DJNoNo’s frankly quite worrying love affair with Aphrodite (not as dodgy as his obsession with Julie Andrews, the stalking court hearing is in a few weeks) continues with this ode to the Asylum ‘Those Were the Drums’ mashing Mary Hopkin’s 1968 classic ‘Those Were the Days’ with ‘London Massive’ by Aphrodite – and craftily sneaking in some Osymyso talking about Bastard at the Asylum for Swiss TV all those years ago…

DJNoNo – Those Were The Drums(Mary Hopkin vs Aphrodite)

This was played back in November at the 72 night, not got around to posting that and the other tunes I did until now…rest will follow hopefully

As well as being released and played in part on XFM, 72 the collaborative mashup project will have a live mashup event in London on Thursday 29th October at Loom bar from 7pm-1am with many mashup DJs in a continuous moving mashup feast! Idea is like the old Bastard ‘Bring Yer Own Boots’ – each DJ brings 3 tracks but similar to 72, one track at a time, in order!

This means the night has a dream DJ list of many people picking just the best 3 tunes, which I think should provide great if chaotic results – totally in the spirit of Bastard! And like Bastard it won’t just be mashups, but I’m sure you’ll hear a few

I will be DJing (well putting on 3 tunes) as well as:

Osymyso
Freelance Hellraiser
LV15
Bush No.10
Jez Celebrity Murder Party
Joel 90
Ape
Lee Spoons
Cartelmike
Eddie Pedalo
Dsico
Pheripheral
Scott Cairo
Tizwarz
Gara Gara
and Pom Deter, who ran the 72 project with Eddie Pedalo.

I’m sure many more to be added! Should be a great night, it’s free so come on down, the mashup’s lovely! And it will be one of the few (read: only) events you will see me anywhere near DJ decks in the near future since I am officially retired

This video from Swiss TV, shot in September 2002 (we think), shown 2003? is presented by Mark Nicholson aka Osymyso no stranger to Radio Clash (although I haven’t played him far from enough in recent years) – a second career perhaps? Very good presenting! and other mashup people I’ve spotted that are no strangers to this show include:

Cartelmike
Jonny Cartel (by the bar! Quelle surprise!
Bushno10
Stash da Rola (I think standing by Bush)
Rob PB (in the hat
Matt Catt (with hair!)
Strictly Kev (DJing)
Cartel Baz (by the bar)
Jo Zephyr and her friend or other half (?) whose name sadly escapes me.

Others supposed to be there are Churchy and ian Fondue, can’t spot them though, it’s like a Bootleg Where’s Wally? I hadn’t started going to them yet – not until 2003 so pretty sure I wasn’t there for this one.

Thanks to Cartelmike for posting this, and Mark Osymyso for letting him post it online

A little voice inside my head said: “Don’t look back, you can never look back.”. Well actually it was Don Henley but in the case of The Asylum, home of the legendary Bastard, one the world’s first ever mashup nights (well that was King of the Boots, also run by Cartel Mike and Johnny, and might have been there too) in London back in 2001 or 2002 until 2006, it’s very true.

This was the club that was so underground (it wasn’t properly licensed!), grungey and accidentally hip, that not only did Chris Morris base the pisstake of the club in Nathan Barley on it, the owners went onto run the Macbeth in Hoxton, where one of them or their staff got into that whole Blake/Amy debacle.

It seems that The Asylum has been kidnapped by Laura Ashley, and forced to wear floral wallpaper, union jack underpants and Ye Olde tourist-trap trinkets. So sad.

History – right there. Or was…

(not pictured behind them is the Ye Olde fireplace, the patio chav-style windows at the end, the union jack chairs, the WI tea cups used as ice holders and the tablecloths. I shit you not. Go look at the pictures from upto 3 years ago and compare!)

Very proud my pics have been used for the launch of GYBO 5.2 which looks mighty shiny! (on the frontpage, and also in the Cartel interview). And amazed McSleazy managed to do something with my slightly odd off-frame photo of Roy (he was always looking down the rest of the time! It was a real snapshot).

BTW you can find more Bastard/mashup related photogenographography on my Flickr.