Last weekend the Book Club (100 Leonard St) hosted Electro Swing which is a club night gaining momentum at the new talked about venue.
The night has been running for a good few months and I've been going for three (it runs once a month). Doubling in attendance the more I go, last weekend was mental with way over a hundred people queuing outside. Costing a fiver after 9 and free before, The Book Club has two floors and various separate areas, with two being a very mini library and a ping pong area. Electro Swing is just that, a new and exciting genre mixing 1920’s and 30’s swing with dance beats. Not confined to Electro, swing is mixed with Hip Hop, Reggae and Dub Step.
Attracting good types and not the OTT Hoxtons... yet! It's also not very rockabiliy so you won't feel a fool if you're not dressed in your old skool gladrags or cannot dance like you're one of the cast members of Grease. Acts who played included five times scratching world champion DJ Switch and The Correspondence. DJ Switch rocked the shop with his amazing technical and fast mix of hip hop and swing which quickly turned grimy. The Correspondence? Well, at first I though they were a joke as a skinny white boy wearing a tuxedo, purple spandex leggings and riding boots donned the staged to then MC! An I must say, he did it well and ended their set Mcin’ to DnB!
Electro Swing will be playing at The Hootananny in Brixton at The Ska VS Electro Swing night on the 7th of May. They'll also be doing The Book Club again in mid May so don't bloody miss it!
The night has been running for a good few months and I've been going for three (it runs once a month). Doubling in attendance the more I go, last weekend was mental with way over a hundred people queuing outside. Costing a fiver after 9 and free before, The Book Club has two floors and various separate areas, with two being a very mini library and a ping pong area. Electro Swing is just that, a new and exciting genre mixing 1920’s and 30’s swing with dance beats. Not confined to Electro, swing is mixed with Hip Hop, Reggae and Dub Step.
Attracting good types and not the OTT Hoxtons... yet! It's also not very rockabiliy so you won't feel a fool if you're not dressed in your old skool gladrags or cannot dance like you're one of the cast members of Grease. Acts who played included five times scratching world champion DJ Switch and The Correspondence. DJ Switch rocked the shop with his amazing technical and fast mix of hip hop and swing which quickly turned grimy. The Correspondence? Well, at first I though they were a joke as a skinny white boy wearing a tuxedo, purple spandex leggings and riding boots donned the staged to then MC! An I must say, he did it well and ended their set Mcin’ to DnB!
Electro Swing will be playing at The Hootananny in Brixton at The Ska VS Electro Swing night on the 7th of May. They'll also be doing The Book Club again in mid May so don't bloody miss it!
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