We Flunked Rockschool - A New Nightclub

I don't normally post here much these days, but there's a new Strange Fruit club night launching on 4 July that might interest some of you. Maybe not because of the bands, but because as part of the night The Freelance Hellraiser (the chap behind all those bootlegs) is playing a primetime DJ slot from midnight. Some of you might remember Freelance Hellraiser from the Bootylicious night a while back. He was the one who didn't have songs about pork chops and wasn't wearing a white jumpsuit and 'thimbletron'.

Anyway... the full press release is below. Oh, and RickyT is DJing too. More details (including Pong emulator and mp3s) from www.strange-fruit.co.uk

STRANGE FRUIT PRESENTS

A BRAND NEW CLUB NIGHT FOR MIDI ENTHUSIASTS, THE UNTRENDY, THE ELECTRONIC AND THE ANTI-ROCK…

WE FLUNKED ROCKSCHOOL

FEATURING LIVE PERFORMANCES FROM

BAXENDALE JOAN OF ASS

WITH DJ SETS FROM

THE FREELANCE HELLRAISER DISASTRONAUT THE STRANGE FRUIT COLLECTIVE

AND VISUALS VIA ATARI AND COLECOVISION

THURSDAY 4TH JULY 93 FEET EAST 150 BRICK LANE LONDON E1 6QN Nearest Tubes: Liverpool St, Aldgate, Aldgate East

8PM TO 2AM ENTRY £7/£5 WITH FLYER/CONCS

In the mid-1980s, BBC 2's television programme 'Rockschool' featured mullet-sporting session musicians telling the kids how to use a DX7 and why mastering the Dorian submodes of A sharp minor was better than all that blues. In the future, Rockschool said, keyboards would talk to each other using wires.

That future is now. Strange Fruit is proud to present 'We Flunked Rockschool', a new one-off club night of leftfield noise and danceable electronic pop, dedicated to those people who weren't good enough to graduate from rock-school, but who want to listen to electronic pop, want to dance until dawn, and want to show Top of the Pops how it's done. Two eclectic and enthralling electronic bands are joined by experimental electronic DJs.

Baxendale are Tim, Alex and Senay, a British pop group specialising in smart electro-disco songs for the international youth of last night and the morning after. Having achieved a worldwide legion of fans following the release of their album 'You Will Have Your Revenge' Baxendale have been spending their time touring the world, and perfecting the Pulp-esque wit of their lyrics, the Pet Shop Boys-esque electro-throb of their music, and ensuring singles such as 'An American Friend' and 'Tina Dreams' have sold out within days of release. Their song 'Music For Girls', a celebration of proper pop that might not be cool but remains good to dance to, has become an indie dancefloor anthem, and they're about to release their eagerly-anticipated new single.

With music from fantastic electro DJ Disastronaut, and vocals from Miss Romy Medine (of Lolita Storm and Digital Hardcore) and the aptly-named Ketamine Kerry, Joan Of Ass have all the subtlety of a shotgun blast to the face. Like Peaches on amphetamines, or Chicks On Speed in a brothel, they are filthy, extravangant, and brilliant. They are certainly not for the morally indignacious, uptight or the fragile.

Electronic, cut-up, and screeching, their debut mini-LP features songs about the many uses of cocaine, double penetration, cheating boyfriends and fake debutantes. They take inspiration from the likes of Miss Kittin & The Hacker, Tracy + The Plastics and Peaches, melding harsh and funky electronica with stern vocals, uncompromising lyrics and an anti-cool edge. Their recent performance at the ICA as part of the Sonic Mook Experiment saw them play a wild set to rapt a rapt audience.

Of the band, Sleazenation wrote: "So are new UK trio, Joan of Ass, the filthiest pop group in the world?...In the way they behave, write, and perform, Joan of Ass come on like the cranked-up bastard child of Soft Cell and 2 Live Crew. They're cheeky, visceral, profane and could be just whats needed in a world that persists in stripping the fun and filth from sex and pop music" Expect a show unlike anything you've seen before.

Purveyor of bastard pop, The Freelance Hellraiser is the DJ at the very centre of the recent bootleg craze. Responsible for the critically acclaimed Strokes vs. Christina Aguilera bootleg, The Freelance Hellraiser's live DJ sets see him create incredible bootleg remixes on the fly, mixing, splicing and looping tracks to give worn-out commercial tracks and classics an new edge you could never have imagined. Having DJed all over the world he'll be playing a late-nite blend of the most eclectic and uncool/cool to keep the everyone dancing into the small hours.

Experimental DJ instrumental in Sean McClusky's Sonic Mook Experiment, and responsible for a number of exciting and experimental club nights throughout London and further afield, Disastronaut will be playing an early DJ set of electronic pop-noise and eclectica. Fresh from DJ sets at the ICA in London, and sets in Tokyo, the US and Europe, Distronaut will be setting the mood for Rockschool dropouts as the evening's festivities begin.

The 'We Flunked Rockschool' club takes place on Thursday 4th July at 93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, London. Doors open, and the evening begins, at 8pm, running all the way until 2am. Entry costs £7, or just £5 with a flyer, Time Out pass, or any other sort of concession.