Kings + Queens

Bit excited about upcoming events including a dj set in 2 sleeps time at .HBC for their New Years Eve King + Queens ball. Meself and Katja are "manning" the ahem, "Pink Room". (Big thanks to Glamcanyon). Our dj set is scheduled for 11 - 2 AM slot. Apparently the tickets for the night are selling like hot cakes, and Princess Superstar is part of the line-up, she is mega. I saw her dj-ing at Berlin Festival and her set was a ton of fun. This time she's listed as performing live, either way I hope I get a chance to see a bit of her show - she's great!

Katja has been cooking up some hot visuals:

NYE at .HBC Berlin - 4th teaser from katja hentschel on Vimeo.

Tickets are €15 or €12 presale if you stop by during office hours:
28.-30.12.2009
12:00-18:00
.HBC
Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 9
10178 Berlin

Now, must get cracking on my costume!
xx

BABY BABY BABY

Yes no yes no yes no. The sun in Berlin can't make up her mind. Thankfully today was YES to the 24th degree. it could only be honoured with going for a jar after work. There's one more nice day this week: 2moro. I'll be holed up in the White Trash office for one half of it and Motor FM studio for the second half. BUT hopefully i'll be exchanging emails with Dita Von Teese (or someone very close to her hehe) and having a chat with the Cheap Freaks, the actual men themselves, so it's for a good cause. Rumour is they will do an acoustic set for our show! Should be airing on Motor FM next Wednesday July 1st! They're from Dublin aswell so i'm a bit exirah at all the hometown slang. "the lads" "defo", "mad egg". These were not all uttered in the same sentence, but if they were, it would go something like:

"the lads are defo coming out tonight, watch out for anto, he's a mad egg!"

Ummmm next week I hope Berlin will be ready with open arms because Appaloosa is sweeping into town to perform at the Bread + Butter / Vice party at - yay the MICHELBERGER hotel.

this is ZE!:



On Thursday, come out and see her perform the FIRST of a few shows she's doing in Berlin over the next few weeks. First stop White Trash Thurs June 26th, next day LUX on Friday July 25th, then Villa Wednesday July 1st then somewhere "TBC" on July 4th. "You can call me Ze, VERY BI-ZE" Get it? Busy? Busy..girl..yup..

Return of excellent blogger dude alert!

Indie christoph is back updating, regularly for 13 posts now since coming back in January two-thousand-and-fine. The blog is sexy and - indie christoph is your friend!

The news i have to report from the weekend includes a 6 foot blonde adonis dancing for 7 hours straight at Death by Pop. As luck would have it, Jack, a model from Melbz, Australia who had just arrived to Berlin on Friday night, walked in the club just as i pressed play on "Into the Galaxy". Crazy dancing ensued, and he nearly hopped over the dj booth in the excitement for hearing Ladyhawke, yelling that he'd seen her play live and that i was "a better dj than the whole of Australia". haha! Also, another Australian guy came up and asked "how do you know about these Australian bands?!" Does Australia not know that we know what they know?! Anyway, the more Australian people on the dancefloor, the AWESOMER, because the German kids sometimes don't really even like hearing music like Ladyhawke, Midnight Juggernauts or Cut Copy. I'm happy to play song requests but the buck stops at Mando Diao or Pigeon Detectives, sorry German kids. (I know Ladyhawke is from New Zealand, but so far only Australianers have come running up to me all excited because I played one of her songs. I don't know where the New Zealanders are at?!).

I djed at White Noise on Saturday night as a last minute thing. Some boys from VICE UK were part of the dj line up too and were almost giggling with glee about all the fun they were having in Berlin for the fist time ever and djing at White Noise. Apparently Peaches was in attendance - she will dj there in a few weeks time. Also there will be a dj set from the Sex Pistols in the near future.

In case you were wondering, it's not minus eleven anymore, we've warmed up to a toasty one degree.

I forgot to report back about last weekend. Well I got to make Lo Fi Fnk dance to Kylie. They were in town to do some partying and came to dj at Death by Pop. They had the downstairs area and it was great. Lots of sexy Swedish people also came out to dance. They ran out of music around 2.30 so I was invited to take over and they were awesome and stayed to dance. Best interpretive dance moves ever!

I just realised I missed the Animal Collective concert tonight, so I'm off to go and sulk about that...

FASCINATION

Time to dust of ye olde blog. I've been blessed with a two week holiday for the christmas time and I am very excited to go home to Ireland and revel in the recession.

Tomorrow i have an afternoon flight so I am just packing at the moment (3.22am), the only things i have to pack are DIRTY CLOTHES. One of my favourite things to do is laundry, but I guess I haven't been indulging myself lately. I almost turned the washing machine on just there, but it IS the middle of the night, so I guess i'll wait til tomorrow. I'm making some mix cds to give as prezzles and one song I'm so excited to sneak on there is the Friendly Fires cover of Lykke Li's "I'm Good I'm Gone". Good job Friendly Fires! Achtung! They are playing in Berlin on March 7th in Bang Bang Club (that's a link).

How exciting about this new venue "Live at Dot" that has popped up in Kreuzberg?! There is an excellent burger eaterie at Schlesisches tor where good looking boys cook amazing burgers and chili fries. I went to visit them today to procure a cure for my hangover of doom, and in the display thing for flyers there was a set of cute looking flyers made on COFFEE FILTERS! NEAT! The information was stamped on and a little star was punched out. I was well impressed. I'm pencilling in the Sebastien Grainger date on Febuary 16th 2009. OH they're having a DFA label night with YACHT!!!!! (that's a link) 27th December, I'm not here but if you are you should go! Holy Ghost will dj and Moon Unit will also play.

Back to Sebastien Grangier (see photo). Did you know that Sebastian is one half of DFA 1979? And writes a food blog, Sebastien is delicious as well as being blessed with a voice of a hot guy in a band? Oh i just looked over at it and he hasnt updated it since August. But his last post does have a rather large paragraph dedicated to burgers. Yo Sebastien lets eat burgers when you're in town!

Hey this was fun. x

Who Will Love You? Who Will Fight?

OH crap. there are 3 very good music events on tonight (sunday). Bon Iver at Privatclub, Bishop Allen at Roter Salon and Sunset Rubdown at Tacheles. I would sincerely love to see each band. shite.

Burn It All Down

i'm pretending that i'm not gonna miss Surkin + Boys Noise, Soko and fucking SCANNERS this weekend. F U C K I N G H E L L ! Tonight I was offered the chance to dj at the Scanners gig. Oh shit. But taking some time out in London is worth it no matter what way I look at it. Celebrating birthdays and catchy uppies on Primrose hill, going plimsole shopping on Cheshire street, and hopefully a chelsea bun and cup of tea or two the morning after boozing and dancing til the wee hours of the smoggy London morning. If you have any London tips for this weekend (we're making the weekend last until Tuesday) you can let me know. Otherwise, you better be in Berlin because this weekend is a-mazing. I'm still gonna make Death by Pop on Friday night by the way.

You, go, go, go, go

I have been srsly thinking about getting a new puppy, but whatever - Ladyhawke has a new kitty cat!!!



LUCKY US, she came to Berlin to dj at our expect excellence party two Fridays ago. Look what she did !

When I was on my way to the airport to pick her up, there was some problem with the train and we all had to get off..(and stand around looking annoyed and confused...). I sent her a message to see if she was alright hanging on for a bit. She wrote back, "I'm outside sitting on a blue bench - where the taxi's are parked - playing a video game."

The party photos went up last night here ! thanxxx to our partee photographer drea, who has a smashing new blog, here !

After we got home from the airport, when she was going through her music deciding what to play in her set, one particular band that came up was Pnau. She never mentioned it, but they've done this (((amazing))) track together called "Embrace". Tonight Pnau are playing someplace in London, I hope the kids get the version of the song with live vocals : )

(Image artwork above by Sarah Larnach).

It's Alright to be Me

Fritz Radio does a nice thing where they play one song from a new album they like every hour over the weekend. This weekend it's Midnight Boom from the Kills. The band gives a little intro to the each song too, which makes it "special"...Actually I just found the soundbites here at Popnutten. Cool! It's a bit funny to hear explanations for the songs that range from being inspired by Dostoyovsky to plain and simple "Making up lyrics on top of a drum beat". "Cheap and Cheerful" was requested last night at Death by Pop but I didn't have it. I am waiting for the 7 inch to arrive in my letterbox, not only is it a great song but the cover is brill:



Cheap and Cheerful - click over to get the song at !Tashed
blog.

Hot Date!
the Kills - 3rd April at Maria, Berlin.

Dance Floor Jam Packed, Hot as a Tea Kettle

Alot of bloggy type stuff happened lately. If it wasn't bumping into bloggy friends, actually enjoying having a read back over my first music blog, friends and sisters starting up their first ever blogs or just doing things i would like to write about in my blog - >



haha..I've got that bloggy feeling. O-oh that bloggy feeling.

Series 21 of Never Mind the Buzzcocks not only still has Simon Amstell still in it, but I'm noticing a hot indie boy trend, including in the episodes I've seen so far (thanks youtelly) Yannis from Foals AND Ryan from the Cribs. Ryan shockingly revealed his girlfriend is Kate Nash, well it was a bit of a shock to me. I didn't know..Unfortunately when the Cribs were last in Berlin during the summer, I asked the one that looks like Ryan, indeed his brother, "Is that your van outside?" and then he ran away. Only after did I realise that even though I only asked because I couldn't really believe they were travelling around in a shitty little grey van with bedsheets for window curtains, maybe it sounded like something else.

Where was I going with this? I don't know, here's some nice gig/fun thing dates for Berlin:


Sunday 9th March - Hot Chip at Lido!
Thursday 13th March - Buck 65 at NBI (random, anyone?)
March 10th - i dj at Monster Ronsons, ahoy!
March 12th - 1 of Babyshambles djs at Death by Pop (me too!)
March 20th - Juno gets released here finally!!!


That teakettle lyric was a revelation the other night. One of the naughtiest songs EVER has one the nerdiest lines I've ever heard, ever.

Tooraloo!

He has been around you, and he knows you and you are stuck together

Rollin Hunt is an American musician who recently came to Berlin to play at Foerster. There was no mic stand in the house, so a little bit of improvisation later he performed his set singing into a microphone held by a mannequin positioned beside him on stage. There is an amazing new song for 2008 on his page. I think you should have a listen.

Ice-Pops

i just uploaded the photographs from the Expect Excellence party we had last weekend...

FUNNNN!!!

in other news, it's really effin hot, i have hayfever and there seems to be no end to the Rihanna songs getting stuck in my head. No need for me to since Fluo Kids already posted "Don't Stop the Music" a couple of weeks ago. "Disconcerting but cool", they said about it, en francais. (Is that really Michael Jackson's falsetto in the background?!)

Ipod is good for when you are doing housework late at night. You know, when it's the night before an early flight and you still haven't packed or done the dishes.

This Is a Happy House

not only is KIM a new bar, now it actually has one!

christen the new bar at KIM tonight, spill your drinxxx all over it. i am djing there tonight. come and distract me from lining that shit up!

Disco Blood

Me and Shitdisco will be delighting the audience at Dr Pong next Thursday.