noticed are at corsica on easter thursday with weatherall and trickski. on the same night as carl craig doing 69 live, maya jane coles and appleblim at pulse...

corsica's been overfull the last couple of times i've been, kind of worried that it's a trend

― uh oh i'm having an emotion (c sharp major), Thursday, March 22, 2012

if they insist on putting big draws in room one and then people nobody cares about in room two then even if its not overfull in terms of the venue, then it will be in terms of that main room

yep, that was exactly the situation with move d, luckily danny native started playing in room two :D

assume people are talking about the workshop night, actually tbf its not the same promoters each time, but even if they didn't oversell the venue, have you seen the line up for the second room at the Terje night? 2nd room is going to be empty apart from people who are there because room one is too crammed

s1ocki - if the weather is up for it, i'd recommend visiting some london parks, make sure you venture south of the river and then carry on to brighton cuz that's easy/fun.

― Crackle Box, Thursday, March 22, 2012 7:09 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sort of the wrong thread but brighton as a day trip sounds fun for sure. what parks do you mean?

(perhaps we should continue this here? London )

i'm putting on an r&b night in dalston tonight if anyone feels like coming out for a dance

https://www.facebook.com/events/384036508290564/

wish i could but parents in town BOO

bring them

argh todd terje/morgan geist sold out :(

anything else going on that weekend/week?

on the friday there's some kind of deviation/hyperdub thing ft. omar-s, ikonika, cooly g, ill blu, funkystepz, martyn etc. "warehouse location tbc".

jackmaster and oneman at the nest should be good if that's not sold out, pretty small venue for them.

slocki is it the end of apr or may you're around?

(i thought it was may but if you're asking about that weekend it's apr)

april 24-may 4!!

sadly only contains one weekend because of a wedding im djing on may 5

omar-s, ikonika, cooly g, ill blu, funkystepz, martyn etc

I'm meh on Cooly G and probably Ikonika as a DJ but this is one hell of a lineup.

Sold Out also doesn't mean they won't be letting people in on the door. Never has in my experience, anyway.

Yeah you just need to get there earlier.

Also a friend may have a spare for Todd Terje.

Any idea how early? I've always been organised enough to get tickets in advance so I don't really know what time I'd need to show up to have a chance at getting tickets on the door.

I'd say before 12 to be safe. Before 11:30 to be even more safe.

Thanks! Would've gone before 11:30 even with a ticket, so no problems there.
Fingers crossed, really want to go to this.

Guardian find a trend for some dancing in bars and places without a late licence - micro-raves! Whatever next!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/apr/01/microclubbing-commuter-alternative-rave

"dad raves"