It’s GYBO (the bootleg board)’s 5th birthday and Holestar and co. have arranged a free party for it’s members in the east end of London on Saturday August 18th. Bootleggers coming from all over the world to see this one and play. Many regulars to the Radio Clash playlist are either playing or are going to be there, including quite a few that have been interviewed or hosted the show in the past. I’ll be there also, but you can’t have everything…;-)

Check out the DJ list!:

The Freelance Hellraiser
McSleazy
Dunproofin
Soundhog
Cartel Communique
Eve Massacre
Poj Masta
Pirate Soundsystem
Lenlow
The_Dr
Deep Disco Force

So check out the thread here (you have to be registered) and speak to Holestar if you want to go (NOTE: it’s guestlist only).

And Pilchard, John Shed and Who Boys are going, we can only hope they don’t sink the boat…

French Bastard flyer by DJ Zebra

Interviews from French Bastard at 93 Feet East with Comar, Totom, Who Boys and John Sheddus Interruptus, and with Cartel Communique aka Mike and Johnny, promoters of Bastard spill the beans about the new venue, Cartel Chaos and even Le Secrets d’Bastard!In between play loads of great mashups and tunes you have to hear…first Libsyn podcast also! YAY! No restrictions! RIOT! No annoying redirect also…Ou et le plume d’me t’ante or sumfink: (95mins, 73Mb) http://media.libsyn.com/media/radioclash/rc_106.mp3

Notes

• Pulp – The Fear (from This is Hardcore)
• team9 – Big School
• DJ Schmolli – When Will I Be Supermassive
• Prince – Poplife (Fresh Dance mix)
• Who Boys – Friends Stuck in Chemicals

• Interview pt1 with Who Boys & Totom

• Totom – Feel Good Devil

• Interview pt2 with Who Boys & Totom & Comar

• Mouloud and the Sonic Destruction – Tainted Van (mixed by Comar)
• DJ Zebra – Happy Friends
• Kiss vs Funkytown

• Interview with Cartel Communique (promoters of Bastard)

• lairy poppins – When Will I Be Famous
• Cheapy D – Ass vs Tetris
• bangers & mash – Billie Dan
• Celebrity Murder Party – Superstitious Joelene
• Lance Lockarm – Wouldn’t it be Ecstasy?
• team9 – Swan Together
• Roxy Music – Bitter’s End (from For Your Pleasure)

Jeb singing live at Hectic Eclectic 

Wow that WAS a blast! Quite a few people came, a mix of bears and bootleg people (bearlegs? bootbears? err…) including Kirk, James (along with Kirk one of my oldest friends), Steve Holy13Nation, Scott from NightNurse, Ben Jamin, Holestar, Ian Fondue, Ben Goldrun, Robb Idiotech, loads of people

I played a reasonable set, mostly mashups but also a lot of the original tunes I played in podcast #95, but Jeb’s was FANTASTIC and his live stuff (MORE COWBELL!) of his own tunes really surprised people and they loved it (going to try and work out as a result how I can get more live stuff on, it really works).

It’s been great to see Jeb and we’re recording podcasts together with Scott today so you’ll hear all about it I reckon!

Then Cartel Communique do what they do best – which is rocking the house til the early morn with a fanatic small crowd til 3am (!) I went on and finished the night, initially wrecking the dancefloor (oops) but played classics like ‘I want your Love’ and ‘Geno’ and got them boogying along, finishing on Metalium’s ‘Thank You For the Music’ and ELO’s ‘Mr Blue Sky’ (of course! A perfect way to end a night).

And and people liked the video projections, had Ulysses, Charlie Brown, Day of the Triffids and Children of the Stones for me, Breakfast Club and Hardware Wars for Jeb, and Hoff videos, Night of the Comet and High Fidelity for Cartel!
So thanks to all who came, the DJs and special thanks go to the now dubbed Rich’s Uncle who was an older geezer dancing flamboyantly and kissing people’s heads (classic! Cartel seem to inspire such beautiful madness) and Greg, Kirk and Trevor who helped on the door – especially Trevor as he was a member who happened to be there, became a convert and offered to do the door later on.

You’re a star!

I kept being asked ‘are you doing another one?’ so I suppose I have to

Photos here http://www.flickr.com/photos/timbearcub/sets/72157594347256010/

People danced! Here’s the proof! 

Invasion of the Bearzes 

Cartel Johnny does a happy mashup hoedown 

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Yes I’ve talked about it for years, it’s the first ever Radio Clash Live DJ night!

Some of you might know I’m doing a night (well 2, but that’s for another story) in London at the end of October.

Radio Clash presents Hectic Eclectic
Wednesday 25th October from 9pm
Arts Theatre Club, Frith Street, Soho London
Free (guestlist only)

DJs:

Cartel Communique - legends of the bootlegging scene, one of the best DJs in London and the warped minds behind ‘Gimme Ragga Joanna’
Jeb aka £50 Note (here some of his mixes here)
your humble host Instamatic / DJNoNo + guests

Gonna be fun – contact me for guestlist, it’s a small venue so apply early to avoid disappointment!

Details, location etc. of the venue can be found at their website

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Ok – some more sad news, for those of you always wanted to goto Bastard in London (as mentioned in too many Radio Clashes to mention), I’d hurry- as I guessed, it looks like the one on Febuary 2nd will be the last (for good maybe, or for a while).

I’ll do all in my power to be there, and so should you too! I’m glad I got to play there in November if this is going to be the last (I wanted to play many more and rock the place but may not get the chance now) Great line up:

SOUNDHOG
LIONEL VINYL
THE PILCHARD SOUNDSYSTEM
CARTEL COMMUNIQUE

THE ASYLUM
RATHBONE PLACE
LONDON W1
8.30 TIL 3AM

More about the details (why, what, etc.) over at this GYBO thread. I’ll probably take a camera to document it and maybe go with my Radio Clash hat on, dunno.