London Blog: Sunday Lunch

London Blog: Sunday Lunch

19 October, 2008 | 1.24AM

• Written by: Mark Treadwell
• Filed under: Music News: greg wilson, hacienda, shoreditch, tropicana

Tropicana is the new free Sunday weekly party which kicks off on the 19th October with a fantastic launch party at the Horse and Groom in Shoreditch, where tasty Sunday roasts, fine beverages, cocktails, music, laughter and plenty of disco dancing will be on hand.

For today’s opening launch party electro funk legend Greg Wilson will be performing a special 4-hour set while the Cosmic Truth boys will be looking after the Parlour upstairs.

Then on the 26th of October look out for the Idjut boys and Late Night Audio’s Toby Tobias doing the disco with some great guests in the pipeline.

Greg Wilson is a true DJ legend, a man who can count amongst his claims to fame to be the first person to mix live on British television when he appeared on The Tube in 1983. 

Greg began DJing in 1975 and is regarded as one of the most important figures on the UK dance scene.

He enjoyed hugely popular residencies in the early eighties at Wigan Pier and Manchester’s majorly influential Legend.

He was a pioneer of mixing in the UK and in 1983 he became the first ‘dance music’ DJ hired for a regular weekly session at Manchester’s now legendary Hacienda club.

After retiring from DJ work at the end of 1983, Greg returned to spinning records two decades later to massive acclaim, with red-hot appearances at renowned nights including Electric Chair, Horse Meat Disco, Fabric, Back To Basics, Asylum, Melting Pot and the Sub Club, to name but a few.

He’s also appeared in the US, Australia and various European countries during recent years, plus a number of major festivals in the UK and Ireland.

In 2005 Tirk Records released ‘Credit to the Edit’, a compilation of re-edits spanning Greg’s entire career, some even original tape edits from back in the day (Greg still uses his trusty old Revox reel-to-reel tape machine when DJing out).

With weekly special guests joining the rotating residents including The Cosmic Truth, Toby Tobias, Danny Clark, Foolish Felix Dickenson, expect some great music alongside plenty of Horseplay.

Tropicana @ The Horse and Groom

Sunday October 19th

Greg Wilson
Who’s afraid of the Cosmic Truth

The Horse and Groom
28 Curtain Road
EC2A

12 noon till midnight
Sunday Roasts served till 4pm

FREE ALL DAY

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