Showing posts with label Clapperclaw. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clapperclaw. Show all posts

11.15.2007

IN REVIEW: TACTIC, CLAPPERCLAW, SHADOWSCENE

A rundown of some things I've been up to lately...

Last Saturday's Too Much Love was off the heezy thanks to an un-fuck-with-able set from our special guests Tactic. These dudes straight killed it with a house-y tracklist of new and old bangers. Hope to have them back soon and party with them more in the future.


Be sure to check out their new mix "We've Only Just Begun", and their remix of Blaqstarr, out on Mad Decent, which is available for download at Turntable Lab.

Clapperclaw was the Friday before, and was a pretty cool event. I bet if they had advertised the open bar they would've gotten some more customers, but that's how they usually do it at Sound Gallery so I should have seen it coming. I got to see a tight set by local band Mystery Palace, including a great cover of ZZ Top's classic "Legs" to soundtrack the fashion show that went down.





After Mystery Palace, myself and my dude DJ Talk Radio played a high energy set to those who stuck around. It's always fun to try out new DJ set ups, and we played really well off of each other. Thanks to all involved, and hopefully it'll return next year. Check out more photos here.

Then two Saturdays ago, Mike 2600 and I threw down at Too Much Love, and we were joined by the extremely lovely Shadowscene. Unfortunately we ran into technical problems with the club, and had to give up our usual DJ booth in the middle of the floor. It was still a fun time, and many thanks to the Shadowscene peeps for coming out.



Be sure to check out more of their photos from TML, except for the one of me since I look like complete shit after stressing over the set-up.

11.09.2007

CLAPPERCLAW

Friday night marks the debut of the Clapperclaw Festival, a new Twin Cities alternative media festival. It should prove to be an interesting event, with a lot of promising local talent booked (including yours truly, natch). It starts off Friday at 9 p.m. at Sound Gallery (414 3rd Ave N, right above DEFI).


From the City Pages:

The inaugural lineup for the Clapperclaw Festival has set the bar decidedly high for the years to come. Touted as an eclectic mix of local and emerging national bands, artists, and theatrical performance, with a bit of fashion tossed in to round things out, this two-day festival (Friday evening and all day Saturday) promises to be, at the least, one of the most interesting events of the year. Highlights include Fort Wilson Riot, fresh off of the enormous success of their album/theater hybrid project Idigaragua, the punk/thrash/psych ward escapee audio/visual assault of Madison's Screamin' Cyn Cyn and the Pons, local Moon Safari-era Air-heads Estate, the haunting, Morricone-influenced Spaghetti Western String Company, and Minneapolis DJ-of-the-moment Soviet Panda.

DJ-of-the-moment. Haha, nice one CP! You crazy guys. I play at 1 a,m. on Friday (tonight). Check out the website and MySpace for more info. Ticketes are cheap considering how many people are involved. Hope to see you there.