After a short but successful run last summer, The Last Days of Disco 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 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.
For the first party of 2009, and the first in their new monthly slot, TLDOD (rolls off the tongue doesn’t it) have enlisted the devil’s own house band Padded Cell, the horribly talented Matt Waites to join residents DJs David H and the Slutty Fringe crew to make sure the venue is kept throbbing long into the night to the many mutant strains of disco.
Friday March 6th
8pm till 2.30am
Live:
Padded Cell (DC Recordings)
DJs:
Matt Waites (Nightmoves)
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 is playing?
PADDED CELL (DC RECORDINGS)
Richard Sen and Neil Higgins are not normal people. Having won notoriety as a Bronx Dog (Heavenly) and a Dirty Beatnik (Wall of Sound) respectively, Padded Cell came about in 2003, partly as a response to the conservatism of early millennium dance music but also to act as a conduit through which they could conduct and realize their most outlandish ideas.
With a sound that draws from sources as diverse as Goblin, The Velvet Underground, Arthur Russell, Prince, Carl Craig and label boss J Saul Kane, analogue fetishism and creeping psychosis are key themes, as is a need to create something that is both honest and unique.
A shared history as club deejays and producers means that even the most mind bending elements of their sound are conducted through dance floor focused channels; disco breaks and rolling percussion combining with menacing synth work outs, electro sensibilities and live instrumentation to create an unholy brew that has been described variously as ‘dark-disco’, ‘goth-disco-rock’, and perhaps most tellingly of all, ‘devils-disco’.
MATT WAITES (NIGHTMOVES)
Matt Waites (aka Nightmoves) has received widespread recognition for his ability to deliver the kind of set that makes those who love great dance music sit up and take notice (and hit the dancefloor), weaving together a melodic, danceable and, above all, fresh tapestry of rare disco, underground house and electro that has made him one of the rising stars of the scene.
From his first break at Nottingham’s legendary Liars Club night, he soon progressed to the likes of Bugged Out!, The End and Plastic People and has gone one to play all over the globe from the Tape Club in Berlin, to the Distortion Festival in Copenhagen, Razzmatazz in Barcelona, and others in Moscow, California, Portugal & Australia.
From remixing the then little known Klaxons, Matt has gone on to fix up everyone from Robbie Williams, Roisin Murphy and Alphabeat to Friendly Fires, Metronomy & Late of the Pier. These remixes have been played and supported all over the world by DJs from Adam Freeland to Erol Alkan and some of Matt’s all-time favourites, the Unabombers, In Flagranti, Tim Sweeney and the Glimmers.
Matt also recently joined the likes of James Murphy, Juan Maclean, and the whole DFA crew in recording a mix for Tim Sweeney’s legendary NYC radio show, ‘Beatsinspace’. It doesn’t get much better than that.
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.
From playing with the likes of Justice at Mixmag’s Xmas party to dragging over 800 people out of their beds on the 2nd of January for a big disco, the past few months have been good to Team Fringe and with the launch of their own record label, Hot Pockets, and upcoming relaunch of the blog things can only get better.
DAVID H (BE)
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 has entertained crowds the world over with his inspired disco selections.
