Bobo Blackstar Live @ The Canal Bar - 06.02.2010

A Snippet of Audio from last night...

Here's a little snippet of the tunes that went on last night in the Canal Bar.

Tracklist:
War - Lowrider
Big Boss Man - Black Eye
The Knack - My Sharona
Cream - Sunshine Of My Love
Free - All Right Now
Huey Louis And The News - The Power Of Love
Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone
Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
Glenn Frey - The Heat Is On
The Police - Message In A Bottle
UB40 - Don't Break My Heart
Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride

Shaolin Drunken Monk - Live In The Canal Bar 29th Jan 2010



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Shaolin Drunken Monk - Live at the Canal Bar - 18th December 2009

Yes Yes!

Back in the Canal Bar this evening with a bag full of fresh tunes!
Exactly one year on from the seminal Funk n Soul showdown in the Canal Bar which is still online for you listening pleasure!

Music kicks off sometime around 8pm and goes on til around abouts midnight.
Got some wicked 80's vibes to kick things off with tonight as well as a spot
of classic funk n soul and some well known tunes covered in a slightly different style!

Entry is free as always and I'm sure the new management will be pulling out all the stops
to make everybody welcome!

Good Times!

Lethal Weapon 3 - Friday 25th September 2009

Saturday 22nd Augst - Bass Heavy Bliss @ The Canal Bar

Get set for a night of Reggae and Hip Hop this coming saturday down the canal bar.

Selectors DJ Stasha and the Shaolin Drunken Monk will be delivering some dubbed out
riddims for your ears so check it.

with added subwoofers too!

9pm - 2am

Friday 14th August 2009 @ The Canal Bar!

Tonite in the Canal bar i'll be laying down some funky riddims and all that type of thing from 9pm onwards. Hope the weather holds out!!

Another busy weekend coming up...

Yesh!!

Lots of stuff going on this weekend for all those Newbury headz in the know (and those of you reading this too - as it's kinda telling you what you need to know.... erm?), music will be brightening all our lives this weekend and here's the insiders guide as to where to be and when...

Thursday 30th July - Critical State at the Pig n Paper
We're taking over the Pig and Paper this thursday night for a serious drum and bass rinse out. Music will be running from 8pm-2am and various badass DJ's an MC's will be smashing the place up, no doubt.

Friday 31st July - Shaolin Drunken Meanderings at the Canal Bar
I'll be taking control of the ones and twoz on Friday in the Canal Bar for a little cocktail of beats, with a base of hip hop, a hint of funk and maybe a dash of dance music to top it all off. 9pm -12am.

Saturday 1st August - Reggae, Hip Hop vs Jungle & Drum n Bass at The Bricklayers
When saturday comes we'll be back for our monthly bash at the Bricklayers. Combining reggae, hiphop an the inevitable Drum n Bass always counts for a wicked mix of styles throughout the night so make sure you don't sleep on this one. With the smoking area ably handled by the Thump crew expect something different for Newbury. 8pm - 2am - Drunks Promo's on the night and bring ID and all that gay shit yeh.

Sunday 2nd August - Drum n Bass at the Monument
So it's sunday you had your roast and watched the Eastenders omnibus, all you gotta do is drag your sorry ass from watching Countryfile and Songs Of Praise on BBC1 and shift yer ass down the Monument for 8pm (where you can find us each an every sunday night). This is a no holds barred Drum and Bass rinseout with adequete MC support from the crew - not for the faint hearted!!

Funky goings on Tonight in the Canal Bar

Yes thats right Party People. Get your funkiest threads ironed so those creases are razor sharp, grab your novelty sunglasses and get yourself ready!
I'm back in the Canal Bar this evening for a bunch of funksome tunes, a spot of hip hop and a dash of cutting. Music will be rolling between 9pm and midnight and as always its free to get in!

See youz there!

Gigs this Weekend!

Got a bunch more Gigs lined up for the lucky people of Newbury this weekend!

The festivities kick off on Friday night at 9pm in the Canal Bar where I'll be supplying a variety of minty fresh beats until midnight. Expect to hear lots of random tunes, the odd eighties smash hit and the Imperial March off the Star Wars soundtrack!

On Saturday I've lined up a little birthday bash in the Bricklayers for my man, DJ Stasha. We're gonna be coming from a slightly different angle for this one, setting up somewhere in the region of 5 decks with the DJ's doing 2 hour sets, so expect things to get ridiculous!
Thump promotions have kindly agreed to provide the breakbeats out in the Smoking Area, so there will be a flavour of music for virtually all tastes going on at some point throughout the evening. The curtain goes up at 8pm with final act finishing at 2am. Gonna be sickness!





And finally on Sunday, the Drum an Bass will be going down as it does every week. For one week only we'll be switching venue's to the Pig and Paper as the Critical State crew have drafted us in a for a rerun of the Bank Holiday mashup they held down there. We'll be back to normal - running it red in the Tap next week....

Busy Weekend!!

OOh got lots of things lined up for the upcoming bank holiday weekend:

Friday Night:
9pm - 1am
The Good, The Bad & The Hairy @ The Canal Bar
ft. Special Guest Bongo Odyssey (Fopp, Nu Urban)




Saturday Night:
(watch this space)





Sunday Night:

Bank Holiday Rinse Out - 2 Venues, 47 DJ's, 1000 million pints of Guinness!!

First and foremost The Pig n Paper is hosting their debut Drum n Bass event: Critical State
from 8pm - 2am. Drinks Promotions will be running all night long. Gonna be one phat Party!!





Bank Holiday Rinse Out Part duex - The Return!

Yes The Tap n Spile, only a mere 20 paces down the road from the Pig n Paper, will also be running the Drums and Bass on bank holiday sunday between the hours of 8 and 11pm.

So if you get bored of the DJ in the Pig then pop along to the Tap and see if yer man in there is hittin it any harder. Should be a massive night all round!!

What a weekend!!

So then, it was a busy weekend for the Newbury based promoters and punters alike with an unprecedented amount of partying going down over the weekend in town. On Saturday night there was no less than three parties going on across the Canal Bar (which was the best ;P ), The Beach party in the Bricklayers and the Hardcore night in the Berkshire Arms.

Let's start with Friday night when I headed over to the Purple Turtle in Reading, with the lads from work. DJ Lokki was up first but I had to go to a birthday party in the evening so I completely missed his set, he said it was cool though so I'm sure it was all good. Me an Magma rocked up in the club at about midnight just when Basement Phil was finishing off his set, he played some wicked old bits mostly from his label Basement Records and I wish I had got their a bit earlier to catch more of it, but being the slave to public transport that I am means this kind of thing is a regular occurrence (i.e. being late and missing good stuff...). Next up was Bongo Odyssey spinning a bit of deeper dnb and moving things on a bit. He played some nice tunes, a few of which I was planning on drawing too which made him chuckle when i berated him for it - also watch out Newbury crew as he will be coming to do a set in the Canal Bar next Bank Holiday weekend. The crowd were loving it by this point and Mc Macular had also arrived to bolster the line up with some rapid fire lyrics. Soon come 2am an Magma alongside myself stepped up for a two hour back to back set, which was duly despatched in a hail of beats and blanket of bass wobble by the pair of us. Shouts to all who came along a represented, especially Wong Snoozle (or MC Sleepy as he may well be known) and Mayla the crazy French chick! Big up the Subfactory guys: Neil Mac and Greenfly for getting that all hooked up for us!

So onto Saturday, I got home at just after 5am on Friday night / Saturday morning and decided to smoke some weed while watching some new South Park episodes, ended up being proper daytime by the time I went to bed, which seemed to work as a perfect catalyst to encourage people to phone me up, and from 11am onwards my mobile was ringing hot, which was punctuating my mornings kippage so I wasn't too pleased. After advising people on numerous issues from Reading Beer Festival hints an tips right through to PC support, I eventually got out of bed at about half one and had to hurry to get ready for my set in the Bricklayers at 2pm. I made it on time with a fresh bag of vinyl, only to find I had to wait for Man-spanking-Utd to finish their ponceball match with Boro'. This meant my set got cut down from an hour to like 20 minutes, Pri was on next though and he just let me play on which I thought was cool of him so I ended up doin like 40 minutes worth of Funk and Soul to a virtually empty pub, the cats out by the bus stop outside were groovin on down though so I made at lest one old lady happy! Like I say Pri jumped on the decks when I bailed, and turned up the pressure a notch with his blend of hard house and psy-trance. Ratzi and Scriv were living up to their eighties Fun House ideology decked out in retina burning dayglo colours with Scriv even rocking the Reebok Pumps (fluorescent ones at that!). I had to jump ship shortly after finishing my set as I had to go sort out a few things for the Canal bar later that evening. Duly sorted I rocked back to the Brickies and was stunned to hear of Craig Marshall's tragic death the night before, which definitely cast a shadow over the remaining events of the day. Sincere condolences to Craig's family and girlfriend for their loss, may he rest in peace.
Despite the awful news the party went on, and I caught the last part of Library Boy's set as well as most of Phil Rumens breakz abuse and the first chunk of Jambo's arrival on the decks (he started with that Skream remix of La Roux and had everyone bopping from the off). Time was relentlessly passing an I had to get my next bag of tunes and set up shop in the Canal Bar, which was pretty busy before I even got started. I chucked on some souled out numbers to begin with including a few cuts off the supremely dope El Michels 'Enter the 37th Chamber' LP I picked up earlier in the week, before making a foray into a spot of old skool hip hop. DJ Stasha bowled in at about 10pm, took the vibe, rolled it up into fattie and lit it up for the rest of us, so before his first tune was over there was a bevy of heads skanking away. Shout outs to the girl dancing in the full on chicken suit, and Meera who was not afraid of showing people how to do a Proper forward roll - I promise I'll wheel one out next time! Stasha kept up the pressure for almost two hours before I jumped back on an finished the do off with some Jungle-ism which pleased some people but seemed to annoy the Hockey crew, who came an asked me to play eighties tunes instead... It's like me going along to one of their Hockey matches and asking them if the can play cricket cos Hockey bores the shit outta me... Always riles me when randoms do that, I simply don't understand it. Anyway so that went down I shut up shop and legged it back to the Bricklayers to catch the last set of the evening, my man SUP, who played a watered down version of his usual hard drum andbass sound but definately kept the vibe alive. I had time for a couple of beers then it was all over and I found myself back home, watching more south park episodes at 5am in the Morning! A Good Day all round except for the shit news we had heard, big up Mikey Deviant, Phill 3 Parts, Ratzi, Scriv, Stasha and all the other people I saw around or hung out with.
Sunday was now upon us and I was knackered so after spending most of the day in bed an checking out the football scores from Saturday (Spurs are gonna get into Europe!!) I dragged my ass down to the Tap for a spot of the drum and bass thing. DJ Skipa fresh from his set in the Brickies on Saturday night popped in a done a tight jump up flavoured blend to get our collective heads nodding before young Jobee stepped up and dropped a heavy set on us. He's still a bit rough round the edges but generally it was a good little mix bar the odd dropped beat here an there but he wasn't afraid to drop tunes in and marks another step in the right direction for the youngster. Next up came Magma ready to smash the place up with his trademark filthy jump up beats which were duly delivered exquisitly. The barmaid kept turning the lights on and off by this point which was sending everyone mental, after sitting around in the dark for about an hour, quite amusing. Then when Magma had done his thing I jumped on with a spot of Jungle (I bought my record box straight from the Canal bar so was armed with some serious tunes as well as the usual Dnb fare) and rolled that for about twenty minutes before upping the bpm with 'On The Run' by Shy FX and getting dirty from there in. All round I was pleased, an it was another big night - props to the dancing crew who were having it all night as well as Skipa for sorting the CDJ's and the MC's Rush n Smoothie for their chitter chatter.
Needless to say I done fuck all on Monday except watch shit on telly and do a massive pile of washing up - true R'n'R!
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Gigs Gigs Gigs

Hi there you lovely people, got a couple of dates for your diarys!

Firstly I'm playing up at the Global Cafe up in Reading town. I'm playing a Hip Hop set from midnight til 1am so come along and say hello if you're in the area! Entry is gratis and the vibez will be flowing just as freely...


And secondly I'm back in the Canal Bar next Friday (27th March) suffering from a multiple personality disorder! Things could get a little weird! lol

Friday 13th March @ The Canal Bar

This Friday in the Canal bar:
SHAOLIN DRUNKEN PIMPIN'

ft. Snoop Gordy Gordz on the one'z n' two'z

9pm - 12am Friday 13th March @ The Canal Bar
Free Entry. Drinks Offers on the Night

Friday 27th February in the Canal Bar!

For those of you in town on Friday night this week...


For the final time until at least summertime i'm going to dig out a bunch of that 80's classic shit and smash it up down at the Canal Bar (not the final time i'm gonna play down there, just the last time i'm playing any 80's sets anywhere, for a while anyway) . I got three hours to fill though so will probably be beginning with a bit of funk an soul - a although I missed out on the Lee Dorsey tune I was hoping to get on eBay over the weekend cos I didn't check my computer. Anyway I did get a bunch of other stuff so it's all good, ya know how it goes.

Right then, to sum up: Friday Night. Canal Bar. Devastatin Gordy the Turntable Slave.
















props to kerrse for the original photochop

Friday The 13th!!

Shaolin Drunken Monk - Funk n Soul Set

Shaolin Drunken Monk

Funk n Soul Set

Live At The Canal Bar - 18th December 2008



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TRACKLIST

• Faze O - Riding High
• Love Unlimited Orchestra - Strange Games And Things
• Fred Merrits And Friends - Who's Who
• Marvin Gaye - T Plays It Cool
• Absolute Elsewhere - Future Past
• Banberra - Shack Up
• Maceo Parker - Cross The Tracks
• Marva Whitney - Its My Thing
• Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band - Different Strokes
• The Detroit Spinners - I'll Be Around
• Dyke & The Blazers - Let A Woman Be A Woman and A Man Be A Man
• Gladys Knight & The Pips - Queen Of Tears
• ...
• The Emotions - Blind Alley
• All The People - Cramp Your Style
• Ike Turner - Gettin' Nasty
• Bernard Wright - Haboglabotribin'
• The Meters - Chicken Strut
• Gian Franco Pienzio - Grigio Perla
• Brother To Brother - Hey Whats That You Say
• Lennie Hibbert - Rose Len
• Harvey Averne - You're No Good
• Brian Bennet - Solstice
• ..... (more to follow)
  

Hip Hop @ The Canal Bar - Thursday 21st August 2008

Haha quality night once again. Thanks to all who came down and got involved especially Hasty, Enah and Diamond Sire. Also shout out to the guys from Banbury who came along for some heavy spitting.

Didn't manage to record the audio this time round unfortunately.

I managed to capture the higlight of the night on my phone:

Hip Hop Night In The Canal Bar

The date was Thursday 17th July 2008. The venue was the Canal Bar in the Marketplace in Newbury and at precisely 9:30pm we arranged the turntables for maximum sonic effectiveness and commenced with the heaviest Hip Hop night Newbury has ever seen.


Part One: Shaolin Drunken Monk an MC Enah

TRACKLIST:

• NAS - Represent
• Notorious BIG - Kick In The Door
• Crooklyn Dodgers Part 1 (Instrumental)
  
• Ransom Badbones - Tha Realness
• Kardinal Offishal - Ol Time Killin (Instrumental)
• Wu Tang Clan - Triumph (Instrumental)
• Klashnekoff - Zero
• Smif n Wessun - Bucktown (Instrumental)

Part Two: DJ Lekski

TRACKLIST:

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Part Three: Shaolin Drunken Monk, MC Macular, MC Hasty & MC Enah

TRACKLIST:

• Blahzay Blahzay - Danger (Instrumental)
• Masta Killah - Iron God Chamber (Instrumental)
• The Beatnuts - Watch Out Now (Instrumental)
• Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt 2 (Instrumental)
• Kyza - Spit Fire (Instrumental)
• Royce Da 5'9" - Hit Em (Instrumental)
• Tame One - Act Right (Instrumental)
• Gangstarr - You Know My Steez (Instrumental)
• Marco Polo & Large Professor - Radar (remix) (Instrumental)
• East Flatbush Project - Treid By Twelve (Instrumental)

Part Four: DJ Lekski, MC Macular & MC Hasty

TRACKLIST:

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Part Five: Shaolin Drunken Monk & DJ Lekski

TRACKLIST:

• Ol Dirty Bastard - Shimmy Shimmy Ya (Sparo Remix)
• DJ MK & Skinnyman - Put It On You
• First Aid & Mantis - Escapeology
• Dr Syntax - Subcultures
• Mobb Deep - Quiet Storm
• Ty ft. Roots Manuva - So You Want More?
• Edan - Sing It Shitface
• Ghostface - Maxine
• Big Shug - Play It
• Ghostface - Flowers (Original version)
  

Massive respect to the MCs for coming down and spitting some sick sick lines as well as all the heads who came along to check out the show. Spread The Word!

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