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Programme
Manager's Highlights June 2010
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Whichever
way you turn and whenever you turn on the TV you can’t get
away from it. But we don’t want to switch off when the World
Cup comes on! At the Arts Club we’re
big fans and regular players (on the astroturf pitches under the
Westway) and have had many memorable football moments in the club.
So we’re all geared up for the football circus. The tournament
kicks off on Friday June 11, but it’s the
next day when the excitement reaches fever pitch in London. It's
England’s first match of the World Cup! At the Arts Club we’ll
have four big screens, table service and unrivalled
post-match entertainment in the shape of legendary Bristol
City fan DJ Derek.
It’ll
be a World Cup and Sweet Memory Sounds
All-Day Special, starting in mid-afternoon in time for
the Argentina v Nigeria clash at 3pm, which should
be a tasty prelude to the first England game, against the
USA (as if you didn’t know) at 7.30pm.
We’ll be carrying on after the games with the inimitable DJ
Derek back at his favourite London club. The offside rule
may still flummox some of us, but you should know how Sweet
Memory Sounds rolls by now: Derek brings
his extraordinary collection of ska, soul, funk, reggae and dancehall,
adding his Bristolian twist to JA toasting to get everybody happy,
and Adam Callan rocks up with funk and rootsy R&B rhythms too.
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World Cup and Sweet Memory Sounds All-Day Special // Saturday 12
June // 2.30pm-2am // £8 in advance from www.bigwheeltickets.com,
£10 on the door
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For
our regular World Cup Offers click here
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Afrikan Boy at Secousse last September
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Secousse World Cup Afro Special! // Friday
4 June // 7pm-2am // £6 before 11pm, £8 after
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live: Afrikan Boy, The Hackney Empire //
decks: DJ Edu, Secousse Sound System feat Radioclit, Vamanos, A.J.
Holmes & MC Kastro |
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Secousse get into the spirit properly
on Friday June 4, resenting a World Cup
Afro Special as they celebrate the first time that ‘a
World Cup been held in a continent with so much awesome music.’
Secousse hand-pick some of the UK's hottest African
artists to bring you an unmissable party to kick off the tournament.
The
amazing Afrikan Boy has rocked Secousse
before with his unique blend of hip hop and Naja Grime
flavours and he’ll play exclusive tracks from his long-awaited
new album. Also on stage are the brilliant Secousse
resident band, The Hackney Empire, bringing their
tropical nu electro high-life good-time vibes to whip up the crowd.
Rocking
the dancefloor with African heat will be Radio 1xtra's legendary
DJ Edu (Destination Africa) joined all of the the Secousse
Sound System featuring Radioclit, Vamanos, A.J.
Holmes, Mo & MC Kastro. If you want kwaito, coupé
decalé, high-life and kuduro African jump-up party action
you’ll be in the right place, and there’ll be exclusive
limited-edition Secousse T-shirt give-aways from
those nice people at Puma too.
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Communion
has had a sensational Spring, and not just here at the Arts
Club. They’ve launched their record label with superbly-reviewed
nu-folk compilation and EPs, expanded the Communion
club network to Sydney, Australia, and hosted double-whammy Communion
events over the May Bank Holiday Sunday and Monday.
As
Communion co-host Kevin Jones
explains, each of their club nights, whether in Brighton or Bristol,
Dublin or down under, is modelled on the same approach that they
established here at the Arts Club. ‘We
like to really jam-pack the line-ups, we don’t want to put
just a couple of bands on per night, we want to give people value
for money…’
So
successful have they been that Communion and their
artists are in demand at festivals throughout the summer, so their
last party before the autumn will be on Sunday June 6.
Expect an all-star line-up of seven bands and artists from Australia’s
Philadelphia Grand Jury (who’ve been compared to Talking Heads
and The Eels), to indie folk outfit Amber States and the hotly-tipped
Alice
Gold
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See our exclusive interview with Kevin
Jones here
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 Alice
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Communion // Sunday 6 June // 6pm-1am // £8, £5 concessions
before 10pm, then £10, or £7 in advance by pre-ordering
tickets from Music
Glue (you need to sign up first)
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live: Philadelphia Grand Jury, To Kill a King, Pete Lawrie, Jamie
Ley, The Staves, Alice Gold, Amber States // decks: Chess Club,
DJ Jam and guests |
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In case you missed it, here’s what Time Out’s
Kate Hutchinson had to say in a feature on cocktail
clubbing. ‘For cocktails with a real rock ’n’
roll edge, though, the Firewater Club on Tuesday
25 has the tearaway credentials. It’s the brainchild
of the Notting Hill Arts Club’s bar manager
Julian Bayuni, who’s also a member of Gary
’Libertines’ Powell’s band, The
Invasion Of..., who’ll be playing there live. This
time they’ll be going for a Mexican theme
as the West London Tequila Mafia rock up to cause
havoc at the mixology taster session (you see where this is going…)
and spike your drinks with plenty of sizzling spice.
Who knows what kind of abstract expressionist painting your T-shirt
will end up resembling after moshing about, cocktail-in-hand,
to their rock, blues, jazz and soul beats. Suddenly to rock out
with your cock out has a whole new meaning.’
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Firewater
Club //25 May // 8pm-2am // Free to Firewater
Society Facebook members, bar community & Wedge card holders
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Everybody’s
Talking At Me
was ‘born to attract music lovers, hip shakers, night owls
and risk takers. Part party, part blog, part town-crier, part filter,
Everybody’s Talking At Me is a wild beast
of an idea that will break down your (de)fences and drag you through
the fields...’
It’s a bold claim, especially from a new club night which
is set out as an antidote to overkill, a response to ‘the
blur of bull’ and hype that’s coming at us every day.
At this new
session Disclosure and Lixo (GetMe!)
drop fat doses of the finest filtered sounds from dance to dubstep
around live sets by bands which represent the (best) state of play
on the field of live dance music, each of them striving to offer
something different and inspiring, something that represents the
riot of music we have all grown up with. Scarlet Harlots,
Ignug and Arts Club favourites No Fixed Abode
let rip on stage at the launch night.
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Everybody’s Talking At Me // Sunday 30 May // 6pm-1am;
£5, £3 concessions
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click
here to buy tickets |
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