So what better way to celebrate my ongoing life and hypochondria than the opening night of The Drones Club? The venue is about 5 minutes away from my flat, so I didn’t even have to break my underexercised excuse for a body into a sweat on the way there. Plus it was cheap, they have …
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 …
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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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 …
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 – …
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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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 …