Counter Culture Events – 15th – 27th November 2010
aaamusic | On 15, Nov 2010
Good Morning! I imagine you are reading this rather bleary eyed nursing a cup of tea already looking forward to leaving work tonight. Am I right? It’s that dreaded Monday morning blues. I’m solving this by having a Galaxy for breakfast. YUM. So here’s a plan: check out the below listings – send this to your mates and arrange your entire social life for the next two weeks around Counter Culture. Easy. We have so many different things on you can’t get bored and by New Year we will have disappeared and then you will be kicking yourself you didn’t come see us more…and if you don’t have any mates come down and talk to one of the CC team cos we are nice like that.
We have a lot more live music coming up, plus some incredible art exhibitions. We really have pulled out the stops for the next couple of weeks offering a varied programme of events with Live Taxidermy, Graffiti Artists, more club nights and even Holly Willoughby doing her Dance4life.For more information on any of the events or if you would like to come down and review please get in touch.
Mon 15th – Tue 16th November
D.I.Y Taxidermy II : Dicing With Death 7pm-Midnight FREE
Art / Exhibition
D.I.Y Taxidermy is back… and this time it’s dangerous….Charlie Gates has a fascination with old, discarded objects and collecting the dead. Digging things out the ground, scraping road kill of the streets of London, practising D.I.Y taxidermy. Using techniques such as salt, shake’n’vac and vodka she experiments with preservation and the decaying process. With what is left she creates macabre sculptures, involving other found and meticulously arranged objects, placed into bizarre surreal assemblages.Creating Freakish characters, a metamorphosis of their discarded lives.
PLEASE NOTE LIVE SHOW IS ONLY ON MONDAY NIGHT
Saatchi page: http://www.saatchionline.com/profiles/index/id/76291
Thursday 18th November
WONDERLAND CATERPILLARS CABARET 7pm till 2.30am £3/£5
Club Night / Live Music / DJ
Forget everything you ever thought about a club night out and you have Wonderland. With their bakery open to keep your belly full all night (and a good excuse to come straight from work) With all kinds of performers, from a Burlesque troupe to Clowns, Fire performers and jugglers. Called the Caterpillars Cabaret due to the vastly eclectic take on the night it includes Britpop Chipshop who play Indie Pop and Jessica Scott who takes a contemporary slant on jazz. With Jesse Darling, Grandmaster Faff and Mr March Hare spinning tunes all night you are encouraged to through your hands up and hid in the mushroom patch!
Friday 19th November
NOISE OF ART VS COUNTER CULTURE 10pm-6am £10/£12
Club Night / Visuals
Noise of Art will be kicking off three weeks of events in London with a massive party at Counter Culture. With a DJ line-up that connects revamped house with current bass munching mutations, Noise of Art visual collaborators Your Mum and Overlap will be taking inspiration from the 30th anniversary the sighting of UFOs on the East coast of England. The real reports of strange flying objects and unusual radiation were made by the commander of a US Air force base in December 1980. They have never been explained…. On the bill are Justin Robertson, Larry Tee, Fred Deakin (Lemon Jelly) Punks Jump Up (Kitsune) Ben Osborne and Lady Hot Tangerine (Noise of Art)Stop Making Me (Kill Em All)and more to be announced.
Saturday 20th November
LOW KEY 10pm-6am
Club Night / DJ
Details of this club night are still under wraps but more information will be going up on the Counter Culture website and Facebook
Monday 22-24TH November
BUTTERFLY KNIGHTS EXHIBITION 6pm-9pm FREE
Art Exhibition / Live Graffiti Art
Sponsored by ‘El Jimador’ Tequila Apocaloco are offering a free Magarita to those that visit the space for this event! A combination of photography and graffiti art from Butterfly Knights and Wandworth Collective Studios- (one of the central St Martins students collective studios). Not only will you get to see the graffiti artists at work
but there will be a photography exhibition screened on the walls and the ability to interact with the event setup!
Thursday 25th November
BUTTERFLY NIGHTS APOCALOCO w/ Adam Freeland & More 9pm till 2.30am £12/£13.50
Live Music / DJ/ Performers
For Apocaloco, Counter Culture will become an underground bunker and transformed into a last refuge for the living. DJs keeping the World spinning with breaks, electro and DnB, plus VJ performances, art installations and live graffiti, fire jugglers and circus artists, street dancers and capoeira and finally a truly unique fashion showcase on a wrestling ring! All orchestrated by wonderfully sexy Social Butterflies!
Dress up and become part of the story: military hats / mayan feathers / dust masks. Maximum effort will be rewarded on the night!
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Friday 26th November
BUTTERFLY NIGHTS APOCALOCO w / NAPT & Hybrid 7pm till Late £12/£13.50
Live Music / DJ/ Performers
For Apocaloco, Counter Culture will become an underground bunker and transformed into a last refuge for the living. DJs keeping the World spinning with breaks, electro and DnB, plus VJ performances, art installations and live graffiti, fire jugglers and circus artists, street dancers and capoeira and finally a truly unique fashion showcase on a wrestling ring! All orchestrated by wonderfully sexy Social Butterflies!
Dress up and become part of the story: military hats / mayan feathers / dust masks. Maximum effort will be rewarded on the night!
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Saturday 27th November
DANCE FOR LIFE 3.30pm-7pm FREE
Live Music / DJ / Charity Event
The BIG Event 2010 will see 27 countries link by satellite to join youngsters in performing the international dance4life ‘drill’ in unison. dance4life UK is part of an international charity which uses music and dance to empower young people in the global battle against the HIV and AIDS epidemic. Hosted by KISS FM DJ and dance4life ambassador, Neev Ranu. Meanwhile performances will include new rave band Hadouken! and UK boy band VICE. The charity will be also launching a brand new viral campaign at the Event which will show the likes of N-Dubz, the Sugababes and Holly Willoughby doing their dance4life.
Saturday 27th November
NIGHTOWL 10pm-6am £10/£15
Club Night / DJ
with Bingo Players, Juan Kidd & Raymundo Rodriguez .Comfortable mixing it with the glitzy and glamourous surroundings of Pacha or equally at home rocking warehouse spaces down to their foundations, Nightowl is a unique clubbing brand that has built it’s solid reputation on big main room House beats and high quality production.
Counter Culture brings together 99 days of music and the arts as part of its eclectic program in a wonderful and atmospheric pop-up space in the arches beneath London Bridge station.
More Information and Tickets for all of the events can be found at http://www.countercultureproject.com/listings
