The Big Sexy Land thread . . .

First of all the general information:

BigSexyLand is a London based club night run by the irrepressible John D and the irritable John T.

We play, amongst other things:
Chromatics - Glass Candy - Hercules & Love Affair - Munk - Digitalism - BSL Bootlegs - Heloise & the Savoir Faire - Justice - Cut Copy - Santagold - MIA - Neon Neon - Spank Rock - BSL Remixes - Shriekback - Gary Numan - Prince - Giorgio Moroder - Japan - Liquid Liquid - A Certain Ratio - Bumblebeez - The Tigerpicks - Bowie - Chicks on Speed - Soulwax - Joey Beltram - BSL Edits

***
BSL London:
The BigSexyLand room at Voltage (basement at Platinum, 23 Paul St., EC2A), third Saturday of each month. We play between 11.30pm and 3am. The club stays open until 7am.


Entry to BSL is 5 pounds on the list. Email: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it with your name.

The next one is

Saturday May 17. I'm away but I'm being covered by the ace Kilon Tek.

His mix tape is available from either our website www.bigsexyland.co.uk (click on audio) or go to Kilon Tek's MySpace.

Other stuff is:

We've parted ways (amicably) with Michael Gray and have no plans to replace him at the moment. For the time being we will be having the odd guest DJ such as Kilon Tek, Rob from Chips With Everything, Will from Adventures Close To Home, Sheila Chipperfield from Elastica and many others.

The regular Manchester BSL is off the menu for the time being. That said John T will be DJing regularly at Chips With Everything in Manchester. More details to follow.

We've got a number of new mixes coming out; one for The Laurel Collective, who recently signed to Double Six, a subsiduary of Domino and George Pringle on DiS recordings. Again more details soon.

So he's become "Leave us, Michael" then?

Right, any problems with the download were only caused by too many people trying to access it at once.

Try again if you want to hear it.

Should anyone want to know:


BigSexyLand at Voltage
PLATINUM
23 PAUL STREET, LONDON, EC2A
Hoxton's intimate electro-eclectic all-night party...

SATURDAY 17 MAY '08
All-nighter: 23.00 til 07.00 (with all-night bar)

£7 with flyer
£6 with if you email your name(s) to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
£5 before 12, after 4 / NUS
£10 otherwise

Plus, before 1am: 2 for 1 Czech bottled beers AND on Italian Opal Sambucca


The BSL residency at VOLTAGE continues, with one of the best line-ups at the club yet. With John D away at All Tomorrow’s Parties, our newly discovered electro brother from another mother Kilon Tek will be standing in to DJ alongside John T in the basement from 11-3am. You can check out Mr Tek’s skills on his 80-minute “Interface Mix 08” mp3, currently hosted on the BSL website at http://www.bigsexyland.co.uk/audio/audio.shtml

We’ll also be doing another set in the ground floor bar later on.


Elsewhere in the club, Voltage have once again bagged another internationally-acclaimed electro DJ in the form of the astounding VICARIOUS BLISS (Ed Banger).

Since this UK-born Parisian's first Ed Banger release, Theme From Vicarious Bliss, back in early 2005 to massive acclaim, his reputation has soared to that of International superstar DJ. Not surprising, as even that first track was quickly playlisted by all the most forward-thinking London and European club DJs, picked up by UK Radio 1 with Rob Da Bank proclaiming it Tune Of The Month for November '06, and was also DMC: Hot release Buzz of the month' & Single Of The Week in France's Les Inrockuptibles amongst other things.

Since then, Vicarious Bliss, actually an unassuming chap called Andy, has remixed N*E*R*D, Mystery Jets, Sebastien Tellier, Ladytron, Teenage Bad Girl, and even the godlike Human League's Together In Electric Dreams. He then went on to co-produce Ladytron's album (due out this Summer). All of this slotted between his gruelling International DJ schedule, which has so far taken him to London's Fabric, Barcelona's Nitsa & Razzmatazz, Glasgow's Arches, Global Gathering, Hong Kong's Volar, and a full Australian tour in December '07. If he was a colonising army, the whole world would now be marching extatically (or should that be blissfully?) to a national anthem of electro-psychedelia, girlie harmonies, dirty moog & a 1958 fuzz pedal-laden no-rules mash-up!

* * * * * *

The rest of the night looks like this…

The Basement:
23:30 - 03:00 BigSexyLand
03:00 - 03:45 Player Player
03:45 - 04:45 Vicarious Bliss
04:45 - 05:45 Jeff Automatic
05:45 - 06:45 Vicarious Bliss
06:45 - close Jeff & Player


Ground Floor Bar:
23:00 - 01:00 Boardroom DJs
01:00 - 02:00 Player Player
02:00 - 04:30 Miss K
04:30 - 05:30 BigSexyLand DJs
05:30 - close Miss K

1st Floor:
01:00 - close – The Boardroom


DJ Profiles:

JEFF AUTOMATIC Transmission <http://www.myspace.com/jeffautomatic>
Credited by Time Out for starting "an argument between guitars and club culture" back in 2003, with his own clubnight, Transmission (in London & Barcelona), Jeff Automatic has remixed Raveonettes and The Pinker Tones (recently on US tour with Groove Armada), played Reading (Dance stage), Secret Garden, Benicassim, TDK Cross Central, and Snowbombineg Festivals, as well as DJing at some of London's best-loved electro-eclectic nights. He is also to be found at London’s Club NME, Barcelona’s Razzmatazz, Madrid’s Low Club & beyond... ]

THE BOARDROOM Klang Elektronik / Rotter's Golf Club <http://www.myspace.com/theboardroomuk>
John Vic (Victorville), James 'Sterling' Moss (ESC, Tribal Recs), Sidney Le Sarge (Haywire, WANG), Steve Boardman (Radical Majik)
hould anyone want to know:


BigSexyLand at Voltage
PLATINUM
23 PAUL STREET, LONDON, EC2A
Hoxton's intimate electro-eclectic all-night party...

SATURDAY 17 MAY '08
All-nighter: 23.00 til 07.00 (with all-night bar)

£7 with flyer
£6 with if you email your name(s) to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
£5 before 12, after 4 / NUS
£10 otherwise

Plus, before 1am: 2 for 1 Czech bottled beers AND on Italian Opal Sambucca


The BSL residency at VOLTAGE continues, with one of the best line-ups at the club yet. With John D away at All Tomorrow’s Parties, our newly discovered electro brother from another mother Kilon Tek will be standing in to DJ alongside John T in the basement from 11-3am. You can check out Mr Tek’s skills on his 80-minute “Interface Mix 08” mp3, currently hosted on the BSL website at http://www.bigsexyland.co.uk/audio/audio.shtml

We’ll also be doing another set in the ground floor bar later on.


Elsewhere in the club, Voltage have once again bagged another internationally-acclaimed electro DJ in the form of the astounding VICARIOUS BLISS (Ed Banger).

Since this UK-born Parisian's first Ed Banger release, Theme From Vicarious Bliss, back in early 2005 to massive acclaim, his reputation has soared to that of International superstar DJ. Not surprising, as even that first track was quickly playlisted by all the most forward-thinking London and European club DJs, picked up by UK Radio 1 with Rob Da Bank proclaiming it Tune Of The Month for November '06, and was also DMC: Hot release Buzz of the month' & Single Of The Week in France's Les Inrockuptibles amongst other things.

Since then, Vicarious Bliss, actually an unassuming chap called Andy, has remixed N*E*R*D, Mystery Jets, Sebastien Tellier, Ladytron, Teenage Bad Girl, and even the godlike Human League's Together In Electric Dreams. He then went on to co-produce Ladytron's album (due out this Summer). All of this slotted between his gruelling International DJ schedule, which has so far taken him to London's Fabric, Barcelona's Nitsa & Razzmatazz, Glasgow's Arches, Global Gathering, Hong Kong's Volar, and a full Australian tour in December '07. If he was a colonising army, the whole world would now be marching extatically (or should that be blissfully?) to a national anthem of electro-psychedelia, girlie harmonies, dirty moog & a 1958 fuzz pedal-laden no-rules mash-up!

* * * * * *

The rest of the night looks like this…

The Basement:
23:30 - 03:00 BigSexyLand
03:00 - 03:45 Player Player
03:45 - 04:45 Vicarious Bliss
04:45 - 05:45 Jeff Automatic
05:45 - 06:45 Vicarious Bliss
06:45 - close Jeff & Player


Ground Floor Bar:
23:00 - 01:00 Boardroom DJs
01:00 - 02:00 Player Player
02:00 - 04:30 Miss K
04:30 - 05:30 BigSexyLand DJs
05:30 - close Miss K

1st Floor:
01:00 - close – The Boardroom


DJ Profiles:

JEFF AUTOMATIC Transmission <http://www.myspace.com/jeffautomatic>
Credited by Time Out for starting "an argument between guitars and club culture" back in 2003, with his own clubnight, Transmission (in London & Barcelona), Jeff Automatic has remixed Raveonettes and The Pinker Tones (recently on US tour with Groove Armada), played Reading (Dance stage), Secret Garden, Benicassim, TDK Cross Central, and Snowbombineg Festivals, as well as DJing at some of London's best-loved electro-eclectic nights. He is also to be found at London’s Club NME, Barcelona’s Razzmatazz, Madrid’s Low Club & beyond... ]

THE BOARDROOM Klang Elektronik / Rotter's Golf Club <http://www.myspace.com/theboardroomuk>
John Vic (Victorville), James 'Sterling' Moss (ESC, Tribal Recs), Sidney Le Sarge (Haywire, WANG), Steve Boardman (Radical Majik)
[ Klang-signed Shoreditch studio / live collective producing and performing wilful and sophisticated electro-techno for grownups. Sets comprise decks, DJs, keyboards, vocals and all manner of odd equipment; a dark musical journey for your mind that your feet just won't stop moving to. Current support to Weatherall, Sven Vath, Ivan Smagghe, etc. ]

BIGSEXYLAND <http://www.myspace.com/bigsexyland>
hould anyone want to know:


BigSexyLand at Voltage
PLATINUM
23 PAUL STREET, LONDON, EC2A
Hoxton's intimate electro-eclectic all-night party...

SATURDAY 17 MAY '08
All-nighter: 23.00 til 07.00 (with all-night bar)

£7 with flyer
£6 with if you email your name(s) to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
£5 before 12, after 4 / NUS
£10 otherwise

Plus, before 1am: 2 for 1 Czech bottled beers AND on Italian Opal Sambucca


The BSL residency at VOLTAGE continues, with one of the best line-ups at the club yet. With John D away at All Tomorrow’s Parties, our newly discovered electro brother from another mother Kilon Tek will be standing in to DJ alongside John T in the basement from 11-3am. You can check out Mr Tek’s skills on his 80-minute “Interface Mix 08” mp3, currently hosted on the BSL website at http://www.bigsexyland.co.uk/audio/audio.shtml

We’ll also be doing another set in the ground floor bar later on.


Elsewhere in the club, Voltage have once again bagged another internationally-acclaimed electro DJ in the form of the astounding VICARIOUS BLISS (Ed Banger).

Since this UK-born Parisian's first Ed Banger release, Theme From Vicarious Bliss, back in early 2005 to massive acclaim, his reputation has soared to that of International superstar DJ. Not surprising, as even that first track was quickly playlisted by all the most forward-thinking London and European club DJs, picked up by UK Radio 1 with Rob Da Bank proclaiming it Tune Of The Month for November '06, and was also DMC: Hot release Buzz of the month' & Single Of The Week in France's Les Inrockuptibles amongst other things.

Since then, Vicarious Bliss, actually an unassuming chap called Andy, has remixed N*E*R*D, Mystery Jets, Sebastien Tellier, Ladytron, Teenage Bad Girl, and even the godlike Human League's Together In Electric Dreams. He then went on to co-produce Ladytron's album (due out this Summer). All of this slotted between his gruelling International DJ schedule, which has so far taken him to London's Fabric, Barcelona's Nitsa & Razzmatazz, Glasgow's Arches, Global Gathering, Hong Kong's Volar, and a full Australian tour in December '07. If he was a colonising army, the whole world would now be marching extatically (or should that be blissfully?) to a national anthem of electro-psychedelia, girlie harmonies, dirty moog & a 1958 fuzz pedal-laden no-rules mash-up!

* * * * * *

The rest of the night looks like this…

The Basement:
23:30 - 03:00 BigSexyLand
03:00 - 03:45 Player Player
03:45 - 04:45 Vicarious Bliss
04:45 - 05:45 Jeff Automatic
05:45 - 06:45 Vicarious Bliss
06:45 - close Jeff & Player


Ground Floor Bar:
23:00 - 01:00 Boardroom DJs
01:00 - 02:00 Player Player
02:00 - 04:30 Miss K
04:30 - 05:30 BigSexyLand DJs
05:30 - close Miss K

1st Floor:
01:00 - close – The Boardroom


DJ Profiles:

JEFF AUTOMATIC Transmission <http://www.myspace.com/jeffautomatic>
Credited by Time Out for starting "an argument between guitars and club culture" back in 2003, with his own clubnight, Transmission (in London & Barcelona), Jeff Automatic has remixed Raveonettes and The Pinker Tones (recently on US tour with Groove Armada), played Reading (Dance stage), Secret Garden, Benicassim, TDK Cross Central, and Snowbombineg Festivals, as well as DJing at some of London's best-loved electro-eclectic nights. He is also to be found at London’s Club NME, Barcelona’s Razzmatazz, Madrid’s Low Club & beyond... ]

THE BOARDROOM Klang Elektronik / Rotter's Golf Club <http://www.myspace.com/theboardroomuk>
John Vic (Victorville), James 'Sterling' Moss (ESC, Tribal Recs), Sidney Le Sarge (Haywire, WANG), Steve Boardman (Radical Majik)
hould anyone want to know:


BigSexyLand at Voltage
PLATINUM
23 PAUL STREET, LONDON, EC2A
Hoxton's intimate electro-eclectic all-night party...

SATURDAY 17 MAY '08
All-nighter: 23.00 til 07.00 (with all-night bar)

£7 with flyer
£6 with if you email your name(s) to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
£5 before 12, after 4 / NUS
£10 otherwise

Plus, before 1am: 2 for 1 Czech bottled beers AND on Italian Opal Sambucca


The BSL residency at VOLTAGE continues, with one of the best line-ups at the club yet. With John D away at All Tomorrow’s Parties, our newly discovered electro brother from another mother Kilon Tek will be standing in to DJ alongside John T in the basement from 11-3am. You can check out Mr Tek’s skills on his 80-minute “Interface Mix 08” mp3, currently hosted on the BSL website at http://www.bigsexyland.co.uk/audio/audio.shtml

We’ll also be doing another set in the ground floor bar later on.


Elsewhere in the club, Voltage have once again bagged another internationally-acclaimed electro DJ in the form of the astounding VICARIOUS BLISS (Ed Banger).

Since this UK-born Parisian's first Ed Banger release, Theme From Vicarious Bliss, back in early 2005 to massive acclaim, his reputation has soared to that of International superstar DJ. Not surprising, as even that first track was quickly playlisted by all the most forward-thinking London and European club DJs, picked up by UK Radio 1 with Rob Da Bank proclaiming it Tune Of The Month for November '06, and was also DMC: Hot release Buzz of the month' & Single Of The Week in France's Les Inrockuptibles amongst other things.

Since then, Vicarious Bliss, actually an unassuming chap called Andy, has remixed N*E*R*D, Mystery Jets, Sebastien Tellier, Ladytron, Teenage Bad Girl, and even the godlike Human League's Together In Electric Dreams. He then went on to co-produce Ladytron's album (due out this Summer). All of this slotted between his gruelling International DJ schedule, which has so far taken him to London's Fabric, Barcelona's Nitsa & Razzmatazz, Glasgow's Arches, Global Gathering, Hong Kong's Volar, and a full Australian tour in December '07. If he was a colonising army, the whole world would now be marching extatically (or should that be blissfully?) to a national anthem of electro-psychedelia, girlie harmonies, dirty moog & a 1958 fuzz pedal-laden no-rules mash-up!

* * * * * *

The rest of the night looks like this…

The Basement:
23:30 - 03:00 BigSexyLand
03:00 - 03:45 Player Player
03:45 - 04:45 Vicarious Bliss
04:45 - 05:45 Jeff Automatic
05:45 - 06:45 Vicarious Bliss
06:45 - close Jeff & Player


Ground Floor Bar:
23:00 - 01:00 Boardroom DJs
01:00 - 02:00 Player Player
02:00 - 04:30 Miss K
04:30 - 05:30 BigSexyLand DJs
05:30 - close Miss K

1st Floor:
01:00 - close – The Boardroom


DJ Profiles:

JEFF AUTOMATIC Transmission <http://www.myspace.com/jeffautomatic>
Credited by Time Out for starting "an argument between guitars and club culture" back in 2003, with his own clubnight, Transmission (in London & Barcelona), Jeff Automatic has remixed Raveonettes and The Pinker Tones (recently on US tour with Groove Armada), played Reading (Dance stage), Secret Garden, Benicassim, TDK Cross Central, and Snowbombineg Festivals, as well as DJing at some of London's best-loved electro-eclectic nights. He is also to be found at London’s Club NME, Barcelona’s Razzmatazz, Madrid’s Low Club & beyond... ]

THE BOARDROOM Klang Elektronik / Rotter's Golf Club <http://www.myspace.com/theboardroomuk>
John Vic (Victorville), James 'Sterling' Moss (ESC, Tribal Recs), Sidney Le Sarge (Haywire, WANG), Steve Boardman (Radical Majik)
[ Klang-signed Shoreditch studio / live collective producing and performing wilful and sophisticated electro-techno for grownups. Sets comprise decks, DJs, keyboards, vocals and all manner of odd equipment; a dark musical journey for your mind that your feet just won't stop moving to. Current support to Weatherall, Sven Vath, Ivan Smagghe, etc. ]

BIGSEXYLAND <http://www.myspace.com/bigsexyland>
["A madcap electro-pop-new-wave disco club subverting West End shoppers? We had to hear more" said One Week To Live of Big Sexy Land, when they were based at The Albany. Now the London / Manchester-based neurotic cabaret is one of Voltage's regular hosts, partying into the small hours. "Musically speaking, they drag Gary Numan down to Studio 54, and The Pixies end up in the Hacienda" say Time Out...

PLAYER PLAYER Snap Crackle & Pop <http://www.myspace.com/playerplayerdjs >
The "man for whom Miami Vice isn’t a work of fiction, more a way of life..." brings “synth pop, strutbass, electro, raredisco & miamibass". He's been out and about playing some of the coolest local nights, including a residency at local happening, Snap Crackle & Pop; as well as rockin’ Transmission’s party In Barcelona and ripping it up in Milan, last weekend...

And more, tba...

Right, I'm in. Ginger Yellow's in. Lyra's in. Who else is coming this month?

Love to, but I'm off to Berlin instead.

I LOVED that Vicarious Bliss track on the Ed Banger compilation last year.

Well that was fun, if a bit crowded. I've got no memory of anything after the first half hour or so, so I apologise if I made an arse of myself as usual.

Righty right. There have been some changes afoot and for the time being we're taking over the second floor of Salon De Transmission at a new club called The Last Days Of Decadence near Old Street.

It's next Saturday, July 5th and we've got a skill guest called Rob Hyde from Chips With Everything.

Hopefully see some of you down there.

BigSexyLand goes to Transmission

Saturday 5th of July
The Last Days of Decadence
145 Shoreditch High Street
E1 6JE
Map: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=533410&Y=182584&A=Y&Z=1

£5 before midnight, £8 after
Email This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for reduced entry all night.


This month, BSL pays a visit to Transmission, at the fabulously monikered venue THE LAST DAYS OF DECADENCE.

John D and John T will be commandeering the second room from 11pm to 3am, playing the usual unusual mix of pouting pop, new wave, nu-disco and filthy electro. Joining the BSL crew this month is our special guest ROB HYDE, of legendary Manchester night CHIPS WITH EVEYTHING, bringing you what the Chips crew call “pop disco rock electronic spandex funk”. Trust us, it’s awesome.

Elsewhere in the club, there’ll be live sets from NIC NELL and WE ARE BAND, and DJ sets from HEAD GARDNER (Secret Garden Party), PLAYER PLAYER (Voltage) and Transmission head honcho JEFF AUTOMATIC.

As ever, mail us at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for reduced entry.

See you on the 5th,
BSL
http://www.bigsexyland.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/bigsexylandclub
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5668774047