After
a brief hiatus, Work Them returns to host an Islington Mill afterparty
for Sounds From The Other City, taking you through until the early hours
after a day of fantastic new music, and featuring a line up of DJs as
fresh and eclectic as the festival itself. Admission is free with a
Sounds From The Other City wristband, which allows you access to our
little soiree as well as a record eleven other stages across the river
in Salford, brought you by promoters such as Underachievers, Mind On
Fire, Trash-O-Rama and more!
Acts Include But Are Not Limited To!
- Walls
- Dam Mantle
- Loney Dear
- Keep Shelley In Athens
- This Many Boyfriends
- Molly Nillson
- Patterns
- Islet
- 100% Beefcock!!!
It’s like the most sonically enlightening
pub crawl you’ve ever been on. The event has sold out in the past, so act fast!
First
off, we’re very excited to welcome the 100% silky queen of modern
weirdo pscyh disco, Miss Maria Minerva, upstairs at t'Mill for a DJ set after she’s
finished off the Now Wave stage downstairs. One of the most
unpredictable and individual new artists working in
alternative/dance/experimental/lo-fi/whatever music today, and she’ll be
bringing a stack of records focused on pure groove. Creator of some
real, “What’s This?!” on rotation at Work Them, check out her excellent FACT mix - the appropriately subtitled ‘Living in Ecstasy’ for an idea
of what to expect from Miss MM.
Deeper,
darker, heavier and weirder more, we’re also joined for the latter part
of the party by creature of the night and one of Manchester’s finest
producers, The Countach.
Once promising ‘an original techno anthem to inspire the troops’, in
the meantime, The Count has expertly crafted some of the most memorable
techno of recent times, with tracks such as ‘Melvin Never Made It’, and
several strange and wonderful edits for the likes of Abba and Queen.
Probably uncommissioned, we must admit. As well as this, he also runs
Fallowfield’s extra sweaty Countach Club, a sort of Friday night
community rave project that has lured some great guests. Whilst only a
glimpse into his untame musical mind, here’s a recent ‘5 Songs You Must Hear This Week’ as requested by paid-up Countach fanboy Erol Alkan to
get you started...
Victories at Sea
are one of the most potentially powerful new bands in the UK, a
Birmingham cross breed between Factory Floor and New Order, presenting
their full throttle live show earlier on in the day over at
Underachievers stage, save them travelling back down the M6 on a Bank
Holiday, they’ll be sticking around to play some tunes and be merry with
us. We’ll be honest, we anticipate tunes that sound a bit like Factory
Floor or New Order, but they could be big Rick Ross enthusiasts for all
we know.
In
between our special guests, we’ll be keeping it going with our usual
mix of tunes for the booty shakers and the beard strokers, from dubbed
out disco, weirdo indie classics, charismatic techno to oddball house
and pop. Who knows what to expect in our ongoing quest to establish the
link between Edywn Collins and Flying Lotus, but boy, you’d better get
set for cowbells!
As
promised you can reacquaint yourself with our style and pizazz,
with this April’s Work Them mixtape, a downloadable one hour odyssey
through our worthy flavours of the month, including tracks from
Chromatics, Burial, New Build, Midland and more... Our last mixtape had
over 500 listens, so thanks for the support, and we hope to see you at
the Mill. Pace yourselves... x
