Kitsuné Club Night @ XOYO 17.06.11

If you've ever seen IS TROPICAL live you'll know that's reason enough to go to this night. Added to that, of course, is the fact that it's coming to us from sickeningly cool fashion and music label Kitsuné and the Neon Noise Project. This Friday Shoreditch's XOYO will be imploding from within with live sets from Yuksek and others, DJ sets from Vice favourites TEETH!!! and a room curated by art darlings Off Modern.

Standard tickets are still going for £12, and entry goes up on the night. Worth it.

See the Facebook event here for more details.

We Are S.M.E Blog Party Vol IV

 

After the success of their Short Back 'n' Sides night over the Royal Wedding weekend, the lovely boys at We Are SME blog have another one in store for us. This is their fourth blog party, and will be replete with freebies, a live twitter feed and music from five DJs going on into the wee hours of the morning.

Head over to East London's Villain next Friday (June 17th) from 6pm to enjoy free food, two-for-one cocktails and great music. Plus, we hear there's the chance to win a framed and signed Foals tee. Just sayin'.

DJ sets from:

Twiggy Garcia & Trufix
DJ TP
Jason Taylor
Steffie

Bad Sex @ Proud Camden

This brand new night at Camden's Proud Stables kicks off in just over two week's time. On Thursday June 16th, Proud Camden will open its doors to welcome the first Bad Sex night, set to become a weekly affair with live bands then Djs til late.

The first edition sees Ghost Eyes headlining, and support coming from Lux. Then afterwards, Bad Sex DJs take over to keep you dancing til you collapse/are asked to leave. It's free entry before 10pm, and £3.50 in advance (if you know you're the late type) or £3 NUS/guestlist.

Click here for tickets & more info on the Proud site.

Night Slugs Party x Bugged Out

With 15 years worth of experience in the party game, Bugged Out are set to put on an awesome night this Saturday. Label Night Slugs will be co-hosting the night, at a secret Shoreditch location (we'll tell you if you ask nicely) from 11pm til the sun comes up.

Girl Unit, Jam City, Bok Bok, L-Vis 1990 and Egyptrixx (live) are all confirmed on the bill. True to form, this will be one of those 'dancing all night to some of the best tunes handpicked by top DJs' affairs.

£9 Tickets are on TicketWeb and the Bugged Out site, so grab those babies while they're still hot.

Club Autonomic @ Fabric

Club Autonomic will be hosting the tunes at Fabric:Live in Room 2 this Friday. Sounds like it's going to be rad all round, so forget the fact that it's Friday the 13th and just party.

It's the only known way to dispel superstition, hadn't you heard?

Keep It On The DL: May

We headed back to the Old Blue for another instalment of live music and japes from Keep It On The DL. This month we got to revel in the greatness of music from Birmingham-based band The Bombergs (above), and the ukelele-tinged sweetness of Family.

The Bombergs play bouncy, electrifying rock with a playful and poppy edge to it. There's Talking Heads wildness written all over this, but they've really got the energy on stage to pull it off. On top of that, singer James Rea was a total sweetheart.

The Bombergs' James Rea

Next up we enjoyed the lo-fi (or rather, self-proclaimed 'ho-fi') of the quirky boys from Family. Their long-hair-falling-over-eyes look worked really well with the reverb-heavy songs they shared. They also threw beautiful glitter bombs all over the Old Blue's top floor. Anyone who left without a few flecks clearly wasn't dancing about in the front enough.

Overall, it was another great night from the crew at Keep It On The DL. The music had that perfect balance of variety, danceability and the energy to set us up for a great Friday night. We'll see you at the June edition, guys.

Keep up with all things On The DL via their Facebook profile and Twitter page. Big shout to organiser Steve (above) for putting together another awesome night.

all images © Tshepo Mokoena for DEERBRAINS

Very Important Plectrums x Ben Sherman

From May 29th, Ben Sherman will be linking up with charities Lifebeat and Trekstock to launch an online plectrum auction project that sounds amazing. Here's the premise: top musicians sign their own plectrums, offer them up for auction and 100% of proceeds go towards educating young people about HIV/AIDS prevention and combating cancer. The key here is harnessing music as a force for good. What about that don't we like?

So far Mark Ronson, Anna Calvi, Frankie & the Heartstrings, Emmylou Harris, Paul Weller and We Are Scientists are just some of those involved. The collaboration launches with a secret gig in London that we'll be able to tell you some more about later. For now we can say that you're not gonna want to miss the headliner! You can win gig tickets, plus two nights free hotel accommodation in the city if you apply by tomorrow. Click here for more.

CIRCA at The Nest

Tomorrow night the lovelies at Circa and Stoke Newington's Nest are hosting a massive night of live music and dancefloor-filling DJs. Anything goes pretty much, and it will be kicking of from 8pm until 2am. Check out the details below, and for £3 before 10pm we'll see you there.

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Here's a playlist from Script, one of the Djs who'll be getting you out your seats later tomorrow night. Check out the CIRCA site for links to the other awesome-sounding acts.

Short Back 'n' Sides x SME

The lovely crew over at We Are SME blog are curating a barbershop-cum-club night that sounds so rad. It's gonna be the debut for a monthly event run by Short Back 'n' Sides, and is all kicking off tomorrow from 6pm til the trimmers turn blunt.

We're talking West African barbershop art from SBNS, free haircuts, and a nail bar all on the ground floor at Blackall Studios in Shoreditch. Then, after you get your hair did, you can head downstairs for hip-hop, soul, dubstep and funk DJ sets from SBNS record spinners til sunrise. SME have been doing great things recently, and just had a feature on BBC 6 Music, so will be well worth partying with.

Entry: A fiver 

Venue: Right here

Facebook event. 

See you there.

We Are S.M.E Blog Party Vol III

Our friends over at We Are SME are hosting a party tonight at East Village's Villain and it sounds like it's gonna be rad. Not only is Rastamouse himself DJing (fingers crossed for Reggie Yates in a mouse suit) but there'll be free t-shirts, mixtapes and two-for-one cocktails before 8pm.

This is the blog's third party, and they're going to be using their Twitter feed all night to give the prizes out, so drop them a follow here to keep up to speed. The DJ line-up will be playing everything from hip hop, grime and funk to dubstep and dancehall. It features:

Twiggy Garcia & TruFix B2B
DJ TP
Ch!co
Jason Taylor
Steffie
of course, Rastamouse

Entry is free before 9pm, and £3 after. There'll be comedy and some free eats from 6:30pm so get down early to enjoy those treats too.

Bricks CAMP Basement Party

Any Londoners still not got plans for April Fool's tomorrow? Then you should head on over to CAMP Basement, just by Old Street tube. Bricks will be holding one of their phenomenal basement parties from 10pm to 4am and entry is just £5 before 11pm.

The DJs confirmed are:

BODDIKA AKA INSTRA:MENTAL (Swamp 81)

SCRATCHA DVA (Rinse FM)

JAM CITY (Night Slugs)

T.WILLIAMS (Deep Teknologi)

LIXO (Get Me!)

BUCKONE DOZY (S.O.M.E)

Download the exclusive Scratch DVA mixtape they sent over to us using this link right here. Don't miss this, it sounds like it's gonna be rad.

The Haunt Launch Party

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brighton's newest club launched on Thursday night and we were there to join the party. The Haunt has taken over where New Hero left off, and served up an awesome opening night featuring Mirrors, Is Tropical, Romy XX and Kim Ann Foxman (Hercules and Love Affair).

Backed by an amazing promo team, this club looks set for great, fun things. Head down tonight for their infamous 80s night (of the non-cheesy and weak variety) 'It Is Still 1985' and keep an eye out for their upcoming events. Word on the street: Yelle's coming.

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GOO XMAS PARTY

For any of you Deerbrainers that live along the south coast this is a night well worth heading too, it will undoubtedly be the highlight of your Christmas festivities! Sure to play host to some great tunes and greater company.

Thursdays Nightclub Chichester
December 23rd
10pm-4am
£5 entry

Check HERE for more details on the Venue, like how to find it!

Also check the FACEBOOK group.

See you there!