DO 4 LOVE (ROOM 2)

SATURDAY 27TH APRIL (ROOM 2) - DO 4 LOVE

TIMES: 9PM UNTIL 2AM

COSTS: ADV £7.50 // DOOR £10

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The sound of Hackney is changing.
The institutions, clubs and scenes are being silenced.
Do 4 Love is a party from the people who have shaped the sound of Hackney.
Join us for our third installment of dancing and celebration, showcasing the generations who have laid the foundations of the soundtrack to our city.
We’re not here to mourn or moan, we are here to vote with our feet, to preserve our musical heritage, to resist the cultural change the only way we know how.
Hackney will not be closed.

ROB BAILEY
DJ, promoter and curator Rob is one of the original founders of The New Untouchables, for the last 22 years the collective has been a major driving force in London’s underground Mod & Sixties music scene. Amongst the club nights, events, festivals, book and record releases and film screenings, The New Untouchables have created a radical alternative to London’s usual nightlife. The night ‘Mousetrap’ has been running unfalteringly for the last 28 years in it’s Finsbury Park home to an ever loyal crowd, whilst annual festival Le Beat Bespoke brings together music heads from around the world. Bailey’s nights are cited as inspiration to much of East London’s early 2000 musicians, with bands like the Horrors immersing themselves in the garage rock and psychedelia music played out.


DJ JACKO
Jacko is one of the original breed of DJs, growing up in the 60s and listening to pirate radio, his love of soul music started at an early age. As a teenager Jacko had begun to notice pubs turfing out local bands and asking for DJ’s instead, so he built his own equipment, speakers and DJ consoles and began playing out Soul music across London. Soon he held residencies at Louise’s (one of the early LGBT bars in Soho) and Legends (Bond Street), and ran the music at Boy George’s boat parties. Jacko was also famed for playing his signature soulful sounds at some of London’s first squat parties in Angel’s Post Office & Chelsea Town Hall. Now semi-retired from DJing Jacko spends his time selling records and regularly attends Northern Soul dances.


JACK GADSDEN
At 19 Jack Gadsden is the freshest face on the Northern Soul scene. Developing a passion for soul from an early age he has spent his teenage years burrowing deep into record collecting, combing communities and fairs for Northern Soul, racing R&B and deep heavy soul. Gadsden has just launched his first event 'We’ve Got Soul' at the Bank of Friendship in Islington and is a regular face at 100 Club, Crawdaddy and of course The New Untouchables.

ELDICA RECORDS
A cornerstone of the community, 18 years ago Eldica Records opened on Bradbury Street by Annie Joachim Joseph and her husband Andy Westbury. Andy - once a member of 90’s hip-hop rave outfit 2-Mad - handpicks the records. Annie’s grandmother Eldica Joachim (the shops namesake) was an influential name amongst the West Indian expatriates and music scene of 1950s London. An Aladdin’s cave of familiar sounds you’ve never heard before, Eldica provides vinyl selections of sounds from around the world to the DJs and collectors of Hackney. As the area has transformed around it, Eldica has resisted, standing strong through plans to demolish Bradbury Street to aid Crossrail in 2016.

Representing Eldica Records will be Jack Foster, curator and creator of Do 4 Love and record seller at Eldica. Alongside Do 4 Love Jack also runs Mechanix, a party born out of a mechanics garage in North East London.

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PLEASE NOTE:
* BAGS LARGER THAN A4 (HANDBAG SIZE) *MUST* BE CHECKED INTO THE CLOAKROOM
* THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE IN ROOM 2
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