Almost
So I’ll have a reliable internet connection by the end of this week or early next week, and with it will come guest mixes, charts, and a general return to regular posting.
At the weekend I had my first late night/early morning since moving to London. I went to T-Bar on Saturday night to see Solomun play some records. It was quite a fun night, about 1000 times more fun than T-Bar the night before, when I got the date of the Solomun show wrong and ended up watching some guys play disco classics. Not sure who they were but it didn’t do a lot for me, even though there was some great music played.
My general dissatisfaction with it crystallised when I heard “Funky Town”, looked around, and realised “this is what Tamangos would have been like if it was open in 1982″. (Tamangos is the name of the local ninth circle of hell nightclub near where I grew up in Dublin.)
Going back to Saturday, I didn’t recognise too much of what Solomun played, though there were some seriously dramatic tracks that could only be future Diynamic releases. He also used the vocal from “If I Ever Feel Better” by Phoenix over “Feuervogel” which was pretty interesting. That old Buffalo Bunch remix of that track was always a favourite and I reckon the accapella was from that version.
After T-Bar it was on to Fabric, where I think I saw Tiefschwarz for most of the night, though my memory is pretty hazy as I was pretty drunk. As far as I know I didn’t set fire to anything or get in any fights but between 5am and 8am or so all I can remember is a lot of pretty monged trancey minimal and some stumbling around. I didn’t get into the music that much while I was there, I’m not sure I remember one moment or track which really connected with me, but I’m not listening to much of the style that was being played lately.
As for Fabric, that was actually my first time there, which means I am late to the party! I used to go to London a lot a few years ago but before these recent job interviews and now living here, I hadn’t been for a while. Fabric is weirdly smaller than I had imagined. I think I thought it would be this vast cavernous space. I don’t mean the actual entirety of the club, more the rooms themselves. The building is big and there are tons of nooks and crannies, but I had this idea that Room 1 was absolutely vast.
I can’t say I really got a good feel for the club as I wasn’t able to focus on the music that much when I wasn’t getting a massive kick out of it. I might go back in a few weeks for Zip and Thomas Melchior though. If there’s as much room in there as there was on Saturday it’ll be fine. That’s the other thing, I’d heard horror stories about how busy it gets but it wasn’t that bad at the weekend.
I got home at some early hour on Sunday, and managed about 2 hours sleep before going to pick up a TV I bought on Gumtree. I made up for that by going to bed at about 7pm last night, and I’m glad to say I felt good enough in work today to actually do my job!
It was great to get some music again and I’ve tons of ideas for things to do around here once I get my net connection, including some new stuff I haven’t tried before!
ben j wrote:
I suspect I’m going to start calling all of the clubs in DC (with about 4 exceptions) Tamangos from now on. At least I hope so.
I’ve always fluctuated between Fabric as suprisingly big and Fabric as suprisingly small. I know that I’ll be taken aback regardless whenever I make it there, hopefully soon.
Posted 15 Apr 2008 at 1:38 am ¶
tom/pipecock wrote:
“My general dissatisfaction with it crystallised when I heard “Funky Town”, looked around, and realised “this is what Tamangos would have been like if it was open in 1982?.”
“funky town” is still better than every single mnml track ever made. every single one. isn’t that amazing?
Posted 15 Apr 2008 at 3:34 am ¶
Ronan wrote:
how many better? 1? 57?
Posted 15 Apr 2008 at 6:41 am ¶
rhak wrote:
Funky town makes me go wild every time i hear it. Funny thing: i was in london over the weekend and had looked around a bit about where to go but i turned out to be very tired after running around all day on saturday. I did still show up at East Village at around midnight but my gf didn’t like the crowd in the queue (neither did i) so we decided to check on fabric but the queue there was way too long for us tired people to bother with. That’s the stupid thing - to me anyways - when you hit big cities like London or Berlin: you want to see so much stuff that you’re completely exhausted in the evening. My gf and i decided that if we go to Berlin we’ll fly in on Friday, just go out for a beer, chill on saturday and then hit the parties hard and thén stay for another week to take in the city…
ps: fuck queues by the way
Posted 15 Apr 2008 at 8:43 am ¶
clom wrote:
Whatever about the relative merits and demerits of Funky Town we all know that Tamangos is way better than Fabric could ever be!
Posted 15 Apr 2008 at 9:41 am ¶
Joe wrote:
I found the East Village crowd very friendly and polite, as well as all the staff. Good venue and REALLY good sound for such a small room.
Of course, Fabric room 1 sound is another matter…I’m sure Melchior will make the absolute most of it.
Posted 15 Apr 2008 at 10:42 am ¶
Joe H wrote:
Morillo killed “Funky Town” for me. When i worked as a chef it would come on the radio at least 3 or 4 times in the same night nearly every night!
The awful dire remake that Morillo butchered, unfortunately i didn’t have power over the head chef to change stations ha. Sadly, for me Funky Town died there & then in that kitchen.
Posted 15 Apr 2008 at 4:06 pm ¶
todd wrote:
crossing my fingers that the next podcast is the irish potato famine.
Posted 15 Apr 2008 at 4:12 pm ¶
Jacob wrote:
god bless you, pipecock. Lord knows we all need fundamentalists, especially in this day and age.
Jacob
Posted 15 Apr 2008 at 6:30 pm ¶
Ronan T wrote:
Well to your first lesson of london bars/clubs. it’s all about the night rather than the place. t bar can be wicked some days/nights and really bad the next just like most other places.
As for fabric… i’ve given up on that place. too much money and effort. it does get the big names but if they are worth it they get the crowds which takes away from the whole experience.
Posted 16 Apr 2008 at 9:59 pm ¶
tomo wrote:
last time I went to fabric I had a wicked time, spent all night in room 3 where Ame were playing, i think it just depends what night your going on. it can get too packed when they get the big names in so i dont bother going then.
went east village a couple of weeks ago, great night but I wasnt that impressed with the sound system, maybe they’ve tweaked it since.
Posted 17 Apr 2008 at 9:00 am ¶
GG wrote:
have been reading this place for a while but haven’t posted.
was in T-bar there a while ago for Jamie Jones. at 12 there were about 7 people on the dancefloor, we went ootside for a fag and didn’t get let back in. odd. it was still good though!
Posted 17 Apr 2008 at 5:46 pm ¶