London 2008: The commercial gay dance scene is dead. DTPM died. Trade shut down promptly afterward. Declining attendance because it was the same old same old same old music. The few "superclubs" still wheezing in Vauxhall’s gay mecca - previously thousands of muscle boys a weekend - still churn out the same tired ghb-fueled discohouse that killed the scene. The same old nights, the same old music, and punters voting with their feet The big clubs now are the tiny clubs.
Well fuck that! Take one muscly circuit queen who came of age in NYC at the Mudd Club, Paul Shetler, and one Australian queer DJ, Big Daddy, who hadn’t played on the gay scene since a residency at Heaven five or six years ago but who had a big profile in the now very mixed underground dance scene... Add the trend for younger gay men in London to grow beards and move east to the magical inner city of Shoreditch; and take all the new movements in wonky house (largely pioneered in London by
Big Daddy’s Playtime, which hosted the first UK gigs for now huge underground DJs like Claude von Stroke and Abe Duque), in techno and electro, in European electronica, Nu Rave and flat out raging noise - like it used to be at Mudd Club - and add a spiky press release about saying YES to NO! Embrace what you couldn’t get before - hotties AND amazing music, in the same venue for the first time in years...
A couple of FUCKED OFF QUEENS present...
NO! From "love you" to "fuck YOU!", a big queer celebration of 100% electronic music in all its forms -- with BREAKDOWNS that go on for DAYS and WHIRRING NOISES just like YOUR MOTHER USED TO MAKE...
WE OPENED on GOOD FRIDAY.
We ROCKED.
And EVERYONE GOT LAID.
There is NOTHING MORE TO WANT.
See you at the NEXT ONE. In SHOREDITCH.
Alex Shane’s 7 Day wrestling training camp July 20th
“The Showstealer” Alex Shane is once again running his annual 7 day wrestling training camp this Summer. The camp begins on Monday July 20th at 10am and concludes on Sunday July 26th at 5pm. Unlike his previous camps, which were in Manchester this camp will be held at the new RQW House facility in Dagenham, Essex which is on the London Tube map.
The camp will cover everything from the basics of wrestling all the way up to the most advanced and complex of principles making it suitable for both beginners and experienced wrestlers alike. Your progress will also be filmed and given to you at the end of the camp itself in order for you to keep track of your progress. This camp is ideal for those who want to learn the very most that they can in the shortest space of time. Alex Shane, whose pro wrestling training book was released last month, has trained hundreds of top names on the UK scene and several who have made it on to be contracted to the WWE. This is your chance to learn from his 17 years experience as one of the top wrestlers, promoters and teachers in Europe over the last 15 years.
Just in time for summer here is my new Single: Light Design taken from the album by the same name, but watch out for the special edition in july called Light Design 3D.
The Ep also features some new electro and prog house remixes of LOVER by Happy Empty, Esemdi and Marc Nuit.
Check them on iTunes : http://itunes.com/eastman
Hey No!, I sense wild vapors of sweet champagne in your larynx. You turn the atmosphere ablaze with currents of sweet ethylene when you smile. Cities crumble, skies ignite spontaneously in your presence. Polished rock candy comes ever to mind when thinking of you. Your hair sends forth a sheen remniscent of golden sunlight winding through shadows. In your absence I am forced into finding other forms of amusement while thinking about you. Your beauty is equal to the smoothness of a polished gem. How it passes there and back again like a tear drop glistening in moonlight. Entranced by the sweet harmony of your lips, I gaze beyond reason to find the oasis of your brilliant soul. The stickers hugging the fruit smell better than the perfume of ambergris. What wonderful vibrations you are capable of. Your layers of absinthe and torsion form concretions of hyper-alimentation. Your tears evoke a taste as memorable as honey. I relentlessly desire cotton candy lollipops. Your eyes are like spheres of crystal water filled with shimmering dreams.
Craig Rock and Jon Vamp Host the weekly terrace Sessions party at The House and Terrace Nightclub in North Greenwich.
If you like to party, if you like to party outside, then get your ass down to the House and terrace in North Greenwich, 338 Boord St, North greenwich, SE10 0PF.
We have 500 capacity out door terrace with 12k soundsystem, Myself and Jon Vamp host the Terrace and play driving House Electro (nothing commercial), we also have 6am licence so if your a party person you really should come take a look, the summer is to short to miss this out.
Also feel free to join our Facebook group An Audience with Craig Rock & Jon Vamp
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