Will - chibuku
15-02-2007, 12:08 PM
MARCH 9TH: LAKE OF STARS PARTY AT BUMPER WITH THE UNABOMBERS
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Manchester's Electric Chair heroes nip over to Liverpool to lay down some tracks alongside Chibuku's Phil Charnock, Common Ground's Ste Hodge & Alex Sweeney and the majestic Russell. Thanks to the wonderful people at Bumper the door fee remains a pitiful £1. Happy days!
FRIDAY MARCH 9TH
LAKE OF STARS PARTY @ BUMPER
HARDMAN STREET, LIVERPOOL
8PM - 3AM
£1 ENTRY
UNABOMBERS (ELECTRIC CHAIR)
PHIL CHARNOCK (CHIBUKU)
RUSSELL
STE HODGE (COMMON GROUND)
ALEX SWEENEY (COMMON GROUND)
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UNABOMBERS/ELECTRIC CHAIR ~ BIOG
I feel love. I feel it every time I walk through these doors. I lost myself here almost a decade ago, and things have never been the same since. Has it really been ten years? It seems a lot longer. It seems like yesterday.
It was the summer of 1995 when The Unabombers first detonated their underground bomb, The Electric Chair, in a sweaty basement below the pavements of Manchester. In the decade since it’s become the worst kept secret in the world of clubbing. A mystic brew of house, disco, hip-hop, broken beat, Latin, R&B, techno and northern sulphuric soul. The heart of Mancunia, a fabled land where everyone parties as one - strangers and soul mates, straights and gays, north and south, students and scallies. Anyone can open a club. Not everyone can open hearts and minds.
The chair outgrew its original home and moved onto a bigger basement club, The Music Box, but somehow the tricky alchemists Luke and Justin Unabomber retained the chemistry and the vibe. Over the years, I’ve had the time of my life with the best bunch of friends there, and woken up not being able to remember a thing. I’ve also danced all night on my own and remembered every minute.
I’ve seen clubbing legends like Joe Claussell, Laurent Garnier and Francois Kevorkian blown away by the energy and the soul of the club. Joe was almost evangelical afterwards, returning to NYC enthusing about the ‘power and the beauty of the spiritual energy that was at that party’.
The Unabombers have spread the Electriks vibe across the globe, DJ’ing everywhere from New York to Bangkok to Australia and Europe. Back home, they've played at clubs including Plastic People, Back To Basics, Fabric, Faith, Bugged Out, Slam, The End and festivals such as Electric Picnic, V Festival, Reading Festival, Homelands, T-In-The-Park and Creamfields.
The Unabombers also brought us the legendary Electric Souls, which started as infamous illegal parties in brothels and lofts, but has now mutated into a large annual event that brings together the cream of the world’s underground dance talent, from Amp Fiddler to Gilles Peterson to Theo Parrish to Joey Negro.
Last year they released the Get Up EP as The Elektrons to critical acclaim, with plays from Laurent Garnier, Gilles Peterson, Annie Mac, Pete Tong, Ashley Beedle amongst others with their debut album out in May 2007 on Genuine.They have also encapsulated their mystic brew on five compilation albums – Basement Soul, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Electric Soul and Electric Soul 2 and Electric Soul 3 - as well as completing remixes for Bugz In The Attic, Truby Trio, New Sector Movements, Jersey Street, Calvin Harris, Electric South and Shur-I-Kan.
This is a club to hold close to your heart. A club without a membership, but a club where you can belong. A club to treasure. A club I will tell my grandchildren about. A club I should have told my grandparents about. A club which has changed lives. A club that’s still changing lives. A club where the weak become heroes and everybody feels love.
Luke Bainbridge (Observer Music Monthly)
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Manchester's Electric Chair heroes nip over to Liverpool to lay down some tracks alongside Chibuku's Phil Charnock, Common Ground's Ste Hodge & Alex Sweeney and the majestic Russell. Thanks to the wonderful people at Bumper the door fee remains a pitiful £1. Happy days!
FRIDAY MARCH 9TH
LAKE OF STARS PARTY @ BUMPER
HARDMAN STREET, LIVERPOOL
8PM - 3AM
£1 ENTRY
UNABOMBERS (ELECTRIC CHAIR)
PHIL CHARNOCK (CHIBUKU)
RUSSELL
STE HODGE (COMMON GROUND)
ALEX SWEENEY (COMMON GROUND)
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UNABOMBERS/ELECTRIC CHAIR ~ BIOG
I feel love. I feel it every time I walk through these doors. I lost myself here almost a decade ago, and things have never been the same since. Has it really been ten years? It seems a lot longer. It seems like yesterday.
It was the summer of 1995 when The Unabombers first detonated their underground bomb, The Electric Chair, in a sweaty basement below the pavements of Manchester. In the decade since it’s become the worst kept secret in the world of clubbing. A mystic brew of house, disco, hip-hop, broken beat, Latin, R&B, techno and northern sulphuric soul. The heart of Mancunia, a fabled land where everyone parties as one - strangers and soul mates, straights and gays, north and south, students and scallies. Anyone can open a club. Not everyone can open hearts and minds.
The chair outgrew its original home and moved onto a bigger basement club, The Music Box, but somehow the tricky alchemists Luke and Justin Unabomber retained the chemistry and the vibe. Over the years, I’ve had the time of my life with the best bunch of friends there, and woken up not being able to remember a thing. I’ve also danced all night on my own and remembered every minute.
I’ve seen clubbing legends like Joe Claussell, Laurent Garnier and Francois Kevorkian blown away by the energy and the soul of the club. Joe was almost evangelical afterwards, returning to NYC enthusing about the ‘power and the beauty of the spiritual energy that was at that party’.
The Unabombers have spread the Electriks vibe across the globe, DJ’ing everywhere from New York to Bangkok to Australia and Europe. Back home, they've played at clubs including Plastic People, Back To Basics, Fabric, Faith, Bugged Out, Slam, The End and festivals such as Electric Picnic, V Festival, Reading Festival, Homelands, T-In-The-Park and Creamfields.
The Unabombers also brought us the legendary Electric Souls, which started as infamous illegal parties in brothels and lofts, but has now mutated into a large annual event that brings together the cream of the world’s underground dance talent, from Amp Fiddler to Gilles Peterson to Theo Parrish to Joey Negro.
Last year they released the Get Up EP as The Elektrons to critical acclaim, with plays from Laurent Garnier, Gilles Peterson, Annie Mac, Pete Tong, Ashley Beedle amongst others with their debut album out in May 2007 on Genuine.They have also encapsulated their mystic brew on five compilation albums – Basement Soul, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Electric Soul and Electric Soul 2 and Electric Soul 3 - as well as completing remixes for Bugz In The Attic, Truby Trio, New Sector Movements, Jersey Street, Calvin Harris, Electric South and Shur-I-Kan.
This is a club to hold close to your heart. A club without a membership, but a club where you can belong. A club to treasure. A club I will tell my grandchildren about. A club I should have told my grandparents about. A club which has changed lives. A club that’s still changing lives. A club where the weak become heroes and everybody feels love.
Luke Bainbridge (Observer Music Monthly)