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A weekly dance gathering. Dance like no one's watching and shake off those Monday blues to the ruffest, tuffest sounds from African beats to Ragga and Bhangra with A LOT of Hip Hop.
Music you can't sit still to and that will make you sweat!
Sack off the gym and come and dance yourself fit instead.
£10
Those queer rapscallions behind BENT FEST are back, bringing you a QUEER PUNK DISCO night at popular nitespot VFD. Expect your most raging and most sissy fav bangers from LIMP WRIST to HUGGY BEAR and DOWNTOWN BOYS to TRASH KIT or like maybe JAYNE COUNTY to MARTHA.
Big shout out to the orig 'Get Bent' events/collective of Manchester in the mid 2000s sorry for stealing your name, its v. much in tribute.
No wankers, let's make this a sick super fun queer disco in the heart of the Dalston strip.
Matthew Glamorre presents SCISMEVERY Thursday: launch night 22nd
*** SCISM’s new single The Dalston BUMP will be out soon Scenes for the video will be shot on the opening night ***
Check this out for a taster ! SCISM Referendum Night Show https://goo.gl/YK6eCE
“A nightclub should challenge current ideas and aesthetics, break new boundaries and create new modes: it should be a beacon to the brilliantly dispossessed.” Known as one of British Nightlife’s most significant innovators, Matthew Glamorre’s clubs are more installation art than disco.
SCISM is Matthew’s new Audio Visual project, a Band, a Club and a Show. This weekly residency @ VFD is the 'Club Experiment' where Glamorre explores "'new musical directions, people & possibilities" he says: "I am going back to go forward, my first club in 10 years. For me the nightclub is essential, exciting, the crucible of the zeitgeist. What is born on the tiny floors of London can later move the world"
SCISM is all about polarities Glamorre explains : "… as the world becomes more polarised so ideologies and identities become more extreme. I explore the fault lines between the black & the white, the yin and the yang, that’s the field of potential, where opposites collide.”
SCISM is video & sound manipulation fused with performance, technology, politics and ideology. SCISM launched on the night of the EU referendum “heralding the great British division”
SCISM Night Club will feature The Rainbow Curtain, an interactive light installation by artist Terry Payman.
Bio Glamorre has been at the forefront of many British underground movements since 1987, his clubs like 2XS, Smashing, HARDERFASTERLOUDER, The Siren Suite & Kash Point were instrumental in the development of the music, art and fashion of the times. He is also an award winning short film and video director.
In 1991 Glamorre pulled the band Minty together around Leigh Bowery & Richard Torry and went on to front it after Leigh's death. He founded & directed The Offset, am amorphous live art collective; artists such as Ron Athey, Grayson Perry, David Hoyle & That Donald worked alongside musicians and technicians to create epic 5 hour shows. Most recently he completed a world tour of 'Albion Voice', a 10-year collaboration with the artist & singer Bishi. He co-wrote and produced the album, designed the artwork and directed the videos and live AV performance.
A multi faceted artist for sure this ‘Dalston period’ promises an ever-evolving sketchpad of ideas, provocations, and confrontations; where technology and performance will be harnessed to question our divisions and play with what unites us.
SCISM Night Club will bring together an exciting range of multi-disciplinary artists and performers, no one night will be the same !
Click GOING for updates.
Spoken Word London is an open-mic poetry and performance night for anyone to come and join in, whether to speak or listen. Everyone who wants to speak gets five minutes, but no one gets more than five minutes. Speak in whichever format you want, sharing your own or others' work. Doors open 7.30pm, sign up for a slot 7.30-8pm, readings begin at 8pm.
Free entry, but please buy a drink (or more) at the bar.
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Watch a brilliant short documentary upon SWL and some of its regular readers, made by Amelia Hazlitt, here: http://vimeo.com/103176010
And a feature length film of our first anniversary of SWL 'Anti-Hate', made by Timothy Lock, here: https://www.youtube.com/
SWL host Patrick Cash talks about SWL and spoken word in London on Lunar Poetry: https://www.youtube.com/
SWL's second anniversary Anti-Hate is covered on Push Pony by Tracy Kawalik: http://pushpony.com/
Knees Up taking those trousers down.. After drinking in those rays on the rooftop, 16th September sees us deliver a friends and family special as we welcome our good pals Mavrik DJs into the fray. We are all set for an after hours session in the intimate VFD, a very cheeky little underground space with limited capacity. When we say limited we do mean limited - should be no more than 100 deviants down there so don't sleep on those £5 tickets.
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Mavrik are a Leeds to London based collective of vinyl lovers writing some excellent music related material by day (http://mavrikmusic.com/) and throwing frisky parties by night.
Starting off in Leeds before heading down this way these guys know how to get down. Their recent Afro disco jaunt w/ Mr Bongo down the road from VFD followed some classy nights in Leeds with Simian Mobile Disco and Ben Sun - they will bring a bag of tricks to the basement on 16th.
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As always Knees Up Resident Jack C features for what promises to be a small, naughty affair.
VFD 66 Stoke Newington Street 16th September 10pm - 3am
The third in VFD’s new series of film nights looking at various relevant social & cultural issues. On the 2nd of September we will be looking at the mainstream media’s portrayal of Brexit voters & its influence over the masses.
Screening on the night will be Sheena Sumaria's 'Why we voted leave: voices from northern England' (Guerrera Films - http://
In contrary to this we will show a couple of clips from popular media outlets which depict those who voted to leave as small minded & bigoted white people. Do these organisations go in with an agenda & by focusing on a minority skew the perception of their audience? In a Kardashian-worshipping, Snapchat-obsessed, narcissistic culture, are popular news outlets the new opium of the masses? Come to VFD to find out (obviously).
Special guests:
Sheena Sumaria (Guerrera Films) & more TBA
Doors open at 8pm, screening at 8.30pm.
FOLLOWED BY A PARTY FOR THE REFUGEE COMMUNITY KITCHEN
11pm - 3am.
With:
PersianPins (11-12)
UNITI --- https://soundcloud.com/
£3 before 11pm, £5 after.
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Here to celebrate the final summer bank holiday the only way they know how are London's most determined band of party cephalopods with another late-night-indoor-tough-mu
Bringing together for one night some of London's finest FUN-meisters for a special bank holiday knees up, SUNDAY~FUNDAY smashes together crazy music makers with infamous performers and party~runners, filling legendary queer basement VFD with music, colour, donuts and a lot of laughs!
To celebrate high~summer we'll be shorting our systems, frazzling our processors and glitching all over the shop. Robotmalfunction meets techmagedon. A night of complete system failure. Refresh, restart, reboot and maybe even total-meltdown. error_404_ is here to help you get to the root of your problem and delete any corrupted files in your harddrive. We've installed 4 times the amount of RAM, and cleared out space for more data than ever. So come and climb into the glitch with us, surrender your feeble organic bodies to our digital dismantling!
DJs will be throwing you from genre to genre, stopping only for our now infamous late~night~drag~show headed by none other than the bearded Claudia Winkleman of East London, Maxi More.
Doors open from 9. We will be open extra late! Once we're full, we're full so get there early to avoid disappointment!
£5 before 11PM, £7 after.
Most recently described by the Duchess of Kent as "...more fun than one can shake a stick at".
A new night of house music 'n' sh!t from Mitch Imeanit and special guest DJs. Only those who are house trained need apply.
Wipe your feet on the way out...
10pm - 3am
£3 < midnight > £5
The city is crowdedMy friends are away And I'm on my own It's too hot to handle So I got to get up and go It's a cruel, (cruel), cruel summer Leaving me here on my own It's a cruel, (it's a cruel), cruel summer Now you're gone
- BANANARAMA, 1984 BDTH is back for its cruel summer special feat. a big fan to keep you cool, our flattering photographer, sweets, glitter and tunes to make you sweat.
'80s / NEW WAVE / DISCO / GLAM / SYNTHPOP
Expect to hear: BLONDIE / KATE BUSH / CHIC / MADONNA / DAVID BOWIE / THE SMITHS / TALKING HEADS / FLEETWOOD MAC / SALT N PEPA / PULP / THE SPECIALS / EURYTHMICS / THE SLITS / DIANA ROSS / SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES / THE CURE / PATTI SMITH / THE HUMAN LEAGUE / INXS / EARTH, WIND AND FIRE / BUZZCOCKS / IGGY POP / PIXIES / TOM TOM CLUB / BANANARAMA / DEPECHE MODE / NEW ORDER / JOY DIVISION / KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND / MADNESS / VISAGE / GRACE JONES / PRINCE & MORE!
WHAT? BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE
WHEN? 10PM-3AM Saturday 20th August
WHERE? VFD, 66 Stoke Newington Road
KIM HOWELLS & RYAN LANJI INVITE YOU TO CELEBRATE THEIR #MAJE& #FRESH JOINT BIRTHDAY 18th AUGUST 2016 9PM - 1AM STRICTLY INVITE ONLY! PLEASE RSVP TO >> MAJEFRESHPARTY@GMAIL.COM <<
**PASSWORD WILL BE GIVEN FOR ENTRY 24 HOURS BEFORE THE PARTY **
HOSTED BY: PAKEEZAH (DALSTON'S FIRST BOLLLYWOOD / RNB NIGHT)
BOLLYWOOD | HIP HOP | BHANGRA | RNB | GARAGE
DJ SETS BY: RYAN LANJI LIL INDIA (FROM JALOOS FAME IN VANCOUVER, CANADA) TRU BLU
Extra Second London is a new monthly poetry/debate night where we take an extra second to reflect on the ideas touched on by our featured poets. We give you, the lovely audience, a chance to make your voices heard - because poetry shouldn't just be a spectator sport. This month's theme is: The Future of British Politics.
With the Tories taking a sharp turn to the right, Labour seemingly on the verge being torn apart, the rise of UKIP, the possibility of another Scottish referendum and the small matter of an EU exit to negotiate, our political system seems to be approaching a turning point. So where do we go from here? Come along and have your say.
We have 4 wonderful featured performers this month as well as an OPEN MIC! If you'd like to perform we ask that you keep it topical, but it is a free county (for now...).
Sign up is on the door from 7.30.
Once all that poetry is out of the way we will open the floor for the main event - a roundtable audience discussion on the month's theme. Looking forward to hearing all your opinions on a topic that's sure to spark some heated debate.
This month's featured speakers:
JASON PILLEY has been performing poetry in London for the last four and a half years. In 2012 he won and lost various slams, he featured at all the best and most of the worst poetry-nights, he won the oh-so-prestigious "Farrago Zoo Awards" award for Best Debut Performance and was selected to take part in Apples & Snakes's "The Word's A Stage" programme. In 2013, in a futile but glorious attempt to position himself as the Humphry Osmond of poetry, he put together a group called The Mind Gang and organised open acid-trips at various unlikely sites: groups of poets took legal analogues of LSD in the British Museum, Kew Gardens, the Tate Modern, Durdle Door, etc. In 2014 he collaborated with the classical violinist Oktawia Petronella on the epic "The Invention Of Opera": having decided that pubs and bars and coffee-shops are the opposite of poetry, the pair performed their reimagining of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice at graveyards and in churches, in art-galleries and on random buses, in a disused cavernous tunnel under the Thames and by the legal-graffiti wall in Leake Street... Also that year he handed out three million free copies of his one-off poetry-zine entitled "Uh! Uh! Uh! Uh! Uh! Uh! Uh!" 2015 was boring. So far in 2016 he's published a collection of his and his friends' poems called "SPIES 4 LIFE," he's distributed three hundred copies of that collection to random strangers as part of Intergalactic Poetry Day, and September will see the release of his new poetry-pamphlet, a depraved experiment entitled "SEEDPOETRY.".
MARC LIVINGSTONE is marxist poet from Glasgow. He writes poems slagging off capitalism in the vain hope that he will be appointed poet laureate after the revolution.
DEAN MCKEE is a spoken word performer based in west London, who has a taste for word play and imagery and uses these to create stories that will touch your very core. He uses honesty about his upbringing and childhood to give you a look into who he is and his almost rap like flow will mesmerise you. Definitely one to watch for the flow alone.
SAM BERKSON, aka 'Angry Sam', has been hosting and promoting live poetry events with Hammer & Tongue for ten years. He has won slams, performed in three continents and published two books of poetry with Influx Press. His debut, 'Life in Transit' was described as "a highlight of 2012" by cultural theorist Mark Fisher. He followed this with a commission for Fishbar photogallery of poems written around Dalston's Ridley Road market, composing the text of Lorenzo Vitturi's award winning photobook, Dalston Anatomy. His most recent collection, Settled Wanderers, records his experience living on the Western Saharan refugee camps and contains the first English translations of Saharawi poetry. Poet Chris Searle, writing in the journal Race & Class, said that the "poems carry a particular kind of powerful witness in their lyrical solidarity. They are narratives of empathy with the lives of people he encountered”.
A work in progress by Nathan Penlington Supported by Arts Council England
Sunday 7 Aug, 7.30pm Monday 8 Aug, 7.30pm Tuesday 9 Aug, 7.30pm
FREAK is stranger than fiction – a true story that reaches from depression era America, through the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the second world war, the phenomenon of Ripley’s Believe it or Not, and the burgeoning civil rights movements of the '50s and '60s.
This work in progress is told through a combination of live documentary, storytelling and magic. Nathan follows freak shows from the peak of their popularity, through controversies of human rights, and visits the oldest living sideshow operator in the USA.
It is an exploration of difference, tolerance, and the lives of tattooed ladies, rubber-skinned men, fat women, conjoined twins, and the ‘world’s strangest married couple’. Lives that turn the assumptions of exploitation and disability upside down.
Audiences are invited to see FREAK by author and performer Nathan Penlington at an exciting stage of its development.
£3 entry
Praise for Nathan’s previous work:
'Deeply nostalgic and dazzlingly modern’ - The Independent ‘A directive to live actively and make choices’ - The New York Times 'An awkward, unusual, tender story about what it is to be awkward and unusual’ - The Times 'That rare creature, a truly lovely show’ - Evening Standard
Biography
Nathan Penlington is a writer, performer and obsessive. He has performed his work in venues as diverse as New York’s Tribeca Film Festival, London’s Soho Theatre, Glasgow’s AyeWrite book festival, Chicago’s Drinking & Writing Festival, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 1, 3, 4, 6music, and Australia's ABC.
Choose Your Own Documentary - a true story of obsession, childhood sweethearts, friendship, loss and adventure – won a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival 2013 for innovation and new writing.
The Boy in the Book, Nathan’s first work of non-fiction, was published by Headline in May 2014. An attempt at exhausting a place in London, a homage to the work of Georges Perec, was published by Burning Eye Books in October 2015.
He is a lifelong zine, fairground and magic fan.
Welcome to the first instalment of the Callbox Club. Let’s go back, way back, to a night of music from a single year – with pop hits, underground sensations, remixes and reworks all released within those 12 months. Some you’ll know, some you really should know, and some you’d never have expected.
We’re going to rinse one year for all the good music it’s got.
This is not a retro night. Leave your rose-tinted glasses at home. We’re here to prove that great music always feels timeless.
Join us and help transport a year’s worth of energy, emotion and love onto the dance floor.
And no - we’re not going to tell you which year we’ve chosen. So don't ask.
Come and celebrate the collapse of the Great British Pound. #RIPGBP CLICK 'GOING' FOR £3 ENTRY ALL NIGHT
Straight Nasty's ICONIC playlist includes: Rachel Stevens ♥ Geri Haliwell ♥ Mis-Teeq ♥ Kelly Rowland ♥ Madonna ♥ Jennifer Lopez ♥ Kylie ♥ Aaliyah ♥ Cher Lloyd ♥ Sophie Ellis Bextor ♥ Cheryl Cole ♥ Eve ♥ Rihanna ♥ Cher ♥ Sugababes ♥ S Club 7 ♥ Aly & AJ ♥ Steps ♥ Diana Ross ♥ Backstreet Boys ♥ Peter Andre ♥ Nicki Minaj ♥ Cascada ♥ Gaga ♥ The First Wives Club Soundtrack ♥ Loreen ♥ Atomic Kitten ♥ Ariana Grande ♥ Mel C ♥ Mel B ♥ Victoria Beckham ♥ Emma Bunton ♥ Spice Girls ♥ Amerie ♥ Beyonce ♥ Althea and Donna ♥ Donna Summer ♥ Cheryl Lynn ♥ Billie Piper ♥ Janet Jackson ♥ Kelis ♥ Missy Elliott ♥ RuPaul ♥ Britney Spears ♥ Katy Perry ♥ Little Mix ♥ Shakira ♥ tATu ♥ Charli XCX ♥ Venga Boys ♥ Scissor Sisters ♥ Lil’ Kim ♥ Lady Sovereign ♥ Lily Allen ♥ Kevin Lyttle ♥ Selena Gomez ♥ B*Witched ♥ Khia ♥ Gloria Gaynor ♥ Christina Milian ♥ Wham! ♥ Olivia Newton John ♥ Dead or Alive ♥ Pet Shop Boys ♥ Gareth Gates B Sides (jokes) ♥ Alesha Dixon ♥ Aqua ♥ Azealia Banks ♥ Fergie ♥ Gwen Stefani ♥ Blondie ♥ Christina Aguilera ♥ Girls Aloud ♥ Destiny’s Child ♥ M.I.A ♥ Taylor Swift ♥ Holly Valance ♥ Shania Twain ♥ Dolly Parton + MORE CLASSIC HITS FROM THE BLITZ!
JULY 30th 10-3AM £3 FB guestlist / £5 VFD, 66 Stoke Newington Road
With resident DJs TR!NNY & $U$ANNAH (Debbie, Slagbox) SHY CHARLES (Clit Rock, Best City Fashion) JE M'APPELLE ROCHELLE & GG BEAR (Nancy's @ Dalston Superstore)
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CHIC C'EST LA VIE!
Sassitude returns for a sassy summer beach party. Who needs to go to Margate when you can visit your local VFD on Sea?
Sassy beach looks recommended, DJs to be announced, £5 entry from 10pm
Hi all my divine S.E.X.Y's come along to the next S.E.X. (Erotic Salon) and help me celebrate my 50th birthday. You all know the house rules: Open Mic (5 mins) must be erotic, and as explicit as you want: poetry, performance etc.
Contact me here or via messenger or email: womanofbones@mail for a spot.
Seeing as it will be my 50th birthday the same week, there will be lots of SEXTRA fun!!!! Shall I tell you now? Hmmm ... Maybe I'll wait a little. Watch this space for more tease. I've changed the day for this event to a Tuesday. So from now on Tuesday's will be the new S.E.Xday!
£5 on the door.
This will be the last S.E.X till September when it will return to VFD. So please come help this old bird feel she hasn't completely dried up.
Dress Code: S.E.X.Y (nudity or fetish encouraged).
See you all then my lovelies.... Tara Fleur 'Woman of Bones' xx
We're baaaaack, people!
Join those in the know for...BIG GIRLS DISCO
Featuring:
BIG GIRLS Hackney's finest 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 piece popular hit makers. Charm over competency, style over substance, roll over rock. Playing songs in the key of me, me, me. Big things expected? Hmmmm....
Also, following our 'an eye for talent' campaign on UK Living we are proud to announce that joining us as winners and lead support for Big Girls Disco will be...
KEVIN AND THE MATRIARCH Hailing all the way from Dublin, Ireland, this new musical duo will sail and rail their way right into your hearts. Big things expected? Yes, Yes, Yes!
¡PLUS! Hot dancefloor action from top west end DJ's....
ROCKY MILK FROSTY KNUCKLES CHEAP MEAT AND MORE
First band 9 £3 before 10 £5 after
Chloe Isidora celebrates the full moon with a fire ceremony. 'Let us come togther and celebrate the powerful energy of the full moon. This is a time to let go of things that are no longer serving us by offering them into the fire. This is an opportunity to let go and to call in what we would like to recieve for ourselves and the planet. Through the alchemy of the fire our darker energies are transformed into light. We will honour our ancestors, connect to spirit and to the Earth. Creating rapid transformation for each one of us as well as bring healing to the Earth'.
For more info email chloeisidora@gmail.com Book tickets here
7pm - 9pm
*winky winky fanny pun* is a new basement party for gals and bois who just love music, dancing, and friendly, smiling people (*accompanied male guests welcome). The world's crazy right now so we're going underground for some escapist joy. The only thing we'll be taking seriously is the music:
We like funkin’ soul // dirty beats // jackin’ grooves // hands-in-the-air vocals // sexy looks // winks.
What’s that? You do too? Maybe we should get together and deal with this on the dancefloor honey...
DJs: Afro Chick (Eckovision, Bootylicious, Dogstar) Samantha Togni (Church of Dreams) Hosts: Eilidh Wallace and Yvonne Taylor
64-66 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 7XB, UK
