Dance Dance Revolution

16:56 / 13.08.02

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."
-Emma Goldman

My brother and I will be swinging through London many months from now on the way to visit our dear ol' Mom in Ireland. Odds are I'll be sneaking into one of your regular meets, but truth be told, pubs bore me stiff. I'm sure any Barbepub experience would be interesting, but the call from the dancefloor will be too much for me.

Does anyone else here like to go out and get down? Where? To what? With whom? From rocking out air guitar style to the Cars in your living room, to shaking your can in a dingy nightclub, I need to know. May I have this dance?

Regrettable Juvenilia

17:16 / 13.08.02

"If you feel you've got the biggest one,
moriarty come shake ya ass."

I love dancing, and I don't do it enough in a context outside of the bedroom (titter ye not). We're going to have to drag you to the Camden Monarch, I suspect (great news that you're coming to London, by the way - everyone does sooner or later...).

I think the last place I had a really good public dance was at a hip-hop night called 'Spread Love' at the Social not far from Oxford Street. Pass the Courwhatsitcalled!

17:29 / 13.08.02

C'mon, if he's coming to london we need to take him to a garage rave. No need to be scared of the nasty black people, folks, this is your big chance!

Kidding, of course, I know the chances of that happening with you lot are zero.

But how about Lost? 8 hours of music in a warehouse somewhere and lots of class As. You know you want it.

sleazenation

17:30 / 13.08.02

I too love dancing - whereever - it doesn't matter - once you get that feeling its like.. you HAVE to dance.

so yeah - london - comics + dancing.

Mourne Kransky

17:46 / 13.08.02

Moved by the music at Popstarz, and much filthbeer, I rediscovered the ability to pogo recently. Just can't do it for as long.

Terpsichore isn't really my muse though. Was there a muse of beery leering? Haus would know...

17:56 / 13.08.02

The monarch. god no. please no.

I'm with Ty actually. scary but true. that or a rammed dancehall night in camberwell/brixton... class A's at barbeloid's individual discretion, tho. qu'est-ce que Lost?

although the popstarz tent at Pride was a thing of joy so that's also well worth a go...

will have to think about the 'rocking out air guitar' end of things...my london-fu is a bit defunct these days....

17:56 / 13.08.02

dancing tho, yes please. less pub, more dancing.

18:09 / 13.08.02

Lost?

I thought you didn't like techno, Lyra?

You see: everyone likes techno really.

sleazenation

18:19 / 13.08.02

personally i wanna find a decent drum'n'bass venue, but hey.

Grey Area

18:21 / 13.08.02

Techno. Can't be beat.

(ducks barrage of whistles, glo-sticks and other strange accessories)

18:22 / 13.08.02

Ever tried Movement, at Bar Rumba on Shaftesbury Ave (think it's a wed/thurs night?), that used to be pretty good, or there's one I can never remember the name of, which is more jungle/dancehall, a monthly at the imperial gardens in camberwell...

Regrettable Juvenilia

18:52 / 13.08.02

I only suggested the Monarch because I suspect that the music they have there might be where my taste in dancing music interacts with moriarty's and a substantial number of 'Lithers. If it was up to me I'd find some vaguely North-East dive that played hip-hop, r&b and post-bootleg electrotrash, but hey...

I just want to hear one Neptunes-produced tune anywhere I go. That's the new (ja) rule.

18:58 / 13.08.02

Oh, I like all that too, but what I really need is some deep, Basic Channel-style techno.

Think I'll put some on.

Mmmm. DEEEEP. My beard is plaited around my head.

I'm not coming anyway. Ignore me.

23:41 / 13.08.02

While this thread should not be about me or my needs, I must say Flyboy is correct. The only modern music I am aware of are Canadian ska bands. I'll often go to the bar and dance to many, many songs with titles and artists I do not know. However, despite the fact that the one thing (things?) that I cannot dance to is techno/drum n' bass/rave type music, I am more then willing to give anything a go. I'll Rock out at the Rat Trap when I hit Glasgow.

Tryphena Absent

00:09 / 14.08.02

so many problems... I've got this image of a rave full of 'lithers. Argh can you imagine it, all the different music in one place, half of us taking ecstasy and acid and God knows what else. The magickers providing us with giant sigils to put on the walls and oh the clothes, all the different clothes people would wear. Everyone could come from all over the world, it would be a mecca of arguing, no decisions and so many conflicting opinions but we'd all love it. Big white walls and everyone could write little snippets of stories on them and we could have candy floss with pills in them and then if you didn't want them you could just have lovely candy floss and... I've got to stop now, it's all too exciting.

08:21 / 14.08.02

Stratford Rex, Sleaze, the home of jungle in the 21st century.

You must have noticed the resurgence - guarantee next time you go to a club you will get at least 5 flyers for events at the Rex at which the following DJs will be playing:

Andy C
Brockie
Hype
Nicky Blackmarket

Plus a couple of others chosen from the usual suspects (Grooverider, Mampi Swift, Kenny Ken)

In other words it's just like '95 again. Hoorah!

08:23 / 14.08.02

Oh and Runce, I just go to Lost to sneer at all the techno fanboys with their mud-coloured clothing and lumpen dancing.

And to cream my pants over FK.

You going to Jeff Mills in two weeks?

08:51 / 14.08.02

Didn't know he was playing aksherly.

Will think about it, 'cause wouldn't mind going out. S'been a couple of months (unless you include an absolutely terrible, generic brightonfunk night last Saturday. Urrgh. FUCK OFF BRIGHTON!).

Yeah, believe it or not, lumpen technodancers piss me off too.

Shortfatdyke

09:05 / 14.08.02

I used to go dancing quite a lot, at the queercore/riot grrl club Club V. I'm very much a 4/4 beat/guitar music dancer (i.e. not very good) and nowhere plays stuff I like.

All rather academic really, since I'll be long gone before you hit these shores. Would've been nice to meet you, Moriarty. Have fun!

Ariadne

09:08 / 14.08.02

You'll be long gone, sfd? Long gone to where? Is this the big move to Kernow?
And I must confess to reading this thread with bemusement. I don't even know the differences between all these kinds of music. It's geetars for me, I'm afraid - or even better, a quiet pub. But it's fascinating to read...

rizla mission

09:44 / 14.08.02

I've been 'dancing' (in the loosest possible sense) to a lot of live music recently, what with all these groovy new garage bands actually playing music conducive to the shaking of hips and so forth, rather than the mixture of head-nodding and random assault more commonly associated with watching guitar bands..

Haven't been to a so-called 'club' for about 18 months though .. they're all so shit. They just don't come anywhere near to representing anything I might want to dance to..

..that largely being mad, unpredictable noise-fuck for the purposes of mad flailing..

Fist Fun

11:13 / 14.08.02

I'll Rock out at the Rat Trap when I hit Glasgow.

You'd have to step back in time a bit for that. I don't think it exists anymore. Cathouse is still going strong though.

Justin Brief

13:12 / 14.08.02

93 Feet East (Brick Lane); cheap student beer at the Vibe bar opposite, plentiful pillage inside, interesting music in the backroom bar, tolerated spliff smoking, friendly people, and a chicken madras at four in the morning. It's all good!

13:15 / 14.08.02

I thought it may have disintegrated by now. Too bad. I'll miss stepping over used syringes to get my metal fix. Went to the Cat House a few times, most notably to a Voodoo Glow Skulls show, but it won't be the same.

Nice to see that so many others share my fondness for flailing about to guitars. I'm such a bad dancer, but I'm very excitable and have tons of endurance. I just realized that tonight a few of those obscure Canadian ska bands will be playing nearby, so I'm brushing off the old suit and getting ready to swelter.

It's a shame, SFD. We would have dragged you out on the dancefloor, for sure!

uncle retrospective

13:57 / 14.08.02

Lyra, you seen Jeff before? You are in for such a treat.

lentil

15:27 / 14.08.02

BROCKIE!

That would have been in much bigger text to represent, like, a rilly deep voice innit, but me not have dat html-fu. Anyway..

Dancing! Me! Yes! Love to get fruity!

93 feet east - like it, that's my hood ya know. Cheap beer at the Vibe Bar? I think not. Possible idee, depending on when moriarty's abaht: anyone go to the Wall of Sound/ Rizla "Sizzler" parties at 93ftE last year? They were dead groovy - free (tickets from Rough Trade and a few other places), Barbecue on the roof garden, UNLIMITED FREE ICE-CREAM, and a nice chunky platter of music. Mr Scruff, live sets by Royksopp, Zoot Woman and other electro-dancey bands with real instruments, lots of other DJs who I haven't heard of because I don't know about all that like i used to.

Hmmm yes... reckon i'll be along whatever happens, i would very much like to meet moriarty!

15:52 / 14.08.02

well, personally, I'd be entirely up for a decent ska/reggae/dub night, as they are things of joy... londoners - wherefore such a thing?

18:11 / 14.08.02

I won't be anywhere near London for many, many months (possibly spring break, probably end of school). I was just wondering who here danced. You guys all drink so much, but I've rarely seen anything about dancing. I'm shy, and I don't drink personally, so the dancefloor is my only real option.

You lot should set up something in the Gathering for the near future.

Mazarine

23:05 / 14.08.02

A question for all you marvelous dancing fools: I'm quite possibly the worst dancer in the entireworld. Remember that thing from the first episode of Angel where he pictured himself dancing? Worse. Elaine from Seinfeld? Warmer, but still worse. Basically, I'll be dancing, and once I've actually found the beat, a thought will occur to me and I'll freeze. So I guess my sad, desperate little question is- How the hell do you learn to dance these days?

uncle retrospective

23:17 / 14.08.02

Well there are a few options.
1. Jump round your house till you've got it down. It's is the easy option but your flatmates will think your weird.

2. Pills. Nothing will get you on the floor faster. You'll throw shapes and you'll love it. There are some major cons to this approach though. Madness is just one.

3. Drink. Get pissed enough to realise on one cares what you dance like and go nuts. There are cons here too though. Falling on your arse is just one of them.

Persephone

00:13 / 15.08.02

This is how I unlearned how to dance: trying to get Husb to loosen up and laugh about dancing, I would deliberately dance like a freak --all elbows and knees and so forth. Which he thought was funny and would imitate, and we would both dance together like that. And now I'm stuck that way, like mom always said would happen.

Saveloy

08:07 / 15.08.02

Persephone>

Post of the Year! Oh, the images... I'm going to be grinning till lunchtime now.

I'm in a similar situation; my 2.5 yr old dance-partner has been teaching me the toddler dance, which involves alternately wiggling your arse and marching up and down (in an exaggerated toy-soldier knees bend stylee), with comedy faces thrown in as appropriate ("Oooh I'm surprised! Grrrr, I'm angry! Ooooh I'm surprised again!" etc).

14:03 / 15.08.02

Plums - I went to a hilarious ska night recently at On the Rocks on Kingsland road. It was full of middle-aged blokes dressed up as skinheads (actually, they were skinheads I think). But not the swastika-on-forehead types, the reggae obsessive type. They all did that bent over, bow-legged walking on the spot dance. There were a few old black guys in porkpies too. Very amusing.

But ska is so dull. 100% Dynamite is where it's at. One friday a month at the Blue Angel, nr Angel tube. Incredible selection of roots, dub and ragga. Always rammed. Dead cheap. Grate fun.

Loomis

14:11 / 15.08.02

Why oh why has no one mentioned the finest form of dance music known to modern ears? Psy trance my friends. Easy to listen to, easy to groove alone to, and more importantly, easy to dance ecstatically to. And works even better with drugs than do other forms of dance music.

And you meet some very interesting folks at psy trance nights. Especially magicky ones.