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Posted by: gemma
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05/11/08
It always seems strange to start preparing for the weekend on a Wednesday, before the week even feels like it has really got started, but when James is booked out for an extended Thursday-Friday-Saturday three-night run, I am afraid needs must. Nowadays three-countries-in-three-days sounds a bit too much like hard work to Old Man Holden, but at least all of the nights in this particular series look like they ought to be guaranteed-good-gig-fun.
First up is the ever-reliable Lux in Lisbon on Thursday 6th, before nipping across the Mediterranean to the Club To Club festival in Turin on Friday 7th. Festival organisers have wisely paired him with a live show from Four Tet, one of James' favourite gig buddies (aside from our own Border Community roster of course!). And the rest of the club-based festival doesn't look bad at all if you happen to be in the area, with Luomo, Benga, Pivot, Junior Boys, Skream, The Mole, Magda and Ellen Allien all guesting at assorted clubs over the three days.
Then on Saturday it is off to Paris' Rex Club for the first time in a good long while; in fact it his first Parisian gig since the ecstatic We Love Border Community party we did back in the summer, so I am sure this return is eagerly awaited by all involved. Another happy pairing bills James alongside Buzzin Fly star and Rex / Requiem 45 regular Mlle Caro, whose DJ set last time they had the good fortune to play together at Rex was very much to James' liking - high praise indeed from the hard-to-impress DJ standard-raiser. Mlle Caro's Buzzin Fly album collaboration with Frank Garcia Pain Disappears meanwhile would make a pleasant Border Community friendly addition to anyone's Itunes library who has yet to be converted to the fuzzy Parisian emo-techno sound.
First up is the ever-reliable Lux in Lisbon on Thursday 6th, before nipping across the Mediterranean to the Club To Club festival in Turin on Friday 7th. Festival organisers have wisely paired him with a live show from Four Tet, one of James' favourite gig buddies (aside from our own Border Community roster of course!). And the rest of the club-based festival doesn't look bad at all if you happen to be in the area, with Luomo, Benga, Pivot, Junior Boys, Skream, The Mole, Magda and Ellen Allien all guesting at assorted clubs over the three days.
Then on Saturday it is off to Paris' Rex Club for the first time in a good long while; in fact it his first Parisian gig since the ecstatic We Love Border Community party we did back in the summer, so I am sure this return is eagerly awaited by all involved. Another happy pairing bills James alongside Buzzin Fly star and Rex / Requiem 45 regular Mlle Caro, whose DJ set last time they had the good fortune to play together at Rex was very much to James' liking - high praise indeed from the hard-to-impress DJ standard-raiser. Mlle Caro's Buzzin Fly album collaboration with Frank Garcia Pain Disappears meanwhile would make a pleasant Border Community friendly addition to anyone's Itunes library who has yet to be converted to the fuzzy Parisian emo-techno sound.
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