Date: 19th August 2006 Time: 3pm till late Venue: HMS President, Victoria Embankment EC4Y 0HJ Admission: £5 before 5, £7 after, invite only, email
for invites.
Summer’s here and Film Friends Forever is throwing a daytime boat party
on Saturday 19th August on the HMS President. We’re celebrating all
things sunshine, film, music and food. In keeping with the tradition
of our monthly film night at The Parlour in Sketch, the boat party is
an opportunity all our friends and their friends to wind down and
tantalise your creative senses with ground breaking audio visual work,
DJ’s from renowned labels and cutting edge VJs.
We will also be joined by Den Odell, Nadia Ksaiba and Rory Phillips
from London's And Did We Mention Our Disco? who have hosted over 150
club nights since January 2003, providing refuge for party-seekers
alientated by the usual, tired club offerings. The resident DJs have
forged their own unique sound and style, serving up their sweet
concoction of post-punk, glitch-funk, schitzo-electro and mutant disco
for an always-friendly, inspired and up-for-it crowd.
We will be giving away lots of free Raindance and Epson goodies,
including projectors, printers filmmaker training courses and
memberships,
We want you to come down and party with us.
Stuart (Hexstatic, Ninja Tune) / A/V Set
Stuart Warren Hill with Robin Brunson are Hexstatic. They have been
consistently breaking new ground in Audio and Visual entertainment
since 1995.
Hexstatic started experimenting with video at the first Big Chill
festival and then went on to become resident VJ’s at Ninjatune’s famous
Stealth night and a host of other UK clubs.
They collaborated with Coldcut and Greenpeace for the Natural Rhythms
Trilogy, which included the award winning AV single Timber.
London based DJ, Shelley Parker, first began playing when she started
out with the art-inspired electro night, 'Nerd'. As co-promoter and
resident DJ, Shelley fused influences from her art school background
with her discerning taste in electro pop, acid house and electronica.
Shelley also regularly plays at Haywire events and many London clubs,
such as Fabric, the Egg and the 333. She is a regular on the internet
radio show gaialive.com, where she plays a mix of breaks, grime and
techno. She has also contributed to Electric City's Power FM.
Shelley is currently taking her musical endeavours to the next level by
working on a debut album. It's a project which fuses Found Sound with
Techno, Electro and Bass.
Scanone
has performed in Australia, San Francisco, Copenhagen, Rotterdam,
Bilboao, Berlin, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris and New York in various
clubs and festivals. Also playing at The Big Chill. Glastonbury.
Amsterdam's notorious Melkweg and at The CCCB in Barcelona.
As both an accomplished producer and DJ, he has played and performed
live sets in various contemporary London venues: Fabric, Cargo, Herbal,
Sketch, ICA, Wang, Bass Invader, Ginglik. DJ’ing alongside some of the
biggest names currently on the scene: Radioactive Man, Si Begg, Andrew
Weatherall, Tipper, Point B, Cursor Minor and Warlock.
Throughout the years his sets have gained a solid reputation on the London club circuit.
Main subverter on Combat, Stormfield was schooled in the nascent
strains of LFO, Aphex Twin, Black Dog, Autechre and the early
infections of dark, techy jungle like Photek and Source Direct. A
4-year stint living in Brixton (south London) and it's colossal dub
sound systems left him with a permanent need for crushing basslines...
All of these infleunces have left a permanent impression on his
approach towards music ever since, partly leading to the creation of
Combat Recordings with ScanOne in 2004 to further the sound.
www.combatrecords.net
Adverse Camber / A/V Set
Adverse Camber, famed for their Nights Of Awesome Power events at SE
One and their Acid Lounge nights at Ginglik, provide their very own
acid duo, Boep to join the boat action for a special gloopy acid breaks
DJ set which is sure to get the people moving to the bendiest of beats.
Backing them up will be Adverse Cambers VJ's Pixel Juice and Unkle
Bunkle whose animations and visuals have impressed crowds at the more
recent events Adverse Camber have done at Corsica studios and will
undoubtedly provide the perfect backdrop to Boeps sea faring bass
antics!
Abstract Knights (Colony Records ) / AV Set
Colony Productions Abstrakt Knights have been busy in the studio
recording a new LP for the last 12 months, it is shaping up to be a mix
of hip hop beats and electro influences and is finally in the latter
stages. They will be playing their new material supported by the visual
aids of Eykon. You can hear previous work by the duo on labels such as
Halflife and Erratica or catch them Dj'ing monthly online at samurai.fm
and at Ginglik in Shepherds Bush.
Chris Irish projects moving images which are sometimes surreal,
sometimes mundane and which are sometimes geometrically sound . The
images move with and without music providing exciting portals for the
mind to travel through during performances.
Chris can be contacted through and shows his work at www.utrophia.net
Antikue is an intricate person who finds himself torn between the geeky
world of computers and the geeky world of electronic music, also an
avid lover of excessive behaviour and occasional socialiser (this part
needs sorting - apply within).
His music encompasses many styles and influences, from the blissful
introspective of Boards of Canada to the inane beat mangling of
Venetian Snares via the pure electronic pop of Goldfrapp (by the way
pop music is no bad thing!), he feels it is something to be shared and
loved no matter what your disposition.
Den Odell, Nadia Ksaiba and Rory Phillips (And Did We Mention Our Disco?) / DJ
London's And Did We Mention Our Disco? formed in January 2003 who have
hosted over 150 club nights, providing refuge for party-seekers
alientated by the usual, tired club offerings. The resident DJs have
forged their own unique sound and style, serving up their sweet
concoction of post-punk, glitch-funk, schitzo-electro and mutant disco
for an always-friendly, inspired and up-for-it crowd.
Now We've Got Members (Metronomicon , Oslo) / Live
In the beginning Now We´ve got Members didn´t have any members at all.
Today the band revolves around a core of eight people, and in some live
situations they´re augmented by additional musicians, forming an
ensemble of as many as fifteen members. The music can be described as a
mixture of musical styles from near and distant hemispheres, all
relative to which hemisphere the listener might be situated. The band
has been known to incorporate folk music from the balkans, arabian funk
and transcendental jams into their complex yet hummable pop tunes. Add
to this elements of progressive rock (without the rock), disco (without
the mirrorballs) and free jazz (without the jazz), and you have an idea
of what Now We´ve got Members sounds like. The band is most comfortable
on a stage in front of a dancing and ecstatic audience, and has also
recorded three albums. A fourth full-length record is scheduled for
release sometime during the course of 2006.
Surprise Act / Live
We're not allowed to say anything about this. Accept you'll laugh, cry and jump around at the same time.
Toxi
Toxi is a software developer, researcher and artist with a
strong belief in open source mentality. He's using code to build tools
to explore new aesthetics, synesthesia, visualize and document ideas,
showing possible interelations of often seemingly disperate concepts.
He's contributed to books about programming and graphic design. His
work has been featured in the press, online and exhibited
internationally.
CO - Designer / VJ Set
Timon (b. 1973) is a Norwegian born artist/information designer. He is
based in London and has been practising design for the last ten years
across Europe and the United States. Timon specialises in digital
exhibition displays. His work use dynamic animations and 3 dimensional
typography as alternative ways of displaying information. Timon's goal
is to captivate, educate and entertain.
Maskomi is an audiovisual collective working with film, photography and
motion graphics for promos and live events. Maskomi have held club
residencies at the Blue Note Hoxton and Fabric London, toured
worldwide with Smirnoff and Budweiser; appeared at festivals such as
Glastonbury, Homelands, Reading, Global Gathering, Gig on the Green
in Glasgow, Experience in Lisbon, and Sound Vision Den Hague; and
awards ceremonies like MTV, NME, British Independent Film Awards,
Technics DMC and Muzik; appeared on television programs such as Joy of
Decks ITV and Japanese National TV.
