It gets hottt. The only way to celebrate the coming of the weekend is under the stars, by the water, even better if it's a celebratory time of year for a special few folk.
Yessum, if you're down with Cancer Kings & Queens Rigo Pex, The Barna Flea Market's Natu Perez or The Art Game's Miss Van, then come and wig out with us at the usual spot on top of town.
As always, we have the zenith of autochthonous talent behind the music, namely The Itchy N Scratchy Show, Meneo, Slick D and a first Zodiac appearance for Ferran Capo.
The sound and dress policy is hard tropical, those enhancing the ambience in this way will be rewarded with booty and spices the likes of which have never before been regaled with such abandon.
Sunday morning you will have the likes of this selection ringing in your ears as you be sipping your Bloody Maria to get over your hangover:
All PDJ Pig Fans will be well up on Rigo from long, above is a video I had never peeped and something to go to show that there is more to Meneo than crazy suits and nudity.
It's time to think about getting this show on the road, hope to see you all all up in the mix all night long tonight.
Today I have been assembling my team to take on New Year's Eve: a group of performers straight from the belly of Barcelona to entertain the masses who come CCCB way after they done finished they grapes.
Pig fans will need no introduction to the Meneo machine, and only those witnessing on the night will truly witness what this prince of parties & private parts has in store. Joining me at the helm as we collide with the early-mid-20-teens will be indie upstarts The Goons from A Viva Veu, and for that feminine feel we welcome Ari Up, whose residency at Crocanti (RIP) knew no boundaries of style or amusement.
Tickets go on sale at Discos Paradiso this week. Don't sleep!
Once again, we happen to be involved in the weekend's hottest throwdown. What a co-incidink!
Whereas we played second fiddle to the techno crowd at last week's Haiti do (raising €4K in the process!), tonite it's all about us and the phenomenal line-up assembled on a shoestring.
Yes yes, tonight sees the triumphant return of the Tomb Crew lot, after playing PDJ a couple of years ago have come on leaps and bounds and are getting love from everyone from Crookers to Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, touring tirelessly in the process.
Also on the glorious Apolo stage will be long-time collaborators and guaranteed mayhem-bringers Meneo, Notting Hill Carnival stalwarts Heatwave, and your Pig Lovering residents, K**O, C-Shell and me.
Rigo Pex will be gluing it all together with his tropical quips with the Mighty Entter on the vizzy vizzy. It's totally free before 1 for e'ryone, free before 2 if you got the flyer (there's plenty left in Holala still I think) and well, we can't make it any easier for you.
I have never been to Notting Hill Carnival, nor the Catholic celebrations that they have over here, but we are sure to show them all up this very evening. I cannae wait.
Big news in London Town. Meneo unveil their marvelous El Circo featuring some rather 'out-there' sets from the Original Electropical Duo, Drums of Death, Tomb Crew, Ralp, Sativo and hosted by the unstoppable Rigo Pex with flair flicks of digital colour from Entter!
First of all, why call it a Christmas special and then do nothing Christmassy during the program? Is the idea of 8-bit any more attractive over the festive season? That aside, let me fill you in with what you probably missed at BeCool tother night.
There were three acts that we caught. There were more on the bill but we either missed them, didn't notice them or they were wack. And I believe that in general, it's better to say nothing than to say something negative, especially in this season of good will and mince pies.
The first was Drop 1410 who had a tremendous selection of energetic tunes which were well programmed and not too self involved, keeping us engaged for the duration despite the lack of vocals, etc. He popped up on occasion to introduce this or that, and I was slightly disppointed to see that he was a human and not a dalek or C3P0. He also dropped a really amusing take on early ninties eurotrance.
We were there to see Meneo, and I suppose that they were the main attraction for the most of the souls that made it up there on a school night, not for me though as I was steady on holiday by then. There set was pretty short, it must be said, as this early gig had had its share of technical glitches, but was intense as ever, and they dropped some new material including one track that seemed to be called 'Tiger Woods Is Gay'. Well I never. They also done a couple of covers, which I hadn't heard before, check the video below for to see whether you would have dug. Most people did. Also most people were disappointed not to see the band members' members during the performance. What can I say. It was cold and they might not have done their profiles any favours.
The act that put the night on is a Catalan/Japanese crossbreed called Pepino. They were a kind of 8 bit Pizzicato Five, she was more reserved and nicer to listen to, he was too wacky and is vocals did nothing for the tracks at all. Did I say I was going to be nice? My bad. Their synchronised dance moves were awesome though. And they had a bit of a penya down there that knew the tracks off by heart and whatnot.
Overall, the night was enjoyable, from the point of view of a showcase and not a night of dancing. You had to be a real 8 bit anorak to pay attention to everything, and Meneo were easily the slickest and most entertaining 30 minutes.
