Modular - Turnmills - London

The Klaxons, Gossip, New Young Pony Club...one could be forgiven for thinking this was the lineup for one of the big summer festivals, yet, as the clock approached 6am, there were no puddles to avoid or tents to go back home to. This was Together at Turnmills.





Hip label, 'Modular' last week celebrated the release of two new records with a huge nu-rave up at 'Together' at the Turnmills in London on Saturday 24th.




Party people 'Fishseeksbicyle ' hosted fun and games in the cinema lounge, whilst upstairs the Together All-Stars got even sillier with a comedy soundtrack of 80s pop, TV themes and party games. This month’s fancy dress theme was military garb and prizes were awarded for the best dressed.

Canadian duo rockers turned housers MSTRKRFT headlined room one to plug their debut LP ‘The Looks’ which sees a UK release this month. Support in room one was from the only man to have ever DJed with suction cups attached to his skull – I refer of course to Chicago house legend, Green Velvet.
Room two had electro-poppers Hot Chip headline, spinning a DJ set and Parisian glitch electro star Para One (listen out for his new remix of Bloc Party’s ‘The Prayer) with support from London house mainstay and Together resident Justin Robertson.
Room three was Modular, Modular and more Modular, celebrating the release of new label comp ‘Leave Them All Behind 2’. Headliner was the DJ arm of the Aussie record label, Ajax, with The Gossip, Klaxons and New Young Pony Club brought in for a spot of DJ jiggery. Klaxons span their second Together party, which The Gossip had to race off the stage at their sell-out Astoria gig to hit the decks for their ‘official after party’ with us.




Each and every set was stormed through with out me (or anyone else is seemed) even knowing the time, glow sticks spinning and feet jumping I never wanted this night to end... and it didn't, with the afterparty going well into late Sunday morning, ravers finally surfaced and made their way, feet aching and glowsticks lost in the madness, home.

Slutty Fringe

Tony Poland's London-based, music blog, 'Slutty Fringe' supplies an up to date run-down of the alternative music scene.



Although his written copy can at times be difficult to follow, he makes up for this with his supply of music file links, website links and information on up-and coming releases, bands and events which to people like me, who are interested in all the contents on the blog would find incredibly useful.

The vast list of bands and artists links shows his clear interest in supporting them as well as his passion for this type of music. He also links the labels that the music is released on in order to make it easy for us to find the music.

The links to remixs and tracks as well show a clear passion for a vast range of indie-rave, electro-funk and dance music which shows he knows what he's talking about, despite his writing not being particularly fantastic.
He supplies an incredible amount of links to like-minded peoples sites, on-line radio and podcasts and links to local nightclubs worth going to.

The blog supplies any person interests in the scene in London a very good rundown of what happens, where it happens, whose happening and does it in a fashion that is easy to find out more about and enjoyable to look at. This is shown in the use of large images and links rather that hard copy.

http://sluttyfringe.wordpress.com/

This particular post is a favourite of mine... OUT OF TIME

I like way he will link a good remix and also list the tracklisting. This again show the dedication to his cause and a useful for people reading to find out names of certain tracks.
It then goes on to list events going on this month which link to the tracklisting.

Slutty Fringe is a useful tool for both people who may be discovering new music, as well as current music journalists with is vast amount or images, links, reviews and tracks listings that prove Tony Polands obvious passion for the scene and his ability to supply everyone with relevant information.

I am Fashion

A review of weblog... 'I am Fashion' .

This blog dedicated to all things fashion is by two women who work between the UK and the US who have decided to create a straightforward and simple way of finding out about fashion.
The name is incredibly affective as it is to the point and would grab any ones attention if you were to particularly search for fashion blogs.
It is very easy to use as the page has used simple and effective ways of navigating your way through the website. It has used wording which will not confuse people and the design and layout is very pleasing to the eye.
It acts as a site 'by normal people, for normal people'. I think this means the content would not belittle people and would mean anyone on the web could read this blog and not only identify with what its about but gain valuable information from it.

The website lists a vast number of links to other useful websites to do with fashion which would also make it a favourite with bloggers everywhere.

The layout and design isn't to intense and everything is easy to read and well written.
This website has successfully done what the two writers have set out to do and anyone looking for simple and easy fashion guidance would not need to look much further.

If your looking for a few easy fashion tips... here's the link again - I am Fashion

BLOC PARTY

Went to an awesome gig on Friday night at the London Astoria...
Bloc Part stormed through a fantastic set incorporating new material with all their classics from the first album, 'Silent Alarm'.
The New material for, 'A weekend in the city'.
Check out their new tunes at the link below...
Bloc Party

Welcome

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Welcome to my Blog, I'm a Journalism Student based in Farnham, Surrey... at the University College of the Creative Arts.

I will use this blog mainly to post useful links mainly to do with whats going on in Farnham, Music and Film ... among other things.