Halloween Supatronix UK!
Posted by jurassik | October 7th, 2009
Life is sent to test you, they say. Well this week has certainly proved that particular adage. Early this morning we found at that our venue for the past year, Herbal, is being closed forever due to the council having pulled the licence. This is incredibly sad news as we really enjoyed our time there. One might say it was our most successful period so far in fact, with some fantastic regular crowds getting down to the likes of Far Too Loud, Deekline & Wizard, Plaza De Funk, Freestylers and many more.
But … luckily we’ve been able to secure another Shoreditch venue, The Courtyard in Pitfield Street, as a replacement for our Halloween party on Friday, October 30th. It’s the spot where we did our New Year’s Eve party last year, and has just been kitted out with a full soundsystem and a late licence. Future Funk Squad will be headlining in the breaks room, and we have the Skanks Sabbath crew (not to be confused with our regular collaborators, Skanks!) holding down the bar with some hip-hop and dubstep sounds,
The extra space on the stage there means we’ll be able to get some visuals going, and the owner of the place is a wicked chap who’s properly into the music and ting. So it ought to be a nice comfortable place to get on it. And we’ll be running ’til 4am instead of 3!
Furthermore, I’ve just heard from Mr Funk Squad himself that he’ll be giving away 50 copies of his incredible new album Disorders of Skill. Since we’ll be doing our usual free entry deal before a certain time, this basically means that if you get your skates on we will be giving you the best breaks album of the last couple of years to come to Supatronix. You really can’t say fairer than that. Also watch this space for an exclusive mix and interview with the man himself.
If everybody likes the venue and it goes off, we might just carry on there. Or we might find somewhere else. Let us know what you reckon, in any case.
I can’t bloody believe it!
I’ve just learnt that the club I have worshipped for the last year is closing. I’m actually stunned, things like this shouldn’t happen. I hope I don’t discover next week that Breakbeat is an illusion and it’s pioneers have been sent from Kompakt in Germany to trick us.
It’s a shame though.
I remember my first time there seeing the Mixologists back in ’06.
Herbal will be missed.
It’s a real shame that we’re not going to be able to hear breaks at Herbal, it was a really fun place to play and I always thought the atmosphere was bang on.
Not been to Courtyard yet, but I’ve heard it’s a pretty damn good replacement.