INNOVATORS "not" IMMITATORS
The Love-bug.co.uk is "the" east coasts finest funky music nights. Resident Dj’s Funky-Toast and Dave G along with tri-monthly residents Vegas, PLUS new signings to the love-bug stable.... DJ Miloe & DJ Nez will be layin down the phatt funky flava’s at one of Lowestoft’s sexiest clubs Faith (NEW HOME FOR 2008). Couple this with the monthly V.I.P guest Dj’s from the easts top promotions such as Hed Kandi, Pukka Up, Gatecrasher, M.O.S Radio, Phunky (Pams House), Moochin, La Vita, Love House, Groove Est, Connected & Much more you will be in for a funk-fest of delights.
The love-bug.co.uk is unique in that it encompasses a wider range of music and styles than any other nite in the area, by showcasing the best local talent from different music genres from Funky, Jackin & Electro House even a bit of bouncy breaks!
Tickets £6 All night. Over 18 only. NO Effort, NO Entry
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For DJ Bookings e-mail... [email protected]
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www.love-bug.co.uk
Funky-toast Biog (Monthly Resident/Host/Founder)
Funky-Toast is the Love-Bugs Head Honcho/Original Founder and Brains behind the House Music Night that just keeps goin from strength to strength out in the East Anglian Country Side ohhhh ahhhh!!!
Purchasing a set of 1210s and armed with a continued supply of vinyl via Harmony Records and Citysounds, DJ Funky-Toast started his illustrious DJ..ing career with core influences centred around Danny Ramplings LoveGroove Dance Party and the legendary QAT Club. now pushin back the musical boundaries with the latest technology you can now see Funky-Toast smashin up sets across the country on CDJ1000's aswell as up to 4 deck mixing!!!
Toast..s first big appearance was a joint venture between Harmony and Tidy Tracks record label, and has only looked forward since. Toast initially started his profession somewhat different from where he is now. Playing/listening to hard house and trance, he then moved direction into the genre of progressive beats. From 1999 his music policy changed once more to where his heart and soul is now, in the form of Funky House beats and Jackin Chicago House.
The origins of House out in Chicago, with its abundance of authoritative DJs like Frankie Knuckles and Farley Jack Master Funk are certainly recognised in Toast..s collection...
In the beginning, there was Jack, and Jack had a groove, And from this groove came the groove of all grooves. And while one day viciously throwing down on his box, Jack boldly declared "LET THERE BE HOUSE" And house music was born.
Ibiza trips in 1996, 1997, 2001 and DJ appearances in 2007 & 2008 were also massive influences in his music. Clubs like Pacha, Privilege - Manumission, Es-Paradis, Cafe-Del-Mar & Space are some of his favourite haunts. It was 1996 that got him hooked on the House Music vibe and on returning to the UK he purchsed his prize set of SL1210's and promised one day to return with his tunes in tow, 2007 was the year for the Funky One!!!
And 2008 just gets better and better with DJ sets lined up all across the U.K... London (Turnmills/The White House/Brixton Jamm) and Ibiza (ES Vive, Hush, Kanya, Play2, Orange Corner & Eden)
Toast has played at a myriad of venues... Hush, Ibiza and The Orange Corner Ibiza, Love-Bug @ Hush-Hush, Pyramid Lounge & Bar Mission, Connected & Samartie Partie @ Turnmills London, Pams House @ Arena (formerly Tiffany's), Eastern Haze Festival Somerleyton Hall Country Estate 2006 & 2007, DirtyDisco @ Brixton Jamm, London, Funky Bunny headliner in Kings Lynn, Funky Bunny meets Roobarb @ The Talk, Norwich, The Fat Factory & Hip Flip @ Bluenotes & Edge Bar, Country Funk @ Gardenhouse, Fakenham, Cow Fields @ Secret Location, Pams House @ Lava & Ignite and The UEA, Clique/Groove est. @ mustard lounge, Winner of the 2005 "battle of the DJ's" competition @ bar mission - great yamouth, Pals - Ipswich, Distinction - Ipswich, VIP Manor Estate Party - Essex, Henham Estate, QAT Club, Harmony V Tidy trax records, Nukleuz Records V Harmony , Hipflip-Edge Bar, Kings Head-Kessingland, Pyramid Lounge-Oulton Broad, Squares - Norwich, /Water front-Norwich, Club, Soulshaker @ devils advocate - Norwich, and many memorable beach and outdoor events in the east coast.
In his spare time Toast loves unwinding by hunting down specimen carp and also enjoys quality time with friends and family. Toast is a very well known face of House in the East Coast and his reputation proceeds him. In essence, Toast playing, guarantees a quality night, with atmosphere and the best funked up, frolicking and finger licking sounds around!
With DJ sets lined up all across the U.K Especially in London and Ibiza, 2008 is once again set to be an explosive year for this hard workin DJ who is not shy of mixing it up with the big boys!!!
Funky-Toast is lined up to play and has played with some major names in the House Music Industry, they include the following... K-KLASS, Alex Miles (Bora Bora, Ibiza), Andy Warburton (hed kandi), BeatThiefs (beatthiefs.com), Filthy Rich, Noir (Noir Music/Toolroom Records), Jesse-James (Connected), Jay Funk (Pams House), Lee Jarvis (Mooch!n), Bobby & Steve (Garage City), Allister Whitehead (Fantazia), Glyne Braithwaite (hed kandi), Rob Wilder (M.O.S/hed kandi/gatecrasher), Steve Blake (Tidytracks), Nick Sentance (Nukluez), BK (Nukleuz), PFM and Bukem (Progression Sessions), Kate Lawler, Agnelli & Nelson to mention only a few.
Toast has also been in the finals of Vibe FM..s now Kiss FM's Battle of the DJ..s comp final in Ipswich, Suffolk, and also Bar Mission DJ comp 2005 Winner, spreading the house music vibes to all concerned, spread the Love-Bug.
"You just can..t beat the fervour and passion the crowd gives you when you are mixing it up and the dance floor is rocking - vinyl is a drug!" - Funky-Toast
“Video Games don’t affect Kids. If Pacman had affected us as Kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms munching Magic Pills & listening to Repetitive Electronic Music†Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc. 1989.
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Dave Green Biog (Monthly Resident/Partner)
Proud to be one of the Love-Bug residents ,playing funky,uplifting,vocal electo house and the odd old skool house tune, recently dave has been heard playing some awesome vocal electro house sets that the crowds just love.
In the begining he was very much into the underground house scene. playing at many warehouse parties and out door events throughout the local area of East Anglia.
Dave Green plays his own style of uplifting and vocal house music with an occasional oldskool classic. But as times change so has his style which sees him moving into electo house with deep basslines to make you stomp.
Dave as a very versatile dj has played along side many quality DJs at numerous pubs, clubs and events over the past five years. Some of the most memorable were at the warehouse parties in Ellough and the Henham Estate Parties. Dave has hosted serveral of his own events under the banner of Deliverance, with many awesome nights to remember and so many quality DJ's. He has on many occasions played alongside DJ Toast and feels that their style of mixing quality house music works well together.
Dave Green keeps the crowd jumping and pumping and asking for more at each and every night with new tunes and an ever changing vibe. He has now been a resident of the Love-Bug crew for the past few years playing at various events through out the local area and knows only too well what Love-Bug regulars demand from their hosts.
Dave Green has his own style of mixing and vibrant use of house music that he brings to the Love-Bug crowds and he aims to continue with this policy to bring you a night of rocking house tunes at every single event. Dave Green aims to do the same with his new electro house sets which up untill now have been wicked to hear and stomp to!!!
Dave started out in febuary 2002 with a pair of cheap beltdrive decks and only a handful of records, six months later Dave purchased his now prized 1210s and never looked back, he has moved into the future with a pair of Pioneer CDJ 1000 Cd decks.
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DJ Vegas (Resident)
Whether the mans smashing up Yarmouth seafront, or getting deep and dirty in Norwich, Vegas is well known for his crowd pleasing antics. Thats why he currently resides at Mission and the legendary Love-Bug & hush hush club nites.
Vegas started djing at 18 when he lived with a hard dance dj in Derby. At that time he was playing all sorts from hard house, to prog, even drum and bass. However as hes got older, his true passion has been for funky house and dirty disco.
Having played some of the best venues in the business Pams House, Progress in Derby, The Bomb in Nottingham, not to mention the odd Caister Soul weekender, and the best clubs in and around East Anglia, Vegas has become synonymous with quality uplifting house.
Vegas likes nothing better than getting a crowd jumping, ..its all about the people. So many times I have started a set with a flat crowd, but by the end of it, I have got them in the palm of my hand getting down and sweaty. Thats why I have loved it for eight years, and will for the next eight.
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DJ Miloe (Resident)
With over a decade of experience dedicated to the club industry Miloe's love of music has always been DJ'ing.Wherever it maybe, he is passionate about shaking up dancefloors Nationwide! with a music policy stretching between Soulful,Latin,Afro,Tribal House using anything upto three decks at any one time with trax from artists such as David Harness,Kenny Bobien,Peven Everett,Panevino,DJ Spen,Miguel Migs,Dennis Ferrer,Karizma,Chuck Love,and many many more!!
Performing at both intimate and large arena sized venues alongside hosting and promoting his own parties with attendances of anything between 200-3000 during which has had the great pleasure of appearing on the same line ups with some of the industries biggest names including K Klass,Boy George,Chicane,Judge Jules,Darren Emerson,Dave Pearce and Stretch n Vern to name a few, for Ministry of Sound Annual Millenium Edition Album Launch Tour, Benson and Hedges Cream Gold Tour and Danny Ramplings Positive Education Tour, Pams House(Kartouche,Ipswich),Absolute(Route,Colchester),The Void(home to Golden,Stoke on Trent) amongst many others.
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DJ Nez (Resident)
Nez started djing back in 2002 at the ripe old age of 29. Having been attending nights such as Soulshaker, QAT Club and Phils Flava's he discovered his passion for house music and also an alternative taste for Funk, Soul, Disco and Rare Groove.
After purchasing his first set of cd decks and many months mastering the decks he played his first set in September 2003 playing for Phil's Flava's. More dates at Flava's followed on plus he was also playing a regular slot at Lennon's Bar in Great Dunmow, Essex.
By late 2004 Nez played his first dates for Love Bug at The Kings Head in Kessingland, and was proud to play the first set when Love Bug moved to The Pyramid Lounge in Oulton Broad, and later to become one of their regular residents.
As 2006 came round as well as Love Bug dates Nez also played for The Fat Factory, D*Tached, Clique and became a regular for Together. In 2007 Nez played at some of the top electro flavoured nights in Norwich, Elev-8 and Overdose.
So in 2008, Nez is now also back playing funky flavoured tunes at Love-Bug, recently making his return for Love-Bug at Pams House over Easter and looking forward to hectic year...
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