A Murkage Halloween with BLOC PARTY, Juicy DJs & more.. tickets and listings

Time flies when you're having fun, the Murkage Halloween soiree is upon us once again!! last year you all turned up in amazing halloween outfits to see AC Slater bun down the rave, and the skeleton man was crowned halloween king!! watch it back here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdgfA_ck9IA 

This year we're switching it up with Murkage's favourite band, Bloc Party, taking to the decks.. we know it was supposed to be Klaxons but they have cancelled to shoot a video so we thought we'd take the opportunity to step things up to the next level!!

Yet again there will be a prize for the best Halloween Costume.. fancy dress is optional though.. :o)

And with support from Manchester's men of the moment, the Juicy DJs, Klepto, Sapnarella and Smith Tropical, this Thursday looks set to go off!!!

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Bloc Party are formed of Kele Okereke (guitar, vocals), Russell Lissack (guitar), Gordon Moakes (bass) and Matt Tong (drums). Raised on pop culture from 1976 to the present - they've been influenced by it all. Melodic and dark, danceable yet powerful: something that will keep you yelling for more.

Bloc Party is an autonomous unit of un-extraordinary kids. Like many such kids, between them they eventually concluded that their own attempts to imitate what had informed them could be construed as a worthy variation on the many forms that preceded. They do everything that's required to conform to the currently received ideas of what a band is: ostensibly to play instruments at the same time, but also have a title for the work created. 

Kele picked up a guitar when his hands enabled him to do so and his brain gave him the inclination. Russell had already done as much beforehand when they met in 1998. In the fine print of music papers and in telephone conversations they enabled meetings with Gordon and Matt who also had ideas of some relevance to bring to the collective effort. In this sense a band was created. 

Henceforth should follow a list of auteurs and musicians that figured in the formative minds of the four as they went about their work. But to do as much seems churlish in an already self-referential world. Suffice to say there would be no band without the efforts of guitar bands formed in British and American towns in the 70s, 80s and 90s, as well as visionary writers and artists of various kinds whose work has informed the world and culture itself as it stands. The precise names are as good as any you can come up with, in fact probably much, much better.



THURSDAY 28TH OCTOBER 2010
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A MURKAGE HALLOWEEN
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BLOC PARTY (DJ SET)
JUICY DJs
KLEPTO
SAPNARELLA
SMITH TROPICAL


MURKAGE in association with Boxfresh
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Now Weekly Thursdays @ SOUTH NIGHTCLUB
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DUBSTEP / HOUSE / HIPHOP / ELECTRO / DRUM&BASS / PUNK / JUNGLE / UK GARAGE / UK FUNKY / 90s URBAN / BASHMENT / GRIME & SLOW JAMZ

HOSTED BY MEMBERS OF MURKAGE
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South Nightclub, 4A South King Street, Manchester, M2 6DQ

Profiles of artists at this event:

Bloc Party