the rolling london dancing thread

villalobos at fabric this saturday will be good (well, the last couple of hours of his set were amazing last time, anyway) but i'm giving it a miss as there's no-one else playing that i'm keen to see.

I can't do the 4th, although MIA + Manuva + whoever they wheel out for Run The Road (almost certainly Kano I'd imagine) would be a pretty awesome run.

I am too much of a wuss to cope with proper clubbing on a school night, sadly, so this Thursday is out for me.

I still haven't been able to get into Get Physical properly bar the odd tune or two, but hopefully a night actually dancing to the stuff will sort that out.

Argh Toby, are you aware how much poorer and more exhausted this thread is going to make me in the coming months?

what date in April is Get Physical?

I have this awful problem in that I love to dance, but can't really dance to Dance Music.

indie dancing can be planned here, too!

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

"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.

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

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

is anyone else definitely going?

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

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.

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.

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...

You just stay outta our way then, bitch.

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.

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

Seems like total overkill to me.

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

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.

upstairs or down?

It’ll be downstairs.

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

er, very excellent.

how's the summer looking for people? i don't have much but i am looking forward to sweating myself into oblivion at beauty and the beat tonight.

oh, i was planning to go to that but failed to get a crew together - hope you have an excellent night!

this summer definitely deserves more dancing.

o waaaaaaaaaaao. that was good. and continues to be.

Anyone happen to be going to Eastern Electrics festival in Knebworth? Not technically London, but easy to get to.

Probably going to UR/Mills/Hood on August bank holiday.

pretty cool that BATB have their full sets online now - http://www.houseparty.org.uk/#e1e/custom_plain - giving the most recent one a re-listen gave me the very important reminder of the ridiculous last ninety minutes or so, which included this in its entirety:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea7_6p1aUzs

Interesting, althought the pictures look a little tame? I know that’s not a good judge of music, so I will give the mixes a spin.

I am definitely UR/Mills/Hooding though if anyone fancies meeting.

fuckin ell, never felt so happy and fulfilled at 1am as I do now after Journey Through The Light. Somewhat wondering if someone spiked my drink with nice things.

Psyched for the Fabric birthday lineup:

Craig Richards
Terry Francis
Ricardo Villalobos
Clockwork
Cosmin TRG
Derren Smart
DJ Qu
Juergen Junker
Marcel Dettmann (5 Hour Set)
No Regular Play (Live)
PBR Streetgang
Shed (Live)
Skream (Disco Set)
Sonja Moonear
Soul Clap
Tama Sumo
Wolf & Lamb
Zip

Wait that's surely not all on one night?!

The birthday has been a Sat-Mon power through for the last few years.

yeah it's like 10pm sat - 5am mon.

Villalobos was playing something like a 16-hour set in 2010.

do people itt go out on a schoolnight? will be in ldn for 48 hours, probably going to pop to Weatherall's A Love From Outer Space at Plastic People tomorrow night

Just a little bit of spam, but I will be dancing and also DJing at a night I run with friends in Dalston tonight from 9-3. We have Neville Watson guest DJing for us who is absolutely going to smash it, the space is very intimate, and we are also putting it on for FREE simply because we like to throw a good party, so no excuses really. https://www.facebook.com/events/257377207746381/?fref=ts

a wee way off, but Robert Hood and Luke Slater on 1st Feb looks good and doubtless yet again I'll have no one who'll be interested in coming with me http://www.residentadvisor.net/forum-read.aspx?id=254034

what's everyone doing for NYE?

(and what should I do for my birthday on Friday?)

i'm djing locally. i start my set just after the midnight countdown. what should i play first?

Hadn't really been out dancing in a while until this weekend. I think my tolerance for London nights is waning. It's the same problems of the last few years really - crap temporary venues, lack of organisation, but most of all the people. Why charge around the dance floor back and forth pushing people? Why get so out of it you can't stand up so fall into other dancers? If your friend does this you have a duty to help them. I had a good night at Netil House on Saturday but that was really due to being with good friends and Sonja Moonear's set. Fantastic DJ. Would definitely go out more often if there weren't these issues.

Come and try our night on the 22nd in Dalston. We only have a tiny sweatbox venue which holds 50, and only an OK soundsystem, but we keep it free, have a great atmosphere, friendly crowd (mostly mates, word of mouth and some posts in select places) and most importantly great tunes. OK, that last part can be subjective, so here’s a mix by another of the residents: https://soundcloud.com/frank_mitchell/demented-but-determined.

Event page here, https://www.facebook.com/events/1408677899370795/?fref=ts . Yes I am going to hell for spamming ILX.

Thanks.. sounds interesting!

oh you poor thread :(

anybody doing anything on Aug 1 or 2?

was thinking fur coat & no artificial colours might be good but i've never been to the nest

The Nest is a bit of a hellhole tbh. Started off kinda interesting but then they went all out with their trashy Dalstonite aesthetic.

The Hydra's schedule for the rest of the year is pretty impressive - http://the-hydra.net/#events - though tbh I think I've lost the taste for big name events.

Hehe, my friend DJs at The Nest, I’ve never been though. We have Mark Forshaw playing for us in the basement of Olive, N16 7PL, near the 24 hour bagel place. 9-3am Free Entry. I’m going to be playing a very slow warm-up set from 9.

^ Er that’s this Saturday I should have mentioned.

b-b-but i like trashy!

Chewsh unfortch I'm pretty limited to 1 or 2 of Aug :(

anybody going to this?

http://fieldmaneuvers.com/

500 capacity... that looks very much alright. Nice line up too.

Quite a few people I knew were going but I had prior commitments, definitely my kind of festival.

RIP plastic people :(

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=27655

london's clubs feel so beset right now

and yet the fucking alibi persists in existing

:(

London makes life very difficult, a reasonable venue pops up once in a while but its usually only a matter of time before its stopped. There's a good space on one of the side streets off Mare St but its already had quite a good innings so I dont know how much longer it has

Sad to see Plastic People go, though I always found that venue hard work

Can I spam you all with my next event? Really excited to be doing our first party out of a bar and in an industrial unit. Nice never-before-used space 1 minute from Hoxton.

Guests are:

Plant43 (live)
Jade Seatle
The Creeps (live) - London debut for Glaswegian techno duo

https://www.facebook.com/events/330576403819783/

Nice mix from Jade last week for underthediscoball

https://soundcloud.com/underthediscoball/under-the-disco-ball-podcast-009-jade-seatle

Thanks Saer!

If anyone does fancy it, we will have the venue address up at 8pm on Sat here: http://www.rootsquare.co.uk/

Tell me if you mind me spamming here again. This saturday we have Lerosa playing live, and an extended set from Leah Floyeurs – in the same warehouse unit we used last time.

https://www.facebook.com/events/573576109448222/