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.
Returning to school at the tail end of (another) disappointing summer has its fair share of negative connotations for me. Constant, niggling illnesses that somehow always manage to skilfully balance themselves somewhere unpleasant but not quite serious enough to stay off school. The inevitable Mondays spent being ridiculed for the “unavoidable” hedonistic activities of the weekend. Waiting for a lift in the cold, wet mornings, wondering just how it is possible that everybody in the whole flunking country seems to be able to adhere loyally to Greenwich Meantime like some sacred British institution, with the singular exception of the one person who’s ignorance of such a phenomenon of time keeping has the result of you getting exceptionally and unbelievably wet.
Such a time might verge on unbearable if it were not for the fact that, at the same time as such invaluable knowledge as the origins of the Liverpool Overhead Railway is being imbibed by your flaccid brain, the frankly insane people over at Liverpool’s Chibuku Shake Shake are putting together their twisted heads and combining them to conjur up line ups of the finest calibre. All this, of course, only provides me with more moments to engage in the “unavoidable” hedonistic activities of weekends. And so the cycle continues.
Chibuku posters are no stranger to famous and talented names, but the demi gods who curate these line ups announced today what is, in my opinion, their strongest line up to date:
Chibuku Shake Shake
Saturday 17th October
The Masque / Seel Street / Liverpool
Theatre Special guest TBA
Fake Blood
Ink Chibuku present Heartbeat
Aeroplane (dj set)
Wandy
Phil Cooper
Luke Carr
Loft Chibuku present Dubpolice
Caspa & Rusko
Joker
SixAM
General & Ticket information
Chibuku info / 0151 706 8045 / www.chibuku.com
Tickets available from www.chibuku.com/shop
www.ticketline.co.uk / 0161 8321 111
www.ticketweb.co.uk
www.skiddle.com
Need I say any more, really? I am quite aware that lazy journos over-use that phrase religiously, but, on this occasion, I think it may just be true. The poster says it all. Fake Blood is fast making 2009 his year, and Aeroplane’s DJ set is quite possibly the best I have ever seen. Add a touch of top quality dubstep and… well; hello hedonism!
As if we weren’t being kind enough to you, giving you quality Wolfgang Gartner productions to revel in, we now have two pairs of tickets to give away to his show on September 11th at the CONTROL club-night in the Avalon Nightclub, Hollywood. An unforgettable night of tech house hedonism guaranteed. All you have to do to get you and one friend of your choice in the Avalon is to leave a comment below with your full name and what you got up to last weekend. Two random winners will be selected on Friday of this week.
If you don’t win, commiserations, but here are the full (and quite fantastic) CONTROL listings for the few weeks; get yourselves down there!
Hercules and Love Affair – Andy Butler DJ set – Sept 4 Wolfgang Gartner – Sept 11 Dada life and Felix Cartel – Sept 25 Drums of death + tba – Oct 2 Bird Peterson + tba – Oct 9
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