Polka Tent - who's playing? what are they about?

Hello reader. This is the first of several posts about the different stages at London Remixed Festival '13 and, more importantly, the artists making them shake.

There is lots and lots of detail on the main site, but we thought we'd give you links to our favourite tunes by each artist (wherever possible) and the views of some of those workin' at LRF '13 hq; which is on Davy Jones's mistress's ship, business barge JUDITH.

There is a lot going on, see full monster line-up here, so it's difficult to know where to start...

..buuuuttt, it's COLD tonight. Some of you, might even be shivering. Who else shivers?? Pirates me' hearties. Where do pirates hang out? At the good ship POLKA TENT...let's start there then...
                                                                     ....hosted in the theatre space at RichMix by...
                                                                                                    the indelibly red n white,                                                                                                                                           bee lady of the night
                                                                                                    with a musical sting stingier than a nettle                                                                                                                   M I S S   P E N N Y METAL.


//Seas of mirth

see what happens to pirates when they're based in the east midlands, away from water, and in the east midlands. belly-slapping, gun-totingish party folk.

The Mayor of Matlock has called them "OK" and what more of a ringing endorsement could I possibly hope to give them.

listen to this.


//Gentle Mystics

signed to a proper independent london-based label Emerging Species, gentle mystics whip mutant forms of their many influences into something old and new, scary and fearless, uncomfortable and banging, resisting,
and resisting triteness, anti-maudlinists and - an unpredictable smorgup of electronic, dub, brass, psychee poetically wotsits, wotknots and wothops. Stillness cracked up and off, the music squirms, and you'll writhe.

Mayor of Matlock* says, "Are they squatters? Get them off. Away. Now!"

here they are on the Boomtown Fair 2013 main-stage. I want to hear mushroom 3000 live please.


//Tantz

Tantz = klezmer for dance ;-)






//Maniere des Bohemiens

gripping a drenched shoulder, you're not sure if it's wet with beer, sweat or both, you're beer flies out of its inadequate vessel, it arcs onto the furiously playing violinist's nose, he looks at you, time stops, you cower aaaaaaaaaaaand then he plays furiouslier, your beer sails off upwards again, joins more beer a few feet above you and turns into a shower. you look at your hands, you are a prune. what shall we do with the drunken sailor. make him dance and drink more.

Mayor of Matlock says, "I hope they'll clean up after themselves."



//Ghetto Plotz

cartoon klezmer electro hip hop. stamford hill. midday, blazing heat, again. it's hot in the shtetl. air-conditioning units shuddered to haltz 3 months ago. ongepotchket crowds have gathered on every street corner, children fight for shade under the elders' hats, boychicks, heavy from gold, drink from brown paper bags. the shout of ay-yay-yay goes up, the ghettoblaster clicks on another driving tune. women, boychicks, girlchicks, men and dogs roll around on the floor, laughing and/or dancing, in a seamless seemingly endless loop. women, boychicks, girlchicks men... seemingly endless loop.

a man presses pause on the ghetto blaster "stop, stop it. stop it else I'll explode." his hand is brushed aside. press play. the rolling continues. the man explodes. this is the ghetto, we're all about to plotz!

Alter cocker Matlock says, "Oy vey".



*Mayor of Matlock is now a fictional character. All hail Mayor of Matlock. Thanks for joining us and giving us your opines.

Look out, there's a monster coming! London Remixed Festival 2013 line-up announced

Neither Sinbad, nor Ray Harryhausen (creator of awesome film monsters) himself could have pictured the monster line-up that is London Remixed Festival 2013. Gawsh!

It's huge. It's a proper monster. Look above, the human, strapped to a tree about to be snapped up, manages to avert his inevitable mauling by reasoning with the approaching fairly scary pretty massicve monster that there is a far greater, scarier, more badass monster just behind him. OMG.

That monster is London Remixed Festival 13. It's massive. It's bulk is difficult to focus on right now, it is the blue-grey background. It is like the sky, but massiver. It's going to deliver you, like the human in the pic, from all the banal pseudo-monsters moping around, giving half-hearted growls, that sound more like a cry for a help than our monster's mind-melting roar of total sound. You are the human strapped to the tree. It will save you. It is massive and badass and we can't wait.

We have been staring at this monster for sometime and we can describe it to you. For it is time.

But first. Look, listen. The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band, being privy to the finest, newest, time-telescopes, sang a song about London Remixed Festival 2013 in 1967. Hard to believe it, but we love it. Thanks Viv.



Ok. Details.

This year we have grown. The festival will now take place on 7 STAGES IN 4 SHOREDITCH VENUES

//FUTURE AFRICAN UNDERGROUND @ VillageUnderground
Nubiyan Twist
Ghost Writerz
Romare (live)
Auntie Flo (live) ft Esa
Dub Colossus
DJ VIV

//TROPICARNIVAL @ RichMix - main room
Family Atlantica
Flowsnatcha
King Lagoon’s Flying Swordfish Dance Band
Renegade Brass Band

//FOLK GHETTO @ RichMix - upstairs
DJ Dolphin Boy
John Langan Band
Stompin Dave
Rob Heron and the Tea pad Orchestra
The Loose Moose String Band
Ramshackle Union Band

//POLKA TENT @ RichMix - theatre space
Maniere Des Bohemiens
Tantz
Sea Of Mirth
Gentle Mystics
Ghetto Plotz (live)
DJ Penny Metal

//REMIXED CLUB @ Bedroom Bar
DJ Kobayashi (Gypsy Hil)
DJ Chris Tofu (White Mink)
DJ Tim Whelan (Transglobal Underground)
DJ Malaka (Rumpus)
DJ Ashley Slater

//VINTAGE REMIXED @ Strongroom
DJ Eclecktic Mick (Electro Blues)
Kaptin is Dead
DJ Jon Bongly (Electro Swing Club)
Ghetto Funk All Stars
DJ Dolphin Boy (Bagpipe Rave)
BASS6 (Beatbox Collective)
Electro Manouche (live)

//+ DJ Mag All Stars - Venue tbc

We are so excited to have Strongroom as a venue this year. I had a drink (nice beers) there the other day whilst discussing our monster (ed. enough) and it was great. It's down a little cobbled street, under an arch, and so different to everywhere else in Shoreditch.

So many artists. Where to start. In the next blog. Follow us on here and on twitter for info and tunes by all the artists playing. We've got lots happening in the run up to LRF 13 too, so check back here and on twitter for upcoming gigs by properly innovative but/and banging London artists.

and, EARLY BIRD TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE FOR ONLY TEN PUNDS!!
get'em from here http://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/London/Rich-Mix/London-Remixed-Festival/11992094/