Ich bin eine long arse techno rave up, ja?

Back from a mini tour of Berlin/Koln - the spiritual homes of techno, relentless beats, thumping four-four rhythms, all that bollocks. Tons of graffiti n street-arts. Telling you, there's not an exposed brick untouched by spray paint - and it's proper good n all.

                              Blu                                                           Alias

But forget the graf for a sec, the highlight for me was Bar 25 in Berlin. A club with two main rooms, one much more techy than the other. There's open-air bars, a sand pit, a ropeswing, and just for good measure, a river. You heard right - a RIVER! Reminded me of the Shangri-la area at Glastonbury (remember that time MHR played Glastonbury?)

Anyway, doorstaff are assholes, so, look good n be cool. I don't mean in a Fonzie type way. I mean, relax dude, be cool, ya get me? - or you ain't coming in.

Bar 25's very lovely MySpace

Place is well worth hitting up though. Opens on Thursday evening and the party don't stop till some time Monday. Awesome. Get ready for a long arse techno party and very little sleep.

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Fancied something a bit different...

Found it.

This was amazing!
The Lodger

Mean, eerie, pea-soup London. Incredible LIVE sounds. (I counted two drum-sets, vibes, sax, bass-sax, clarinet, bass-clarinet, oboe, cello, baby grand, an assortment of keys and the obligatory woodblock). Brand new Paul Robinson score worked a dream with Hitch’s (first real) “Hitch”. Ivor Novello was both chilling and hilarious in the lead-role. Scary-looking mofo, check him out. Awesome.

Green Note saturday night

Sampled the soothing sounds of the Green Note in Camden saturday night. Took in some proper grown-up choons from the BluesMix boys. Real nice - and funky too.

Green Note

Gig cancelled

Tragic to hear that Courtauld (owners of Somerset House) have pulled the plug on our gig at London Fashion Week.

According to our man D’Arcy at the Lovebullets team, they reckoned the Lovetank contravened the building’s "naval history”. No Tank, means no promoter, means no MHR set. (We were soooooo primed).

Guh!? Now, what in good gravy has naval tradition got to do with us delivering a humping good party to the beautiful folk of London? Grrr. Next up; Fashion Relief Ireland. Alls well.

Performing Glastonbury with the help of the Lovetank

Saturday clash-up

Tough call...
Dam Funk @ Koko clashing with my boy Jonny Pioneer this saturday night.
HAS to be...the JP. Jonny Pioneer @ 333 Basement Bar

Eagle

What can you say? Genius what this guy's done with the Steve Miller band!
DJ Bottin

Somerset House. Confirmed

Oh, it's on. This could be special.
London Fashion Weekend