Hey hey List. Been sick lately, so been away from the computer.
Moodymann passed through Manchester last Friday, his first time. He f**king killed it. Good good party, all provided by www.eyesdown.net The party was at the Roadhouse, which is a little gig venue in Manchester. It's good for a proper party though, low ceiling, basement gaff - not too big or small, just right for about 250 people. Very dark, bar at the entrance on one side, big dancefloor. Tickets for this sold out in about three hours flat, so everyone got on it early doors. The queue filtered in to him dropping mid tempo boogie (he played the whole night 11 - '3'), some fairly non descript stuff, from behind a screen at the front of the stage with some projection business going on... So, it filled up pretty quick, and he got on the mic, bigging it up, telling us to drink more beer and going on about the football and that... I was steaming by this point, but did my best to sink a couple more just for him... Anyway, the dancefloor fills, and everyone's getting down, bumping together cos it's packed and the mic crackles into action at about 11.45: "Yo yo yo yo, Ok, I'm gonna play you a record I first heard played by Mojo in Detroit back in '82. We was driving along and had to stop the car for this s**t" The opening bars of Cybotrons "Alleys Of Your Mind" bust through the speakers. I lose my mind and I don't think I stopped dancing till whatever time the party finished. Next up, Telex "Moscow Disco", which a) I wasn't expecting, and b) sounded goooood through the extra speakers added for the party. After that, I don't remember alot, but he played Syl Johnson "Is it Because I'm Black", some disco version of "I Shot The Sherrif" that I didn't know Some great boogie, Pink Floyd "The Wall", White Stripes, some house records (the new still music), I also vaguely remember him getting on the mic saying he was playing some new stuff he'd been working on. I remember it being good, pretty leftfield, more techno, but I don't remember how it actually sounded. Kelvin told me he gave Shake a big shout "OK, I'm gonna play a record by my good friend Anthony Shake Shakir from Detroit" and everyone went mad.... It was a great party, that much I remember.... So, er, the screen got pulled down about 2, and there he was, sat playing records. Supposedly he was throwing cd's into the crowd. My mate said he gave away half his record bag too. I don't know what I was doing at this point, wouldn't have minded a cd. He didn't seem to mind the screen got torn down either, everyone was going bonkers anyway. Dunno what time it finished, good party. Hope he comes back. I think he enjoyed it. BIG SHOUT to Kelvin, Jon & Jack, big shout to Kenny Dixon Jnr, a good party host. Seems like a gentleman too. Alex p.s. Francis, you're slack, where's your report? ; ) p.p.s. and you Tim for that matter p.p.p.s and Danny if you're still here p.p.p.p.s some of those 'moody van' (stolen ford transit) quotes might be wrong, I was drunk. Bye ; ) _________________________________________________________________ --------------------- End of message text -------------------- This e-mail is sent by the above named in their individual, non-business capacity and is not on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP may monitor outgoing and incoming e-mails and other telecommunications on its e-mail and telecommunications systems. By replying to this e-mail you give your consent to such monitoring.
