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PLAYTIME FRI JUL 28
It's our 4th birthday!
Who knew you could get this far with just a cheeky grin and a copy of the racing post to whack people on the arse with. Yes princess, playtime is 4! We're celebrating with better-than-usual capes and japers in the egg courtyard plus a look forward and a look back at house ...
"The best mixed club in London" - TNT.
"The record label of the moment" - One Week to live.
PLAYTIME FRI JUL 28
A Guy Called Gerald - live and presenting his new album
David Duriez
Mike Monday
Big Daddy
Nathan G (Australia)
Warmup from Bish
...But who ARE these crazy DJ persons?
A GUY CALLED GERALD (BERLIN)
The man behind house classic Voodoo Ray is about to launch a new album in August. Playtime will be your first chance to hear it in the UK - live.
DAVID DURIEZ (BRIQUE ROUGE / FRANCE)
The don of jackin' French house music and one of Playtime's quarterly international residents. He did Ministry with us last month; this month he's taking centre stage in our jackin' main room. His last gig blew Playtime apart.
MIKE MONDAY (ONLY RESIDENCY WORLDWIDE)
"One of the 100 reasons dance music still rules" - IDJ. "The remixers' remixer" - Mixmag. "Will be one of the main players of 2006" - DJ. His first artist album, Smorgasboard, is out first week Sep - probably the only album that's ever been able to put the wind up both the Big Chill cheery electronica crew and the dark-and-dirty DJ Hell crowd.
BIG DADDY (RESIDENT)
"My club, my rules" - as Big Daddy says. But they’re not the rules you find at other clubs. For starters, Playtime is one of the last truly mixed nights in London - a throwback to the acid house days when homos and heteros partied together and no-one gave a shit which way you swung. Then there’s the Playtime sound - jackin’, dirty as hell, with a thread of funk running from sparse to deep to robotic to truly twisted. They call it "the club that whacks you on the arse with the racing post and calls you princess" - and as TimeOut says "anyone who takes it too seriously is missing the point..."
NATHAN G (OM / AUSTRALIA)
One of Australia's biggest DJs and one of few Australians to have a solid international release schedule - on Om, Transport and other labels that can carry the funky with a bit of house grunt. This is the third time Nathan has done Playtime - he'll be setting up the main room in preparation for the jackin' nonsense to come from M Duriez and M Monday...
BISH (ON-REE)
From early days clubbing at Urban Gorilla, Bish has always had an eye on new sounds. He's now one of the founders of On-Ree, an intimate little electronic house party at a bar in Shoreditch - and a new London promotion put together to showcase the best in nasty new house music ...
PLAYTIME FRI JULY 28 - 4TH BIRTHDAY!
10PM-6AM, £14 or £12 with SMS/e-flyer at www.playtime-club.com. At Egg, 200 York Way, Kings Cross N7. 020 7609 8364. Email us at
guestlist at playtime dash club dot com for concessions..
SEE YOU SOON, PRINCESS!
LOOK NORMAL. THEY MUST SUSPECT NOTHING.
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