A dirt(ybird) night out

This weekend, I was very lucky young man. Goateenie and I got on the guest list for Mixmag Live's 'Dirtybird Players' night, at The Village Underground in Shoreditch. The gig was unsurprisingly sold out (apart from a few £35 tickets on the door), so you could probably guess... I was a tad excited.

After all, it was a quite mouth watering prospect to see all of Dirtybird's top talent in the same night (Claude Von Stroke, Justin Martin, Eats Everything, Catz N Dogz, J.Phlip and Kill Frenzy were all on the line-up). 

Moreover, I had only heard good things about the venue, as my brother Corque's artist Ofei performed there a little while ago and they both thought it was a wicked little place.

Slightly different to what it looked like at the gig...but you get the idea!

To give you a bit of background, The Village Underground was constructed in 2007 as an answer to the ever increasing need for affordable, environmentally stable studio space for artists in central London. 

The main centre is a renovated turn-of-the-century warehouse,  and houses everything from concerts and club nights to exhibitions, theatre, live art and other performances. 



Most importantly, the design of the building means the sound system is meant to be...well...epic.

It was reverberating Catz 'n Dogz as we got there

So, making sure we had plenty of time to get our rave on, Goateenie and I arrived at around midnight and could hear Catz n Dogz set as soon as we entered the building. Well, when I say hear, I actually mean feel... the whole place was reverberating with the sound of dirty(bird) bass. 

Entering the building, we noticed how simple yet effective the layout was...you walk into a small cloakroom area, with the main brick layered hall to the left, and a cave like area straight in front where the bar was.

Not wanting to waste any of our time, we let the vibrating floor bounce us all the way to a quite splendid position on the dance floor, where we spent the next 4 or so hours on, going-for lack of a better phrase- FUCKING MENTAL.

Highlights of the night for me were:

1. Listening to Claude Von Stroke's phenomenal remix of Renegade Master

2. Watching Eats Everything act just as excited as everyone in the crowd at how good that remix was.

3. Being told by some guy from somewhere in Eastern Europe that the Dirtybird 'players' make music (and I quote):

                                                    "To fuck me"


We both had to be up at 8.30 for Sunday football, so being the sensible chaps we are, Goateenie and I threw the towels in before the end of Eats Evertying's set. However, we certainly got our share of the nights outrageous tunes...36 hours on and my ears were still ringing from the awesomeness of the bass! 

In fact, the night was so fun that we just booked to go back for Groove Armada on April 20th.

If you fancy coming along or just want to find out what the venue has to offer, check out the following links:

http://villageunderground.co.uk/events

http://mixmaglivegroovearmada.eventbrite.com/

Oh, and if you want to listen to my bro's artists check out their websites below:

http://www.official-o.com/

http://iamromans.com/

1luv,

Finey

xxx

p.s. cheers Corque for sorting the night out