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OFFLINE 11: Dogstar, Brixton, Thursday 16th December 2004

Our Christmas party was our busiest night ever with a huge FREE bill of 14 DJs, stand up acts, poets, new music, video projections, multimedia, photo exhibition, archive protest footage and more!

FLYERS/PROGRAM from the night:
Club flyer
Event program (front and back pages)
Event program (centre pages with timetable of acts)

MAIN DANCE FLOOR:

7:00 - 7:30 Maggot
7:30 - 8:05 hiccup
8:05 - 8:40 The Kennington Chameleon (The Actionettes - pop dance blitzkrieg)
8:40 - 9:20 Blagsta
9:20 - 10 IanW (How Does it Feel... - 60s heartbreak/northern soul)
10 - 10:45 Sonik Sonik (Rough Trade - indie obscurities)
10:45 - 11:30 Editor (urban75 - post-punk/cocktail/rip-it-up)
11:30 -12:15 Dubversion (People's Republic of Disco - ska/rocksteady)
12:15 - 1 DJ Wrongspeed (http://resonancefm.com)
1:00-2am Skim (Biologikal - Eclectic electronic sounds)

CABARET/BACK ROOM:

7:00 - 8:00 Skim - none more chilled
8:00 - 8.35 Rutabowa - eclectic Elvis tattoo
8:35 - 9:10 Broken Yolk - deck genius
8:35 - 9:10 Dubversion - chilled electronica
9:40 - 10:20 Ben - like a mental orgasm
10:20: Vic's Cabaret Corner pt 1
> Vic Lambrusco
> Jack Shamash - from bard to perverse
> Wrong Way Jane - Bardess of Brixton
10:50: Pinkkychukkles Dansette destruction
11:30: Vic's Cabaret Corner pt 2
> Joe Cairo - the man who put the 'angst' in 'gangster' (Guardian)
> Paul Birtill - hilarious misanthropy from north London's Mersey mouth
> Jack (Bard of Brixton)
12:00 Editor's cocktail interjection
DrJazzz's boogie woogie mash up (cancelled)
1:00 - 2:00 IanW's backroom wig out

VIDEOS/MULTIMEDIA

Brixton street photos by editor, some protest videos (Brixton riots, Reclaim the Streets etc.)

Photos from the night:
(photos by editor, liberty and dubversion)


Skim opens up the evening with a chilled out set in the back room, Offline 11 at the Dogstar, Brixton. Her set included Future Sound of London: Cascade pt 1, Slag Boom Van Loon: Broccoli, Troubleshooter: Rotating Mass and Brothomstates: Adozenaday.
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DJ Rutabowa in the backroom. We didn't get to see his cool Elvis tattoo. Included in his set was: The Willows – Nuh me trouble you Sonic Youth – Schizophrenia, Devendra Banhart – This beard is for Siobhan, Eek a mouse – Ganja smuggling and Ethiopians – Pirate.
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After some tricky technical details involving a dodgy connection and a too-short lead, the Kennington Chameleon (from the Actionettes) plays the main room.


Main room crowd shot.


DJ Broken Yolk proudly holds aloft a lesser known, er, 'gem', 'Wogan's Wonders'. He played a, frankly, bonkers, set in the back room which included: dennis waterman and george cole - what are we going to get for her indoors, mario lanza - god rest ye merry gentleman, kays catalogue santa flexidisc cher - never been to spain and larkin abaht - when father papered the parlour.
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Crowd scene...


Back Room Ben in action!


A feast of lagers!


Drinking chums in the back projection room. Just behind them, a large screen showed archive footage of the Brixton riots and street protests.


DJ Blagsta in the main DJ booth. His t'rific et included Jilted John - Jilted John, Bomb the Bass - Bug Powder Dust, Gil Scott-Heron - Gun and Barrington Levy - Here I Come


As ever, Vic Lambrusco hosted the fabulous Vic's Cabaret Corner. His new poem, 'I'm More Brixton Than You' went down a storm!


Jack Shamash delivers his lines in the back room.


Wrong Way Jane - the Bardess of Brixton - gives it large with some strong political rhymes.


Main room drinking folks.


Back room crowd.


DrJazzz checks out the piano backstage. Sadly, the keyboard refused to work once om the stage!


Main room crowd.


Drinking chums!


IanW plays the first of two sets, with his main room set including Soul Time – Shirley Ellis, Of Hopes Dreams And Tombstones – Jimmy Frazier, Hey Boy – Brenda And The Tabulations and Mini Skirt And Go Go Boots – Lloyd And Glen.
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Crowd shot.


Joe Cairo - described as 'the man who put the 'angst' in 'gangster' (Guardian) - lays it down in the back room.


Paul Birtill's brand of hilarious misanthropy won over the back room crowd - several of his books were shifted after the show!


Sonik in the main DJ booth. His eclectic set included CocoSuma - Sparks, Laura Veirs - Ether Songs, Sufjan Stevens - The Dress looks nice on You, Death Cab for Cutie - Aeroplanes and Nancy and Lee - Some Velvet Morning
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Somewhat blurry main room view (well, it was getting late!)


Jack, the reigning Bard Of Brixton, finished off the Cabaret Hour in style.


Editor's prized 'Songs for Swinging Lovers' 10" Sinatra EP.


Crowd view.


DJ Wrongspeed flaunts his vinyl.