EVERY SATURDAY at BAR RUMBA until Saturday 4th July:
EVERY FRIDAY at THE SHAFTESBURY from Friday 10th July:
A bona-fide legendary club night, and now in its 15th year, Blow Up was the centre of the early to mid Nineties Brit Pop explosion, influencing the style and sound of a generation, and voted No.4 in Time Out's Top Ten Clubs of the 90s. From its original venue The Laurel Tree, Camden Town (1993-1996), to the Wag Club (1996-2001) and then to the Metro Club (2002-2009), Blow Up has continued its long run of sold out nights for over 16 years in an unbroken run.
Blow Up was founded by DJ and promoter Paul Tunkin in a Camden pub in Oct 1993. Records were played from the emerging 'British pop' scene (that came to be known as Brit Pop) together with Brit-centric 60s and 70s moves and grooves; swinging soundtracks to Mod Beat and Soul; classic pop from The Beatles to Bowie to Blur. The club still stays true to its early ideals - you will hear a selection of indie pop, new wave, pop electronique, underground 60s instrumentals, experimental grooves and easy listening - all sitting nicely alongside a selection of the current favs from artists such as MGMT and Vampire Weekend. Despite its love of buried treasures, Blow Up remains an accessible yet essential night that is always a great party, week after week, year after year.
"There is nowhere else quite like Blow Up, and in many ways it’s still unique. ‘Blow Up may be inspired by the ’60s,’ wrote Time Out years ago, ‘but their night could run and run.’ It looks set to do just that." Time Out, January 2009
"A refreshing break from the over-polished venue this hidden gem focuses on the music. Paul Tunkin has been DJing at Blow Up since 1993. His experience has paid off and this little beauty has stood the test of time" ThisIsLondon.co.uk, June 2008
"Few weekly clubs can keep up the sheer effort of throwing a good party every seven days. Yet, year after year, week after week, Blow Up just seems to get better" The Evening Standard
No.4: Time Out's Top Ten Club's of The 90s
"The club that changed the world" Melody Maker
"Home to and creator of everything, ever, Blow Up"
"The original, and we love you, baby" Jacques Peretti, The Guardian
"This is the night which spawned a thousand bands, inspiring fashion designers and stylists to recreate the look for the mainstream" The Guest List
"Legendary. The seminal 60's/90's mod club." Raise
"By the time Blur played Alexandra Palace about a year after Blow Up started, the whole audience looked like they went there. It's global and I think it started at Blow Up" John Best of Savage & Best PR on Britpop
"The London clubland institution" The Guardian Guide
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BLOW UP every Friday at THE SHAFTESBURY, 245 Shaftesbury Ave. London WC2H 8EH from July 10th 2009 (Summer Break)
BLOW UP every Saturday at BAR RUMBA, 36 Shaftesbury Ave. London W1 until 4th July 2009
DJs: Paul Tunkin + Ian Jackson + guests
Saturday Admission: £6* b4 11.30pm with flyer or printout of this page / NUS and concs £6* all night / £8 otherwise
Kneipenbesschallung mit Miss Mal So Mal So und der grausige Fund SKA, NORTHERN SOUL, GARAGE, SKINHEAD REGGAE, ROCKSTEADY im BEATZ UND KEKSE/ Wuppertal ( Luisenstr.86 ) 21.00 Uhr - 3.00 Eintritt frei
THE BIG PINK / speak & the spells / SONIC YOUTH / trailer trash tracys / PLUG / jookabox / DIRTY PROJECTORS / crocodiles / AU REVOIR SIMONE / peaches / SECRET GARDEN PARTY / health / MSTRKRFT / the maccabees / BLK JKS / mi ami
Thank you for the add! The first two t-shirts from the Les Femmes are just about to hit the streets! The price including international shipping is $29 CLICK ON THE EBAY BUTTON TO PURCHASE
The 50th anniversary of Tamla Motown in January has focused minds again on just how great their 1960s output was. Meanwhile the lynchpin of their great rival Stax down in Memphis - Booker T - is out and about promoting a new album. This music never goes away, and audiences always move their feet to it. This life-affirming soulful wave of Black Dance Music came to define the best that pop can offer. Grown men and women still go dewy-eyed at the mere thought of those hits.
And so do we, so we’ll be playing the best in Tamla Motown, Stax Records, club soul, & girl group songs from the period, all off original vinyl 45s. Your wax spinners on June the 5th will be Smart Phil & Mickee.
Come down and celebrate the beat, in a fabulous bijou West London bar that’s a doddle to get to and from. Double Shots all round!
Rowed Out Records are proud to announce the new single on the label;
button up - "I'm gonna leave you" 7" e.p.
Fantastic new hammond mod band from outta Coatbridge, Scotland with 3 tracks of stunning dancefloor jazz!
Side one of the e.p. features the band's version of NINA SIMONE's "I'm gonna leave you", with vocals by ex Del Amitri frontman Justin Currie - a mind blowing version that features appears on a lot of peoples mySpace pages. The second track is an original composition entitled "Sudden groovement" - pure JTQ style hammond funk!! Side two is taken up by a version of Brydie Green's take on FREDDIE HUBBARDs "Return of the prodigal son" - i.e. the vocal version!!
There we go; one e.p. - 3 tracks, in a pic sleeve and with a FREE postcard too!!
have a listen on www.myspace/soullikefire
The price? - the usual £3.00 + P&P (a total of £4 UK, £5 Europe and £5.50 ROW)
THE BIG PINK, sonic youth, TRAILER TRASH TRACYS, speak & the spells, JOOKABOX, secret garden party, PLUG, offset festival, MSTRKRFT, the maccabees, DIRTY PROJECTORS, beirut, HEALTH, crocodiles, BLK JKS, poni hoax, LITTLE BOOTS, au revoir simone, KISSOGRAM, mi ami, JOY-RIDES, lime headed dog... and more
Kneipenbesschallung mit Miss Mal So Mal So und der grausige Fund SKA, NORTHERN SOUL, GARAGE, SKINHEAD REGGAE, ROCKSTEADY im BEATZ UND KEKSE/ Wuppertal ( Luisenstr.86 ) 21.00 Uhr - 3.00 Eintritt frei
Wir machen hier nochmal Werbung für ne andere Veranstaltung, die sich auf jeden Fall lohnen wird:
Am Samstag 16.05 hat der Monkey Cave Club Graham Day and the Gaolers eingeladen ( Graham Day war Mitbegründer der legendären Prisoners)...nach dem Konzert gibt es wieder eine fantastische Party...also schnell mal die Modfrisur bügeln und ab gehts!!!!
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