the rolling london dancing thread

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.

usual fabric thing of not putting first guest on till after 4

was kinda underwhelmed by cobblestone jazz:/

I've heard guests play earlier before, but that may have been years ago.

guests do play earlier it depends who tho, if its ricardo, zip or RPR it will always be later

Tempted by Alfalfa @ Rhythm Factory this Sat. Romania's Herodot & Xandru, should be promising.

speaking of rhythm factory

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niiiiiiiiice

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Any thoughts on this? It's during my last week(s) so I don't mind spending extra for some kind of blowout.

last week(s) in London

Oh, I guess that's an out of date poster. this is current.

Refuse to entertain anything at the London Pleasure Gardens again.

Been playing it safe recently, just Corsica Studios. Last Sat with Jay Shepheard and the Sat before with Michael Mayer. Mayer wasn't so good but Shepheard was really great.

what was lacking w/ mayer? i managed to persuade a bunch of visiting friends to go to beauty and the beat instead of that and they collectively had one of the best clubbing nights of their lives, RESOOLT and such.

What type of stuff is Mayer playing out these days?

Didn't see Lawrence and jus ed in the other room?

Fred p today but can't go

last time i saw mayer i was very disappointed. might have been something to do with the shit sound and overcrowding though.

Anything interesting happening on/around the 11th August?

nothing at all?

world unknown on the 10th

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

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

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

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

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...

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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?

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.

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.

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.

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)

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

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

Corsica still continuing to oversell their nights

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

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. :-/

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

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

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.

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.

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.

heavy not heaving!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

<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?

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

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.

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