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The esteemed Andrew Weatherall (who DJs at The Shelter on May 1st) has many times said he wasn’t surprised by the arrival house and techno because of Throbbing Gristle. So he’s likely to be chuffed that the avant garde deviants – Chris Carter, Peter Christopherson, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti – are briefly regrouping for the first time in nearly 20 years to present RE-TG, a weekend of music, art, film and performance at Pontin’s Holiday Resort, Camber Sands, near Rye, England, from May 14 to 16. It’s a three arena multimedia affair. Also on the lengthy bill are The Normal and Coil, while Cabaret Voltaire’s Richard H Kirk and Carl Craig are among the many DJs. More info from www.atpfestival.com. Meanwhile, out this fortnight is Mutant TG, a compilation of TG remixes by the likes of the aforementioned Carl Craig and Andrew Weatherall’s Two Lone Swordsmen (who, incidentally, have just completed an album which features Weatherall on vocals and guitars – I kid you not). And as if that weren’t enough TG Action, a straightforward compilation of their best work is unleashed on May 3rd, including gems like ‘Industrial Introduction’, ‘We Hate You (Little Girls)’, ‘Dead On Arrival’ and one of the wittiest odes to masturbation ever committed to vinyl, ‘Something Came Over Me’…
Irish ex-pat Paul Masterson’s collaboration with BK, ‘Mayhem in Madrid’, has been retitled ‘Mayhem In Miami’. The uplifting slab of tech-trance comes out on Nukleuz next month… Albums released this fortnight and getting regular spins around these parts include DJ Marky & XRS’ entertaining drum ‘n’ bass debut In Rotation (on Innerground), and 4 Hero’s mighty double CD collection The Remix Album, which pairs a CD of other people remixed by 4 Hero with a CD of 4 Hero remixed by other people (on Raw Canvas). New compilations worth investigating include Essential Brazilian Flavas (City Of God tunes among a classy selection on Stimulus), and The Cats Remixed (a Catskills affair, with Groove Armada, Quantic, Tim Love Lee, Ashley Beedle and Krafty Kuts among the knob twiddlers)… The Jon Truelove produced single ‘You Got the Love’ by The Source featuring Candi Staton is being re-released following its inclusion in the final episode of that show us blokes never got, ahem, Sex & The City…
Dublin studio RDG has announced new improved rates for budding DJ producers. It now costs E300 for two eight hour days, or E500 for four days, and that includes the cost of Raff, Roy and Alan Pullen at the production desk. The studio has been responsible for over forty tracks that were signed to UK labels in recent years. Contact 086-8952348 or 087-8785850…
Acclaimed – but let’s be honest, incredibly boring – American decktician David Morales aims to make clubbing history by becoming the first DJ to play the same club on both sides of the Atlantic in the same weekend. According to Spirit’s Scott MacNaughton, Morales will start his marathon session in Spirit New York on Easter Saturday, fly to Dublin to play an Easter Sunday set and then jet back to the Big Apple to play an Easter Monday set at Spirit’s base in Chelsea. Morales remains the only DJ ever to be kicked off the decks at Trade in London – less than forty minutes into his scheduled six hour set…
The Herbaliser returns to Ri-Ra tonight (March 25th)… DJ Nigel H has just launched a new Saturday night club, Absynth, at Voodoo Lounge in Dublin… Another new club, Undertracks, has just opened – it runs on Fridays – at The Vaults in Dublin… The Scratch Perverts play The Empire in Belfast on March 27th…
Northern duo Agnelli & Nelson have been booked for two major summer festivals in the UK, Wakestock and Escape In The Park. The boys have been inundated with remix requests ahead of the release of their chart-bound ‘Holding Onto Nothing’ single, which must surely be odds on for a UK number one at this stage… Calvin James returns to Bodytonic by popular demand on April 30… Plaid are at Half Moon Theatre in Cork on April 2, before heading for Static in Dublin, which they play on April 3. Venue for the latter, as ever, is The Shelter… Deep house don Charles Webster plays Dolan’s Warehouse in Limerick this Saturday (27)…
And finally, Portrush club Lush! celebrates eight years of being the best in the country this weekend. Since Col Hamilton and crew transformed the former rave haunt Kelly’s into the coolest club on the island, Lush! has won international industry awards for the venue and its current sound system. Pete Tong and John Digweed are among the renowned jetset DJs who rate Lush! as their favourite club in the world. Tong is one of the DJs helping Col blow out the candles on Saturday (27th), along with Seb Fontaine and Tom Stephan… THE BEAT GOES ON!