The CLIQUE (Manchester) thread.

Will put the August date in diary though, it looks great.

but i enjoyed the FutureSonic events that were popping up in manchester last weekend.

And here's the rest of our big nonsense-filled mailout text:

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Clique is having pleasures that aren't 'guilty'.
Clique is being 18+ and dancing without wearing a school uniform.
Clique is 'so good it's fantastic' rather than 'so bad it's good.'
Clique is having too much of everything, a few too many times.

The nu-pop of the past five years is as good as any. Clique gives you
this, together with the primo pop from the past - post-disco to
pre-house, chart rave to new wave. Clique is where Jam & Lewis and
Chic productions collide with Richard X and the Neptunes. Future
classics vs mashups vs poprock vs electro-dance.

The new slinky dance digital disko sound has been filling floors
across Manchester – the Jacques Lu Cont remixes, Xenomania
productions, Felix Da Housecat mixes – only for the kids to stop
biting on the neon and sit down because retrogressive indie rock has
stained the sound.

A city whose heart beats to a rhythm as strong as ours deserves
better. A place to come and dance ALL NIGHT. No half-hearted live
acts, no coitus interruptus.

Clique gives glamour without sleaze, decadence without degradation.
Clique gives glitter that dazzles. Clique's pop flirts and fizzes over
the sides.

Clique is a gimmick-free night in the old school sense, with a new
feeling not a new idea. The 'concept' is: a place to dance to the best
in digi-pop.

We don't care about format. No one cares about format. Anything goes.
Vinyl to mp3 to CD to C90 to flexi-discs off a box of Rice Krispies.

The only question is:

DOES IT MAKE THE HEART BEAT FASTER?

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ROMANTIC PROJECT #1.
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No Stevem, Joshua Brooks used to be Sofa bar and before that it was Joshua Brooks once more. It's the place where Freelance Hellraiser played that time when you were in town. It's looking better now though without the sofas, and they spent a ton on a new soundsystem.

Yeah do come along ILM/ILX crew, it's *your* fault this is happening, and it really wouldn't be the same without at least some of you there!

So Barms, Alex in Rotheram, Stevem, Tag, Gareth, Cathy, N., Bill, Grimy, Matt, Ste, Godwin, Cis and anyone else reading this, do come to the next one - email me or Piscesboy and we'll be your guides.

I'll wazz my playlist up on here later, and Piscesboy, you do the same too.

The next one coincides with a big weekend in London. Balls. After all, I'm a straight single guy.

Espionage is on August 13th by the way. Tell your friends.

oh Affectian, you have got this promotion thing down pat!

Predictably, this just ruined my life.

Ok and here's the stuff I played, it was mixed in with stuff my DJ pardner played, we pretty much agreed on each track. And if I'm honest, he's a much better DJ than I am so come on Piscesboy, wack your list on here too. (oh and we played that Goldfrapp song twice because if you look closely at the flyer we mistakenly put them on twice. Only one person noticed on the night)

Ada - Maps
Laid Back - White Horse (Extended Version)
Jkwon - Tipsy (Cry.on.my.console Glitch)
Bertine Zetlitz - Fake Your Beauty
Cornershop - Topknot (Caveman Remix Feat. M.i.a.)
Tweet Vs Human League - Thug Times
Amerie - One Thing
Mint Royale - Don't Falter
Goldfrapp - Ooh La La
Madonna - Open Your Heart (Extended Version)
Felix Da Housecat - Ready To Wear (Radio Edit)
Robyn - Whos That Girl
Go Home Productions - Notorious Trick
Basement Jaxx - Oh My Gosh
Girls Aloud - Long Hot Summer
Daft Punk - One More Time
Rachel Stevens - Some Girls
Timo Maas - 4 Ur Ears (Feat. Kelis)
Girls Aloud - No Good Advice
S'Express - Overture - Theme From S'Express
Prodigy - Girls [Rex The Dog Remix]
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle-94
Knife - Heartbeats [Rex The Dog Remix] (320)
Jc Chasez - All Day Long (Electro Radio Remix)
Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For
Rachel Stevens - So Good
Vitalic - My Friend Dario
Lcd Soundsystem - Disco Infiltrator
Madonna - Lucky Star
Inner City - Big Fun
Goldfrapp - Ooh La La
Grand Popo Football Club - Men Are Not Nice Guys (James Arnold's Shortwave Mix

roll on august's event!

This sounds awesome. Keep this going until I have uni-going chums back in The North, pls.

=========================

"Of course they are only pop records. But then, bullets are only
metal, money is only paper and religion is only old books when all is
said and done" - Gary Mulholland

Well, if the club scene is dead during the summer months, somebody
forgot to tell the Clique clubkids. Dancing to the dance-pop of the
future and the right-now, the July debut saw the city's bold &
beautiful out in force and wearing their finest shoes.

"I ricochet around the world on pink champagne, it's easy" – Girls Aloud

On the playlist this time we promise hysteria-inducing street sounds,
from Jam & Lewis to Richard X via The Neptunes, and all the best
remixes of pop that's bossing the charts. With new releases from
Rachel Stevens, Goldfrapp and Franz Ferdinand rubbing up against
legendary tracks from Trevor Horn, Prince and Bobby O, we're giving
you future classics and the forgotten and lost.

"I am taken away by the magic of the music and the way that a flat
black disc with a hole in the middle transmitted that magic into the
world" Paul Morley

Clique is now confirmed for every month. Dress up for dancing and
begin the weekend in style. Djs Piscesboy and Niche Ian will be
firing the best digital dance-pop straight into the hearts of the
most glamorous pop kids in the North, and right over the heads of the
rock-addled wasters.

"Rock, as we know it, is finished" - Ian Penman

Clique is here to make your heart beat faster, for longer.

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CLIQUE 11:
Bjork – Who Is It (Vitalic Remix)
Franz Ferdinand – Do You Want To
Missy Elliot – Lose Control (Jacques Lu Cont Remix)
Chic – My Forbidden Lover
Rachel Stevens – I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)
Ladytron – Destroy Everything You Touch
Madonna – Justify My Love
Tiga w/ Richard X - You (Better Let Me Love You X 4) Tonight
The Knife – You Take My Breath Away
Goldfrapp – Ride A White Horse
Jean-Paul Gaultier – How To Do That (Clique re-edit)
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3 pounds / 2 pounds with flyer
10pm til 2am

Friday 26th August
Joshua Brooks, Princess Street, Manchester

Digital Dance-pop for your head, heart and hips

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NUMBER 2 IN THE SERIES: AESTHETICS IN ACTION
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Can't wait to see the pics. In the meantime, here's a recent photo of me showing off one of my killer moves:

http://www.collectorsfigurines.com/camberwick/cgl01.jpg

Roll up, roll up, it's Clique time again. And we're now in the future with a spanking new website: http://www.clubclique.co.uk (check that gallery out, there should be shots of our very own Alex and j0e burning up that dancefloor).

And here's this month's blurb:

Clique will once again be down in the basement at Joshua Brooks in
Manchester City Centre this coming Friday, for the best imaginable
start to the weekend.

DJs Niche Ian and Pisces provide the dizzying soundtrack of tough sweet
street sounds and digital dance-pop for your head, heart and hips.
Our freshly-minted website is below to tell you the full details.

http://www.clubclique.co.uk

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Clique 11 for September:

Gwen Stefani - Cool (Richard X mix)
Rachel Stevens - Crazy Boys
Tiga - You're Gonna Want Me
The Killers - Somebody Told me (Team9 remix)
Kylie - Confide In Me (Optimus remix)
Tatu - All About Us
Goldfrapp - Satin Chic
Mel & Kim - Showing Out (Ben Liebrand mini-mix)
Freeform Five - No More Conversations (Richard X remix)
Pay TV - Material Girls
Mint Juleps - Don't Let Your Heart
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Venue: Joshua Brooks, Princess St
Price: 4 pounds , 3 pounds with flyer
Time: 9.30 pm til 2am
Date: Friday 23rd September.

Now featuring drinks promotions! Ask at the bar for details.

Love,
the Clique crew

And look! It's j0e! http://www.clubclique.co.uk/gallery_pages_august05/august05_optimsed/4.jpg

We're on again this Friday, 28th October, come on down! Joshua Brooks on Princes Street, it's ace, and it looks like this:

http://www.clubclique.co.uk/gallery_pages_sep05/sep05_optimised/10.jpg
http://www.clubclique.co.uk/gallery_pages_sep05/sep05_optimised/1.jpg

And it sounds like this:

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Clique 11 for October:

Madonna - Hung Up
Saint Etienne - Join Our Club
Trans X - Living On Video
Girls Aloud - Biology
Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To (Erol Alkan mix)
Yello - Vicious Games (Club mix)
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel (Soulwax edit)
Sugababes - Obsession
Le Tigre - Nanny Nanny Boo Boo (Junior Senior remix)
Dimples D - Sucker DJ
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle (Richard X mix)
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And here's the other blurb:

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"But in the back of my head I heard distant feet,
Che Guevara and Debussy to a disco beat"
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The Clique gang are back in the basement of Joshua Brooks
this coming Friday to kick off the weekend with all the
best digital dance-pop that's good for looking good to.
Kids, if it was any more fun we'd be on fire.

And you really are the best looking crowd in Manchester,
look: http://www.clubclique.co.uk/gallery4.htm

This month if you get there before 10.30pm entry is free.
Spirits are cheap all night, so prettify yourself with a
vodka & tonic and strike a pose.

Venue: Joshua Brooks, Princess St, Manchester
Price: 4 pounds , 3 pounds with flyer
Time: 9.30 pm til 2am
Date: Friday 28th October.

Now featuring drinks promotions! Ask at the bar for details.

Love,
the Clique crew.

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"...it makes me realise that pop music - call it what you
will - creates some of the most magical moments in life,
and those moments can be so magical that all you want to
do is dance to them to hold them in place" - Paul Morley
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that other thread

The final Clique digital dance-pop heart-racer for this year is on Friday November 25th at Joshua Brooks.

We're expecting it to be a little bit special, as this is the final time you'll see us down in the basement with our bubble machine until the new year, and we're expecting a cold cold winter before then!

Come and join us as we tear through the latest greatest smart pop,
digital disco, clever mash-ups and other electro sounds selected by
DJs Pisces and Niche Ian.

LISTEN! to this month's top 11 Clique classics:

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Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen (Justice remix)
Goldfrapp - Number 1 (Alan Braxe and Fred Falke Club remix)
Fischerspooner - Kick In The Teeth (Tiefschwarz mix)
Madonna - Jump
Tom Vek - Nothing But Green Lights (Phones remix)
Baxendale - I Built This City
Cat5 - O Boy
Blondie - In The Flesh (Sight and Sound remix)
Killers - All These Things That I've Done (2005 Pink mix)
New Young Pony Club - The Get Go
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence (Richard X remix)
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SEE! next week's City Life for an article about Clique.

TALK! about all sorts of wonderful things on our message board:
http://tinyurl.com/csqj4

And of course, come along and DANCE!

Venue: Joshua Brooks, Princess St, Manchester
Price: 4 pounds , 3 pounds with flyer
Time: 9.30 pm til 2am (free entry before 10.30pm)
Date: Friday 25th November

Love,
the Clique crew.

http://www.clubclique.co.uk

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"uh uh-uh ah-ah, uh uh-uh-uh ah" - Paula Abdul, 'Straight Up'
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(Plus, j0e and Alex In Doncaster are heading down to this one, all ILXORs most welcome!)

Also, I think Pisces and I will be down Londontown around Valentines Day for a set at BigSexyLand (www.bigsexyland.co.uk) so we should hook up there.

Actually, I thought you didn't need me! I will happily do it next year, with or without Steve.

Will be good to see you in LDN too.

...but if you can't make it, come join us on our board sometime!

http://b4.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?user=clubclique

failing that yeah we'll see yers in LDN in February for the Valentine's caper.

"Show, show-show-show, HUH!" (etc)

although...what's this i see, the following night in london town? why, if it isn't charlie no4 blatantly stealing Ian's thread for his own evil ends...

http://static.flickr.com/33/65470831_218e27d603.jpg

come one, come all!

that'll make it easy on the person who's doing the door!

And yeah BARMS, we were up for getting you on the decks - there are a few messages scattered about ILX saying so but not to worry, we'll sort it for next year.

Tag, no comment but ask yourself - WWJD?

I just busted you guys dissing my Knife/Rex The Dog Stylus thing!

The best part, Ian, is when you said I've done better. Like, where? There's reasons why I'm not a regular music writer, dude!

The best part about the whole Rex thing is that I've listened to the 'Drop The Pressure' mix more often in one week than I have to 'Heartbeats' for a year (no joke, THAT'S his best mix). Heck, when I wrote that review, I felt I had to write about something the ILX-massive would identify with - fortunately, I have certainly dropped that pressure.

I am not surprised about that Mylo thing tho' - I played 'DTP' in the week it came out at a house party in Manc exactly 2 years ago to the blankest-faced, least dancey crowd I've ever seen.

that'll make it easy on the person who's doing the door!

haha everyone says that! what they don't know (til i tell 'em) is that the penny change comes in the form of a very pretty such great heights badge with the lady on it and the logo an' that.

am looking forward to your reply Affectian. ;->

Clique goes like this: the attractive girls all dancing on the dancefloor, going crazynuts: http://www.clubclique.co.uk/gallery_pages_oct05/oct_2005_pix/01.jpg
(also see: http://www.clubclique.co.uk/gallery7.htm) with all the handsome 20something gay men standing about the outskirts in their white shoes, stroking their chin and giving us a non-stop critique: http://www.clubclique.co.uk/gallery_pages_august05/august05_optimsed/11.jpg
Oh and of course you've got not-goodwin, lurching about the venue like Calum Best gone wrong:
http://www.skmu.no/digimaker/pictures/cocktailparty_pzKs4dty.JPG

We're completely at the mercy of the gays, kinda like how the mafia REALLY run that downtown laundrette so it is with us.

Place a framed photo of me from one of the "What Do You Look Like?" threads next to the decks tomorrow and mark it "In Absentia" for the ladies.

It almost makes me wish I knew someone in Manchester.. Although the Fashionable Gays sound a bit frightening.

The guy in the white suit in the pic above keeps an amusing blog that I keep meaning to start a thread about: http://www.crimpers-of-fire.blogspot.com/

Oh and Clique! Is! Tonight! Come all, come one! (and then scoot off to Charlie's shindig tomorrow!)

BARMS, your old housemate Gary Ryan wrote a great article about Clique for Manchester's weekly listings magazine - namedropping Morley and fighting the good fight against the Libertines fans (who seem to be spawning like rats in this fair city). I'll link to it here when it goes online.

Calum best gone wrong!?!?

haha thanks for the props!

Oh ok, Fran Cosgrove on an off day then. See you down there later Joshua. [Joshua in Joshua Brooks! I might make you a badge with a picture of that guy on]

COME ON THE POPKIDS.

so how was clique, manc-kids?

and are any londonish types coming to such great heights this evening?

http://static.flickr.com/33/65470831_218e27d603.jpg

Naturally, we'll email closer to the time - I definitely have to play with you guys next year.

Ronan, it's going really well. Great turnout every time (increased each time as word spreads), people have even been nicking our posters from shops to put on their walls, getting a bunch of great press (a little mention in the Guardian Guide the other week) and we've some smart plans for the upcoming year. I know it's a bit superficial and shallow but I *love* the way our crowd look and dress: http://www.clubclique.co.uk/gallery9.htm (new photo gallery)

Also, here's a preview by one of my favourite Manchester writers: http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/entertainment/clubs/s/185/185784_review_club_clique.html

Club Clique

Gary Ryan

It's amazing how the word 'pop' is treated with disdain - filed somewhere next to 'paedophile', 'fisting', or 'Jeremy Paxman' in recoil-value. Club Clique is giving back to pop the respect it rightly deserves. Held on the last Friday of every month in the cavernous Joshua Brookes' basement, it creams together students, glamorous girlies and beautiful gayboys that want to dance to the crackling fizz and sparkle of the LCD Soundsystem, Pet Shop Boys, Annie, Ladytron and prance-maven Tiga.

"It's an alternative pop night for the cool kids who aren't into The Libertines and leather jackets," explains promoter/DJ Damien Johnstone aka DJ Pisces, who co-runs the night with Niche Ian. The Dionysian-pop duo met at the final Club Suicide, bonding over music and their love of Paul Morley. "We started to think well, maybe there are other people in this city who think like we do," says Johnstone.

A night that's equally as passionate about the Tiefschwarz mix of Fischerspooner's ‘Kick In The Teeth’ as it is about the maligned, dead-eyed doyenne of digital disco, Rachel Stevens, Club Clique launched in summer.

"People instantly got it," beams Johnstone. "They were coming with requests for The Knife, as opposed to things like Beyonce.

"It's funny," he notes, "because a friend of ours passed us a copy of Soulwax's ‘Funky Town’, and remarked, ‘That's such a Clique record’. And that's before we'd even DJ-ed a note. That's when we knew we were onto something."

With an enviable atmosphere like a house party, this is a place where indie-snobbery should be left with the coat-check.

Friday night sees Clique's last hurrah before the New Year, so expect to hear their current favourites Franz Ferdinand's 'The Fallen (Justice remix)', Goldfrapp, Sheffield's lost synthers Baxendale and 'In The Flesh (Sight And Sound Version)', by Nana Matronic herself, Debbie Harry.

"There does seem to be a scene arising out of nights like ours, and Tramp and Invest In Property," notes Johnstone. "Not in terms of playlists, but aesthetic. We get a massive amount of students in; a substantial number who shop in Afflecks. What's great is that it's a night people are making an effort to dress up and look interesting for."

Eclectic sounds, and a love of Rimmel rawkers Girls Aloud means there's only one thing left to say: ‘Last one to the dancefloor is Nicola Roberts!’

you are living my dream yer bastads. see you next month (hopefully).

Roll on 2006 we can't wait you know, and come along Ronan,
Gravel et al! Bring your gangs!
We're on from 9.30 til 3 so we can all go crackers into the wee hours.

haha at our 2nd birthday these guys nicked our 20 foot banner! someone tries to nick it every week actually, I guess it's a compliment. plus I always see our stickers stuck to lamp posts and in other places around the city.

hooray for small clubs!

hate on playa haytaz.

Ronan, what type of clubnight do you run? I've seen you mention it on other threads but don't know much about it. Do you have a website? And damn tooting right hurray for small clubs, fuck the big uns (and lo, we come full circle back to that spam).

btw, yr club looks great; I rilly wish NZ had the population density to have the, uh, subcultural critical mass to pull one of these off w/more than, say, ten people (maybe) wanting to come.

http://static.flickr.com/38/88888361_2117105b85.jpg

And now we've got a Myspace, so if anyone out there has Myspace give us an add. http://www.myspace.com/clubclique

In February, it's looking like ILX's very own Barima and Stevem will be ripping it up on the decks, book your train ticket to Manchester now! But for you London-livers come down to Bigsexyland (http://www.bigsexyland.co.uk) on the 18th Feb at the Albany, 240 Great Portland Street, as Piscesboy and myself will be guest DJing that night. And it would be nice to meet you all.

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Top Clique tracks for January:

Madonna – Sorry (Pet Shop Boys remix)
Test-Icicles – What's Your Damage (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke remix)
Wigwam (aka Betty Boo & Alex from Blur) - Wigwam
Midnight Star – The Midas Touch (Hell Interface remix)
Franz Ferdinand - Outsiders (2006 remix)
Cover Girls – Inside Outside
Jenny Wilson – Let My Shoes Lead Me (The Knife remix)
Hystereo – Gonna Love You (Automatic & Silk remix)
Pineapples – Come On Closer
Goldfrapp – Ooh La La (Phones re-edit)
Britney Spears – Get It (unreleased DFA collaboration)
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Venue: Joshua Brooks, Princess St, Manchester
Price: 4 pounds, 3 pounds with flyer (or £2 before 11 pm)
Time: 9.30pm til 3am
Date: Friday 27th January
Special drinks promotions all night long.

(Although being cheeky here, hearing the JLC remix of Lose Control or the Rex The Dog mix of Drop The Pressure would be very nice)

DEFINITELY DO THIS!! Really, that'd be superb. We'll bring those tracks along with us and feel free to suggest any more too.

It's a similar idea to your own club, tho we sort of went from being electropop plus everything else to electrohouse, we have kind of a crazy young crowd that like to do drugs so it tends to be sort of mad.

We've had a good few guests at this stage, the Optimo guys twice, Steve Kotie from Chicken Lips/Bear Enterainment, Anu from the Freeform Five, oh yeah and we somehow got Jacques Lu Cont to play in our 220 capacity club, I'd say literally JUST BEFORE he exploded again and got massively popular. We've done a good few nights sort of for other promoters too for acts we'd never afford ourselves like Blackstrobe and Tiefschwarz.

This Thursday we have Damien Lazarus and we also have started doing a monthly residency in one room of a bigger club, where we book a live act and DJ after, so next Saturday we have Nathan Fake playing at that.

So yeah it's all good.

well if anyone's in manchester (or nearby) grab yourselves a copy of the free METRO today and see m'self and Affectian / Niche Ian blethering on in their Clique feature, like our lives depend on it (which they do to an extent). It describes our crowd as 'loyal dressed-up and well meaning' - we can't argue!

Come on down and say hello tomorrow night kids! You'll be so very welcome.

We got some good press for it, here's a link to one in the Metro: http://www.flickr.com/photos/17024614@N00/91833117/
and this in the Manchester Evening News:
ihttp://static.flickr.com/14/91833115_ae9a0e10e1.jpg
Text is a bit small to read but it's a great picture. The next step is to persuade them to be the Manc Girls Aloud..

Last Clique was super dooper, we ended up locking the doors just after midnight. But before I blabber on about the next one (Feb 24th) Piscesboy and myself are DJing in Londontown tomorrow at http://www.bigsexyland.co.uk/

Here's the blurb for that one:

BSL takes place on the third Saturday of every month at Low (the new name for downstairs at the Albany).

The Albany is at 240 Great Portland Street. You can’t miss it from Great Portland Street tube, or you can get off at Oxford Circus and walk north. Click on FIND US for more information.

Entry to BSL is £3 before 11pm and £5 after. We're open from 8:30pm to 2am.

We'll be on early, from half eight so get down early if you can but no biggie if not, we'll be sticking around til the end. Rumour has it that Barima and Stevem and j0e and other fabulous ilx slebs will be making an appearance! Wut woo! And hey Matt DC, hope you can still make it along, come over and say hi when you get in.

I'm gonna make it to this one day, for serious.

http://static.flickr.com/25/101575639_57a2fc9ce6.jpg?v=0

Ed, what's your Flickr address?

http://www.clubclique.co.uk/wordarticle.htm

Thanks Ed, that's some quality flicks there. My mate Hugh's in one of them, wearing a pink polo and looking at you like you stole his money.

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"I put up with all the scenes
And this is one scene
That's going to be played my way"
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Despite the sub-zero temperature and the Big Brother finale, the
Clique kids made it a sell-out lock-out hit last time! Thanks to all
of you for making Manchester as beautiful as it was born to be. See
the January photo gallery for proof:
http://www.clubclique.co.uk/gallery11.htm

This month we are thrilled to announce our first non-local DJ guests,
Base58.com's DJ Sven and DJ Barima. Friends of Clique since Day One,
they'll be wowing all with their super-danze pop slickness and digital
sound trickery.

Apologies to all the people who emailed saying they couldn't get in
last month. We can only advise that you arrive as early as you can to
avoid being locked out on the streets of Manchester.

And if you haven't been yet, see what the North's finest writers have
been saying about Clique: http://www.clubclique.co.uk/press.htm

As ever, we've been raiding the vaults and hunting down the newest
dancefloor stormers. We'll be rubbing up the Digital Dance-pop till it
bursts and here's February's top 11:

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Sugababes - Red Dress (Amelle Vocal Edit)
Tiga - Far From Home (Digitalism Remix)
Devo - Snowball (Jacques Lu Cont Mix)
Richard X (Feat. Javine) - You Used To (Extended Pleasures Of Javine)
Depeche Mode - Photographic (Rex The Dog Dubb Mix)
Madonna - Let It Will Be (Paper Faces Vocal Edit)
Zeigeist – Tar Heart
Missy Elliot - I'm Feeling Hot (McSleazy Remix)
Gene Serene & John Downfall - I Can Do Anything
Eighth Wonder – I'm Not Scared
Etienne De Crecy vs Simian - Fast Track vs Never Be Alone
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Venue: Joshua Brooks, Princess St, Manchester

Price: 4 pounds, 3 pounds with flyer (or £2 before 11 pm)

Time: 9.30pm til 3am

Date: Friday Feb 24th

LATE BAR ALL NIGHT and special drinks promotions.

Please dress up for dancing. x

Love,
the Clique crew

Website: http://www.clubclique.co.uk
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/clubclique
Message board: http://tinyurl.com/csqj4
January's photos: http://www.clubclique.co.uk/gallery11.htm

And here's some more photos from Bigsexyland last Saturday:

http://www.bigsexyland.co.uk/photogallery/bsl07.shtml

Judging by the number of air-punches, the best-received song last Friday was Stevem's very own Killers vs Bowie bootleg. I don't know if he wants the track floating about the internet so I'll hold off from posting it on here but it's brilliant. And this went down a storm too.

put the Killers/Bowie boot up by all means - i'm just too lazy to have got round to putting it on base58 myself (but will do along with another couple of newish ones). cheers.

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"'Lets wear too much make up and not enough clothes / And see how the evening goes"
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Basement-quaking, heart-racing, hip-shaking CLIQUEreturns for the biggest dance-pop party yet. Catch us TONIGHT, downstairs in Joshua Brooks.

This time round we're thrilled to welcome the superstar DJ
Simon Price from peerless London nightclub Stay Beautiful.
For one night only, Romo-pop visionary Price will be showing
Manchester how they do it down south.

Not only that, we're the National Club of the Week in this
week's NME! Check it out here.

So come one, come all for our first glammed-up party of the
spring season. Bring your dancing shoes and shimmy to the
newest freaky-hot danceable pop, sweet tough digital sounds
and fresh alternative remixes all sluiced together to make your
heart beat faster. Here's this month's top 11:

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Uffie - Pop The Glock
Franz Ferdinand - L. Wells
Sugababes - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
Run Jeremy - Window Licker (X Rated Lick)
Daft Punk - Revolution 909
Rihanna - S.O.S.
Goldfrapp - Ride A White Horse (Serge Santiago Re-edit)
Kylie Minogue - Nothing Can Stop Us
Hot Chip - Over And Over
Royksopp - Beautiful Day Without You (Rex The Dog Remix)
Sexus - The Official End Of It All
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Venue: Joshua Brooks, Princess St, Manchester
Price: 4 pounds, 3 pounds with flyer
Time: 9.30pm til 3am
Date: Tonight!

LATE BAR TIL 3AM and special drinks promotions.

Please dress up for dancing.

Love,
the Clique crew
x

Website
Message board
March photos

we are moving venue and had a huge party last night, words can't describe. think I have photos of us all stage diving at the end, it's hilarious.

Stevem, ah Simon's great. He's arguably most known for the old Manics stuff in the 90s but these days he's a great pop DJ, runs Stay Beautiful and a new Studio 54-style night in London. Lovely guy, great writer and has fantastic hair.

That NME piece is a bit wrong, in that they chose some of the crummiest pictures from the galleries and quoted our photo/design girl Melissa (some of you may have seen her running about taking photos at BigSexyLand the other month) as coming out with all the quotes. Which she didn't and she's slightly peeved about that. But yes, we're very pleased to be in there. I'm really looking forward to the Attitude piece though as that's guaranteed to look stunning.

http://www.clubclique.co.uk/images/flyer.jpg

http://www.clubclique.co.uk/gallery_pages_apr06/apr06/7.jpg

yeah stevem's killers/bowie boot went down so well with our guest DJ. he stopped dancing to it to come rave about it loudly in my ear, then went back dancing to it again.

this time ATTITUDE magazine have us as their featured club of the month with a massive-o technicolour splurge of photographs, so we're expecting another crackers one.

do come and say hello at the booth if you come along, it'd be lovely to see you in the words of Goldfrapp.

here's this month's official waffle:

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"She said: we were never feeling bored 'cause we were never
being boring / We were never holding back or worried that time
would come to an end"
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The 26th of May sees the basement of Manchester's Joshua Brooks
play host once more, to that frenzied fusion of unruly electric
dance and hysterical digi-pop called CLIQUE.

We'll be shaking the digital sounds into one long and fizzy early summer
mixture until 3 in the morning. After last month's feverish capacity-
busting escapade we're advising people to get in early. This time costs
are kept down to £2 before 10.30.

We are thrilled to be ATTITUDE magazine’s national club of the month,
it's out at the end of May and packed with photos of you gorgeous
Clique kids. So shine your best shoes and get ready to throw your
smartest shapes - it won't be the same without you.
Here's this month's top 11:

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Pet Shop Boys - Fugitive (Richard X Extended Remix)
Gnarls Barkley - Gone Daddy Gone
Soft Cell - Memorabilia (Suzy Ecstasy Mix)
The Rapture - W.A.Y.U.H.
Sugababes - Red Dress (Cagedbaby Remix)
Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler
Christina Milian - Say I
The Knife - Marble House (Rex The Dog Remix)
Christopher And Raphael Just - Popper (Featuring Fox N Wolf)
Cassie - Me & You
Felix Da Housecat Vs. Pop Tarts - Money, Success, Fame, Glamour
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Venue: Joshua Brooks, Princess St, Manchester

Price: 4 pounds, 3 pounds with flyer (2 pounds before 10.30pm)

Time: 9.30pm til 3am

Date: Friday May 26th

LATE BAR ALL NIGHT and special drinks promotions.

Please dress up for dancing.

Love,
the Clique crew
x

Website: http://www.clubclique.co.uk
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/clubclique
Message board: http://tinyurl.com/csqj4
April’s photos: http://www.clubclique.co.uk/gallery17.htm

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Gene Serene DJ set - 10.30 pm
Clique Djs from Midnight.

Please Arrive Early.

ATTITUDE Club of the Month (July issue) :

http://www.clubclique.co.uk/attitudejune06.htm

Venue: Joshua Brooks, Princess St, Manchester

Price: 4 pounds, 3 pounds with flyer

Time: 10pm til 3am

Date: Friday June 30th

Special drinks promotions all night

Please dress up for dancing.

Love,
Pisces / Affectian / Clique Crew

x

meanwhile, any interested ilxors can download a clip of the lovely gene serene's awesome 'i can do anything' here.

It's high time I made a return to Clique...

The galleries of the first year are here:

http://www.clubclique.co.uk/gallery.htm

and we've updated the site to include some of the press quotes from the first year too:

http://www.clubclique.co.uk/about.htm

If any of you guys fancy coming along tonight, do try and come over to the booth and we'll get you a drink.

Pisces / Affectian / Clique

And *taps glass with fork* following a fucking brilliant first year I'd just like to give big thanks to ilx for indirectly bringing this about, and even bigger thanks to the handful of ilxors who had a massive influence on us throughout this. We'll be sticking a chunk of Clique money into this ilx server fund in the next few days by way of thanks. And the best thing is, from my completely unbiased viewpoint those gushing press quotes don't even come close...

Can't make it tonight, but am going to talk to my mate about this tomorrow so hopefully fingers crossed i can drag her along to the next one. Cheers!

Yeah next month should be a biggie, email us on club.clique@gmail.com nearer the time and we'll tell you more, see you next month!

http://clubclique.co.uk/Emily-Vogue.jpg

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"I want to show you mad love"
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The glittering shimmering party chaos of CLIQUE returns to the basement of
Joshua Brooks this Friday for the first digital dance pop event of the autumn.

This month we're thrilled to present our fantastically glamorous guest DJ
Emily Strange of the capital's electro-heroines CLIENT, fresh from their stint
playing support to the PET SHOP BOYS on their summer tour.

Here are some of her recent CLIENT tunes:
Pornography (with Carl Barat): http://clubclique.co.uk/p0rn0graphy.mp3
Zerox Machine: http://clubclique.co.uk/zeroxmachine.mp3

For more information see the CLIQUE feature in the upcoming issue of ITCHY
magazine.

We are keeping prices low - it's still £3 with a flyer or a badge! The doors swing
open at 10, so do arrive early!

September Top 11:
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The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control (Soulwax Nite Version Remix)
Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous (Morel’s Pink Noise Vocal Mix)
The Long Blondes - Fulwood Babylon
Justin Timberlake - Sexyladies
Peter Bjorn And John - Young Folks (Punks Jump Up Special Disco Remix)
Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts
Yazoo - Don't Go (Enrico Mantini And Gianluca Detiberiis 2006 Full Re-edit)
Rapture - Don Gon Do It
Bobby Orlando - I’m So Hot For You
CSS - Computer Heat
Luke Haines - Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop
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Friday 29th September

10pm - 3am

Joshua Brooks, Princess St, Manchester

4 pounds / 3 with flyer or badge

Special drinks promotions all night!

Please dress up for dancing

Love,
the Clique crew
x

Website: http://clubclique.co.uk
Myspace: http://myspace.com/clubclique
Message board: http://tinyurl.com/csqj4
August's photos: http://clubclique.co.uk/gallery25.htm

ihttp://clubclique.co.uk/sept.jpg

(click here to see the article in today's MEN)

it's Clique time again next friday, it'd be be so very gorgeous to see some of you there again! we've got official I-D mag photo types coming down so shine up your best dancing shoes and come along for the evening!

the details are below and the interview we did for ELLE magazine's december clubbing feature THE NEW RULES OF GOING OUT is here:

http://clubclique.co.uk/press.htm

see some of you there hopefully!

pisces

x

10pm - 3am

Joshua Brooks, Princess St, Manchester

5 pounds / 4 with flyer or badge

Special drinks promotions all night,

Please dress up for dancing!

oh and another date for the dance-diary -
our christmas party with RORY (TRASH) is on the 22nd of December.

Anyway I put you on my "myspace"! Yes! Or perhaps I didn't cos myspace no worky?

Haha Rory from trash tho?! (NB I will definitely not be in Manc on the 22nd tho).