Showing posts with label Chairkickers. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 4 March 2009

Electric Affair 2 presents Beardo Weirdo


ELECTRIC AFFAIR


It's all happening on Fri 13th March at the Go-Go Bar in Newtown. R30 gets you in.

Here is the official press release:

Date: Fri 13th March 2009
Venue: Go-Go Bar
Address: Corner Bree/Henry Nxumalo (under the M1 Highway), Newtown
Cover: R30
DJs: King Of Town, Marc Latilla, Sassquatch, Beroldski, Young Smuts
Music: Disco/ Electro of the Italo, Cosmic, Space, Mutant, Vintage, Philly, Muscleman and Just Plain Ridiculous variety.

There was a time when Kris Kristofferson was considered to be a man amongst men, an icon, a hero, a lady’s man and all-round cosmopolitan Hercules. That time was the 1970s, and what a time it was: tight pants, pastel coloured jumpers, corduroy, and, sometimes, if you were lucky, tight pastel coloured corduroy pants.

But what really made the 1970s – and Mr. Kristofferson – great was the facial hair. Gone were the days of handlebar moustaches, wispy villainous face curtains sported by Fu Man Chu, and ill advised sideburns that never made it quite to the chin. Instead, the 1970s had its own marker, its own hairy identity: the beard. Full, rugged, masculine (and feminine too, if it was on a woman, such was it’s magical power of transformation), sometimes itchy, always hot hot hot.

Sadly, beards have gone out of fashion. In the 1980s, beards and moustaches parted ways; in the 1990s, Chris Cornell goaties ruled the roost; and in our current era, anybody with any hair whatsoever is considered a freak. But remember this: Limp Bizkit, Madonna, MC Hammer, Milli Vanilli were all crimes committed in a beardless world.

No longer! Come and join Electric Affair as we reinvent the facial wheel, and bring back the beard! With a soundtrack of proper vintage italo, mutant, space and cosmic disco (and a touch of the best electro-disco of the past decade), we will transport you to that magical past without internet, when you could smoke freely on a plane, and did not need to battle with 4-bladed razors shaped like sports cars. Electric Affair is your one-way (smoking) ticket to the land of the beard.

Electric Affair: Embrace Your Inner Kristofferson.

Pre-op Steve Austin, Megatron Man and DIE MAN VAN INTERSEK are on the guest list.


CHAIRKICKERS


Sadly, the genius invention of new music exposure that is CHAIRKICKERS is on hold until further notice. A new venue is needed that doesn't attract the FTV overflow...

Even though technically, the first night was a roaring success (well, the place was packed), the crowd was completely wrong and only a handful of people were there for the right reason.
As Ben pointed out, we should be proud that we rocked a club full of PCD & KOL requestees with our brand of indie/bleep/funk/disco/punk. We did, but it wasn't the point.

We'll be back...
Oh, we also collected a whole bunch of much needed stuff for Hole In The Wall and about R400 cash. All dropped off the following Sunday.

Saturday, 24 January 2009

Upcoming Gig Updates

CHAIRKICKERS


chairkickers


Fri 30 Jan Tokyo Star Greenside Gleneagles Drv
8pm - 2am. No Cover
DJs Marc Latilla, Shande Durrant (Desmond & the Tutus), Sassquatch

We'll be accepting donations for the HOLE IN THE WALL charity. Cash or goods (it is a free party afterall) Got some Radiohead & White Stripes vinyl to give aways to early donators.
www.holeinthewall.org.za for list of needs and more info about the charity.

PIXEL POP

Sat 31 Jan at The Woods 66 Carr Str Newtown. No Cover.

9pm - 11pm Sassquatch vs. Marc Latilla
11pm - 12am Desmond & the Tutus LIVE
12am - ????? Richard Tha IIIrd


ELECTRIC AFFAIR

Confirmed for Fri 13th March at the Go-Go Bar in Newtown. R30 cover
DJs Marc Latilla, King Of Town, Sassquatch, Beroldski & Young Smuts.
Horror disco anyone? Artwork and more soon.

Monday, 5 January 2009

Quick update

Chairkickers:

Opening night is set for Fri 30 Jan 09 at the new TOKYO STAR in Greenside 8pm - 2am.

The idea is to try and fuse an early 'listening' set with a dancefloor orientated set as the night progresses.
I hope to cover a wide range of music early in the night with a focus on the interesting newer and/or underplayed...the kind of stuff you don't normally get hear because it's to slow or unknown or unpredictable to drop into a normal set.
The later set is made up of music to dance to drawing from the trusty Indie/Bleep/RnR banner.

So...you'll be able to lounge and impress early-on while savouring the strains Fleet Foxes, Magnetic Fields, Lykke Li, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Feist and Johnny Cash and then lose yourself on the floor to The Foals, Soulwax, Digitalism, Vampire Weekend, Ladyhawke and so on.

Guest DJ's will add a slant to both slots. Early setters (unconfirmed) so far are Shane Durrant (Desmond & the Tutu's) and Lloyd Gedge (Pavement Special). The only rule is "Play what you love, what moves you and what makes it all worth it". The early set guests will mostly not be regular DJ's, but rather people from all walks with impeccable music taste.
The late set guests will draw from the current pool of DJ's we know and love and hopefully some new up and comers.

Important to me is to try and give something back. I'd like to set-up a collection tin for my favourite charity "Hole In The Wall' in Berea. Since there is no entrance fee, I'd like to encourage everyone to donate R10 or R20 or items that the charity use on a day to day basis (they look after abandoned babys) at each party.

All will be revealed shortly.

Electric Affair:

Coming up is part 2 of the revivalist Italo-Cosmic Disco/Hi NRG/vintage Electro influenced night with King Of Town, Sassquatch, Young Smuts, Beroldski and myself.
We meet soon to discuss venues options and dates.