the rolling london dancing thread

i bet something cmoes up on the 19th too....

back to the subject of fabric - how late did you guys stay? were you there when the free beer got handed out?

i haven't really got a great deal to add to what i said above, except that mandy were really, really good, although i think the only thing i recognised was trentemoller's "polar shift".

anyway, november the 19th, magda/richie/ricardo, everyone should come! i'm ysi-ing the hawtin/villalobos essential mix now, guess i'll put up a link in an hour or so...

http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1LMFMNP51EG5U10U937I535JKC

the lady and i are putting on a night on sat sep 26th at the bull in clerkenwell. it's called such great heights and will involve all sorts of fun aviation-related things as well as much dancing to unavoidable leg-shakers of this ilk:

Gwen Stefani ELO Public Image Ltd Supremes Franz Ferdinand Sonics Saint Etienne Rolling Stones Fleetwood Mac Basement Jaxx David Bowie New Order Tom Vek Pulp Rachel Stevens LCD Soundsystem Roxy Music Arcade Fire Kraftwerk Rakes Postal Service A Certain Ratio Annie

So do please come. It's only £1.99 to get in, and you'll get a polystyrene aeroplane for your trouble...(we bought *way* too many)

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i don't think you can buy nus advance tickets for fabric, but presumably showing an nus card on the door does the job.

who's coming to hawtin/villalobos, anyway?

eg Ed! apparently? Ed?

Gareth? i texted him but to no avail

dec3 is looking a possible, also. there is talk of ronan golf raver possible appearance.

there are 25 threads about ronan

Lindstrom & Prins Thomas live & djing at Our Disco, Plastic People tomorrow Friday 11/11.

Arnaud Rebotini doing new beat / industrial / post punk stuff at Cosey, The Asylum Saturday 12/11 till 2am, then...

M.A.N.D.Y., Booka Shade, Guido Schneider, Unit 4 and more at Superfreq, The End Saturday 12/11.

Tim Sweeney, Tim Goldsworthy, Gavin Russom & Delia Gonzalez live at Our Disco, Plastic People Friday 18/11.

whats on the 16th dec at fabric?

3rd dec im doing get physical in leeds - 3.50 on train as opposed to 20/30 pound.

lucianos playing leeds on the 26th nov so presumably he will be in london some time round then too.

er, yeah. oops. NOV 26th obv.

as you were...

i am worried i have been sending txts intended for other people, to you...again.

did i send a txt on friday night about not being able to get drugs or something? that was for O, i cant work out if she is ignoring me, or it is that i sent the message to you

i have no idea what im sending to who, anymore. perhaps it doesnt really matter

maybe i sent it to you as well. i dont even know anymore

a bit of my phone fell off, the day before yesterday

Ooh, that is my birthday. My 30th. I'm still looking for a plan. What's happening at fabric?

i don't see that the 16th is very exciting, really...

This kinda tempts me even more than Garnier and co at the End. I need to make up my mind properly and also feel better but MANDY is kind of on my hitlist for way too long now.

also, house party in my hood means even cheaper hedonism a short walk away.

i'm going to my best friend's birthday dinner party first, so i will probably turn up quite drunk sometime between twelve and one. guess i'll see whoever's there in the usual place (left hand side if facing stage)? texting works ok in the main room, anyway.

crazy times.

thanks for the printing tip, i would have never have done that. in fact, i may never do it as i dont have a printer now ive left work :(

ill work somethign out. i have attempted to contact you via Lex with my phone number. whats rickyt doing?

(i'm a bit regretful that i decided not to go now!)

RICARDO VILLALOBOS
MAGDA
TOBI NEUMANN
TROY PIERCE
GILES SMITH
JAMES PRIESTLEY

Possibly free, don't think I've been charged going in there before, but not too sure, the flyer doesn't have any door price on it. Midday to midnight, probably going to be very very messy.

http://www.4four.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=8328

it was pretty good, but i was too full of food and kept getting stitch, so gave up at around 5. i'm pretty sure that's the fullest i've ever seen it - was so, so glad i had aticket, the queue at 1am was ridiculous. was it really that packed last year?!

http://static.flickr.com/33/65470831_218e27d603.jpg?v=0

do please come along! we'll be dressed as pilots/stewardesses/ground crew and there will be aeroplanes *everywhere*...

it soudns stupid but i just sort of resent the fact that to hear music i so completely enjoy, with such incredible sound, is just such an unpleasant place to be. i often look at people in fabric and only about 20% of people even seem to be smiling, or look like they are having fun. the rest are caught up in a maelstrom of pushing past, squeezing in, or just wandering around looking lost and defeated.

too many people last night i know, and it probably wouldnt be like that next time, but i just cant be bothered. everyone i know hates fabric, and i was the last cheerleader for it, i sort of liked the inhumanity of it, the machine like, unpleasant atmoshpere on the door and queuing systems, etc. but i think ive changed sides.

there isnt a solution really, i dont really think that fabric are to blame, if you have people queuing to get in at 4.30 having been there for 3 hours, then you are going to try and get them in for 15 pound a head. but i dont really want to be part of it.

sorry i didnt meet you toby, i left early at about 2.30, partly cos i was knackered from driving down, partly due to logistics with friends still in the queue. i appreciate that had i been i na better state i might have been better equipped to handle the crowds in the main room, but i still sort of feel "how on earth DO you have fun when all night, non stop, people are pushing past you one way or the other?", constant movement, not dancing, but just travel. i dont do any drugs so i wonder if that would take my mind off it, but whilst shutting my eyes and zoning out does help, and felt really good, it wasnt enough.

apparently matthew dear was firing, and i cant believe villalobos played that skream tune.

good to meet you marianna, albeit briefly. sorry it was a bit random to accost you in the middle of the busiest flow of people, but i thought i should say hello at least!

next weekend i think i may go to this night of charlies,

i think there was talk of going to The End on one of the first two weekends of december, i would be up for that.

this talk of packedness seems a shame, i dont really like things to be all uncomfortable like that, space is pretty important