I’m part of the panel at this tonight, I think it’s going to be really interesting. The overly flattering blurb goes like this: “A panel discussion in conjunction with The Vinyl Factory as part of the Diesel School of Island Life, bringing together creative thinkers that have pioneered new trends in music.”
London art collective Ishihara are putting on a special event for the Queen Of Hoxton’s second birthday. Throughout the whole first week of March, artists including James Ari King and Sarah Langford will add new pieces and installations to the venue, starting with the outer walls culminating in a full exhibition (and party) on Sunday 6th March. A nice idea I reckon. The last exhibition of their’s I went to was genuinely pretty interesting, mainly thanks to the discovery of Richard Sanz’s work: beautiful, tripped-out psychedelic stuff to watch as you listen to The Black Angels on repeat.
Photo: Dan J Spinney
Stopmakingme mix and interview for The FADER is now online, including lots of new music from me. You can see it here.
My debut EP is released on Kill Em All Records in under two weeks and you can listen to the whole thing right here. Massive thanks to the OWTIC guys for all their support. The beautiful artwork was designed by Kate Copeland, one of the best illustrators in the country right now.
Before I start, this one isn’t actually some phony competition. If you’re in a band and you want to support Phoenix at a huge gig in Berlin, you really should enter. The band are picking so everyone has as much chance as the next guy. Do it!
There will be some amazing artists in Camden for Junction. Go and have a look
LANZAROTE from Take Courage on Vimeo.
LANZAROTE – the birth of a collaborative club night launching at a secret EC2 warehouse with a live and unhinged performance from HEALTH.
9pm – 4am | 16.10.2010 | secret EC2 warehouse | £12 advance TICKETS
It’s been a while since I posted anything so it’s about time for a new slice of self-congratulatory promotion. This is a new club mix I made for Erol Alkan’s Phantasy Sound label to go alongside a piece on why Gonzales’ Take Me To Broadway means so much to me as a DJ. It’s all in celebration of Phantasy’s next single, Erol Alkan’s rework of Chilly’s Never Stop (out 06/09/10). You can read the whole thing here. The artwork is by a good friend and amazing designer Kevin Scully who works under the name Biology Project. You need to check him out!
Here’s our first Kill Em All radio show in conjunction with the nice chaps at Mixcloud. It’s a selection of new bands and club music that represent our Kill Em All nights as well as music from artists that have influenced and informed them. Plus some ramblings from us.
Enjoy.
Cafe OTO in Dalston has some really interesting (and pretty out there) things happening. They’re putting on truly leftfield music almost seven nights a week. It’s reassuring to know that places like this can still exist. A few people have told me about this event on Thursday. The flyer explains it all – plus it looks great.
Record Club: INXS “Need You Tonight” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
Beck is the best! He’s definitely been one of the most important figures in music over the last two decades. Check out his new Album Club project where he gets a load of musicians together to record an entire album in a day. This time it was INXS’ ‘Kick’.
This month, the Subject60 parties are touring Berlin, Paris, Madrid and Milan with the London leg taking place at a huge warehouse space in Holborn last night. My grandparents own a Volvo so I wasn’t expecting much but the party turned out pretty damn well. A never ending supply of drink helped, sure, but so did the amazing maze-like layout and decent soundsystem. And then Lykke Li played live. And was great. Everyone seemed startled by how many of her songs they actually love and know all the words to. That Facehunter dude was wandering about so there was a bit too much hair flicking going on but, y’know, back to the free bar innit. All in all, pretty safe (note: I stole this joke from someone else.)