Playtime returns with Zombies Ate My Brain for reopening of Bar Rumba
HEY PRINCESS! WE'RE BACK!
The international society for people trying to escape the everpresent Jodie Harsh presents...
RETURN TO SOHO!
SHOREDITCH'S FAVOURITE UNDEAD, ZOMBIES ATE MY BRAIN, AND PLAYTIME
present....
THE RE-OPENING OF PIVOTAL VENUE BAR RUMBA.
(SHAFTSBURY AVE, QUITE NEAR THE GAYS).
London clubland is, as always, collapsing - the gays are away, dancing at Bergheim. The straights are taking a horrified peek downstairs in the cubicles at Bergheim, and that's dancing too - in its own special way. The venues are shutting! There's no music! The kids only want rawk, and live! And Shoreditch is one terrible scratchy teenbeard after another - the sort that make a man look like a plucked chicken - a rich plucked chicken, one who can afford American Apparel.
Give it up! Escape Shoreditch! Return to Soho! And be part of the relaunch of the legendary Bar Rumba - the venue that bought you Derrick Carter and Luke Solomon's legendary mid-weeker Space, Giles Peterson's THIS!, seminal d'n'b testing ground Movement ... such an amazing history that even those difficult bitches on the Faith Forum have had nice things to say about it (as long as no-one else catches them being nice, obviously...) It's a stupidly good set of nights coming up, with guests including Dinky, Terry, Maurice Fulton, Roland Appel, the fantastic Greg Wilson, Optimo, Stefan Goldmann, Todd Bodine, remixer of Playtime favourite track, Paranoid; plus Jona, Steve Kotey, Clive Henry...
And for the launch Fri Sep 26, it's Playtime and Shoreditch's own Zombies Ate My Brain as the opening night. So we've pulling out the first listen for London to Mike's Monday's new album, Songs without Words - about to be announced as album of the month in the next IDJ ...
PLAYTIME V ZOMBIES
OPENING NIGHT FOR NEW BAR RUMBA
MIKE MONDAY, first London listen to new album Songs without Words (IDJ album of the month)
SHANE WATCHA / Zombies ate my brain
BIG DADDY / Playtime
NOBODY / Zombies Ate my Brain.
ZOMBIES V PLAYTIME, 10PM-6AM, £10 / cheaper with concession from hello@playtime-records.com or playtime-records.com. Bar Rumba, 36 Shaftsbury Avenue, London W1D 7EP. Picadilly Circus tube. Info 020 7287 6933 or hello@playtime-records.com.
MIKE MONDAY
It's the next phase of Monday's advance into electronics. His debut LP, Smorgasbord was an IDJ album of the year, a "classic" in One Week to Live and an "LP we can't put down", according to DJ mag. But his new CD, Songs Without Words, is a step beyond. Simulaneously serious and lighthearted, it's Monday staking out a big claim for electronic music: that vocals can't provide half the experimental and emotional charge of cutting-edge electronic noise.
But while its humour pushes the album well away from the predictable monotony of today's dance music, it's the most committed European electronica acts supporting Monday's ideas. With fans from Kiki to Tiefschwarz, Will Saul to Falko Brocksieper, Alex Flatner to to Anthony Collins, MANDY to incredible support from Laurent Garnier (“I love the personality of Mike’s music”), Monday has put a human face and human emotion to the best elements of today's electronic production ...
SHANE WATCHA
He's one of the DJs that keeps the London scene together. His night Zombies Ate My Brain is one of "London's best afterparties" (DJ mag - which has also nominated Watcha as one of their "Fantastic Four"). He's part of London's Circo Loco, playing from warehouse parties to the soon-to-be-much-missed The End to tours in Moscow, Europe, SE Asia and Australia and New Zealand and the USA, as well as playing in London alongside an endless list of big underground names like Steve Bug, Loco Dice, Claude Von Stroke, Marc Houle, Konrad Black, Tim Sheridan, James Holden, Clive Henry and Mr C. Not bad, as he says, for a guy who first started playing to 20 in a tiny bar in South Africa.
BIG DADDY
Even five years ago when it started, Big Daddy's night Playtime, was being called "one of clubland's finest inventions ... it honestly sounds like nothing else around" (DJ), "the best mixed club in the capital" (TNT) and "terrific ... one of the last truly mixed parties left in London" (Guardian), It gave the first-ever London slots to now pivotal figures like Claude vonStroke and Abe Duque, and earned its first resident Big Daddy gigs in Russia, France, Asia, Australia, the States, all over the UK, as well as creating a new record label, Playtime Records - "one of the reasons dance music still rules," according to IDJ, and a label that will relaunch in Oct with a new tracks from Andre Crom to Riva Starr to Hannah Holland to Dirtybird Records hero Worthy, as well as more up-and-coming artists like Lost Cowboy and Yankee Zulu ...
PRESS ENQUIRIES
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Hannah Holland
We first found her in the East End of London - at one of Playtime's favourite clubs, Trailer Trash. But these days she's a lot harder to track down ... Tours of Europe with her Batty Bass night, sets at Space Ibiza, the TDK and Field Day Festivals, Exit Festival in Serbia, regular slots at BuggedOut! and of course Trailer Trash's own ravin'. Every friday at on the rocks, plus boat parties, a one-off in a tranny brothel (don't try to say you've not had one) and even a disused Kwik-Fit garage.
Her first track on Playtime will be Banshee - our most kinkily deep track so far, and the first track we'll have released in a good long time. Get in touch for promos...
Worthy
OK, we admit it - we stole him from Dirtybird. But if you've not been following Worthy's career already, you should have been. Long resident of Dirtybird's legendary San Francisco parties, Worthy has released on Dirtybird (Playtime favourite Irst_Te?, on Leftroom, Om and his own label Katabatic, as well as remixing for Curfew, OM, Utensil, and Tentigo. WIth fans from Sven Vath to Ben Watt, Worthy has a set of new tracks on the way - including his first Playtime release, a collaboration with Yankee Zulu - 'the BS Connection'.
Yankee Zulu
First he was following Carl Cox and Joey Beltram. Then David Holmes and Ian McCready, who ran the legendary SugarSweet parties in Yankee Zulu's home town of Belfast. But as he got into his own style, Yankee Zulu (real name John McIver), started getting into Chris Duckenfield, Hip-E, Ralph Lawson - and got his first set at Dublin's fantastic Stiff Kitten - the first club, incidentally, to bring Playtime's Mike Monday to Dublin. Having now released as the Sigma Kids, Jet Project, and now as Yankee Zulu on key wonky labels like Katabatic, Utensil and Om, YZ's first track on Playtime will be his collaboration with Worthy - "the BS project".
