Hosted By:Blow Up Club
When:24 January 2009
Where:Bar Rumba
36 Shaftesbury Avenue
London
W1
Description:The Launch of Blow Up's new Saturday night residency at Bar Rumba, 36 Shaftesbury Avenue featuring Blow Up Records' THE BONGOLIAN (aka Big Boss Man's Nasser Bouzida) - this will be a one off UK show for the band:
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The Launch of Blow Up's new Saturday night residency at Bar Rumba, 36 Shaftesbury Avenue featuring Blow Up Records' THE BONGOLIAN (aka Big Boss Man's Nasser Bouzida) - this will be a one off UK show for the band:
"Hipper, groovier and funkier than ever before! Imagine Booker T & The MGs, The Duke Of Burlington, and Alan Hawkshaw taking a trip to the stars together." Dusty Groove
"A Latin-flavoured jazz-funk odyssey" Q
"Brilliant breakbeats, inspired by the music emanating from Black America in the '60s and 70s but with a fresh twist. Takes the listener to the outer reaches of funk and back again, it comes with only one requirement - bring your dancing shoes" Clash
"Warm analogue psychedelia. The authentic real deal crafted groove." The Organ
"A fantastically funky sixties vibe, and a beautifully well rounded album. Gorgeously psychedelic." 4.5/5 Subba-Cultcha
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Tickets £6 adv. from usual agents...
stargreen. com
gigantic. com
ticketweb. co. uk
FaceBook Invite
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http://www. blowup. co. uk
http://www. myspace. com/blowupclub
http://www. myspace. com/thebongolian
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This is an exciting move for the club, signalling another new era with a shift back to the Wag-era concept of Blow Up - a bigger capacity with 2 sound systems once again, lights, visuals - and essentially a return to the larger weekly 'special event' featuring weekly live showcases as part of the club itself. Blow Up DJs Paul Tunkin and Ian Jackson will be also be joined by weekly guests DJs including some familiar names from over the club's history.
A bona-fide legendary club night, and now in its 15th year, Blow Up was the centre of the early to mid Nineties Brit Pop explosion, influencing the style and sound of a generation, and voted No.4 in Time Out's Top Ten Clubs of the 90s. From its original venue The Laurel Tree, Camden Town (1993-1996), to the Wag Club (1996-2001) and then to the Metro Club (2002-2009), Blow Up has continued its long run of sold out nights for over 15 years in an unbroken run.
And now, after a seven year residency at the Metro Club, Blow Up will be held here for the very last time on Saturday 17th January 2009 (
http://www. facebook. com/event. php?eid=44482492236), which will also be the last ever night for the Metro Club itself, after which its doors will close forever as a live venue and club (for press release re.
venue closure see:
http://www. blowupmetro. com/closure. aspx ).
Blow Up was founded by DJ and promoter Paul Tunkin in a Camden pub in Oct 1993. Records were played from the emerging 'British pop' scene (that came to be known as Brit Pop) together with Brit-centric 60s and 70s moves and grooves; swinging soundtracks to Mod Beat and Soul; classic pop from The Beatles to Bowie to Blur. The club still stays true to its early ideals - you will hear a selection of indie pop, new wave, pop electronique, underground 60s instrumentals, experimental grooves and easy listening - all sitting nicely alongside a selection of the current favs from artists such as MGMT and Vampire Weekend. Despite its love of buried treasures, Blow Up remains an accessible yet essential night that is always a great party, week after week, year after year.
"A refreshing break from the over-polished venue this hidden gem focuses on the music. Paul Tunkin has been DJing at Blow Up since 1993.
His experience has paid off and this little beauty has stood the test of time" -
ThisIsLondon. co. uk, June 2008
"Few weekly clubs can keep up the sheer effort of throwing a good party every seven days. Yet, year after year, week after week, Blow Up just seems to get better" - The Evening Standard
"Blow Up may be 60's inspired, but their night could run and run" - Time Out
"The London clubland institution" - The Guardian Guide
"The club that changed the world" - Melody Maker
"Home to and creator of everything, ever, Blow Up"
"The original, and we love you, baby" - Jacques Peretti, The Guardian
"This is the night which spawned a thousand bands, inspiring fashion designers and stylists to recreate the look for the mainstream" - The Guest List
"Legendary. The seminal 60's/90's mod club." - Raise
"By the time Blur played Alexandra Palace about a year after Blow Up started, the whole audience looked like they went there. It's global and I think it started at Blow Up" - John Best of Savage & Best PR on Britpop (Taken from "Those Tourists Are Money: A Rock N' Roll Guide to Camden)
Nearest tube Piccadilly Circus or less than 10 mins walk from The Metro through Soho Square:
http://maps. google. co. uk/maps?f=d&saddr=19-23+Oxford+Street,+London,+W1D+2DN+(The+Blow+Up+Metro+Club)&daddr=A40%2FOxford+St+to:51. 5157,-0. 13248+to:36+Shaftesbury+Av,+London,+W1D+7EP+(Bar+Rumba)&hl=en&geocode=FaATEgMdyf_9_yHEhYrMlN8MzQ%3BFYATEgMdRvn9_w%3B%3BFXP-EQMdgPj9_yEI5W8Zh4p-3A&mra=dpe&mrcr=0&mrsp=2&sz=16&via=1,2&dirflg=w&sll=51. 513775,-0. 131345&sspn=0. 009227,0. 019226&ie=UTF8&ll=51. 514545,-0. 130194&spn=0. 009227,0. 019226&z=16