A quality that Chibuku’s 7th October headliners appear to have in common, aside from laying down beats so contagious that can only be described as incendiary, is the admirable ability to choose a really nice T-Shirt. It looks cool and it really helps me out in terms of amusing observational humour.
Take for example Roska (a pleasant revelation) – lower Torso read caption “In gold we trust”, a catchy line that might also be applied to the quality of his set. Boyz Noise favoured a more continental direction – T shirt caption reading “Bon Voyage”, (I’m sure some slightly more adventurous Chibuku attendees could testify to the relevance of the English Translation “Good Trip”), whilst James Rand pounded the T-Shirt competition with the motherbitch of all T-Shirts, yes that’s right; the Bob Marley.
And that is what is so characteristic about Chibuku. I have a lot of fun whenever I go. DJs wear excellent T-Shirts, 80+ year olds blaze across the dance floor (I saw one) and random Manchester bros talk to you whilst you piss away several quad vods. Of course, the music quality is tremendously high, and needless to say the bass level could rupture bone cartilage let alone ear drums, whilst the BPM leaves you spinning for the rest of the night. But what is irreplaceable about Chibuku (and why you should go if you haven’t yet) is that you get to see the best electro/D n’ B/ dubstep producers in the best atmosphere, yes I think I can go this far, short of heaven.
To generalise horrendously; Chibuku is Liverpool’s answer to Fabric. So unless you live in Liverpool you probably couldn’t care less about it, but if you do live in Liverpool and possess any of the following; a passing interest in the finest genres of dance music, about 15 of the Queen’s finest pounds, two of the Faculty’s finest quodvods (or just one of Peacocks’ £8 version if you are a slightly upper class Chibuku-er), a desire to indulge in the North West’s finest night life or just a fine bed to sleep on when everything goes beyond fun and actually gets a little nasty, then Chibuku is really a necessity. And if you don’t, then I can only assume that you are deaf, unemployed, depressed and homeless. And if so, then Chibuku really is the least of your worries. For those remaining, the posters and line-ups below speak for themselves (which is handy for me). As usual, big name headliners will sell the tickets but there are many more interesting choices this year, generally reflecting shifting attitudes in dance music towards the avant-garde and, unavoidably, dubstep. I’ve been unable to include many, or most, of the more interesting choices so you’ve got no choice but to get yourself down to Chibuku – and the earlier the better given that Liverpool’s own James Rand will be spinning and dropping before many of the main acts. See you near the front.
Oct 16th Chibuku The Masque, Seel Street. Liverpool. Theatre Adam Beyer Carl Craig Lewis Boardman (Nrk) Loft Skream More tba Rich Furness Ink Tensnake Skream disco set Paul Outlar
I’m liking what this poster’s telling me a lot; Joker, Fake Blood, Caspa, Rusko, Aeroplane and Simian Mobile Disco all compressed into one immense night. I’ve already ploughed through a thesaurus of superlatives to try and articulate just how great this line up is in a previous post, but now Simian Mobile Disco have been announced as the headliners. That said, I saw SMD on Saturday at the Warehouse Project and was left, not for the first time by an SMD live set, a little disappointed. I think it’s necessary to emphasise the “live set” part of their sentence though; I really believe that, although they sound great on record, the music just doesn’t translate well to a live setting. On the other hand, Simian Mobile Disco DJ Set?!! Now that is something that is half tempting me to whack out my superlative thesaurus.
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