Archive of posts filed under the events category.
FREQ out
Freq Presents: The Drones Club “We’re pretty broad minded here, and if you stop short of smashing the piano, there isn’t much you can do at the Drones that will cause the raised eyebrow and the sharp intake of breath”. PG Wodehouse, “Young Men In Spats” Thursday 15 July 2004 at The Eye, 79-81 Stoke …
mashit mash it
SATURDAY 12th JUNE 2004: a night of ROOTS REGGAE with SOLUTION SOUND SYSTEM
An upful night of roots reggae with a mixture of the tuffest oldies, crucial new release and unrelease music alongside M.C’s, singers and players live on the sound. The venue is: UNITY WORKS 25 WHITE POST LANE HACKNEY WICK E9 TRAIN: The venue is next door to Hackney Wick overground station (trains goes via Kentish …
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deptford fun city reprise
Neil will be launching his new pamphlet Deptford Fun City: a ramble through the history and music of New Cross & Deptford on Thursday May 27th 2004, 8 pm at South London Radical History Group, Use Your Loaf, 227 Deptford High Street, SE8 (admission free). Turns out I will be playing some tunes at this …
set list 15/5/04
It was my mate Chris’ birthday party on Saturday, so I blagged the warm up shift on the decks. Playing to an empty room is harder than you would think – you have a key role in drawing people in, rather than forcing them to go to another pub for some dutch courage. Anyway – …
Solution Sound 3rd April 2004 – Niceness/Worries in the Dance
The rest of the crew were out of town or otherwise engaged. I was fighting off a cold. That’s how I ended up on my own in Dalston at 10:30. The first one through the gate. The shame of it! I had a nice chat with the guy on the door about recent sessions, setting …
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something for the weekend
Look alive east London crew! SATURDAY 3RD APRIL 2004 A night of Raw Roots Reggae with SOLUTION SOUND SYSTEM @ 10-16 Ashwin St, Dalston, Hackney, London E8 Entrance: £6.50 10pm to 4:30am (later if the crowds nice…and it usually is!) This will be an upful night of Roots Reggae with a mixed selection of new …
Garageland part 2: Sick & Twisted 12/3/04
I arrived to hear DJ Broken Yolk pulling out all the stops with a selection of high quality industrial ragga mash ups. Very nice indeed. No idea what most of it was. Probably a bit cheeky to sample Volcano Sound’s dubplates for your breakcore records, I would think. JA Soundsystems are not people I would …
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Garageland part 1: Vox n Roll 11/3/04
Vox and Roll is a free monthly event at which authors read their work and play a few of their favourite tunes. It is in the tiny Minibar at the Garage and well worth checking, even if (like me) the thought of attending a literary event makes you cringe. Tonights show featured two authors who …