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.

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"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

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).