The Solid Groove Social Club launches on Saturday, May 23rd (bank holiday weekend), with an all day event at Stereo on Newcastles Quayside, 2pm thru 3am. The idea behind our party is to bring together like minded, music loving party people who like to dance. Its not about playing the most obscure records or 'cooler than thou' attitudes, just amazing music from every genre, played by people who share the same passion for having a good time.
We couldn't possibly have asked anyone other than our old friend Phil Asher to be our first guest. Phil is the absolute DON of UK house music, whose remixes and productions are played by DJ's all over the world. His recent Phlash & Friends project, Deep Electronic Sound on Archive Records is blowing up everywhere to massive critical acclaim, and Phil's DJ sets are legendary, taking in house, disco and boogie, broken beat, hip hop, soul, latin, jazz, basically every form of soulful music!! Phil is gonna stretch his legs and spin for 4 hours, so expect to hear him go DEEEEEEP!! As usual, we expect that Phil will spend as much time on the dancefloor as he does in the DJ booth......
Warming up for Phil is another member of the Restless Soul family, Craig Whitfield. Craig is a north east boy originally who moved to London many moons ago, and is currently busy in the Studio coming up with some crazy edits of classic house tunes with his partner in crime, Luke 'the duke' McCarty. Craigs record collection has to be seen to be believed, and he has promised us he is gonna dig deep for the party!!
Also joining us on the day are our good friends from Manchester, the Development boys Mike, Chris and Tom. Anyone who was at Inspiration Information recently will know what to expect when the boys are given licence to play whatever the hell they like!!
Also playing records will be Stu Ashton, Craig Campbell and Kwame. All 3 completely passionate about there music and will no doubt pull out some gems for us to get the party started!!!!
Propping up the bar will be residents James Johnson and my good self.
Some of the comments made by the party goers...
"Had an amazing time. Newcastle rocks - and so did Stereo - great party, wicked atmos, friendliest people in the land - what a great party!!! very big thanks to Kev & co for putting it together and taking the time to entertain us all""...was a great weekend in Newcastle. Kev and Kimmy worked really hard to
make this work and it did with bells on. DJ selections were really varied and kept in fresh specically when
drinking Stella in between Bulmers"
"The music was superb all day, but the atmosphere was ten times as good. Big up to all the DJ's who played for nothing more than a few bottles of stella and some cuddles!!"
"...absolutely brilliant day/night... much thanks to kev/jimmy for organising and to every dj for non-stop fantastic music... all deserve a mention...
kwame & craggers (aka the chuckle brothers) - perfect music to start a 13 hour session
stu ashton - spot on deep disco selection
jimmy - some lovely music to match your dodgy dancing moves
development lads - covered all the bases, excellent as always
kev - gutted this set wasn't recorded - quality house, great lead-in to craig
craig - fucking superb, picked up where kev left off and blew the floor away
phlash - also rocked it, nothing less expected... bit of suspect mic action tho!
cheers again for a great event, will definitely be back for more"
The first party was a huge success and hopefully we can carry on the way we have started...
"...don't know what else to say other than thank you, we had an amazing day, and we are so happy that everyone had a great time. Special thanks to all the dj's who played for us,you were all amazing, and the music was superb all day. Massive shout to Tommy, the manager of the venue, who ran around to get things done for us all day, but most importantly a massive, massive thank you to everyone who travelled far and wide to party with us, you were amazing" (Kev & Jimmy)
The audio for the party is below... Starting from 3.00pm through till Phil playing till 3.30am
Craig Campbell
http://98.131.175.171/mixes/solidgroovesocialclub/Craig_Campbell.mp3
Kwame Asiaw
http://98.131.175.171/mixes/solidgroovesocialclub/Kwame_Asiaw.mp3
Stu Ashton
http://98.131.175.171/mixes/solidgroovesocialclub/Stu_Ashton.mp3
Jimmy Johnson Pt. 1
http://98.131.175.171/mixes/solidgroovesocialclub/Jimmy_Johnson_p1.mp3
Jimmy Johnson Pt. 2
http://98.131.175.171/mixes/solidgroovesocialclub/Jimmy_Johnson_p2.mp3
Development Lads
http://98.131.175.171/mixes/solidgroovesocialclub/Development_lads.mp3
Craig Whitefield
http://98.131.175.171/mixes/solidgroovesocialclub/Craig_Whitefield.mp3
Phil Asher
http://98.131.175.171/mixes/solidgroovesocialclub/Phil_Asher_p1.mp3
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