London Clubs: Derrick May Day

London Clubs: Derrick May Day

22 February, 2008 | 8.14AM

• Written by: Mark Treadwell
• Filed under: Music News: lasermagnetic, lovefingers, steve bicknell

It’s the weekly round up of what is good (no matter what anyone else says. It’s here, it’s in print, it’s fact!) in London this weekend. 

This post only actually covers Friday night which leaves you Saturday to either, A) recover, or B) try and find something cool yourself. 

The latter option is without doubt the more exciting and life affirming but similarly the most risky. 

The last thing you want to do is find yourself in South London, past Midnight, getting scared by boys wearing boot cut jeans from GAP and loafers. 

It’s the shootings that make the news, but it is these types that are the true criminals!

Fashion crime then seems to work in juxtaposition to normal crime, in that you can’t pin it down to a certain demographic nor to a certain (often poor) geographical location. 

Crimes against fashion, though, spring up everywhere from the tree lined streets of Belsize park to the rubbish lined streets of Hackney and the Chav lined streets of East Ham. 

Fashion crime could be the biggest development trundling down the road to Armageddon that this world has seen since the last Norman Cook album! 

It’s up to us then to help stamp this problem out!

Do not let flatmates, loved ones, siblings, dealers, assorted family members, local dog walkers, the guys who work behind the counter in Cost Cutter — or for that matter anyone (not carrying a knife/gun/weapon of any description) wearing loafers or boot cut jeans.

Those who wear the two in combination should be sentenced to life in prison with nothing but a NEXT catalogue as punishment for their crimes against Vogue!

This weekend (Friday) sees three of the most anticipated parties this year.

I know it’s only February, but New York’s Disco Jedi Lovefingers (he of the RVNG nerds limited re-edit series) Idjut Boys and techno legend and all round musical demi god Derrick May playing in London, all on the same night!!

We are spoilt this weekend, boys and girls!

No matter which one of these parties you drag your trendy little ass to, just leave the boot cuts at home, will ya!

They make you look fat anyway, and get down early for all of these, as the queues will be like those not seen since the last Harry Potter book was released.

Note: These people — adults who read Harry Potter — may well be next to be attacked… It’s a kid’s book.

Extra note: Lovefingers, Tako and Johnny Nash will be playing at Zigfrids in Hoxton Square on Sunday. This is a freebie and promises to be excellent!

Disco is not a four letter word!

Love x

When I told a mate of mine that the Idjut boys and the Disco Bloodbath massive were playing at East Village, he pulled a face similar to that experienced during the vinegar strokes (the face you pull when drinking a rather vinegary wine but also seconds prior to climax; look in the mirror next time — they are surprisingly similar) and expressed his disbelief that some East End twat had seen fit to name a part of the area the “East Village”.

Some of my mates despair at the attitudes of those formally named Shoreditch twats you see.

I explained that no, it is in fact the newest incarnation of what was Medicine bar in Shoreditch and Friday is its opening pardee. 

Stuart Patterson will be overseeing the downstairs playing ‘Quality House’ music, while New York, Nu and Cosmic Disco holds sway upstairs with the Disco Bloodbath soundsystem and Idjut Boys manning the wheels of steel, and CDJs and possibly Mac Books.

For more info on Disco Bloodbath read my interview with the boys behind London’s best Horror Disco.

East Village opening party @ East Village

OPENING LAUNCH NIGHT
FRIDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2008

DOWNSTAIRS
Karizma (Baltimore, USA), Tomoki Tamura and resident Stuart Patterson.

UPSTAIRS
Future cosmic to vintage NY disco with the Idjut Boys and Disco Bloodbath
ONLY £4 before 9pm, £6 until 11pm and £8 after
Old Street tube

Johnny Nash’s wedding party @ Cosmobar

Also on Friday there is surprise surprise another disco party. Lazermagnetic refit Farringdon’s Cosmo Bar for a celebration of Johnny Nash finally tying the not.

Guests of honour include DJ Tako from Rotterdam. Alexis le Tan riding the Eurostar over from Paris, Lasermagnetic residents and Andrew Lovefingers, New York’s underground disco super hero.

Andrew Lovefingers (NYC)
Tako (CBS, Rotterdam)
Lasermagnetic ( Chingas & Neilo)
Alexis Le Tan (Paris)
Jonny Rock (Music for Freaks)
Curious George (Cavery

11pm till the Early Hours and only a fiver

Cosmobar
50-54 Clerkenwell Road,
London,
EC1M 5PS

Space Base presents Derrick May @ Plastic People

Lastly then Stick Bicknall’s infamous Lost parties once again exchange a grimey warehouse for the intimate confines of the 200 max capacity Plastic People.  Bicknall’s Space Base parties named after Slick’s immense dancefloor bomb have attracted the likes of Andrew Robotnik, Juan Atkins and Jeff Mills to swap their normal techno leanings for a journey through their back catalogue, playing everything from disco to electro, classic house and techno.

Tonight then see’s Detroit legend and techno ubermensch Derrick May for what promises to be a night to remember. 

Expect Trax Classics, unheard disco nuggets, early minimal all mixed together on one of the finest soundsystems in London.

This is going to be so so so good, but will be a tight squeeze, limited tickets are available on the door so get there early, innit?

DERRICK MAY+ STEVE BICKNELL
FRIDAY 22nd FEBRUARY 2008
@ PLASTIC PEOPLE, 147 Curtain Rd. EC2
10pm- 4am
Tickets £ 12

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