No Fiction Club Tuesday May 15th: Full Line up details

No Fiction’s May outing is all but upon us!

Complete with a tempting triple tipple of electronic acts ;

TUESDAY 15th May~

…and for those who’ve been living under a stone for the past eight months and missed the hubbub; we’re doing things slightly differently now.
We will be bringing you some added extras, lifting your gig experience to something a bit more interesting. Read on for more details…

CHIK BUDO
I love a cheeky bit of CHIK BUDO and so should you. 47 seconds of ‘Lost our way’ is enough to transmute any soul to their thrall. Ridiculously tight live to the point of collective telepathy. The Budo’s stage show renders even the most stoic music goer’s cerebrum to sonic surrender in a mere surreptitious moment of synthetic sublimity.
Listen to their soundcloud and I defy you not to have clocked up a hearty stack of plays before seeing them live at No Fiction on the 15th.

THE FOCUSSED DISTRACTION
Hardcore No Fictioners will know we’re endemically enamoured with Jon McLeod’s lush loop drenched live set. Your jaw will actually drop [I bet you a fiver.] So beguiling is the noise of The Focussed Distraction it’s hard to belief he doesn’t have a hidden quintet of little elvish laptop jockeys tucked somewhere round the back of the stage. But he doesn’t. It’s all him. And it’s something you really, really, really need to see as he won’t stay this relatively undiscovered for long…

RED COLLECTIVE
Delectable dark noise mongering that gives Throbbing Gristle a run for their money. The mysterious Red collective debuts at No Fiction on Tuesday the 15th of May. The world will never be the same again, and we have them first. Join us at ground zero for something very special indeed. There may even be a few familiar faces in the line up…

FULL FACEBOOK EVENT HERE.

+ Collage making, bring a magazine for the table!

+ Fanzines on sale! (Fat Quarter and She Aims to Please confirmed.
Contact us if you want yours included!)

++ DJ sets from the No Fiction house DJs.

+++ Amazing light up disco floor!!!

Important stuff;

No Fiction is @ THE MONARCH
40-42 Chalk Farm Road, Camden, NW1 8BG

Tube – Chalk Farm / Camden

£6 or £4 if wearing sunglasses [at night]

Doors 8pm. Bands 8.30pm

See you then.
xx

No Fiction April’s DJ Setlist

Thanks to one and all who joined us for our April outing on the 17th with Substatic and Moho Mynoki [above]. I’m still recovering…

Don’t forget you can check out all the photos of the night on Lubert Daz’s Flickr the on line home of our resident photographic superstar.

Here’s what I [Andrew No Fiction] played on the night;

 

Random – Gary Numan

Another breakfast with you – Ladytron

Hollywood – Felix Da House Cat

Metal beat – John Foxx

Love Harder – Ali Love

Fashion – Grum

Twist – Peter and the Magician

Billy the hood – Get Shakes

Homosapien – Pete Shelley

Don’t go – Yazoo

Odessa – Caribou

Divebomb – The Whip

Vanilla minus – Gold Panda

 

My thanks to all who came out for making it such a huge one. We’re back at the Monarch, Camden, London on May 15th with Chik Budo and The Red Collective. Till then.

x

No Fiction April 17th Full Line Up (one week to go!)

No Fiction advances into April with an iridescent trio of talents;
TUESDAY 17th April ~

…and for those who’ve been living under a stone for the past eight months and missed the hubbub; we’re doing things slightly differently now.
We will be bringing you some added extras, lifting your gig experience to something a bit more interesting. Read on for more details…

SUBSTATIC
Chances are you don’t know this lot. Step through the door on the 17th and I guarantee you will never forgetting seeing them for the rest of your life.
Brazenly minimal rousing electro beat duo hailing from Bristol [ and no, they're not psy trance thank god.] They achieve a wonderful trick of being dark, dirty and fun all at once. The tracks hit that primal spot of the brain usually reserved for dub step. I defy you to see them and not dance! Listen to their tracks on their soundcloud. When I heard ‘Arcadia’ I fell in love;

MOHO MYNOKI
Blipping and bleeping, warbling and whirring into life MM’s repertoire delights and intrigues the ears. The ephemeral vocals are a charming couture vivid pink bow to the socking great big parcel of indie electronic joy the band dish out of their machines. Much, much more than the sum of their parts. When you see them you are left with the impression of having witnessed something distinctly momentous.

TROPHYS
Synth a plenty! This Kent outfit manipulates keys and chords in a manner that makes it hard to stay neutral past 14 seconds of their first song. Soaring, pure, invigorating [that last one makes them sound like a shower gel but it really is the right word.] Trophys are a restoring force in a world of over done electronics. Not to be missed.

+ Collage making, bring a magazine for the table!

+ Fanzines on sale! (Fat Quarter and She Aims to Please confirmed.
Contact us if you want yours included!)

++ DJ sets from BEARCRAFT and the No Fiction house DJs.

+++ Amazing light up disco floor!!!

Important stuff;

No Fiction is @ THE MONARCH
40-42 Chalk Farm Road, Camden, NW1 8BG

Tube – Chalk Farm / Camden

£6 or £4 if wearing sunglasses [at night]

Doors 8pm. Bands 8.30pm

FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE HERE.

See you then.
xx

So If You’re Lonely Guest DJ set list (08.04.12)

Thanks to one and all that came down to the Buffalo Bar last night to catch the inaugural So If You’re lonely.
Big thanks also to Duncan and Jack to having me down as the first guest DJ for the night!
SIYL’s raison d’etre is mid 00s Indie. It was fun to plunder some personal faves from back in my Uni days. Here’s what I dropped on the decks;

The Magic Position – Patrick Wolf
Alala – CSS
Elvis - These New Puritans
Blue Orchid – The White Stripes
Weekends and bleak days (Hot summer) – The Young Knives
Suspicious character – The Blood Arm
Walking on a dream – Empire of the Sun
Boy from school – Hot Chip
Hey Boy, hey Girl – Chemical Brothers
No wow – The Kills
Maps - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Pull shapes – The Pipettes
Giddy stratospheres – The Long Blondes
My little brother – Art Brut
22 grand job – The Rakes
What became of the likely lads – The Libertines
Precious - Depeche Mode (request)
Smile - The Killers

The March Collage Collection

Here are all your efforts from the club’s collage table from March. Good work people! This is definitely the best bunch yet!

Feeling inspired and unstated by the collage creation in your life? Why not bring a magazine and get involved whilst you watch the bands at No Fiction on April 17th. Collage plus an eye-wateringly good synth/electronica line up! Get in for only £4 if you’re wearing sunglasses [at night.] Can’t go wrong. See you there. x

Let your hair down – Thundacub

Thundacub who played for us back in February has a lovely single out 11.05.12 on iTunes. It’s a big cherry pie slice of old skool electro pop and a I heartily recommend it for dancing around your bedroom to whilst pretending to be an extra from Euro trash.

Enjoy!

No Fiction Mixtape 6: No Disco II

Finally laid down another mix tape for you;

I will try to make sure you get AT LEAST another three decent mixes off us this year.

Here’s the track list for No Disco 2:

Black and White and Blue – Ladyhawke (Treasure Fingers RMX)
Life is boring – Cazals (Crookers RMX)
Vanilla minus – Gold Panda
Kali - Caribou (F*ck Buttons RMX)
Dance to our Disco – Punks Jump Up (Nightmoves RMX)
Perspex sex – Freeform Five (Ewan’s Hi-NRG RMX)
Italian fireflies – Black Strobe
Arcadia - Substatic
Twist - Peter and The Magician
Peanuts club – Noob and Brodinski
Hip love – FaltyDL (Jamie XX RMX)

You can download the mix for free at our soundcloud page.

And you can catch our next show on Tuesday April 17th at the Camden Monarch, where amongst others you can catch the mighty Substatic (featured above) live!

See you then. x

No Fiction March DJ sets

Our thanks to everyone who joined us for our inaugural outing at The Monarch. Good to see it nice and busy after the change of digs, we appreciate the support and I know the artists especially appreciate people coming to experience independent electronic music live.

Anyway here’s our full DJ setlists for the night;

Andrew NoFiction:
Disorder - Joy Division
I travel – Simple Minds
Telegraph - OMD
Too Pieces – Yazoo
I wish I was dead – Depeche Mode
Secret life – Soft Cell
The chauffeur – Duran Duran
Love action – The Human League
Stop! – Erasure
Wishing - Flock of Seagulls
Burning car – John Foxx
Down in the Park – Tubeway Army
Only love can break your heart – St. Etienne
Hollywood - Felix Da Housecat

Anoushka NoFiction:
Mussolini - DAF
Promises – Marsheaux
Here comes the rain – Eurythmics
18 Carat Love Affair – The Associates
See you – Depeche Mode
Cambodia – Kim Wilde
Visions of China – Japan

Andrew NoFiction:
Right thing to do – SBTRKT
Black and white and blue – Ladyhawke (Treasure Fingers RMX)
Discotraxx – Ladytron
Tuning in – Hadouken! (Hadouken RMX)
Emerge - Fischerspooner
Don’t go – Yazoo

Anoushka NoFiction:
Hand to phone – Adult.
Alizee - A Coeur Fendre
Take on me – A Ha
You spin me right round – Dead or Alive

Andrew and Anoushka back to back:
Tainted love – Soft Cell
Adolescent sex – Japan
Electric Dreams – Phil Oakey and Giorgio Moroder
Sometimes - Erasure
Penthouses and pavement – Heaven 17
We take mystery (to bed) – Gary Numan
Enola Gay – OMD
Rio - Duran Duran
Everything counts – Depeche Mode
Duel - Propaganda
Promised you a miracle – Simple Minds (12″ Vers.)
Sweet dreams (Are made of these) – Eurythmics
Underpass - John Foxx
Back to nature – Fad Gadget
Das Model – Kraftwerk

Next No Fiction is April 17th with SUBSTATIC, MOHO MYNOKI and TROPHYS get involved!

To see all the photos in full from the March show visit our Photographer Lubert Daz’s Flickr

No Fiction March 20th – Full Line up Unveiled!

No Fiction’s March muster pushes our record for best line up ever;
TUESDAY 20th March ~

…and for those who’ve been living under a stone for the past seven months and missed the hubbub; we’re doing things slightly differently now.
We will be bringing you some added extras, lifting your gig experience to something a bit more interesting. Read on for more details…

DEAD DOG IN BLACK BAG
Reportedly named after a rather dark note they stumbled across at a party giving explicit directions where to find a canine cadaver on Brighton beach, DDIBB are electro pop chock-a-block with filth-mongering tunes delivered via a duo of butter-wouldn’t-melt divas. You’ll enjoy them, but you’ll probably feel a bit sick afterwards.

G. ZENSES
Stupefyingly well produced electronica melodics of the first order. When I first heard his stuff I started pacing the room fist pumping out my enthusiasm. It takes a lot to be original in this medium, whilst you could compare some of his noises to some of The Orb, Bjork or DJ Shadow, in truth G. Zenses achieves his own synthetic identity so effortlessly it makes the rest of us want to throw in the towel in envy. Come and delight at this innovator.

JAMES LEON
Creates the kind of synth pop that makes me and Neil Tennant very happy; soaring, pseudo-analogue allegories of love through all its tumultous and tremendous prismatic splendour. His songs are a balm for broken 80s hearts. A worthy aperitif of an evening of exemplary electronics.

+ Collage making

+ Fanzines on sale! (Fat Quarter and She Aims to Please confirmed.
Contact us if you want yours included!)

+ THIS MONTH ONLY: FREE ENTRY!!! We still strongly encourage wearing sunglasses [at night]

++ DJ sets from Exotica and No Fiction.

+++ Amazing light up disco floor!!!

Important stuff;

No Fiction is @ THE MONARCH
40-42 Chalk Farm Road, Camden, NW1 8BG

Tube – Chalk Farm / Camden

FREE ENTRY!
FACE BOOK EVENT PAGE

Doors 8pm. Bands 8.30pm

See you then.
xx

DJ setlist – No Fiction 15.02.12

Right, so I promised you a setlist earlier on the Twitter and here it is; a run down of my tunes from last Wednesday;

Shake yer dix – Peaches
Odessa - Caribou
I travel – Simple Minds
A crow and a baby – The Human League
Me I disconnect from you – Tubeway Army
Trans Europe Express – Kraftwerk
William’s blood – Grace Jones (Aeroplane RMX)
Magic fly – Felix Da House Cat
Running away – Paul Haig
Your Woman – White Town

Thanks to Lubert Daz for the pic of Thundacub above. See the rest of his incredible photos of the event, now up live on his Flickr