We have reached the 13th Installment of Off Modern and to celebrate this fact we are going all out!

Joining us just before they all jump on a plane to Texas for SWSX, we present to you:

DJANGO DJANGO
http://www.myspace.com/djangotime
It’s almost impossible to box this band in. In the trusted words of the guardian, Django Django are ” Psychedelic art pop at its brilliant best”. Pulsating percussion, fast rhythms, handclaps intertwined with a lot of whiskey, a burning hot sun and a mustang. They are sure to bring that much needed heat to a very icy Elephant & Castle.

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FRENCH KISSING
http://www.myspace.com/frenchkissingband
Another band to undoubtably take the winter chill away. French Kissing serve up a strong dose of sunbleached 60’s Harmonies and garage pop to go bonkers to. In the word’s of one blogger, French Kissing make Brian Wilson want to put on his speedoes and head back to the beach – enough said.

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BEATY HEART
http://www.myspace.com/beatyheart
This south London four piece will get you moving. With their own brand of b-more inspired loops, samples and frenetic tribal drumming Beaty Heart should not be missed.

DJ sets courtesy of:

Deadly Rhythm Sound-System
http://www.myspace.com/deadlyrhythmclub

Yo Mamma
http://www.myspace.com/yomamaldn

+ Off Modern Resident (Tomfoolery’s gone to Finland!)
Nasty McQuaid

ART:

This month Off Modern presents ‘Social Capital’ curated by Sally Hogarth & supported by IdeasTap.
Featuring new work from Kirsty Buchannan, Nisha Duggal, Philipp von Frankenberg, Sally Hogarth, Marnie Hollande, Leah Lovett, Sarah Walters, & more TBC

8pm-3am

FREE before 9pm / Five Pounds After

see http://www.OFFMODERN.com/ for more info

Joining the dots between disco, dancehall, tropical rhythms and bass, South London’s finest Nasty McQuaid & Mangno take a break from their roadblocked Off Modern art raves to deliver some grimey party music sunshine to your Thursday night. This month they’re joined by Top Nice supremo Louis Enchante who’ll be bringing his bag of italo treats and electro pop magic to woo your ears and feet…
Joining the dots between disco, dancehall, tropical rhythms and bass, South London’s finest Nasty McQuaid & Mangno take a break from their roadblocked Off Modern art raves to deliver some grimey party music sunshine to your Thursday night. This month they’re joined by Top Nice supremo Louis Enchante who’ll be bringing his bag of italo treats and electro pop magic to woo your ears and feet…

In the early ’80s renowned photographer Mark Lebon launched ‘Reely’, a long-running and influential London film night and club. GETME! and DoBeDo resurrect the night as ‘Reely and Truly’.

Each month ‘Reely and Truly’ will open with an hour of short films curated by DoBeDo – featuring the work of both young filmmakers and some of the original ‘Reely’ contributors. Alongside this, photographers are invited each month to shoot and premier an exclusive slide show that will play as the visual accompaniment to GETME! DJs and monthly special guests.

Photo slideshow : NAIMA KARLSSON

Films curated by DoBeDo , detailed in the zine given out on the night.

DJS

THE HEATWAVE (RINSE FM)
YOUNG TURKS
TIM AND BARRY (DON’T WATCH THAT TV)
LIXO (GETME!)
OI YOU!
BLAISE BELLVILLE
P’ON (HONEST JOHNS)
MR MONEYBAGS (GETME!)

FREE ENTRY 7 - 2

FILMS AT 8PM. SHARP

http://www.thisisgetme.com

http://www.dobedo.co.uk

Sian Alice Group - Headline show from the London band ahead of their European Tour with Florence & The Machine. Sian alice have released two magical records through the Social Registry label and taken their beautiful, seductive sound on the road with Spiritualized and Gang Gang Dance often utilising the talents of members of booth these bands in recording.

Lonelady - The benchmark of interesting and eclectic music Warp records have just signed this mysterious Mancunian girl who seems to channel Wire like guitar strums with Grace Jones vocal rhythm. The dark side of pop.

Off Modern
Loud & Quiet

£5 adv Ticketweb. £6 door, 9pm 1am

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Theophilus London:
http://www.myspace.com/theophiluslondon
Touted by the NME as the no.1 artist to look out for in 2010 this guy has a platinum future ahead of him. He’s performing for you at Off Modern sandwiched between a date with Miike Snow at Scala and Atrak at Fabric. Having worked with Damon Albarn, Mark Ronson, Gucci Mane, Jack Penate, The XX, Amadou and Mariam, and Passion Pit before even releasing an album, London’s exclusive headline set at Off Modern this January is one you don’t want to miss.

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Bo Ningen
http://www.myspace.com/boningen
The band with the most intense live show in London come to Off Modern to make your mind a total mess with their exhilarating brand of garage punk doom.

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Casper C (Blogger’s Delight):
http://www.myspace.com/cas_cool

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Is Tropical:
http://www.myspace.com/istropical

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Off Modern Residents
Nasty McQuaid & Tomfoolery

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In the Gallery: O/M Film Club Presents . . .
A collection of our favorite video artists & film collectives presenting their work.
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Short films showing throughout the venue.
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An OM Film Club Midnight Double Feature.

9pm-3am

+ FREE before 10pm / Five Pounds After

Top Nice, everyone’s favourite British / Swedish crossover dance party, are putting on a fantastic party at Russian Bar on February 5th, we’re djing at it, it should be lots of fun. Also stay tuned for some very special collaborative operations between Top Nice and Off Modern in the summer!

We’ve gone about how good Get Me are in the past, they’ve put on some great stuff like Tempa T and they host the excellent Reely and Truly film / photography / hip-hop night which we’ve dj’ed at. They are continuing this tradition of fantastic events with a killer New Year’s Eve party at the Tabernacle in Notting Hill, DON LETTS is dj’ing, which is pretty fucking great. If you don’t have plans yet, this should sort you out.

Hi everyone, its a been little quite of late here, and thats because we have been working hard on loads of different little things, but we almost have the second Off Modern magazine coming out in the new year. If you’d like to check out the Ditto Press Blog you can find a little teaser, you should also check them out anyway, Ben Freeman is the mastermind behind the excellent FUN magazine, which we’ve mentioned before. If you have anything you need printing I’d recommend checking them out.

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IN other news we put on a massive squat party in Mayfair a few weeks ago, Fiction played live, there was a whole host of excellent djs, and a few police officers too. We’ll have photos up soon, promise. Fiction have incidentally just recorded a new song, its called Big Things, its great. Listen here.

OFF MODERN + VHS VIDEO BASEMENT PRESENT A PARTY IN AN ABANDONED STRIP CLUB > > >

This Friday (the 27th) Off Modern and VHS Video Basement present an EXTRA special party in a massive abandoned strip club in Mayfair. For one night only we are turning three floors of red velvet, swings and poles into a massive art happening playground. There’ll be live music, a 3k soundsystem, poetry and zine making workshops, new work from some of London’s best young artists and best of all, there is no closing time except for when the bailiffs come to kick us all out on Saturday morning.

WITH MUSIC FROM > > >

FICTION (www.myspace.com/fictionlondon)

THE SAUDIS (www.myspace.com/thesaudis)

+ EXTRA SPECIAL HEADLINER

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DJs

TOMFOOLERY vs NASTY MCQUAID

LIXO (GET ME)

BLEU ET JAUNE

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ART FROM > > >

VHS VIDEO BASEMENT
HOUNDS OF HATE
HARRY BEER
GUY GORMLEY
TOM BRESLIN
JESS TIMMINS
TOM REES
MITCHELL BRIDGES
ALEX LAWRENSON
MIKE BARRET
YURI PATTISON

DURING THE DAY > > >

CLINIC will be doing a drop in zine making and poetry workshop from four till seven. With readings from the Clinic Poets afterwards. Music will be supplied by Jamie N. Commons and Dominic Jaeckle.

DETAILS > > >

PUSS IN BOOTS STRIP CLUB // 11 WHITE HORSE STREET // MAYFAIR // LONDON // W1J 7LL //

ONLY £3

The 10th Off Modern is on the 3rd of December at Corsica Studios.

There will be live music from PLUGS and ACRES, ACRES, plus an exclusive DJ set from up and coming house mystro JAM CITY whose excellent mix for FACT magazine can be downloaded here.

And of course there will be appearances from our residents Tomfoolery and Nasty Mcquaid, a very special performance in the gallery from Hounds Of Hate and loads more TBC.

9pm - 3am

free before 10 / £5 after

Come one come all

This Friday Off Modern’s own terrible twosome Nasty McQuaid and Mangno will be playing songs at the Haggerston in Dalston. It is completely and utterly free, which is great.

This Thursday November 5th marks our first anniversary as a collective and it’s about time to give you a little taster of what’s going down at Corsica Studios. Replacing Gaggle, our special guests this month are Loverman who we had the pleasure of putting on at South East in East in the summer.

You’ll remember we posted about Loverman a few months ago and since then they’ve made this superb video for their single Crypt Tonight…

[CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POST, THE VIDEO FOR 'CRYPT TONIGHT' BY LOVERMAN AND LISTEN TO A MIX BY BUDGIE'S]

No Pain In Pop presents..

Friday 30th October 2009
Goldsmiths Student Union, New Cross
2000 - 0300 hrs

LIVE

the Bug ft Flowdan - http://www.myspace.com/thebuguk
Claustrophic bass from London’s most visionary producer, complete with rumbling rhetoric from Roll Deep’s Flowdan.

Teengirl Fantasy - http://www.myspace.com/teengirlfantasy
Equal part weird cut & paste ambient compositions and high-energy dance anthems.

Gold Panda - http://www.myspace.com/goldpanda
Pitchfork endorsed organic frequencies and stomping sub-bass.

Deep Sht - http://www.myspace.com/deepshtsht
Crestfallen slowgaze from heartfelt romantic Tom Watson and co.

DJs

Cooly G - http://www.myspace.com/coolyg
The first lady of funky, Hyperdub’s deep house superstar and - for what it’s worth - number 45 in the NME Future 50 list.

Joy Orbison - http://www.myspace.com/joyorbison
Rolling, soulful and very danceful, Croydon based producer Joy Orbison’s first few tracks are all set to be the high water mark of the decade in whichever genre you choose to place them.

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No Pain In Pop :: Transparent
Jah Pat :: Split Tapes
Off Modern :: Doldrums

£5 NUS / £7

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No Pain In Pop’s Halloween Party has consistently been the best halloween party around for a few years now, this year isn’t likely to be any different, you’d be totally silly to miss it.

Any inquiries please contact felix@offmodern.com

Thanks to James Kirkup for poster design.

Get Me are some great West London kids, they are alway putting on loads of fun nights that you should be going to, Lixo has dj’ed at a few of our events in the past and we are returning the favour for the second REELY AND TRULY. In the early ’80s renowned photographer Mark Lebon launched ‘Reely’, a long-running and influential London film night and club. This year GETME! and DoBeDo resurrect the night as ‘Reely and Truly’. Each month ‘Reely and Truly’ opens with an hour of short films curated by DoBeDo – featuring the work of both young filmmakers and some of the original ‘Reely’ contributors. Alongside this, two photographers are invited each month to shoot and premier an exclusive slide show that will play as the visual accompaniment to GETME! DJs and monthly special guests. And they are also putting on the fantastic Tempz on October 9th at Westrbourne Studios. All pretty amazing right? Be sure to come down.