Counterpoint 18+
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After a long run at the Tate Modern Counterpoint now moves central!
The Total Refreshment Centre provided a home for the young London jazz musicians when hardly anyone else was interested. It also created space for Lunch Money, a band comprised of Church Of Sound and Total Refreshment Centre insiders who use synths, drums, trombone, sax and whatever else they have to hand to make insanely dense analogue-based dance music. Their Dan ‘Danalogue/Comet Is Coming’ Levers-produced single Living3000 gives just a hint. Their takeover set at Counterpoint will reveal the full extent of their energetic powers.
Musical grounding Germane Marvel.
Counterpoint brings jazz musicians behind the turntables, asking them to apply their improv skills to a DJ set. Previous guests include Shirley Tetteh Sheila M. Maurice-Grey Cassie Kinoshi Joe Armon-Jones Kwake Bass Axel Kaner-Lidstrom Cleveland Watkiss Orphy Vibes Robinson Momoko, Emma Jean Thackray and Ben LaMar Gay.
In 1999 The Social opened in Little Portland Street. The brainchild of a record company whose offshoots included a hugely successful underground club night, The Social was set up with a simple manifesto – to provide great music and better booze to anyone who fancied tripping through the doors.
15 years later and still run by the original team who created it – Heavenly Recordings & The Breakfast Group – the bar is an award winning London institution. Designed back then by a partnership of David Adjaye and Will Russell (now of Pentagram) with the proviso of withstanding nuclear attack or – at the very least – the worst that people could chuck at it, The Social has launched over a million hugely successful hangovers.