Date
Friday 20 June 2008 — Friday 20 June 2008
Location
Astoria 2
165 Charing Cross Road,
London,
WC2H 0EN,
United Kingdom
Tel: 020 74349592
Link
Description
Buttoned Down Liveshow is a spin off from Buttoned Down Disco and focuses on exposing up and coming live acts and new music in general. Previous acts showcased include Goose, Dragonette, Man Like Me, Get Shakes, Partyshank, Shlomo, XX Teens, Soho Dolls, Nobra, Go Kart Mozart and They Came From The Stars, I Saw Them.
We're having our first Buttoned Down Liveshow in ages this Friday night at Astoria 2! Located right in the middle of Central London, this legendary venue has hosted gigs by some huge bands, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand and Razorlight have all played there, and the venue has hosted some of the best clubnights of the last ten years. We're bringing you all the great music you would come to expect from us, around live sets by some of the hottest acts in the country including the very ace human beatboxer Shlomo!
Doors open at 9.00pm, and as usual entry is free before 10.00pm, then £7 afterwards with a printout of this email or a BDD badge. You can also show the invite on your mobile phone if that's easier for you. If you would like to bring friends, simply copy this invite for them or forward it on. The venue are selling whisky and cokes at only two pounds all night, and the party goes on until 4.00am! Astoria 2 is very easy to find, placed right in the very heart of central London and just a few seconds walk from plenty of night buses. Please note that it is an over 18's venue, so please make sure you bring ID if you look young.
Bands wise, we kick things off with Capitol K onstage at 10.00pm. Capitol K has been making lovely experimental electronic pop for a few years now, and with a new single Libertania out on Monday 23rd June, his show is perfectly timed. At 11.00pm we welcome dancefloor kicking new trio OK Tokyo, for a rocking party set! Three pretty London boys making up the rules from within, OK Tokyo have already had good reviews in the likes of NME and The Fly this year and have been remixed by Does It Offend You, Yeah?. This is their last major London show before they jet off for a summer residency at Ibiza Rocks, so catch them before they explode.
Headlining with a new show at midnight, we are very excited to be rejoined by the UK's No.1 Beatboxer wizard - Shlomo! Since we first showcased Shlomo at our first ever liveshow two years ago, he has re-invented his set time and time again, wowed crowds at his residency at Queen Elizabeth Hall, and is using this as a chance to warm up his voice before playing to 20,000 people at Glastonbury at the end of June. When Shlomo last played for us, the crowd were going absolutely nuts, and this is going to be more of the same, but louder, and for longer! Don't miss!
DJing wise, I'll be belting out indie and electro in the main room, right up until 4am! If you haven't been to Buttoned Down and danced yourself silly before, you probably need to more than ever. In the second room, we welcome hot London clubnight Best Laid Plans to bring themselves and their DJ mates Vincent Oliver (Loaf Records), Fade In Fade Out, Mister Lopez plus hot new band We Smoke Fags (DJ set) to create dancefloor mayhem!! That's about it from me for now, we'll see you at Astoria 2 on Friday night!
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