How To Dance To Dubstep

You thought you knew how to dance? Think again.

Sit back and learn from the master.

Trust me, it's an excellent investment of your time!

Urban Nerds Halloween special

Hope I didn't leave you distraught with Gravity Skank's absence these last couple of weeks, chums. Been busy with the non-raving side of life (yawn yawn).

But panic over – I'm back, with lots of raving fun times to update you with: Turning Point Festival, Hospitality at Brixton Academy, plus some interesting new artist releases.

In the meantime, check out this awesome little club night. Silly season is well and truly over, promoters have returned from their summer breaks and the parties are back in full swing. (In fact, October to December is perhaps the busiest time of the clubbing year, so I do hope you've prepared your brain cells for annihilation.)

Urban Nerds is one of the capital's most hip brands and the folks behind it are churning out parties like there's no tomorrow night. Interestingly they've linked up with some major promoters across the UK (including Newcastle's Wax:On and Brighton's Supercharged) and have just announced an event at the cool-as-ice Snowbombing festival in Austria next year.

At the end of October is this Halloween bash in London, with a super freaky lineup including Joker, Cookie Monsta, Flux Pavilion and Marcus Nasty. If you like dubstep, grime and trendy things, you must be there. The 900-capacity venue, Xoyo in Shoreditch, is a newbie that opens this month. Looks like a good'un!

Urban Nerds Halloween Bash
Saturday 30 October 2010
@ XOYO,        
32-37 Cowper Street, London EC2A 4AP

Click here for details.

      

Rusko 4 Sub Focus 4 eva

I love Sub Focus. I love Rusko. Now they love each other. Group hug.

The two big-hitters have performed a musical 69 and remixed each others' tracks, producing two predictably adorable lovechildren.

Check out the new arrivals here:
Sub Focus ft. Coco 'Splash (Rusko remix)'
Rusko ft. Amber Hoffman 'Hold On (Sub Focus remix)'

FWD returns to Plastic People

FWD, the club night that launched a thousand dubstep careers, has returned to Plastic People in Shoreditch.

This groundbreaking party, which championed dubstep, grime, funky 'and everything in-between' from their early days, is now a big player in the club circuit, with residencies at Matter and Bloc Weekend.

Plastic People is a funny old venue, but one which I adore. Down a flight of stairs, this tiny 200(ish)-capacity club has skanky toilets, no air conditioning and a booming dancefloor that's utterly pitch black and dripping from the ceilings. But it has a great mix of people, good security, cheap drinks and an awesome lineup of DJs.

I loved heading down there for a Sunday-night FWD rinse-out, but the event tailed off over the Christmas period. It's now back in its original Thursday-night slot, with the first party on 4 March featuring N-Type, Youngsta and Zinc.

The promoters say: 'The change to Thursdays brings back memories of how amazing original FWD Thursdays were, before dubstep and Shoreditch itself had crossed over, as well as a chance to make fresh, new memories.'

For more details, click here.