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 Phew! This flyer was a bitch to do (I've never had an eye for colour), but it's done, the flyers/posters are at the printers, and the tunes are already being selcted. This one promises to be tits-out mental, and we've already got a huge crowd promised to turn up and funk out!
Head over to the Upcoming Events page for more details. See you there! Matt x (Not to jinx it, but I think we might be getting the hang of this...)
After the success of the last CIGAW? (mostly due to having the amazing Dr Meaker on the bill), the pressue was on for this one - big time. Having promoted this event with a near-religous fanatisism (postering half of south Bristol; flyering anyone who stopped to ask for directions, hassling the local press, creating a shitload of free mix CDs to give away on the door, etc), CIGAW? residents Wilsta, DJ Milster and Vicarious donned their game faces early and set about warming the old pub up for our honoured guests: Soul Dressing. And they didn't let us down. By the end of Soul Dressing's brilliant live set the dancefloor was jumping and seriously getting it on (in some cases, a little too literally) to the breaky, funky, soulful classics, re-imagined to sound entirely fresh and original. Their re-fix of Jimi Hendrix near the end of their set was worth the price of admission alone. Having kicked all kinds of arse for 90 minutes, they left the stage to huge applause and a dancefloor full of beaming faces. Now the bar had been raised considerably by the band's performance, the resident DJs returned for their second sets wearing their war faces, and kicked it up a notch or three. Slinging some spectacularly funky shit around, they slowly worked the floor all the way up to heavyweight breaks (via funk, jazz, broken beats and and even a little D&B) before finishing with a Primal Scream moment that saw everyone oozing out on to the street happy. Big, BIG thanks go out to: all you lovely people who came and tore it up; the band for playing so well; Dave The Landlord for being a legend; and of course the after-party people for keeping it going till 9am. It's gonna be a while until all the brain cells grow back from this one... See you at the next one on Friday 3rd December! (Check out photos from the night here) (For those who didn't manage to grab one of our giveaway mix CDs, you can download Vicarious' mix here) For some daft reason I decided we should give away a free CIGAW? mix CD to the first 50 people through the door on 15/10/10, containing special promo mixes by me (Vicarious) and DJ Wilsta. Seemed like a great idea at the time, but the reality of burning (and printing an image on) 50 CD's in 5 days is starting to look a bit daunting, and my kitchen is starting to look like some sort of CD factory! Still, never mind. Hopefully I'll get them all done, and that folks will be happy with the finished product.
Other than that, the promotion's all done, the tunes (mostly) selected, and it's all coming together nicely. Looking forward to seeing you on Friday! Matt (aka. Vicarious) x Just found out from the landlord @ The Thunderbolt that its actually not a free entry night on 15th October (its £4 advance or £5 on the door). My fault - sorry everyone.
Since we're now asking people to pay to get in, i think some sort of free gift on entry might be in order. Watch this space... M  Ok, so it took a little longer to get back on our feet than we anticipated after the cancellations over the summer (loooooong story), but we are now back in business and booked up proper until Spring of next year. Did you miss us? We missed you...
So our next night is on Friday October 15th, with the fantastic 'Soul Dressing' doing the live honours for this one, and the resident DJs spinning the tunes. Head over to the 'Upcoming Events' page for more details. Hope to see you there. Matt (Vicarious) Hi all,
We're really sorry to say that the next 'Can I Get A Witness?' on June 5th has had to be cancelled, due to the organisers (Matt, Milly and Will) just having WAY too many other commitments around that time to make it feasible. We could possibly have gone ahead with it, but the stress would have killed us and it most likely would have been crap, so we made the difficult desicion to shitcan it and focus on making the next one at the end of August an absolute belter. So mark it in your diaries folks: Friday 27th August at the Thunderbolt. Hopefully we'll see you all there. M, M & W There's been a few changes to this site, namely we now have a forum area called 'Bands/DJs Wish-List', in which we (your humble CIGAW? organisers) post up details on some bands/DJs we are thinking about approaching to play future CIGAW? nights, so that you (yes, YOU) can reply and let us know what you think, as well as making your own suggestions for Bands/DJs to book.
Cool huh? Interactive clubbing = way of the future. You get to help choose which bands you wanna see, we get to build buzz about the night in advance, the bands/DJs get some free publicity and we are more likely to get them to to play if they know people will want to see them. Everyone wins! So go along to the 'Bands/DJs Wish-List' section and get involved.  What a night! Gulliver started heads nodding with some seriously decent dubstep, Milster got the crowd wiggling with some downright sexual funk and soul, and Vicarious played a few choice funky/breaky numbers to get the dancefloor full for the arrival of...
...Dr Meaker. One word. Two syllables. DAMN. They tore the fahkin roof off the place! The walls of The Thunderbolt have never dripped with as much condensated sweat as they did for that hour. Funky, soulful, rootsy, gloriously lively live drum and bass, with spine-tingling blasts from their amazing brass section, stunning beats and melodies coming from the synths of Meaker himself and a silky smooth performance from their spectacular singer Lorna King - what more could you ask? What's that? MCing from Meaker too? And a little bit of nasty dubstep? And a Star Wars mashup? Shiiiiiiiiiiit! Vicarious then pretty much had no choice but to give the crowd what they wanted and continue the D&B, so rinsed out the biggest, nastiest jump-up that he possibly could in order to keep the temperature high and the floor bouncing. By 1am it was all over, and everyone staggered out onto the Bath Road wondering what the hell had just happened. A massive thank you to everyone who came and tore it up that night. See you all at the next one on Saturday June 5th! (Check out photos from the night here) |  SIGN UP TO OUR MAILING LIST HERE!
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