Longtime buddy of the blog, Ewan Hoozami, has taken a bit a of musical ‘left at the traffic lights’ move recently
Not being satisfied with smashing up dancefloors of the UK and Europe with eclectic, beat laden party styling sets, or releasing sample heavy mashups, he’s taken to singing …
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Back in the mists of time there was a ‘Community Festival‘ up at Ashton Court in Bristol – over the years it grew from a few mates in a field into one of the largest free festivals in Europe, with all the public nudity and dogs on strings that that brings.
Eventually the two enemies of fun, Licensing Law and ‘Elf and Safety, demanded such niceties as ‘insurance’ and ‘a fence to keep the troublemakers out’ which drove costs up and despite sponsorship from Orange, the debts piled up. Sadly, a washout in 2007 was the final nail in its coffin and the good times rolled no more.
Like a phoenix from the ashes, a couple of good eggs filled our festival shaped hole with Brisfest – a couple of days of mental music and good times, held at venues all over the city. It did well – so well, in fact, that they’re stepping up their game and taking the festival out of the city into the fields again.
If this alone doesn’t tempt you, they’ve just announced their lineup today. Oh yes.
Tickets are available here. I’d suggest you get on it.
I did think of doing a ‘Heinz 57′ inspired mega-dig for tunes, but to be honest doing 6 last week was tiring enough, so lets just still to quality not quantity, eh? Continue reading
Just a quick post to say ‘ta’ to the guys from WHOMP! for having me on Saturday. As you can tell from the photos below it was a pretty large one …
(props to Si Mcdonnell for the photos)
Apologies for the lack of a Three on a Thursday last week – I was in a wifi free hotel room in Tokyo so was a little stuck. Never fear though, they’ve foolishly let me back into the country, so, refreshed from my travels, I’ll be battering through the rather huge pile of promo that’s clogging up my inbox and the choicest cuts will presented in the next few days, so keep ‘em peeled!
If you’re feeling the tunes and mixes I’ve been posting, the good news (or bad news depending on your opinion) is that I’ll be bashing ‘em out with the Whomp boys and girls at Basement 45 in Bristol this Saturday … 5 notes on the door for what should be a belter of a night.
Right-ho – best strap the cans on and get on it …
How’s about this for commitment to the cause – I’m on the other side of the world with wife and spawn, and have ducked out of the sun for an hour to drop a few ‘new-to-me’ tunes on you reprobates, just in time for the weekend.
Aren’t you lucky?
I fear this one might be a bit of a mad rush – I got distracted by beer (making it for once, rather than just drinking it) and all of a sudden I’ve got an hour to scrawl my feeble attempt at prose before it’s too late *gasp*
Can it be done?
Will it be done?
Does anyone care?
Find out below …
Been a bit of a tricky one this week, what with the seemingly constant DDoSing of Soundcloud cutting down my happy hunting grounds to a chilled snack fridge in the local 24-7 garage. In light of this I’ve reverted to *gulp* buying more music from those lovely peeps at Junodownload, as opposed to, well, just getting given it, which is what I mean, rather than stealing the food from starving artists mouths – remember kids, home taping is killing music.
Ok, moralising over.
BOOM – tune time!
Just a quick note to let you crazy kids know that I’m playing at Arc Bar at the OFFICIAL opening party – banging junglism and dnb upstairs from Aquasky, Nicky Blackmarket, Remidy and Frilla, with Dub Boy, Ewan Hoozami, l’il ole me and the Arc Bar residents tearing it up with hip-hop, beats, breaks, bleeps and wobbles downstairs
Be there, or be square …
It’s Thursday, it’s around lunchtime, it must be time for the next installment of Three on a Thursday!
This week there’s some Jazz, some Hip-Hop and a little bit of Bristolian Downtempo to enjoy, so no more blathering, on with the tunes.
