News: Club Attitude @ Glastonbury 2010
Tuesday 04 May 2010, 13:23
Club Attitude’s Glastonbury 2010 Showcase features a mayhem of cowboy hats and broken hearts, godzillas and skank-flavoured adrenaline makers!
Following on from the success of last year’s ground-breaking showcase, Attitude is Everything has been invited back by Continental Drifts to present on the new open air stage, The Hub.
Club Attitude Presents...
The Hub
Shangri La Zone @ Glastonbury Festival
Saturday 26th June 2010
1 – 5pm
(Live)
La Rebla Fam
Bug Prentice
www.myspace.com/thebugprentice
+ Very Special Guests
Drugstore
www.myspace.com/drugstoretheband
(DJs)
DJ Void
Deaf Rave DJs
MC Geezer, DJ Inigo & DJ Ceri
Accessible Toilet, Viewing Area & Sign Language Interpretation.
Club Attitude – Grae J Wall – trashville@ntlworld.com
Attitude is Everything – Suzanne Bull – suzanne@attitudeiseverything.org.uk
Graham Griffiths – graham@attitudeiseverything.org.uk
0207 383 7979 – 54 Chalton Street, London, NW1 1HS
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Drugstore
Attitude is Everything are delighted that Drugstore are our special guests for our Club Attitude Showcase as they launched the pilot project of Attitude is Everything, way back in September 2000 at Dingwalls. For 10 years they have remained firm supporters and advocates for what we do.
Drugstore was born in 1993 when Brazilian born Isabel Monteiro and American drummer Mike Chylinski, two drifters in a succession of bands, met via a flatshare. Just before the release of their highly acclaimed 1st single “ALIVE”, Daron Robinson joined as their guitarist. They soon signed a major deal with GoDiscs and released their first album “Drugstore” to rave reviews.
Following the sale of GoDiscs to Polygram, in 1998 the band released their second album “White Magic for Lovers” on RoadRunner Records. The album featured “El President”, the duet with Thom Yorke, which propelled the band into the charts. In 2002, the band released their third album “Songs for the Jetset” on yet another label, Global Warming. The album was well-received by the press, and widely acknowledged as their best.
Following a mysterious 7 year gap, the band returned in 2009 with a sell-out gig at London Dingwalls. In January 2010, Isabel Monteiro announced a new-line up and the mystery of the dramatic band disappearance was explained in Monteiro’s intimate and compelling blog - Anatomy.
“I’ve spent the past 7 years trying to climb out of a dirty skip. Now, I’m finally ready to unleash some of Drugstore’s beautiful medicine back into the world. I’ve got a bunch of cool new cowboys in the ranch and we’re ready to roll the usual Drugstore mayhem of alcohol, cigarettes and broken hearts” – Isabelle Monteiro
“She looks the voodoo star, but unlike her kooky easy forgotten contemporaries, Monteiro has the voice, music, intelligence and attitude to boot, with the vampish sexuality of Nico with the world-weary femme fatality of Marianne Faithful” – NME
Bug Prentice
Bug Prentice is a three-piece band straddling Oxford and London like some crazy bow-legged godzilla. Their influences range from Deerhoof to John Coltrane, via Woody Allen and Futurama.
You may recognise the many (well, three) faces of Bug Prentice: Stephen Gilchrist can be seen drumming in Jennifer Gentle and Queen Adreena, while Ruth Goller plays bass in Acoustic Ladyland and The Final Terror. Guitarist Ally Craig has also been known to play solo sets in and around Oxford.
“From brutal guitar assault to sudden, precipitous silence; from all-out drum battery to bathetic handclaps. [They understand] contrast well enough to be witty with it” – Heavy Soil
La Rebla Fam
Hailing from the four corners of the city and drawing their influences from the four corners of the globe, this bunch of vertically challenged misfits came together with one aim in mind: to spread the word. Viva!
All that matters is the glorious, infectious energy these boys are injecting into the capital, like a delicious shot of skank-flavoured adrenaline straight to the heart.
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DJ Void
In 1996, DJ Void first experienced Drum & Bass whilst at University in Hull through the New Horizons events. After getting his own decks, things progressed swiftly and led to a series of international events from Belgium to the USA, and appearances at Pure Science, “Best of British” at Bagley’s, HQ, Raindance, Cargo, Electrowerkz and The Big Chill Bar. Radio experience includes featuring for a year on London's leading Drum & Bass station, Rude FM 88.2, being featured in the mix of BBC 1Xtra's Breaking New Talent slot, being Artist of the Week for internet station StaticProgress and being the special guest on San Francisco's Pirate Cat Radio. Since April 2007 he has been producing regular podcasts for Phuture Frequency radio, PFRadio.
DJ Void mixes the light and dark ends of the Drum & Bass spectrum and produces rolling sets utilising productions by both old skool producers such as Digital, Spirit, and Total Science and the new breed such as Data, Jubei, and SPY.
Deaf Rave
Deaf Rave is about bringing love and peace with music and visuals for the Deaf community worldwide. Socially they want to party and have fun. It’s all about bringing your passionate self being. Deaf Culture is everywhere and still growing! MC Geezer raps in sign language and DJ Inigo and DJ Ceri spin the discs.
Attitude is Everything
Attitude is Everything run regular Club Attitude nights to showcase the talents of disabled and non-disabled musicians and DJ’s, and to promote best practice by demonstrating to the industry how to put on a fully accessible club night including cutting edge access facilities such as sign language interpretation of lyrics. Previous Headliners include Mystery Jets, The Xcerts, Foals, thecocknbullkid, The Mules and Art Brut and we’ve had DJ sets from Alan McGee, Piney Gir, Alexa Chung, DJ Void and Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.
Last year’s Glastonbury Showcase was the first time that Club Attitude had appeared at a major festival in the UK.
Since 2005, Attitude is Everything have been improving the access facilities for Deaf and disabled people on-site at Glastonbury Festival, as well recruiting Deaf and disabled volunteers to be part of the Glastonbury stewarding team. We also run an information tent and recruit Deaf and disabled stewards for Festival Republic events including Latitude, Reading and Leeds Festivals and work with Channelfly to improve the access at The Great Escape.
Our patrons are Robert Wyatt, Alan McGee, Blaine Harrison, Amadou and Mariam, Mat Fraser and Susan Hedges.
“For the first time, one of the stages has been given over to disabled artists” – Ian Youngs, BBC, June 09
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