This Weekend in London
Friday: I can’t see anything in the listings that I want to go to on Friday, but then I’ve been in Birmingham all this week training, and missing work due to having food poisoning or something. Being stuck in a Holiday Inn in Birmingham while you can only consume bread and water is a rung below what the Taliban do to hostages. Worse weather too.
Saturday: Lots of options here. Loco Dice and Jay Haze amongst others at Fabric, could be fun though not sure I want to go to Fabric itself. Vera at T-Bar is a lazy man’s option for me, but I do like her music so it could be good. This seems to be a residency of sorts connected to Monza Club. Anyone been yet? Worth a look? Elsewhere Pepe Braddock and Efdemin are in AKA, which some friends are going to. Anything else good?
Sunday: My first UK May means two Bank Holidays, and this is the first one. Some good gigs too, I have to say I really like the idea of going to see the Mole and Mountain People on a Sunday afternoon at this Secretsundaze 2008 opening party. It’s the Sunday afternoon part I like. I imagine a room of people reading the paper eating bacon rolls while wispy German house plays. Though in the back of my head I hear the voice of a certain RA colleague calling the Mole and Mountain People boring. Still, I love the latest Mole single with its 90s French House goodness. (more on that soon.)
Sunday also could be a good chance to go to Dig Your Own Rave for the first time, where Hector and Rob Mello are playing with some special guests, presumably whoever has a late Sunday flight.
Monday: If you’re still out, I’m too old. Actually though one gig that I noticed here is Ralf Kollmann of Mobilee playing at a venue I’ve never heard of before. Not that my London knowledge is anything but novice. Ralf is a former HIAF guest mixer (there are just 6 in the entire world!) and if you liked those mixes then this could be a good gig to see.
If I’ve forgotten something good, and no doubt I have, let me know. If I go to half those gigs I’ll be doing very well. Feel free to mention anything fun going on where you’re living too.
chrisdisco wrote:
i haven’t seen the mountain people in the flesh, but the sets of theirs i have heard have been bang on. saw mole the other year at berghain play live + dj and it was enjoyable, but definitely nothing too special. saying that, his new album has just dropped. and ‘baby you’re the one’ is so god damn catchy.
Posted 01 May 2008 at 11:59 pm ¶
tiddlerz wrote:
secret sundaze all the way. so cool and trendy!
Posted 02 May 2008 at 1:05 am ¶
Reilly wrote:
Ronan site is great! Gud to c the irish likely good music! Ur gonna miss Lucio Aquilina tonight being in the UK! Have ya been to Mcgrudders? What ya think of it if ya have?
P.S look out for a nite called HOMEWORK its start up and it will be huge!
Posted 02 May 2008 at 12:34 pm ¶
molko999 wrote:
Dont forget that Dyed Soundorom is playing alongside Ralf Kollmann! Should be great!
Posted 02 May 2008 at 5:03 pm ¶
Ronan wrote:
excuse my ignorance, but who is that molko? be interesting to hear.
Reilly yeah I’ve been in McGruders but a while ago now, I played there for some of Al Keegan’s Mixed Salad gigs, great laugh anytime I was down. Not been there for any evening gigs though. Glad you like the site!
Posted 02 May 2008 at 7:14 pm ¶
molko999 wrote:
Hey Ronan,
Dyed Soundorom is a French DJ on Freak’N'Chic. He has a residency at TBar and recently played at Fabric before Ricardo. His first EP (Question / Infection) was released on Freak’N'Chic (playlisted by Carl Craig, Kiki, Anja Schneider, Cardini, Weatherall, Lazarus, among others…)
He is definitely one to check if you have never seen him before. I think he also plays at Weekend in Berlin this saturday.
Posted 02 May 2008 at 8:43 pm ¶
Ronan wrote:
aha…haven’t got a freak n chic record for a good long time now, but that sounds fun too.
Posted 03 May 2008 at 12:10 am ¶
Paul M wrote:
I’d definitely recommend trying to see Efdemin if you can. He played in Wax on Thursday and despite it being a less than perfect venue he was really good.
This weekend is the biggest in Dublin for a long time, so have had to make decisions on a few things. Played last night before Ame and the Hacker, tonight I reckon it’ll be Redshape in Kennedys and then tomorrow Ricardo and Loco Dice up in the Tivoli.
That Secretsundaze party on Sunday sounds cool, would definitely be the pick for me if I were in London.
Posted 03 May 2008 at 10:21 am ¶
Ronan wrote:
How were Ame? No offence to Remedy (indeed Dublin has needed somebody like that to put the boot in about booking big name house and techno acts) but they sure love the Hacker!
He hasn’t released a record that I heard anyone play or done anything worthwhile in about 3 or 4 years, he must have a great personality or an estranged Irish child as he seems to be play Dublin twice a year!
Posted 03 May 2008 at 10:25 am ¶
Paul M wrote:
It was Frank from Ame, he played some really nice deep stuff. I’m not a big fan of the Hacker but judging from last night I seemed to be the exception. Seems you can just bang the same sound for an hour and a half and people will still love it.
Posted 03 May 2008 at 10:30 am ¶
Ronan wrote:
I used to really like Goodlife but even as I got into it it began to tail off and seem formulaic, that was around 2003 I think.
Posted 03 May 2008 at 10:31 am ¶
Paul M wrote:
Yea, i just never liked the stuff he did with miss kitten and I think that just put me off him a bit altogether.
By the way, I met your friend Mark at Efdemin on thursday, nice guy.
Posted 03 May 2008 at 10:37 am ¶
Ronan wrote:
Ah cool, he mentioned he was there alright. I’m very keen to see Efdemin soon I must say, I always like the look of his playlists and charts and stuff.
Posted 03 May 2008 at 10:39 am ¶
Cahony wrote:
Was at Efdemin on Thursday too. Really enjoyed it although as was mentioned Wax probably isn’t the perfect surroundings for his sound.
Looking forward to Loco Dice and Villalobos but there’s so much hype and talk floating around Dublin about it the past couple of weeks it’ll need to be stellar to not be a let down. I overheard people talking about it at two non-dance gigs over the past couple of weeks.
Posted 03 May 2008 at 6:01 pm ¶
Casper wrote:
“It’s the Sunday afternoon part I like. I imagine a room of people reading the paper eating bacon rolls while wispy German house plays.”
Sounds a lot more like our party at the Lock tavern than the carpark of Ministry of Sound, but in between the Mountain People records you’d also have to endure the smatterings of blog house and all that
Posted 04 May 2008 at 12:25 am ¶
chrisdisco wrote:
efdemin - like all the dial cats - is definitely worth seeing. really nice deep sounds.
as for the hacker, he’s definitely in a bit of a locked groove, but he’s been doing that electro/EBM sound forever - before it was popular, when it was hyped, and now that it is largely dead and buried. part of the problem is the electro sound got so big and overplayed, that even the good electro stuff now sounds a bit lame/cliched.
Posted 04 May 2008 at 1:10 am ¶