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Antic Banquet Photos!

Here are some photos from the amazing Antic Banquet Festival in Norfolk. DOTS was very happy to be part of the dance dome antics on the friday night...we rocked it hard in wellies!! It also meant we got to party for the rest of the weekend and then eat some beautiful food with 500 people under a blazing Autumn sun.

Thanks to everyone involved, with special love to the DOTS crew, Hungry Man, Man Make Music, Wormfood and the One Taste crew. Keep your eye on the blog for info regarding The Antic Banquet 2009!







ANTIC BANQUET PHOTO SET >>

Time Patrol

Hyperdub stuff

Time Patrol video:



(dread!)

Mary Anne Hobb's Radio 1 Hyperdub showcase...

all new festival flyers

2 WEEKS TO GO!!


tickets available from www.anticbanquet.com

Radio 1 Generation Bass

Here are some photos from Radio1 & Mary Anne Hobbs Generation Bass Show, recorded live at BBC1's labyrinthian Maida Vale Studio's last Saturday. The show will be aired tommorrow morning (aug 20th) between the hours of 1am-3am on BBC Radio 1. Check www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs for further details and info. Big ups to all involved in the experience, 'specially Cyrus & Chefal respectfully reppin the older bass generation.








Generation Bass photo set

Check the StreetWriter Blog for pics of Generation Bass by Barclay James

D.O.T.S BANGERS & MASH 22 AUG, REDSTAR

My old friends Oliver Sudden & Bangers are putting on a night of live hip-hop and funk at Camberwell's mighty Redstar and has asked D.O.T.S to provide music and entertainment in ROOM 2

It's this FRIDAY 22ND and will be a little different from the usual D.O.T.S affair- and will include a semi-live experimental electro-bass-jazz performance from a genius new outfit formed by Piano Magic's Franck Alba www.myspace.com/franckalba and ETMO alongside the scent of fresh dubplates and vinyl from the likes of :

DEAPOH(BAREFILES) www.myspace.com/deapoh
HUNGRYMAN (SUB FM) www.myspace.com/hungrydubz
R34ORM www.myspace.com/re4orm (SIK BEATS!)
WISE www.myspace.com/londonwise
& MORE TBA.

BANGERS DOWNSTAIRS INCLUDES:

VERB T www.myspace.com/verbt
FIRST AND LAST www.myspace.com/firstandlastuk
BLAKFONZ www.myspace.com/blakfonzWORTHLESS AKA www.myspace.com/worthlessaka

DJS: AL MIGHTY & BLUE MOVIES
DOORS open at 9 pm,
free entry before 10pm, £4 after

REDSTAR CAMBERWELL
319 CAMBERWELL SE5


www.myspace.com/joindots

I'm particularly excited about the rare appearance of REFORM who once upon a time was a Black sheep bar regular playing the good teckky dnb that was around a few years ago. These days he's an at home producer making sik beats that which he's rarely given enough credit for, maybe because of his relative lack of self-promotion... www.myspace.com/re4orm

Also, it's the introduction of Dj WISE who I met whilst working at a gallery in LDN Central, thanks to him, me and the rest of the gallery minions got to listen to good music (including his own meticulous and eclectic mixes) whilst cartin around big (crap) paintings of aeroplanes and horses around. Check his all new myspace out to hear and download some of them:

www.myspace.com/londonwise

Thanks to everyone that reached D.O.T.S AT PLAN B LAST FRIDAY and kept us rollin way past the 3am mark.

D.O.T.S FRI 15TH AUG: CYRUS-ELEMENTAL-IKONIKA-SUBEENA-MARKLE

Get yourselves down to Plan B tommorrow night for some amazin music and good vibrations

Guests include:

CYRUS RANDOM TRIO
www.myspace.com/randomtrio

ELEMENTAL
www.myspace.com/adamelemental

IKONIKA
www.myspace.com/ikonika

SUBEENA
www.myspace.com/subeena

MARKLE
www.myspace.com/markleman

+ lots of lovely dancing creatures.



Expect to hear: Garage : Dubstep : Jungle : House : Dub : Ardcore : The Unexpected : Everything inbetween

10PM-3AM

£5 / £3 concs

PLAN B
418 Brixton Road
London
SW2

www.planbrixton.co.uk
www.myspace.com/joindots

summer dots flyer

Ostrich-step

Melly and the Ostrich's

As Decks and the City's Melissa Bradshaw has pointed out in this recent blogpost, she and I went to Cyprus for the forthcoming Qvest Edition last week. Asides from some serious reportage on Napa's music scene and the history of the island (including some beef with neighbouring Turkey), we made friends on road with some BIG, BIG BIRDS (and I aint talking about the ones we saw downing fish bowls in Napa central).

Through an amazing performance involving movement of their big big wings and fluttering of their long ol' eye-lashes they silently explained their sadness at having BIG BIG WINGS but no ability to fly :( . *cry!* Poor Ostrich's, we feel your pain and your heartache... just rest in the knowledge that we will be bringing your story to human dancefloors this summer via the OSTRICH STEP, a sort-of progression of Benga's Chicken Step:



Having been SO moved by the lovely Ostrich's, I am currently engaged in intensive studies in the movements of other creatures with useless limbs or vestigial organs... Coming soon to a club near you: The Blind Fish Astyanax Mexicanus Step, Whale-Step (based upon their hind leg bones which they cannot walk with) and The Human Tail Bone Waltz.

my fellow south londoners

illustrations by Tom Humberstone

Another Drumz friend attempting to change our perceptions of the world, is Lower End Spasm's Dan Hancox (aka the preacher man due to the parallels between him and Nathan Barley's Dan Ashcroft character), who along with his artist buddy Tom Humberstone has admirably self-published a book of their quest to document the run-up to the U.S Presidential Election.

Having randomly bumped into Dan on Balham High Street today, I only just got my copy, but managed to get it signed as a reminder not to burn it this winter when I have no money to heat my flat because of the credit crunch. Jokes. Thanks to the longness of the 249 bus to Palace on a Saturday I've read a few chapters already and can confidentally recommend it to anyone interested in U.S politics or simply, the musings of 2 funny young blokes from London on what sounds like a very, interesting, comical and slightly terrifying adventure. Failing that, it also falls into the much loved category of 'Book with Pictures,' with Humberstone's beautiful illustrations giving it an unbelievably graphic novel quality. Much respect to Dan and Tom for ingenuity and creativity.

To BUY the book and/or read the blog which led to the creation of the book go to:

http://www.myfellowamericans2008.com/

Solidified Memories

Update on the where and what abouts of long time Drumz photographer friend Boris Austin; For the past year, he's been in China as part of an MA in documentary photography, resulting in an indepth exploration into a town called Dalian which like the rest of the country is being affected by the forthcoming Beijing Olympics. Boris sent me an email following the private view of the Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed' Exhibition at the Photographer's Gallery, in which has been selected as one of the winners. For those interested in China and censorship, read on. Good luck with the visa Boz.

"If you went to the private view last night unfortunately of course my book wasn't there. I did try but this is because is really hard to send anything even remotely sensitive out of China and all material is being rigorously checked by hand. Im sitting here in a cafe in Hong Kong waiting for my visa which is due monday. I might not get it however and might be forced to come home as i think the authorities have their eye on me at the moment. This week just as ive published my book project to the internet and had an exhibition in Dalian and a lot of Chinese people have been talking about the project and photos in forums online. By the end of the week the Chinese government blocked not only my site but every site on my server. This means that anyone in mainland china cant now see the project not even me but you guys out there still can.


Its been a long time coming and so here it is, this is what i've been doing the last few months, living with these people hearing their stories and documenting as best as i can.


Heres the link www.borisaustin.com/solidifiedmemories ( you might have to scroll down to read the captions )


To very briefly explain...


In my MA thesis for the project i tried to illustrated that the publics perception of Dalian (see attached photo) is distorted. Dalian is being paraded as "the pride of China" for its living conditions and footage of this city is associated with the Olympics as a way of "advertising" Chinas urban development. In reality however Chinas has a drastically different “protocol” in news reporting in which “many "sensitive"” issues are censored. This gave me the desire to create a balance, to document and show what is hidden.


However people might see it, in part i wanted to tell an intimate story about the people who live there and the lives that they lead, something that wouldn't have otherwise happened in China.
Considering that my project and site have just been censored i feel now more than ever that i want to get this story out to as many people as possible so please forward to anyone you think may be interested either for publishing or simply viewing.


Hope your well.
B
xx"

D.O.T.S IN JULY

HIP HIP HOORAY WE'RE MOVING TO FRIDAY! Must be doing something right...

NEXT D.O.T.S:

FRIDAY JULY 11TH:

CHEF
RAMADANMAN
KANSAS CITY PROPHETS
KUTZ
LAZY BONES

10PM-3AM

£5

PLAN B
418 BRIXTON ROAD, LONDON SW9


Huge thanks to all the dj's and mc's that passed through the last d.o.t.s, particularly Cotti, Ashman and Slickman who took the party to the next level.

Wiki Cook

I'm obviously very important *chuckle*, a Wikipedia article has appeared under my name and lo and behold i neither asked for it nor wrote it myself... (cheers Ken!).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgina_Cook