19th september 2007 - garden get together and alergija the garden in croatia has quickly become a highly praised venue and festival due to the excellent ethics and effort of the promotions team. so much so that this is the third time i've been compelled to blog it - previously doing so here and here.... now that is value for money alergija is arguably the most popular home-grown band in croatia and stipa, the lead singer, also happens to be one of the garden family. the bands unique brand of ska inspired punk is well worth checking out and it's heartening to know that the youth of this region of europe is so inspired by their genuine creativity. ... mosh it up.
11th august 2007 - dub pistols moriarty and dub pistols @ smack, leamington spa 6th august 2007 - the big chill the big chill... favorite haunt of the summer and the only festival holding a deal with the holy father for good weather..
21st july 2007 - product canadian luke fair and dj hal played alongside products dj makai and it was a good night for music and beer. 12 july 2007 exit - serbia the exit festival is astonishing - every corner of the C15th fort in novi sad has a stage - the music variety is superb and soulfull - the serbian kids are funky, cool and full of love for visitors. 8th july 2007 - the garden croatia the garden festival is about the best there is for like minds, grown up knees up, good food and music. 1st july 2007 - celtronic ireland
18th june 2007 - firefly birthday firefly celebrate 7 years at the marcus garvey in nottingham..
27th may 2007 - lovebox lovebox in birmingham - indoor festival at 'air' nightclub..
7th may 2007 - detonate indoor festival detonate did the indoor festival last year using venues like rock city, the rescue rooms, stealth and their outside courtyard, multiple floors and rooms. it was very good. this year was just as energetic with 50 artists playiing 7 arenas.
21st april 2007 - camera review about the price of a roll of film (with developing), the 'innovage mini digital camera' boasts a pop up viewfinder, is the size of a matchbox and is, in a sense, bad enough to be celebrated. it's a camera / webcam with a video function and they reckon you'll catch classic, 'unpredictable' moments with family and friends. 6th april 2007 - habit newcastle habit in newcastle has been steadily nurturing it's reputation for quality for a few years now.
march 23rd 2007 - bloc weekender bloc-weekends promoters thought it would be good for 2500 drum and base heads to take over a 1950's holiday camp for three days and they were right.
20th march - myspace 'bleepbleep' tour the myspace bleep-bleep tour recently visited nottingham with bands 'i say marvin', 'pull tiger tail', and 'ali love'.
3rd march 2007 - specturm 'spectrum' is already having a good year. they recently celebrated six years and then cleaned up at the breakspoll awards. they won Best Club/Event, best breakthru DJ went to resident hexadecimal and the new spectrum label grabbed best breakthru Label.
tibetan new year - 18th feb 2007 there will be a few celebrating tibetans around at the moment as it is new year (losar) - 18th february marked the beginning of the festival and there will be sore heads for the next month or so. it is the year 2133 by the lunar calender. 24th feb 2007 - derry ireland derry has strong links with all kinds of dance music thanks to the efforts of the 'deep fried funk' promoters, and now drum and base is being pioneered in this most musical of cities by global virus. first up 'move' played a superb dnb / scratch / hiphop mash up with a live drummer. their energy and playing did them credit considering it was only the trio's 2nd gig. really good stuff. following up, zyon base - a fast rising dnb producer living in belfast - tonight played his first gig in the north. many thanks to hago
23rd feb - belfast ireland erol alkan and psycatron did a great job and the venue (the stiff kitten), with function one system and adjoining restaurant is just superb. big thanks to paul and all at zoo and stiff kitten.
1st feb - leeds, england leeds again this week. kissdafunk celebrated their birthday.
1st jan 2007 - new years eve nottingham 2006 was a strange year. there was the tragic loss of my long time friend scott and his new bride sandra, along with their unborn baby in the bahrain boat disaster. some old friends found out about their death through scott being splashed on the front of u.k. shite-rag 'the sun'. they reported our loss with a typical lack of accuracy and sympathy, so i hooked up with quality satirists private eye magazine to stitch them up.
11th november 2006 - leeds england the glass house in leeds is always rammed to the rafters. in the past it has had a lightweight reputation for music but it seems things have changed with the owners now going a little bit deeper.
15th december 2006 - shlomo nottingham it's astonishing that shlomo is not better known. despite working with bjork, which led to 4.5 billion hearing his beatbox skills at the 2004 olympic launch, and his becoming an artist in residence at the south bank in london most people have failed to pick up on him.
dealmaker records set out in 2003 to represent local talent and now puts on some of notts best hip-hop events
dealmakers own artists warm up the crowd
foz has solid beatbox skills and is evolving the sound himself
shlomos first development is useing a beat looper
following this he takes to the drums, all the while beatboxing
immediatly after the gig, resting backstage 31st october 2006 - derry ireland
10th december 2006 - birmingham england the custard factory is a great venue. with the deep pool in the square emptied of water and covered with a marquee below produced an interesting night.
25th november 2006 - leeds england back to basics has moved venue recently. it's a good move and the new place has a heated garden marquee, three floors and more corners than rehab had..
21st october 2006 - what to blog then? photographs seem to do a good job passing my time and, since i'm not a particularly good writer, i think i'll just blog with photos randomly. |
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