Friday June 15th 2007 @ Fabric, 77a Charterhouse st, London EC1M 3HN
Tel: 0207 3368898 9.30pm-5am Ł12 (Ł10 nus)
Room 1
BOYS NOIZE, LETHAL BIZZLE (LIVE), FILTHY DUKES, TEENAGE BAD GIRL (LIVE), THESE NEW PURITANS (LIVE), TO MY BOY (LIVE), PUNKS JUMP UP ! (kitsune),
Room 2
JOAKIM & THE ECTOPLASMIC BAND (LIVE), MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS (LIVE), AJAX (BANG GANG), GUCCI SOUNDSYSTEM, CRISPIN DIOR, ACOUSTIC LADYLAND (LIVE), DEAD KIDS (LIVE), BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB (LIVE), SUPER NASHWAN (LIVE), 28 COSTUMES (LIVE), PYRRHA GIRLS, CHRIS PARKIN,
Room 3
INFLAGRANTI, CROOKERS, SKULL JUICE, CASPER C, NADIA KSABIA
Having established a reputation as one of London’s most exciting events in the musical and cultural calendar, Adventures in the Beetroot Field are back at Fabric for a huge party of the latest and greatest new bands and DJs on the music scene.
June sees a huge line up from AITBF hit east London’s Fabric venue. Another range of fantastic live acts, from hot new bands such as North London’s Bombay Bicycle Club who have only just taken their gcse’s. Don’t be deceived by those, there’s a lifetime of experience in these glorious tunes. Think tight rhythmic drumming, warm guitar and a mellow Julian Casablancas on vocals and you’re almost there. What is impossible to imagine though, is front man Jack Steadman’s not forced, charismatic, Talent. Without trying he sings and reaches out touchingly.
Also flying the flag for fantastic live music are Acoustic Ladyland – based upon their mutual distaste for jazz sterility and respect for Jimi Hendrix (hence the name), Acoustic Ladyland have been rattling minds since inception in 2001. This most singular of bands loves to mess with convention, although there is nothing about this band that is tricky or arch. Of jazz, but not in the least inhibited by jazz tradition, and with a fierce post-punk attitude, Acoustic Ladyland simply create potent, soul-searching music: intense, life-affirming pop.
On more of an electronic tip check out Joakim live – a serotonin-starved raver, an anguished Goth, a highbrow classical composer – at times Joakim’s live sets sound like they could be the result of a collaboration between all of them and more. Yet it’s really just the vision of one man – French producer and Tigersushi label manager Joakim Bouaziz who is quick to emphasise that he is none of those things, nor any other label you might seek to slap on him. His sound oscillates between Erik Satie-style piano pieces, post-rock wig-outs, doomy EBM and even bittersweet new-wave pop. If the determinedly obtuse Joakim has been associated with any movement before it’s probably the Parisian house underground, which also spawned Ivan Smagghe and which he soundtracked with such dark club hits as Are You Vegetarian? from 2003′s Fantomes album. But whilst he’s kept one foot on the dancefloor since, with remixes for the likes of Tiga and Tiefschwarz, Monsters And Silly Songs sees him moving further into the realm of actual songwriting.
Over in room 1 live music comes from These New Puritans delivering codified rhythms behind processed electronics and percussive bass, it’s like witnessing a philosophy lecture in a breaker’s yard. Most captivating is Jack, shirt buttoned all the way to the top, gesticulating as he snaps out in eloquent estuary English. Joining them are (amongst others) To My Boy, a 2 piece futurist pop made with guitar and computer. from Liverpool and chesterfield… To My Boy are a two piece (Jack Snape & Sam White) from Liverpool & Sheffield. they use guitars, a synthesizer, arpeggiator, drum machine and vocals. all music has been self-recorded/produced on their computer. see their exciting performances with slides & dancing. down with miserable retroism. hurray for the beautiful machine. Also check out Kitsune’s Punk Jump Up -this part English part Swedish London based duo’s rebel sound began in 2002. White leather jackets, ski goggles, Nike trainers, Stussy rings, combs connected to chains, dance, dub, disco, wallpaper paste onto wall, stencils covered in fluorescents. Great Eastern st arrest, screen printed posters, splashing the walls with white paint – designed to capture the excitement & laugh in the face of misery. The party that went on forever… Dance music is cooking again… 303 ! 707! 909! With guitars!!!
After the success of the initial four London parties in 2005, the AITBF hybrid of hot new bands and DJs made its entry into London’s king of clubs; Fabric. Such was the impact and success of the night, Fabric invited the AITBF crew to host a quarterly event. Great. Snowballing from there, in 2006 alone the club night cemented the platform for 2007′s progress: they put on seven summer boat parties with 87 acts including now hotly tipped Jamie T and Andrew Weatherall, 12 parties in a monthly crawl around London’s Camden town that included a photography exhibition, contemporary animated films and symphonic electronica from Warp’s Mira Calix… and…. a free Christmas warehouse party to end the year with 4,000 attendees and 1,500 sadly turned away.
Adventures host a tent at Glastonbury again this year, and a stage at Field Day festival in London this summer. That’s as well as taking their club night to Sheffield, Leeds, Bournemouth and Manchester! World domination awaits.
