Gettin Dirty - Vive La Evolution!

East End club night, Gettin Dirty is going monthly on Saturday 25 April. It coincides with the 35th anniversary of the victorious Portuguese Revolution where the population, holding red carnations, peacefully convinced regime soldiers not to resist. Vive La Evolution! is the launch cry pronouncing Britain’s carnival of creativity.

Gettin Dirty doesn’t promise a revolution, it simply reflects the ongoing evolution of promoter Jim Warboy’s approach to putting on club nights. Drawing on his experience co-promoting the hedonistic rave All You Can Eat, and Matthew Glamorre’s supreme, dress-up club Kash Point, Warboy hopes to inspire clubland’s cultural refugees once again.

A forward-thinking music policy is central to Gettin Dirty with two floors offering red-hot inspiration in dance music integrated with art and performance.

The Bassment sees a gathering of energetic DJs drawn from across the nation. Birmingham’s Uber DJs and Crystal Death from Bristol will defiantly punch out the filthiest bass and driving percussion. There will also be an exclusive, live outing of the new DJVJ project from visual artist Scallydan, fresh off the Manchester big bus.

The Dis-commotion floor is home to the cosmic, Italo and dark disco from the Portuguese musical encyclopedia Nu Age, Italo aficionado Carlos Baffo, and disco den Spangle’s leading lady Ciandella.

There’s punky live performance with the recently formed Sex Tourists, the united talents of Rory from Pink Grease, David Barnet from The Boyfriends, and rhythm mistress Renu Hossain.

Having sung backing vocals in many cool parties across Europe KAM has decided it’s high time to take centre stage. This will be her debut solo performance with music fresh out of the studio.

Art director Dan Szor presents Somewhere/Nowhere/Someone/Someday: An exploration into the idea of revolution in a culture of style over substance, where the ego dominates and restricts the idea of collective unity - ultimately slowing us down. Will this continuing nihilistic excess thrust us into a new dark age, or will the struggle of a few have the power to save ourselves?

Make-up artist Lucy Bridge will be employing the international symbol of workers alongside clothes from Digitaria in her live installation Flower Power Retornados.

David O’Brien will be presenting a photographic exhibition of work based on the Flower Power Retornados installation.

The series of flyer images are designed by Stephen Williams.

Uniqlo T-shirt

I've just found a higher quality pic of the Uniqlo poster I was on. It's weird because those posters were all over central London and all I ever seemed to have was a jpeg about the size of a stamp. This one's not massive but at least it's easier to see now. The photographer was the very talented Matt Irwin.

What's Up?

Warboy has produced a series of Fashion Kills prints for the new label Digitaria. The ‘What’s Up?’ series are a collection of abstract faces made up of symbols and shapes to represent some of the moods, emotions, and cultural influences that are affecting London and Britain early in 2009.

Though these images may be seen as negative or pessimistic they are meant as an acknowledgment of the different ways that people are living and coping at the moment. By exposing ourselves to this truth we are then liberating ourselves to start asking how we build pathways forward to a bright and optimistic future. These are not intended to be hopeless or despairing images but rather an opportunity to look ourselves in the mirror and start finding the solutions.

Below are the cards that will accompany the t-shirts. The t-shirts will be on sale within a few weeks.

The 'Give Up' teardrop eyes print was based on a design originally produced by Neon Skullz designer Shaun Bass for the Between The Cracks parties last year.

Emma Bell AW09 Collection

I did the music for Emma Bell's AW09 show at London Fashion Week as part of the The Vauxhall Fashion Scout. I used a range of bright uptempo tracks including Hannah Holland's remix of Yo Majesty and Black Peter Group's It's Fucked Up. The show also included my dog Daisy making her catwalk debut.