Here in Dublin we are currently experiencing what one could call a proper summer, as in the sun is out and it’s actually warm, unlike the last few years. Even us nerdy types here at ISM aren’t immune to the ability of the sun to perk us up and I for one have been waiting for this coming weekend to come around for quite some time. Most of this weekend’s shenanigans realistically have very little to do with the weather as most of the fun is to be found inside the environs of clubs long after the sun has gone down but all this weather means plenty of drinking in the sun pre-club, which is a nice alternative for us sun-starved Irish.
First up on Friday night Test will be taking over The Button Factory – which I have to admit is far from the top of my list of favourite club spaces in Dublin – when the Delsin 2.0 tour roles in to town with a double header featuring Redshape and Vince Watson. Watson, who’s productions veer from the excellent to the slightly bland will be taking over the wheels of steel and I expect will deliver a good set of Detroit influenced techno before Redshape performs live. As with Watson, Redshape has had his duff moments but has been on form of late with his latest 12 on his own Present imprint, “Alpha On The Rocks” while his “Blood Into Dust” ep on Styrax last year was one of the outstanding techno releases of the year. His live sets are an excellent fusion of Detroit and Chicago sounds melded into his own style.
On Saturday my boys Lunar Disko celebrate their 3rd birthday party with another double header, this one featuring Berliner Sneak Thief – who featured on Lunar’s debut twelve inch – playing a live set while Creme Organisation boss man and recent ISM interviewee TLR fills in the gaps on the technics. Expect a night of acid, disco, italo and whatever else the guys throw at us. If it’s half as good as the guys birthday party last year – probably the best night out I’ve had in Dublin in the last two years – then we should be in for a treat. Inflatable Llamas optional.
And if that wasn’t enough Sunday brings us one more double header – though at this stage I may feel like I’ve no functions going on in my own head – courtesy of myself and Gmos. Some Like It Deep have been putting on afternoon/evening roofparties in the Sycamore in Temple Bar for a couple of months now, and this Sunday long running club night Fatty Fatty takes over the controls and they’ve kindly asked myself and Gmos to help aid them round off the weekend alongside FF residents Pablo and El Tomo. It’s a great spot and hopefully this weather continues and there’ll be no need for any canopys to be pulled over and a selection of disco, house, techno, funk and whatever else we dig out will keep everyone smilin’ n’ dancin’ for the day. It all kicks off at 2pm and runs till 10pm which gives everyone who’s got to work on Monday morning plenty of time to get home and get a decent nights sleep in. Myself, I’ve booked the Monday off to rest my weary head. Hopefully see some Irish readers along the way.
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I’ll try and show up on Sunday at the Sycamore, L.
would be good to see you again leo, hope you make it down for a bit
btw, pissing rain today, flooding all over dublin, I’m blaming you Kenny!
yea, screw you Kenny, you and your unbridled optimism, almost got swept into the liffey this morning 🙂
you guys better kill that shit. no link to a flyer for it?!?! come on, you can do better than this. ;P
Fuck yis, the sun is out again!
“unbridled optimism” and my name in the one sentence. weird.
I don’t know of any flyer Tom, it’s that ghetto etc…
Trying to get a small crew together for Sycamore, there shouldn’t be a bother for peeps getting in on the door I take it. Let me know if there a special password or sommat 😉
will give ya a bell on sunday kenno, here’s hoping for this unusual sunny summer weather to hold for little while longer…
no passwords needed, just don’t look like you’ve been up all night 🙂
Good stuff, Leo.
So what did you think of Sneak Thief and TLR at Lunar Disko? After he played Walk the Night I worried it was going to be an I-f lite set, but it wasn’t. I very nearly pissed myself when TLR played Sisters of Mercy. Flippin’ deadly.
Sorry I missed Sycamore in the end, hope you all had a good one and the rain wasn’t too bad up there
sorry for the no-show, bit too wet for rooftop dancing action, old bones and all that. Hope yis didn’t get too wet. L.
yes, unfortunately the fatty fatty weather curse struck again and that kept a lot of people at home. it’s a good spot though, I liked it up there, despite the beers being a bit expensive
Yea the sycamore is a lovely little place to play. Ourselves and Louis Scully (of dublin bus disco) played back to back there a couple weeks ago and despite the smallish crowd there was a very decent atmosphere. Our set worked so well in fact, that we have spawned a new order, ready to wreak havoc on dublins clubs. “Broken Bus Driver Movement” will be playing a 6hr back to back set in the Twisted Pepper (in all it’s funktion 1 glory) this coming september. (discount possible if dublin bus vouchers produced)
Oh and thanks very much for bringing the rain kenny, nice one.
Hehe, I popped in for a bit a few weeks ago, but I missed Louis. My GF was unhappy that he wasn’t on earlier as she’s been listening to a mix of his on loop for months now.
It is a great space, not sure about that chick over the bar tho 😉
Yup, the weather was a sickener. Though I found it hard to care how many people were there, I was just enjoying playing some music (even if my body was highly resistant to me going).
The rest of the weekend was a lot of fun, though I really do hate the button factory and vince watson was fairly watery. last half hour of redshape was bloody brilliant. Sneak Thief and TLR killed it on saturday night too.
please, if you could, expand on the ‘bit watery’ comment about watson. was the old melodic techno on the lame-ass, weak, bland-as-bajaysus side? i know opinion is very divided about him and his productions, but i do love his detroit classic mixes (how could you go wrong really) and his resident advisor mix/live set from a while back (perfect running material).
It was just a bit much at times. yes, yes, you like Detroit, you’ve got epic strings in every track, we know. He’s got some nice ideas going on at times, but it just got too bland at times and forgettable. There was certainly some enjoyable moments and I think the guy does have good taste and some talent (I own a couple of releases) but shit needs to get roughed up more. Last minute it was announced as a live set not djing, would have preferred to see dj set i think.
Yeah I’ve gotta say that despite some good tunes and some dope mixes as well, most of Watson’s productions are pretty standard lite Detroit-y filler techno. It’s not really dissimilar to someone like Fabrice Lig.