The Thousands

The desires to shtup Cleopatra or bro down with Hammurabi are necessarily abstract. Too distant, you see. It’s the stuff you just miss that leaves a genuinely bitter taste. Like being born 10 years too late to catch the Haçienda at its Madchester peak. If you feel my pain you can take some consolation in seeing Greg Wilson, the Haçienda’s original resident DJ, play at RAOB GAB. A musical anthropologist (check his blog), a re-edit master (check his Soundcloud) and just about the most influential guy since people started being influenced by things. Which was around the mid-sixties I think. Kirk Degiorgio has similarly august credentials. Over 20 years ruling over his UK fiefdom of techno for the jazzbo set. You might know Lewie Day as Tornado Wallace. Then again, you might not. I just don’t know how interested you are in a cat who doing the most exciting things in local dance music since the release of my polka trance fusion 12″ Polka in the Rear. More techno legitimacy provided by Mike Callander, Craig McWhinney and Christian Vance from the Haul Music stable. Plus the launch of Mark Free’s new Black Coffee pop-up experiment the ‘Black Manhattan’, a “a classy, complex but approachable beverage incorporating rye whiskey, vermouth and cold drip brewed Colombian Carlos Imachi coffee.”