About Me
Trouble is an Edinburgh based, monthly clubnight which has been running for almost 5 years now. Along the way we've picked up recognition from BBC Radio 1, danced very badly and played records that we like, regardless of genre/scene/the fact that it's a 'frankie goes to hollywood' record...read on for the spiel...Trouble has always been about going beyond the average club play-lists and the restrictions in the 'music policies' that Nineties clubbing/DJing brought, to revitalize an approach much more common before, when decent clubs were few and far between and often tended to be, quite simply, good parties in unusual, wee locations (like a basement bar on the corner of the street!). Thus, the music at Trouble can be anything from across the 'black' musical spectrum to the output of all the white 'brothers and sisters' who feel the funk and have got a good groove. This includes the classic dub, reggae, soul, funk, jazz, Afro, Latin and disco of the Seventies, early hip hop, electro, boogie and house from the Eighties, the stand-out dance moments of the last decade and the most exciting, upfront new nuggets, whether in hip hop, R n B, dancehall, soul, broken beat, dubstep, jazz, house, techno, Brazilian or drum n bass. We're very open-minded about our tunes! And, since the music is constantly evolving and changing, at Trouble we just like to call it all 'freestyle'. Started in 2002 at the freshly endorsed Blue Note Records venue, The Beat Jazz Basement, Chambers Street, Edinburgh with young wet-backs Hobbes (Andy aka 'The Hat' Richardson) & Erik 'D'Viking' Roberts sharing resident duties.Trouble was designed as a weekly mash up where live bands shared a stage with DJs and PAs. We jammed, played live, played records, burnt exclusive CDs and sang with all our hearts. In fact we did pretty much everything that would make us tick tunefully.Over four years down the road, we've had long holidays, venue changes and differences of opinion with anyone who cared to put a spanner in the works, not to mention running interim shindigs Say Samba! (a monthly, mid-week Brazilian festa) and Missing (last-hedonistic-stop-of-the-weekend for musically passionate souls!), with new recruit Dom 'Flanners' Flanagan joining the DJ crew and helping to make things happen from 2003 and youngest member Hugh 'The Rookie' de Winton first getting to stick his finely-tuned oar in around June 2004.In November 2004 an influential man in London called Gilles Peterson (Radio 1 broadcaster, jazz obsessive and another passionate soul who loves a good groove) decided our small Edinburgh get-together should be included in the short-list for Club Of The Year alongside massive events run by scene-leaders such as Mr Scruff, The Unabombers, Bugz In The Attic, Russ Dewbury and Jazzanova. Anticipating another change of management and more shenanigans at the Cellar Bar in Spring 2005, we jumped ship before we were pushed and got bigger by moving to the all new Cabaret Voltaire (well, under new management, anyway) in May 2005. 3 sell-out dates on the trot made this move logical. But you can be sure the Trouble crew have lost none of their style, panache and enthusiasm for championing fantastic new music and ol' school party jams and will continue to ensure many more nights of good music, good people and unstoppable dancing won't be forgotten fast.
