KING KONG - Semi FinalsFriday 17th February
Doors 7:30pm
The City's GREATEST musical game-show!
Carlsberg Pints and Miller Bottles €3 all night
3 years running now in The Village – King Kong brings Wednesday nights alive with the sound of new talent. The clap-ometer decides the winner, so it's the band that most impresses the crowd with talent that goes through to the semi-finals & finals in the venue upstairs.
What's in it for the band? Gigs around town, and super prizes for the finalists and semi-finalists. Last year sent 'The Cujo Family' to New York City to play 8 shows and perform on Balcony TV NYC Enter your band through MySpace or drop an email off to kingkongclub1@gmail.com All bands will be recorded and interviewed for RTE 2Xm-2FM King Kong Radio
theVillageVenue.com & Real DJs presentsSCRATCH PERVERTS
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Friday 24th February
Doors 11pm
Tickets €12.50 adv / €14 door
http://www.myspace.com/scratchperverts
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scratch-Perverts/52577866341
Tony Vegas and Prime Cuts are the Scratch Perverts – a name that has become synonymous with HipHop and battle DJing ever since their formation in 1996. Their reputation as one of the world’s most progressive DJ collectives is unparalleled; two consecutive World DMC Team titles, Plus One’s World DMC Champion and World Vestax Champion titles, Prime Cut’s back to back World ITF Scratching crowns, and countless showcases and gigs all over the world.
Having won all there is to offer in the competition circuit, the Perverts are ready to enter the next stage of their development as recording artists. But as DJs who have contributed countless techniques and pioneered such radical innovations developing the musical language of the turntable, what the Perverts define as HipHop is a long way off what people would expect. “HipHop is a celebration of all kinds of music just by its very nature,” explains Prime Cuts. “So it follows that our album is very much a HipHop album in the broadest sense of the term. We’ve tried to do what we see HipHop as being – a celebration of all music, taking on board everything that inspires us and channelling it into our tracks.”
The ideals created by the likes of Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa developed through HipHop’s formative years, originality, dynamism and innovation are all principles that the Perverts have applied to their DJing art and now to their music. “We’ve tried to bring the mentality behind our creativity with turntables to the studio,” explains Tony. “We’re looking to show the same sense of independent thought in our music.”
The Perverts have always unselfconsciously embraced and incorporated anything that feels right musically, which is evident when you consider that they count the likes of The Neptunes, Dillinja, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and Aphex Twin, amongst their inspirations and influences. “HipHop is something that came from a lot of different music,” says Tony. “It was always about the collective energy. It’s not just a rapper that makes a record a HipHop record its about a vibe – and if a record has that vibe I personally look upon it as being integrally HipHop.” At the same time, however, the Perverts last intention is to make an album of sound-a-like productions “We are different,” asserts Plus One. “If we make a breakbeat track it’s not gonna sound like the Stantons, if we make a HipHop track hopefully it won’t sound like the Neptunes, if we do something leaning towards drum & bass it might end up more like a rock track.”
Although they may have retired from battling indefinitely, the Perverts have lost none of their supercharged competitive spirit. “We still have that proper B-Boy ethic deep down at the core of it all,” explains Plus One. “It’s this need to take someone out, to do better than them,” adds Prime Cuts. “For example, listening to a Dillinja track and thinking that’s so heavy, I wanna do something better than that – it’s that mentality that drives us, we wanna take on something that we’ve heard someone else do and try to do it better.” These days, instead of spending hours building battle routines to take each other out, the Perverts are crafting beats to do exactly the same thing! “We’re always trying to out do each other,” Plus One says with a grin. “Even though we’re all working towards the same cause, still at the core of it is that energy – I wanna make the best tune this week, I want to have the ideas, and that gives us this immense drive that maybe other people don’t have.”
The creative energy and enthusiasm that the Perverts exude is quite something, through all their schizophrenic influences and lofty ideals you get the feeling that they will harness and channel their combined creativity into something very special. “Our challenge is in coming up with something that’s an honest reputation of ourselves,” say Plus One. “Which is quite a difficult thing ‘cos we’re into so much different stuff.” As Tony Vegas sums up; “We’re just trying to true to ourselves, we want people to be left in no doubt whatsoever as to what a Scratch Perverts record is, you can guarantee that we’ll be bringing the same amount of honesty, energy, desire that we have to our DJing.”
Demented presentsNORMA JEAN
+ THE CHARIOT, STRAY FROM THE PATH & ADMIRAL ARMS
Wednesday 29th February
Doors 7pm
Tickets: €22 incl booking fee
Tickets €22 available online from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078] (50c per ticket service charge applies on phone or credit card bookings from WaV).
http://www.normajeannoise.com
http://store.bandmerch.com/normajean
http://twitter.com/normajeanband
http://www.myspace.com/normajean
http://www.purevolume.com/normajean
Big Dish Go / BIGWAR 7 presents
NINJA TUNE
Luke Vibert - Dj Food A/V set
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Friday 2nd March
Doors 10pm
Tickets: €16/€18 incl booking fee
Tickets €16/€18 available online from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078] (50c per ticket service charge applies on phone or credit card bookings from WaV).
Time waits for no musician – but it’s still hard to fathom how over two decades have passed since the inception of visionary independent British label Ninja Tune, co-founded by Coldcut musician/producers Matt Black and Jonathan More in 1990. From that beginning the label achieved a level of notoriety quickly, due to its funky style and commitment to eclecticism. Key in the labels success was the constantly growing roster of very different sounding artists including Amon Tobin, The Bug, Bonobo, Mr Scruff, Toddla T, and The Herbaliser . Ninja now has a well respected Hip-Hop arm in Big Dada, a legendary series of mix CDs/ Radio shows (Solid Steel) and some awe inspiring stone-love compilations... the ZEN collection. The label is fresher than ever and this special Dublin show is not to be missed.
www.ninjatune.net
Electronic icon Luke Vibert has appeared for Ninja Tune under the alias "Wagon Christ" and most recently "Plug". With an array of releases on Ninja Tune including a solid steel mix, Wagon Christ is Vibert's most celebrated and wondrous monkier. The king of stoned exotica, ridiculous vocal samples, sizzling, funky chunks of exotic busines, swinging rhythm and the psychedelic groove, Vibert has never been one to take himself too seriously, but his music continues to delight. In early 2011, Luke told Ninja Tune that he found some long-lost never heard before DATs dated 1995-1998 from his Plug moniker. Ninja Tune went and did the only graceful thing and released the collection of tracks as the brilliant “Back On Time” album. Simply brilliant.
www.wagonchrist.com
Ninja Tune still stand out as the original multimedia record label, the first to champion audio-visual performance, therefore a Dj Food A/V set. With a seemingly single DJ name, it is often wrongly assumed that DJ Food is single person. In fact, a whole host of Ninja Tune DJs, producers and musicians have performed under the name, so the evolutionary nature of the DJ Food sound comes as no surprise. Coldcut were responsible for starting the project in 1990 on the premise of providing metaphorical "food for DJs". Currently Dj Food is represented club-wise by Strickly Kev who has been the labels designer and art director since 1993. No better man.
www.djfood.org
“One of the most innovative independent record labels ever.”
The Independent on Sunday
“One of Britain’s most consistently innovative imprints.”
The Times
“The Ninja collection shows that you can experiment musically and challenge while holding on to the seeds of popularity, and that improvisation doesn’t have to mean you disappear up yourself.”
The Guardian
Camden Crawl presentsCAMDEN CRAWL DUBLIN 2012
100 CUTTING EDGE LIVE ACTS
15 VENUES | 2 DAYS | 1 TICKET
Friday 11th & Saturday 12th May
Doors 5pm til late
London’s award winning Camden Crawl has become an internationally recognized calendar fixture renowned for showcasing the forthcoming year’s most hotly tipped cutting edge live music artists alongside special guests to sell out audiences since its inception in 1995.
This Spring the Camden Crawl unveils its debut sister event in Dublin, taking the show on the road for the very first time a week following its parent event.
Taking place on 11th-12th May, the Camden Crawl Dublin will feature more than 100 of the most hotly tipped emerging Irish and international acts of the year alongside your favourite established artists.
Watch this space and make sure you catch the announcement first by following us on Twitter and Facebook
TICKETS:
€41.50 wknd / €26.50 Day available online from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078] (50c per ticket service charge applies on phone or creditcard bookings from WaV).
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The village is the perfect setting for private parties or product launches. It can be adapted to cater for large or small groups and is equipped for everything from theme nights, corporate functions, fashion shows, after parties to live music performances.
The Village incorporates a live music venue, late night bar, restaurant and nightclub. Combining old and new, the refurbished brick, natural wood floors, comfortable leather seating and subtle lighting have been carefully chosen to create a warm setting and ambience. The venue and club space holds a 650 capacity with the addition of a plush and intimate mezzanine balcony bar suitable for V.I.P guests, artist recreation and private parties.
TICKETS CAN BE PURCHASED ONLINE CLICK HERE or Lo Call 1890 200 078 or in person @ 39 Camden Row (beside Whelan's Venue) | Opening Hours Mon to Fri: 1pm – 8pm Sat: 4pm – 8pm | Email: wavtickets@gmail.com | International Customers please call +353-1- 4780766
