After a short but successful run over the summer, The Last Days of Disco have upped sticks and made the move up the Kingsland Road from Shoreditch to Dalston, where they are busy making themselves at home under a furniture shop at Barden’s Boudoir. From Donna Summer to the DFA, Last Days takes you to a parallel universe where dirty throbbing dubbed out disco rules the roost, the streets are paved with the shit from Bianca Jagger’s horse and the girl down the chip shop thinks she’s Grace Jones.
Friday November 28th
8pm till 3am
Live:
The Oscillation (DC Recordings)
DJs:
Rory Phillips (Durrr/Our Disco)
Slutty Fringe DJs
David H (Be)
£4 in advance (via www.ticketweb.co.uk) / £5 on the door
Bardens Boudoir
36 - 44 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 7XJ
www.bardensboudoir.co.uk
So exactly who’s playing?
The Oscillation
Born out of the ashes of The Orichalc Phase, The Oscillation is Demian Castellanos’ mightiest incarnation yet, a bewildering mix of pop songs and expansive psychedelic freakouts that demands comparison with the harder edge of the 70’s krautrock scene, the lambent tones of bands like Spiritualized or Loop at their most medicated, or The Ruts battling their way out of an echo chamber to a background of white noise.
Having wowed critics and punters alike with the astonishing debut set ‘Out Of Phase’, The Oscillation have gone on to become one of the most exciting live acts around today, adding a heady mix of brain frying psychedelia to the dark disco punk of many of their label mates.
Rory Phillips
Having spent the best part of a decade re-defining London nightlife alongside Erol Alkan at the now legendary Trash (R.I.P) and bringing mutant disco to East London with Our Disco, Rory Phillips has built a solid reputation for parties that carve their own path while packing out the dancefloor.
Continuing the tradition, Rory’s raucous headline slot at Trash’s successor Durrr and the joyful crate digging of SAY YES perfectly showcase his diverse and ever evolving musical style, showcasing the best in new music while constantly unearthing hidden gems from the past aided, of course, by his trademark telephone headphone.
Aside from his sets at the aforementioned nightclubs Rory has played to crowds all across Europe, Asia, The USA and South America, provided keyboard duties for Whitey and (most proudly) recorded a DJ session for the sadly missed John Peel Show.
Slutty Fringe DJs
Having started over two years ago as a way to blag some free music and get into clubs without queuing, Slutty Fringe has despite it’s success remained a bastion of undiscovered music and slightly shabby journalism. Currently pulling anything up to 3000 visitors a day, the Slutty Fringe boys have begun taking their records out on the road and started popping up at interesting looking parties across Europe.
David H
Resident and promoter of both The Last Days of Disco and the sprawling indie/electro/disco behemoth that is Be at The Proud Gallery in Camden, David is not only the owner of a warehouse full of disco records but owns the largest collection of Donna Summer wigs in Western Europe.
