Disco Shed

Music:

Member Since: 7/27/2006
Band Website: www.discoshed.com
Band Members: Peepshow Paddy, Aidan "Count" Skylarkin, some "Fuecking Dwarves" (copyright French Tony) and all our buddies.
Influences: Quotes & Reviews
Festival goers
Loved it, particularly so on Sunday night. Didn't want it to end.

The Shed was outstanding! I put you guys at the top of my "favourites" list on the Online Survey.

Set of the weekend: Sunday night at The Disco Shed.

The encore at the end of the disco shed/paddy's set on sunday night was pretty incredible. Massive crowd spontaneously chanting 'ONE MORE TUNE, ONE MORE TUNE'. twas a proper 'moment', that :-)

The best way to spend the early-ish hours ever!

The Shed. Bloody ace. A home from homes, and paradise of parties.

Has to be said the shed is a work of sheer, mad genius.

Where was this shed?

Performers
Loved it, particularly so on Sunday night. Didn't want it to end.

had loads of fun on Sunday, probably played better than in the club tent as well!
Mixmaster Morris (Ninja Tune, DJ Mag best chillout DJ in the world)

"Well... I think I said at the time that the Disco Shed is definitely the best shed that I have ever DJed in! Being a country type, I felt right at home. Having full use of a smoke machine, despite being in the middle of a field, made it clear to me just how far mankind has progressed."
Hint (Tru Thoughts)

I spent 7 years practising in my bedroom only to find myself at a festival in a garden shed and I loved it"
DJ Fu

"We've DJed from Tokyo to Miami, and Budapest to Brisbane, but I can't remember ever having such unique DJ experiences with more fun crowds than at the Disco Shed."
Neil (Phantom Beats)

The Disco Shed rocks so hard it surely has pneumatic suspension. Bounce. Bounce. Everybody Bounce"
DJ BarryDark Digital City

"Playing at the Disco Shed last summer was the best festival gig I did last summer"
Andy Newcombe DIAL Music

Press
TV & the printed press
"Wonderful"
London Lite

"I was reviewing the bands at Latitude on Friday and Saturday for the Guardian but I thought the best thing all weekend was the disco shed!"
Paul Lester, the Guardian Newspaper

"The rockingest shed outside Michael Jackson's garden, and with less nasty surprises in store."
The Fly

The Disco Shed: has been featured on Steve Lamacq 's show on BBC 6 Music , on ITV2's coverage of Latitude festival in 2008, BBC3 �s coverage of the Reading Festival in 2007, Channel 4 �s coverage of both the Truck festival in 2006, and the Big Chill festival in 2006.

Our popular club nights and New Year's Eve parties at the Carling Academy Oxford , and the Old Queen's Head in Islington, with DJ Derek , Barry Ashworth ( Dub Pistols ), have been listed as featured night in the Guardian , London Lite , and Critics Choice in Time Out . We have also been featured in the Metro , Irish Sun , the Oxford Times and the Oxford Mail ..

Online
“One of the star's of this year's Latitude Festival according to shedworker Nikki Spencer was the Disco Shed.�:
Shedworking

“The rain disappears and we power forward to a night of dancing outside the Disco Shed, oh yes, it's a disco which emulates out of a humble shed, and it's a right hoot.�:
Latitude festival blog

"...we headed back to the trusty Disco Shed to find one half of Hexstatic were doing an unscheduled but utterly amazing DJ set. As the crowd chanted 'last year's headline set, this year's disco shed' we wondered off to bed and watched the dawn break":
In The News, Big Chill 08 review

"...irreverent party makers Disco Shed, no strangers to the festival circuit themselves":
Flavorpill listing

"One final mention - Perhaps the greatest find of the weekend and the scene of one of the best saturday nights I have had at ANY festival over the last 15 years. Ladies and gentlemen..all rise and give a round of applause for the one and only.... DISCO SHED!!!!!!":
E-Festivals forum (re Big Chill 08)

"The Disco Shed - words fail me.":
Latitude forum 2008 What did you like best?

"DISCO SHED rocked my festival. brilliant atmosphere, fantastic tunes :) can we have them back next year?":
Latitude forum 2008 DISCO SHED

“And then there was the Disco Shed. It will be a thing of legend, I’m sure: one shed, two blokes, mixing decks and a glittery disco ball. There were plant pots and garden gnomes, all on a little hill where countless people danced well into the night. It was truly magical how good that little shed and the music emanating from it made everyone feel.”
www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk

“I loved the disco shed in the market field. The best idea at Truck ever. Saturday night, disco lights in the shed, and a crowd of people dancing round it. Fantastic”
Festival Weather

“Hats must be raised first to Aidan (Skylarkin') and Paddy (Peepshow)'s ingenious Disco Shed, in the market area all weekend. Like a more inclusive outdoor Miniscule of Sound, the 'disco shed' puts in an impressive tour of duty keeping a happy crowd dancing and raising smiles from camping passers-by for the majority of the weekend, with sets of almost Tenaglian length from both DJs. Waiting for the toilet to the sound of Josh Wink's 'Higher State of Consciousness' may not help the bladder, but it certainly helps the festival atmosphere.”
www.oxfordbands.com

"One of the less chilled things happening at the Big Chill festival in the UK this weekend was the Disco Shed. Pitched up in the middle of the site by Oxford based DJ's Peepshow Paddy and Skylarkin. They entertained people with low key DJ sets during the day; supplying deckchairs, a gazebo and lo-fi TV/video players with Jane Fonda work out videos for mass aerobic sessions.When the club tents and stages closed down on the last night, all those who just didn't want to believe the festival was about to end migrated to the shed for an impromptu rave, cut short only for security reasons.

You can give people well organized festivals but it's this kind of magic that will stick.”
www.mtv.com
Sounds Like:

DJs and VJs to have performed in the Disco Shed include:
Jerry Dammers (The Specials)
Mixmaster Morris (Ninja Tune)
Alex Paterson (The Orb)
Hexstatic (Ninja Tune)
DJ Derek
Pete Lawrence (Big Chill founder)
Barry Ashworth (Dub Pistols)
Souljazz Soundsystem (Soul Jazz)
Nick Matthews (Best Kept Secret)
Nostalgia 77 (Tru Thoughts)
Wrongtom (Trojan)
Hint (Tru Thoughts)
Phantom Beats (Plastic Raygun)
Diesler (Tru Thoughts)
Mr. Bongo (Mr. Bongo / Disorient)
Flevans (Jack to Phono / Tru Thoughts)
Dr. Rubberfunk (Funkydown)
Del Gazeebo (Soundly Beaten / No ID)
Matthew Burgess (Lowlife)
Shepdog (Freestyle Records)
Calvin Reid (Bulldozer)
DJ Fu
Jason King (The Spiralist)
DIAL Soundsystem
Mach V (SoxaN / Big Chill)
Myogenic (Big Chill founder)
DJ BarryDark (Digital City)
Indecision (The Dugout)
Trol 23
Count Skylarkin (Skylarkin Soundsystem)
Peepshow Paddy (Peepshow)
Type of Label: Major