August 27th, 2008 by ollspin
Friday 29 August 2008. The Croft, Stokes Croft, Bristol.
Not long to wait now until Frustrated Disco Machine returns for the 1st birthday party. You know it’s gonna be BIG! Top quality filthy breaks lineup in the main room and hiphop/funk in the front bar. Get down early to avoid disapointment, this one’s a guaranteed roadblock! Full information at www.frustrateddiscomachine.co.uk
August 27th, 2008 by ollspin
What a fantastic weekend at the lovely Aeon Festival! It would be impossible to sum up everything that happened but here’s a mini review and my thoughts on the weekend.
The festival and camping sites were really beautiful as you can see in these photos hosted by outofthevoid.co.uk. The vibe across the entire site was happy and smiling with a good mixture of all sorts of ages, from young families with small children, 20 or 30 something ravers, ageing hippies and everything inbetween. The smell of BBQ’s and camp fire frying bacon filled the air most mornings and evenings. The central fire on the campsite was a busy social meeting point each night. Toilets were really clean all weekend, with plenty of loo roll and soap. Civilised camping at its best!
Down at the start of the main festival site there was a cafe run by Avant Rural (with vegan and vegetarian options) and local chainsaw wood sculptures. There was also a Alice in Wonderland (fancy dress theme for the weekend) stall for kids, with plenty of crazy clothes to try on and fun things such as face painting. Over the other side of the site a local crew setup a graffiti workshop and created some artwork over the weekend. Other highlights included a children’s workshop tent and a cinema tent showing local artists short films, animations and documentaries.
The main attractions were a dance tent, a live stage in a natural amphitheatre and a poetry/acoustic/funk tent. We spent most of our time either dancing to funk whilst drinking Otter ale and Rattler cider in the Cabaret Voltaire tent or raving in the Jam The Channel dance tent. Highlights from the dance tent included some excellent dubstep and stomping breaks/house during the day on Saturday, leading onto dubwise and tearout breaks in the afternoon. Some relentless techno followed, which isn’t really my cup of tea to be honest, but the night finished off with some well received dark drum&bass from the Exeter Rinseout crew. Highlight on the live stage was without a doubt The Thujones on Sunday night, trip hop beats accompanied by warm bass and powerful vocals, a perfect wind down at the end of the day.
Overall it was a truly awesome weekend and in my opinion the best festival of the season!
I was playing in the Jam The Channel tent at 2.30pm on Saturday afternoon. Big thanks to everyone who was dancing and chilling outside the tent in the sunshine listening to my set. For those that want to know, my setlist went something like this (if my memory serves me correctly).
Stabilizer ft MC Chickaboo - Bounce (Si’s Super Ska bootleg) - Plastic Raygun
DJ Buzz - Focus 76 - Sunshine
Real Estate Agents - Super Evil Me - African Dope
Jellybass ft MC Abdominal - Transatlantic - LoHz
Old Harry Rox ft Lully - Make the Most - Ready and Waiting
Afterdark - Cosa Nostra - 3.5
Deep Vein - Summer Breeze - unsigned
Mattafix - Things Have Changed (Moody Boyz remix) - EMI
Jazzsteppa - Jakin - Hot Flush
Ben & Lex ft MC Spee - Le Chunk (VIP vocal mix) - unsigned
Gary Gecko & Pigbwoy ft Feral - Dskasting (Dogtown Clash remix) - Gecko
Angel Farringdon, Sly & Robbie, Charjan - Fool Up The People - Bermuda Triangle
Aphex Twin - Donkey Rhubarb - Warp
Peo de Pitte & Yota - Forget About You (Peo de Pitte Baltimore remix) - FlatOut
Roll on next year!
August 19th, 2008 by ollspin
Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 August 2008. Shobrooke Park Estate, Crediton, Devon.
Aeon Festival is back for 2 days of music, art, comedy and film. Featuring a live stage, a dance tent and a acoustic/comedy/poetry area. It’s shaping up to be even better than last year and the weather forecast looks proper sunny! You can hear me playing some tunes in the Jam The Channel tent on Saturday afternoon 2pm ish. If you are interested in coming along for the party, it takes place in Devon and only costs £30 a ticket for 2 days of entertainment including camping. Loads more info at www.aeonfestival.com
August 19th, 2008 by ollspin
Hello girls and boys. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.
So here I am, wide awake at a wonky hour on a school night, suffering from insomnia, faffing about with a blog website that deep down I know I don’t really want or need.
Oh well, never mind, too late, I’m here now, no turning back!
Expect lots of exciting things to be appearing over the coming months. Including, but not limited to, Sunday Roast on BrapFM radio show listings and mp3 downloads, plenty of studio DJ mixes going way back to 2002, a massive collection of old event flyers which I stumbled upon rather surprisingly the other day, details of forthcoming parties I am either playing at or recommend as a top quality night out . . .
Plus of course any other crap I feel like stuffing in the gaps.
Enjoy.