Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year, I certainly did.
Few things if you’ve a moment:
First, the NC night at the Salutation is no longer – big up all who came down and played, and indeed everyone at the Sally. After two years we decided to have a change; though we’re not sure what that change will be, rest assured it will be in the same vein as we’ve been doing for a while – great djs that you won’t see much elsewhere playing music you won’t hear much elsewhere. We’ll let you know when we do! Speaking of which…
This Group, and the Northern Comfort ‘person’ are being deleted soon, mainly because I don’t really spend enough time with the group, the ‘person’ isn’t really a person, and it splits time and attention. So instead I’ve set up a fan page, here:
Oh, and don’t forget this site which has been going 10 years now. It’s just having a little rest, but again, will be back. We’ve some other bits in the pipeline too…
Still not sure what I’m doing with NC, as per previous post. Still, here are a load of old tracks I did about 4-5 years ago, of varying quality, etc. All disclaimers apply. Still, if you get chance, have a listen. Ta. Kisses.
2010 eh? Phew. At least 20 years after the death of vinyl was announced!
Well, NC has been going for a while now; must be about 12 years since we first dj’ed as NC, and 10 since I set up this site. We’ve been doing the night at the Sally for the past 2 years, and had some great guests on, and this site has had some great mixes and contributions from all manner of lovely people. So, what to do next?
When I first started the site, it was just a way of highlighting things to my mates, without having to email them all with links every day. Since then, music blogs have increased considerably in terms of quantity and quality; it’s hard to ‘compete’ for clicks, and is getting harder and harder. Some people seem to have all the time in the world to write great pieces, record rare and long-lost albums for download, interview artists, etc, etc. I don’t have time for all that. Do I carry on with it, in a (comparatively) half-arsed form? Once one starts competing with some of the great blogs out there, it becomes a never-ending challenge. Like promoting a night; the NC night at the Sally has been tonnes of fun, but when I’m competing with countless other nights, and countless other Fbook invites, promos, etc – well, what do you do?
I’m not moaning – the fact that there is so much quality out there is fantastic. I’m just not sure what to do next.
So – first off, massive, massive thanks to Pete Haigh for playing a brilliant set at NC the other week. I know that EVERY night says how great their guest was, etc, but I can genuinely say he played one of the best sets of 2009 at NC, and was a lovely guy to boot. I did record it, but it hasn’t turned out very well (bollocks), so unless I can salvage something over the holidays you’ll just have to imagine great music in your head for 2 hours to make up for it.
Second – big big thanks to everyone who’s played at or attended one of our sessions this year; big up your chests Al Kent, Marc Rowlands, Andrea Trout, Lil’Minx, That Amazing Thing, DOMU, Illum Sphere, Darren Laws, Firdos, Andy Madhatter, Colin Curtis, Hewan Clarke and Pete Haigh. Big up the other residents too, catcalledmorris, Andy Vee, Sad Eagle and Treva Whateva. Thanks to all at the Sally too. When I look at the list I’m proud that we’ve put all these great DJs on for free in a little pub in Manchester; its not always been the busiest but it has always been good. And – I forgot – but massive thanks to Elisabeth for all the great photos, setting up candles and lights, and generally just putting up with me. Love you x
And big thanks to those who have sent me some stuff for the site – too many to mention, but BlackClassical, Chappers, Barrie striker Leach and Kelvin Brown have all sent us some great mixes this year.
Over the holidays; I’m playing at the Electrik bar in Chorlton on the 27th November as warm-up to the Electric Chair at Legends. It’s on from around 3pm I think, I’m playing 8-9 but get down early doors as it’s a great bar, there’s some great djs on and the sausages are good too!
So have a good Christmas, and I hope 2010 is a good one!
About 7-8 years ago Chopped Herring Records released one of my favourite Manchester hiphop tracks of all time, ‘Out to Lunch’
Which if you’ve not bought, you probably should.
Then after that, they released my all time favourite cut-up album, “3 Sinister Syllables”; if you haven’t heard it, you really should track it down. A full CD that took 2 years to produce, it takes the ‘play-the-original-that-was-sampled-from-the-hiphop-track’ approach and takes it to a completely different level, creating a sample-laden album that stands on its own, not just as a mix/compilation CD. It’s an amazing piece of work that makes my head hurt when I think how long, and how much work, it must have taken to do it.
Chubby Grooves, aka Pro-Celebrity Golf, aka any number of other aliases was one of the first DJ’s that I remember being inspired by when I moved to Manchester, playing at the early Fat City nights amongst others, so it’s a great pleasure to big up his relaunched ‘Chopped Herring’ site, and also to plug the new release on Chopped Herring – BUT – when you see who’s on this LP, you’ll see regardless of any past history, you need to buy this record. Production by ?uestlove, Prince Paul, DOOM, and James Poyser and appearances from Masta Ace, Del, Michel Gondry (yeah, I know) amongst others says to me that you should make the effort to snap up one of the 250 pieces before they all go.
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