With the first Ball of the year last Sunday, Spring must be on its way. At least we hope so
Horse Meat Disco’s 2008 Drag Ball attracted a huge (and vocal) crowd and inspired entries from all competing Houses. More photos on Flickr.
[Photo ©2008, Darrell Berry]
Photo evidence from club Film Noir at Bar Music Hall
And a reminder of our sister (brother?) site featuring club and performance photography. Featured artist: the fabulous Dickie Beau. 
[Image © Darrell Berry, 2008]
Get down to the South Bank this Thursday for an audiovisual electro treat
We caught Punx Soundcheck‘s mighty DJ/AV set last Friday at our favourite Shoreditch monthly, Film Noir. Launching their new album Black and Gold, they treated us to a storming 90 minutes of hard electro genius, with visuals from Machines are Gonna Kill Us, and Miss OddKidd guesting on vocals.
But don’t take our word for it — get on down to the NFT on Thursday 24th January, to catch them live at the Piccadilly Nite Versions #1 Launch Party. See you there.
[Photo © Darrell Berry 2008]
Photo evidence from Ryan Styles’s Business and Balloons at Bistrotheque
More photos of Ryan’s show on Flickr, along with the rest of our London club photography. [Image © Darrell Berry]
Photo evidence from All You Can Eat
All You Can Eat at Electrowerkz, Friday 19th October. More photos on Flickr, along with our other London club photography. [Image © Darrell Berry]
Photo evidence: spirits of Studio 54 and CBGB alive and well in Vauxhall at club Uptown Downtown
Uptown Downtown saw Horse Meat Disco and Rebel Rebel take over Vauxhall’s club Area on Saturday 29th September for a night of NYC-styled punk and disco. You can access our Uptown Downtown photos directly on Flickr, along with our other London club photography. Photo shows Ryan Styles and friend adding a little alt.chic out on the smoking terrace. [Image © Darrell Berry]
Photo evidence from Dansistor
Dansistor runs monthly. You can access our Dansistor photos directly on Flickr, along with our other London club photography. [Image © Darrell Berry]
Photo evidence from B.A.D. 2
You can access our Bistrotheque Annual Drag Ball photos directly on Flickr, with the rest of our London club photography. Excellent pictures from others can be found in the associated Flickr photo pool. [Image © Darrell Berry]
[And thanks to Jim @ Horse Meat Disco and Helen @ Film Noir]
Photo evidence from Studio Neon at Egg.
Pictures from Studio Neon at Egg on Friday 24th August 2007. You can access our Studio Neon photos directly on Flickr, with the rest of our London club photography. [Image © Darrell Berry]
[Thanks to Helen @ Film Noir]
Photo evidence from Horse Meat Disco’s new monthly party.
Dansistor launched 11th August and will run monthly. Horse Meat (like you didn’t know) is every Sunday. You can access our Dansistor photos directly on Flickr, along with our other London club photography. [Image © Darrell Berry]
[And thanks to Tim for last-minute Nikon CLS tech assistance!]
Photos from the 2007 Grand Finale of Tranny Talent at Bistrotheque
[Picture credit: most images from Tim [thx!]. The feed is from the Tranny Talent pool on Flickr. If you’ve got more, add ‘em in]
We got to see some new stuff from the folks at Addictive TV last night.
Playing for the Raindance Short Film Award party, Addictive (who we have raved about before) performed their Laurel and Hardy (remixed as the original Ska act — you know it makes sense) and Sex Pistols mashups as well as some of their ‘greatest hits’ — the Italian Boj and Quentin Tarantino vs. Queen. A foray into the commercial world — the remixed trailer for Antonio Banderas’s ballroom dancing film Take The Lead – was also shown.
Visuals really do speak louder than words so check out their site, Samurai.fm and some ‘looks like it was shot on a phone’ footage on youtube.
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AF: “@mokbeehive at the risk of sounding like an ad, using Skype has saved us a fortune in conference-call related costs xxx” | |
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DB: “The Orb and David Gilmour have released a collaboration? Cannot WAIT to get my time machine fixed and return to C21...” | |
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AF: “plotting trip to beloveds in Amsterdam” | |
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DB: “Bo Ningen brilliant at The Macbeth tonight. Can't wait to see them at #offsetfestival. Photos to follow tomorrow...” | |
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AF: “Bo Ningen at the Macbeth and I am wearing Jigsaw ha” | |
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AF: “Paul Boudens at The Wapping Project  ” |
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DB: “At the Paul Boudens PV at Wapping. Good stuff, well selected, beautifully presented...#wappingproject” | |
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AF: “fan girl day” | |
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AF: “@timhayward what about the cat? and what child? glad to see that we are preoccupying your subconscious though xxx” | |
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DB: “Ping reminds me, both Look & Feel and function, of the terrible software Sony used to ship in the last days of minidisk (& prob still does)” | |
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AF: “@timhayward looks familiar ” |
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DB: “Ping recommendations -- Gaga? Katy Perry? Linkin Park? Based on my library of Tibetan ritual music, ECM, postpunk... #fail” | |
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AF: “geeking out ” |
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AF: “@mokbeehive fab - give me a call when you're free. Am around all today/tomorrow - whenever! x” | |
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AF: “Flying spine ” |
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AF: “Following the Tabi footprints #Margiela ” |
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DB: “looking forward to shooting at #offsetfestival this weekend...” | |
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AF: “@mokbeehive enjoy Liberty and don't walk into any of the mirrors! How did things go with MW in the end? x” | |
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AF: “v excited about catching the Margiela 20 exhibition at Somerset House. Am painting myself white in preparation” | |
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DB: “@eyelust we were also VERY underwhelmed. Looked like random stuff from the back of the archive...” | |
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AF: “RT @darrellberry: RT @petermread: I'm at Notting Hill Carnival w/ 94 others. << 94? carnival not so big w 4sq demographic i see” |
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DB: “RT @petermread: I'm at Notting Hill Carnival w/ 94 others. << 94? carnival not so big w 4sq demographic i see” |
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DB: “RT @annehyphenfay: We have grown a small tomato << unbelievable but true #vegetables #impossibility” |
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AF: “We have grown a small tomato ” |
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DB: “Cardboard cutout hipsters seem to have discovered the lovely The Grapes pub on Narrow Street. Sad if true.” | |
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DB: “RT @guardiannews: Ekow Eshun: Why I'm quitting the ICA << because on his watch it lost all contemporary relevance?” |
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AF: “Installing the @net-a-porter iPhone app. Hilariously, it's 'free'” | |
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AF: “that pigeon is getting closer” | |
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AF: “stunning autumn day and I'm inside copy editing. Tum ti tum” | |
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AF: “really hoping that @icalondon can now start afresh and get some relevancy back. Maybe revisiting perfomance and digital art might help?” | |
Wise words from the information design guru.
Pew Internet publishes its latest findings on news consumption.
Nike in ‘cool new robot not cool or new’ shock.
Amazon’s ‘vanishment’ of LGBT literature from sales ranks spurs a realtime revolt via social media.
Running a club night in London will require reporting of all acts and ‘target audience’ to the Met. WHAT?
Or at least, what it might be up to…
The continuation of exclusion, by other means…
Self-appointed internet censors mess with Wikipedia.
New times call for new words and phrases. The list starts here.
This matters. Get involved.
Google explains its new browser, comic-book style
And how to make a business from it
We’re currently in SF where we spotted this in front of the Bay Bridge.
Interactive lushness at the electronic art fair.
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