Well, we have been well and truly off the radar as we have thrown ourselves into making the most of our summer music plans – for that, we are sorry. But, we’re back, and we’ve just finished a flurry of photo uploading activity…which has reminded us just how many good events we’ve been lucky enough to attend. So, we thought we’d tell you what we thought of them.
Here we give you the festival edition…
We’ve got something pretty special for you this week – Reviveher/ Tourist presents Topazefimero with Rebolledo + Man Power at Efes.
You may have seen some of our recent posts introducing you to the mysterious DJ and producer Man Power – Berlin-based, he recently released his self-titled album on the Correspondant label. This is a rare opportunity to see him play live in London, one you shouldn’t miss out on! Add to this the fact that the night intends to recreate Mexican TOPAZdeluxe club across Europe in a serious of events across locations and geographies, this promises to be something pretty special. Not concerned only with the music, physical builds, digital technology and mixed media installations will also be used to add to the aesthetics and ambience of the evening.
For those of you that haven’t been to Efes before, the venue lends itself well to this event and, if we weren’t in Ibiza, we’d be there with bells on!
Get your tickets here.
And in the meantime, here’s Man Power’s Skattejag to get you in the mood…
One of the best London day festivals, held in Victoria Park over two days. The perfect mix of live bands, DJ sets, food, people and fun to help kick off festival season in style.
We’ll be going on the Saturday and are most looking forward to seeing Caribou, Kindness, Spector, Django Django, Honne, John Talabot, Leon Vynehall…along with everyone else on the monumental line up!
Saturday and weekend tickets have sold out but there are still some tickets left for Sunday – get them here.
Here’s Caribou performing Can’t Do Without You the last time we saw them at Brixton Academy back in March to get you in the mood:
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Check out our Past Events page to see our music archives or, if it’s festivals you’re after, see what our festival season holds…
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Store Street, Manchester (27th September)
Featuring: Jackmaster, Leon Vynehall, Carl Craig, Tale Of Us, Seth Troxler, Harri & Domenic, Ben UFO, Pearson Sound
This weekend saw me return to Manchester for the opening night of Warehouse Project 2014. I was flying solo for this event as Wendy is currently soaking up the sun in Italy – not completely solo, of course, as Catriona was happy to step in to help me sample what WHP14 had to offer.
Having called Victoria Warehouse ‘home’ for the past couple of years, this year saw WHP return to its spiritual home, Store Street, for the period 27/09/14-01/01/15. A car park and old air raid shelter, the location under the railway arches of Piccadilly station offers the perfect site for an event of this type and scale and the organisers chose to return here in advance of next year’s major milestone – WHP’s 10th anniversary.
Rovinj , Croatia (8th-12th September)
Featuring: John Talabot, Jamie XX, Eats Everything, Jungle, Ten Walls, Mano le Tough, Simian Mobile Disco, The 2 Bears, Waze & Odyssey, Disclosure, Last Waltz, Jackmaster
Thursday was the day of our Island Party and we were looking forward to seeing John Talabot and Jamie XX back to back. We optimistically (or perhaps pessimistically by this stage) looked out of the apartment window to be greeted by…torrential rain. Oh dear. It looked like the Island Party was unlikely, but, having not yet heard from those infamous mouths, we made our way down to the meeting point to find out whether it would be going ahead. With confirmation that is had indeed been cancelled, we were told that some of the artists from the cancelled Island and Boat Parties would be playing on the pool terrace during the afternoon – that was our plan sorted then! To our delight, one of those artists was Eats Everything! One of our highlights from Ibiza this season, Eats never fails to play for the crowd and always has a cheeky grin on his face. We couldn’t resist a photo opp…and of course a dance!
Rovinj , Croatia (8th-12th September)
Featuring: Tourist, Last Waltz, Bad Passion, Chvrches, Erol Alkan, Daniel Avery, Mount Kimbie, Wild Beasts, London Grammar
Tuesday. Time for our boat party! We set off to find Entrance B to hop on our shuttle to the port, an easy task you would assume from looking on the map…except no, it was not possible to get to Entrance B by any normal means and it reached the stage where we thought we were going to be trapped in the site forever!! Overly dramatic? Perhaps, but it was a bit of an ordeal getting to that stupid entrance whenever we needed to. Once at the port, we made our way onto the boat to start the party.
Rovinj , Croatia (8th-12th September)
Featuring: People Get Real, The Sonic Emporium, Mike Jones
We arrived at Zagreb airport bright and early (and very weary) with a mere 4.5(!) hour wait until our transfer 😦 Perhaps the transfer will arrive early we thought, perhaps we can camp out on the coach we thought…but no, that would be far too logical, instead our coach had been told to arrive 15 mins after the scheduled departure time, in case people were late (strange, given the coach was basically scheduled to cater for people coming in on the same flight, all of which had arrived nearly an hour earlier).
Anyway, after what seemed like the longest of journeys, we finally arrived in Rovinj, or, more importantly, at Entrance A! We jumped through the various check-in hoops and found ourselves in our home for the week – the onsite 3* Amarin apartments! We should have taken a picture as this was definitely the cleanest and most pleasant the apartment was going to look for the rest of our time there…
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