LFO-Weatherall-Villalobos: fabric tonite

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― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 18 October 2003 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Only if we can persuade some one to let me in for free, but you know that. Cup of Tea?

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 18 October 2003 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

argh

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 18 October 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 18 October 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

damn, you international ppl are lucky.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 18 October 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

What Steve said.

But maybe. I'll see how I feel in a few hours.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 18 October 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

the castle, 930pm

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 18 October 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

hey im going too! i am about to drive in. ill phone when i get to lundon

― ambrose (ambrose), Saturday, 18 October 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

you are all spoiled and I am cranky. there hasn't been anything on here in many moons, agoria about 2 weeks ago whetted my appetite but grrrrrrr all the same.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 18 October 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Just saw off Gareth and Tracer and friends to that locale a bit ago (more accurately they saw me off to the bus, but anyway). Doubtless madness is happening as I type. :-)

― Ned at Martin's place (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 18 October 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

how did this go? i'm so jealous!

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 19 October 2003 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

gareth and tracer got back half an hour ago and are drinking beer in the back. I am also jealous, not job = no money equals no wild nights out.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 19 October 2003 06:54 (twenty-two years ago)

hoowee is that new villalobos good.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Sunday, 19 October 2003 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

hm whatever LFO is now, it wasn't so mind-blowing. i think he was just DJing? and i didn't recognize any of the songs. weatherall was fantastic but i think londoners are a bit spoiled with him, everybody was like "oh i forgot he was playing, you practically trip over him these days." i didn't see much of RV for some reason!! maybe that was when i a) fought thru the line for the toilets b) was refusing to buy some girl a brandy c) was talking to AMBROSE!! what i did hear of him (Villalobos) was more housey than i would have expected, not quite as "deep" as the stuff i have of him.

i thought fabric was great. there were too many people. but it's well-organized. i didn't get patted down at the entrance. the taps in the bathrooms are custom-made for refilling your water bottle and no there's no scowling attendant forbidding you to. it's a bit mazey, which is good.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 19 October 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

tracer, i disagree wholeheartedly. lfo was fucking awesome... was mixing live stuff from his laptop into tracks on a cd deck so it was half live, half dj (although the stuff he plyed off cd was put through a ton of effects etc) he played quite a bit off sheath, the new album, but among the other stuff he dropped were monstertruckdriver by t. raumschmiere, helicopter by plastikman and pump it by dj funk (an old dancemania-style fave of mine on cosmic records that i've not heard in time). weatherall won my herat again by starting his set with superpitcher's version of baby's on fire, too, but i was a bit cream-creackered by them what with jetlag, very little sleep the night before and general it being 4.30 in the morningness. in the main room, black strobe whipped the crowd up into a frenzy but somehow i just find them pretty serviceable and uninspiring. sure enough, people dig them and they're extremely proficient at what they do, but it's all a bit cool and calculated for my tastes. as for villalobos, hardly caught any of hims, unfortunately, but what i did was pretty deep and slick - not quite as dark and moody as everything on alcochofa, which is actually a really decent thing as i love him when he's a bit more melodic and polyrhythmic (reminds me of when i checked him out in barcelona about 18 months back - loads of latin rhythms and almost tracey bits that just blew my socks off at the time). all in all it was a really good night, in answer to geeta's question!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Sunday, 19 October 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

dave we looked for you but we didn't know what you looked like aside from an unconfirmed rumor of curly ginger hair!

can you shed any light on the apparent new trend of men wearing pinafores and trilbys??

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 19 October 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Wah, I should have stayed an extra day. :-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 October 2003 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i enjoyed black strobe the best. also MU was really good, and totally confounded my expectations! how do crazy japanese girls looning about on stage make such good perfomers. actually maurice fulton was ok. he kept on trying to drop some noo york deep latin house, but then saw that people were pissed off and put something else on. LFO were well good, and without them i wouldnt have lasted till 5.00. well tight, and 'sheath' sounded badass... colid dale was a bit boring. villalobos was ok, and welcome relief from the colins' abstract dance, but it wasnt all that. couldnt really see what the fuss was about. also, he looked like a tosser, so that makes me dislike him immediately. weatherall got better the later he played, but i was screwed by that point. it was pretty good overall, despite fabric copnspiring to fuck the evening up, by being so manky. although the sound system did sound wicked.

bbbb ut its akufen live there next week! why do they have to get everyone playing there?!

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 20 October 2003 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

And then M Mayer on the 31st! Argh.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 20 October 2003 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

must move nearer Fabric...

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 20 October 2003 09:03 (twenty-two years ago)

stoosh bwoy

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 20 October 2003 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

is there anything good happening in london this weekend?

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 20 October 2003 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

erm, i'm going to a party in Putney. or maybe to see Mark Ronson in Brixton.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 20 October 2003 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

dave we looked for you but we didn't know what you looked like aside from an unconfirmed rumor of curly ginger hair!

i prefer to say nonchalantly tousled titian-coloured hair! it's v v v dark ginger, almost brown so you'd not have seen me glowing like a beacon in the corner or anything!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 20 October 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Ohh fuck Maurice and Mu played, shit shit shit.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 20 October 2003 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

don't worry they were total knickers and really not worth paying any mind to at all. shame as i like maurice fulton a lot - when he's good...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 20 October 2003 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Ed knows Mu from Sheffield; she was married to a friend of his and they usually stay with my friends Jamie and Tomoko here in LDN, which is where we discovered them earlier this summer when J shot a story for the Independent that I wrote.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 20 October 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

oh well, they didn't sound good, all the same. i have friends that make music i really don't like and they know it - they're still friends, though!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 20 October 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

jay dee - plastic dreams, and not joey d, as amy and ambrose were saying. i am not one to talk thuogh, because i didnt recognise it, and had always thought it was a rubbish track, but i was wrong! im not sure what i have been mixing it up with though...

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 20 October 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah that jay dee sounds a little subdued on a computer....but coming out of fabrics sound system, it sounded fucking amazing!

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 20 October 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

it's just a classic record anyway...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

it definitely needs a big system though, it doesn't get the air of mystery on biscuit tin computer speakers really. The sense of space is not as striking when you're sitting in a silent room in your house.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, i do have good speakers - sounds good on quality headphones, too. though i really don't know what i'm talking aboiut coz i haven't listened to it at home in years!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

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