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Flook

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About Me


Saturday 12th May 2007
Flook at The Social , 5 Little Portland Street, London, W1W 7JD.
Live music from:
RATTY RAT RAT
LOS MUERTOS
Plus DJing from Pretty Petty Thieves , Chrissy Mac , and the Resident Flookastar DJs
6pm - 1am
FREE ENTRY ALL NIGHT
Flook is a party of rock n roll highs, lows and everything in between. It's a night of live music, DJ shenanigans, and the odd offensive compere, all of whom believe in playing new sounds and old classics with more avidity and passion than you will find anywhere else during a night out in town.
In the year and a half (okay, so two and a half years now) since Flook began, weve always been determined to seek out the most exciting new music, which is why weve put on gigs in some of the capitals smallest venues, showcasing bands that are now capable of selling out places ten or twenty times the size! Arctic Monkeys played their first ever gig in London at a Flook show back in February 2005 at Upstairs @ The Garage on Highbury Corner, while The Cribs, The Paddingtons and Thee Unstrung headlined a chaotic eight-band line-up in the back room of the Half Moon in Herne Hill. Other venues we have promoted at include: The legendary Barfly and ornate KOKO in Camden, the indie mecca that is Nambucca in Holloway, The Elbow Room in Angel, the now sadly defunct Club Infinity in Mayfair (R.I.P), The Quad in LSE Holborn, The Duke of Clarence in Islington, and The Spread Eagle in Shoreditch.
We're a bunch of like-minded people who want nothing more than to have the best time we can in the company of others who want nothing but the same. Anyone with a rock n roll bone in their body is welcome, and if you don't, but are curious...then you're welcome too! Our party is unpretentious; it's not about standing in the corner trying to look cool. It's about singing and dancing as much and as loud as you can. It's not about being a dedicated follower of fashion, and there's certainly no dress code. It is about being yourself and celebrating everything from the old to the new.
Violent Flooklove x
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Any bands, DJs, solo artists, labels, fellow promoters, managers and anyone else who loves live music as much as we do.

Note to bands/managers:
- If you're looking for a gig, don't message simply saying something like "So wen r u gunna giv us a gig then?" because the answer's going to be "We're not". We get a shedload of those messages and havn't got time to reply to them all or look in to all the bands. Plus, one of Flook now has a day job where the computer he uses won't even play mp3s. How useful. So make it easier on us: Send us a demo/press pack in the post. And include as much info as possible! The address is:

Flook Music
PO Box 56211
London
N4 2UF

- If you're booked to play for us, don't leave it until two days before the show and then pipe up with 'Oh, we don't have any gear, we were just gonna share the other band's stuff". If you havn't got any, contact your mates or other bands to see if you can borrow some for the night. You wouldn't employ a builder if he had no tools, so why should we book a drumkit-less band?
- All these 'rules' make Flook sound like a tosser. We assure you we're not.

Music:

Some of the artists we’ve had play for us (that you should definitely have heard of) include: Arctic Monkeys , The Bishops , Cherubs , Chineapples , Crash Convention , The Cribs , Dogs , Drew McConnell ( BabyShambles ) & Fionn Regan , Eastern Lane , His Lost Boys , The Holloways , The Horror The Horror , Little Man Tate , Lupen Crook , The Long Blondes , The Mardous , Metro Riots , Misty's Big Adventure , The New Shapes , The Paddingtons , The Pigeon Detectives , The Rank Deluxe , The Research , The Rocks , Special Needs (a.k.a The Needs ), The Suffrajets , Switches , Vincent Vincent and the Villains , and 586 .

And some other artists that have performed live at Flook (that you may not have heard but should definitely still check out) are: 28 Costumes , Action Plan , The Aeroplanes , The Affectionate Punch , Alexis Blue , The Alps , Anenomie , Angels Fight The City , The Applewhites , Awful Sparks , Beans on Toast , Ben Bailey (featuring Dazy Pagan ), Beverley , Blackholes , Blah Blah Blah , The Brighter Lights (f.k.a The Lull), Big Sur , BlackCabs , Blackfriars , The Borrowers , The B Plan , The Bridge Gang , Captain Black , Cardboard Radio , Cheenah , ChowChow , Circuits , Circus of Death , Claire Nicolson , The Cubical , Dancing Bears , The Dash , The Daze , Deathstar Preview , Dega Breaks , Devil in Miss Jones , The Dirty Pins, The Donde Stars , The Down & Outs , Drivin' South, Dugtown Brewery, Educated Animals , Ego-Armalade , Eight Legs , The Electric Cinema , Emit , The Epitones , Fade To Sepia , The Fades , Fatels , The Franks , Fruition , The Fuckwits , Ginger Bread Men , Gravyrambles, Guilt Hands Shining , The Half Rabbits , Hatcham Social (f.k.a The Crowd), High Priests , The Home Wreckers Club , The Isles , Jakobinarina , Joe Rybicki , The Joel Lindsey Band , Johnny Flynn , Johnny Hatracket! , Junkbox , KillCity , Kill Kenada , Kingsize , Kites , Kobai , Lady Fortune , The Lancaster Bombers , Lefthand , Levelload , Little Vincent , Lorca , The Lost Revue , Lost Sunday , Love Minus Zero , L-Shaped Room , The Lucida Console , Luke Toms , Luxembourg , Mach Schau , Magic Ben, Manic Cough , Members Of The Public , Michael Bailey , The Misled Heroes , The Moogs , Mooli , The More Assured , My Scarlet Darling , The Nightjars , The Nudes , Olympus Mons , Operahouse , Our Name Is Legion , The Patty Winters Show , Pete and the Pirates , Phonofiction , Plastic Passion , Plugs , Pollen, The Prototypes , The Racket, Red Snowman , The Red Stars, The Remedies , The Rivers , Rob Power , Rod Thomas , Rosemary , Rotating Leslie , Rum Shebeen , Sam Sallon , Screaming Ballerinas , Second Sun, Sean Redmond , The Shake , Shane MacGowan, Silent Moves , Silvery , The Social , Spinmaster Plantpot , Soapbox Story , Somebody's Mind , Stained Glass Heroes , Steranko , Stetsons , The Stricken City , The Strollers , Stuart James , Supragod , Swing Youth , Talk Taxis , The Tender Box , Thomas Joseph , Tigermoth , Tim Arnold, Tobias Froberg , Touriste , Turismo , The Turner Thieves , Thee Unstrung , UpC DownC LeftC RightC ABC+ Start , The Vigours , Voltage Union , Voo , What Would Jesus Drive? , White Man Kamikaze , White Star Magic , The Young Offenders Institute ...err, you kinda get the picture.

Meanwhile, on the decks, we've had: Mr Alex Cornetto , Chrissy Mac , Craig McGee, DJ Ket-Amine , DJ Spiteful, The Dolly Rockers Club , The Ducks , Felix Felix and the Invisible Kittens , Gem + Jo's Mobile Disco , Georgina , Goldierocks , Hope of the States' Sam Herlihy & Simon Jones, The Jenny-Rays, Lady Flo , The Libertines & Dirty Pretty Things' Gary Powell , Marc Jones, Monkey Knife Fight , The Others' Dominic Masters & Johnny Others , Pink Champagne, Primal Scream & Stone Roses' Mani, Razorlight's Carl Dalemo, S-Club DJs, Suzy Creamcheese , Tess Panther , and finally The Whoremoans .

My Blog

Screaming Ballerinas & His Lost Boys live, The Dolly Rockers Club DJ

Saturday 10th March 2007 Flook at The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, London, W1W 7JD. Live music from:SCREAMING BALLERINASHIS LOST BOYS Plus DJing from The Dolly Rockers Club, Chrissy Mac, and t...
Posted by Flook on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:47:00 PST

Blah Blah Blah & 28 Costumes @ The Social - Drowned in Sound review

Read the Drowned in Sound review here: http://www.drownedinsound.com/event/view/22132 Saturday 13th January 2006Flook at The Social, Little Portland Street, London, W1W 7JD.Live music from:BLAH BLAH B...
Posted by Flook on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:48:00 PST

The Mardous, The Nightjars, Rum Shebeen

Thursday 2nd November 2006Special one-off Flook @ NAMBUCCA (Not The Elbow Room as previously listed)Featuring live sets from:THE MARDOUSTHE NIGHTJARSRUM SHEBEENPlus DJing from:Marc Jones (Columbia), S...
Posted by Flook on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:20:00 PST

Metro Riots, Drew McConnell & Fionn Regan, Circuits, The Donde Stars, Jakobínarína

Saturday 9th September 2006Flook @ NambuccaFeaturing live sets from:METRO RIOTSDREW MCCONNELL (BabyShambles) & FIONN REGANCIRCUITSTHE DONDE STARSJAKOBINARINAPlus DJing from:Suzy Creamcheese and th...
Posted by Flook on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:38:00 PST

The More Assured, Anenomie, Alexis Blue, Luke Toms

A belter of a night.   Saturday 19th August 2006Flook @ NambuccaFeaturing live sets from:THE MORE ASSUREDANENOMIEALEXIS BLUELUKE TOMSPlus DJing from:Suzy Creamcheese, Gem + Jo's Mobile Disco and ...
Posted by Flook on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:13:00 PST

The Isles, The Franks, Educated Animals, Red Snowman

Saturday 12th August 2006Flook @ NambuccaFeaturing live sets from:THE ISLESTHE FRANKSEDUCATED ANIMALSRED SNOWMANPlus DJing from:Suzy Creamcheese and the resident Flookastar DJs7.30pm - 2amEntry price ...
Posted by Flook on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:53:00 PST

The Suffrajets, The Lucida Console, Tobias Froberg, Fade to Sepia

Saturday 5th August 2006Flook @ NambuccaFeaturing live sets from:THE SUFFRAJETSTHE LUCIDA CONSOLETOBIAS FROBERGFADE TO SEPIAPlus DJing from:Suzy Creamcheese and the resident Flookastar DJs7.30pm - 2am...
Posted by Flook on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 04:48:00 PST

The Rank Deluxe, The New Shapes, Talk Taxis, The Shake

Saturday 29th July 2006Flook @ NambuccaFeaturing live sets from:THE RANK DELUXETHE NEW SHAPESTALK TAXISTHE SHAKEPlus DJing from:DJ Ket-amine, Pirate Rhiannon, and the resident Flookastar DJs7.30pm - 2...
Posted by Flook on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 05:16:00 PST

Blackholes, The Down & Outs, The Misled Heroes, Joe Rybicki, The Tender Box

Saturday 22nd July 2006Flook @ NambuccaFeaturing live sets from:BLACKHOLESTHE DOWN & OUTSTHE MISLED HEROESJOE RYBICKITHE TENDER BOXPlus DJing from:Chrissy Mac, Georgina, and the resident Flookasta...
Posted by Flook on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:12:00 PST

Lorca, Hatcham Social, What Would Jesus Drive?

Saturday 15th July 2006Flook @ NambuccaFeaturing live sets from:LORCAHATCHAM SOCIALWHAT WOULD JESUS DRIVE?Plus DJing from:Chrissy Mac and the resident Flookastar DJs...
Posted by Flook on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:35:00 PST