Hello! Here is our flyer for June 1st. Our slightly treasonous flyer. Thanks as ever to Freya for coming up with the spectacular goods. Here’s her professional website, where you can (among other things) buy a print of a previous If You Tolerate… poster.
Remember, it’s £3 if you click ‘attending’ on our facebook event page, or if you email ifyoutoleratebis at gmail dot com. So do so and save yourselves a SHINY POUND.
Testing, testing. Hello. Is this thing on?
After a bit of a hiatus we’re back in the swing of things, following our St Patrick’s Day If You Tolerate Ash, Divine Comedy Will Be Next special upstairs (upstairs!) at the Trotwood. There were some good things and some bad things about being upstairs.
Good things: Change of scene. Windows. Being able to mark out a clear delineation between dancefloor and sitting-about-land.
Bad things: Eeee it was hot. In mid-March. Missed the power-fan we have downstairs. Couldn’t play any vinyl because the floor was too bouncy. Couldn’t open the windows in case someone fell out.
So we’re back to downstairs at the Betsey for 1st June. I do hope you can join us. It’ll be an anti-monarchy special, as it’s the start of the Jubilee weekend. Even if you don’t hate the monarchy you can pretend that you do for just one evening, can’t you? Our guest DJs for the night will be Neil & Anna of Pop Miswig. Their sensibility is similar to ours. Their hearts are filled with similar songs. And at least one of them is Welsh, and looks a bit like my dad did in the early seventies. All these are wonderful things.
Please note that this IFTBTKWBN is on a FRIDAY.
You can tell us you’re coming, or any other aspect of your life, on popular social networking site facebook.
Flyer will be revealed nearer the time.
J x
Here’s our flyer for the night, by the preposterously talented Freya Harrison. You can gawp at her other cool stuff here.
Pulp.
They were my first love and they might have been yours too. To mark their reunion this summer, we’re making the next If You Tolerate Bis… a Pulp special. Expect to hear a large number of excellent Pulp tunes over the course of the evening, from all the sweaty recesses of their back catalogue. You may need to turn up early to hear that weird one about sinister fairgrounds that Russell Senior sings. It’s not quite a floor filler, but it’s worth hearing. It scarred me for life, in a good way.
We’ll also be playing songs by bands Pulp were influenced by, and also some tunes by bands that Pulp inspired. But only the good ones.
I’m also thinking of putting together a Pulp zine to sell on the night. Let me know if you’re interested in contributing - we’re on ifyoutoleratebis@gmail.com
Guest DJs for the night are RUPA and MATTY B, one of my colleagues from London Loves, if anyone can remember that. Do you know they’ve knocked down the Push Bar now? For the Crossrail project. I thought that sweaty dive would live forever.
More details and poster nearer the time, but for now please tell us you’re coming by clicking ‘attending’ on our facebook event page, or if like me you hate facebook and everything it stands for email us at the above address. This entitles you to entry on the cheap list - £2. Else it’s £3, or £3.75 for anyone with a valid student card.
Love,
J x
Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don’t grow old. Face it: you are young.
A mere three weeks after the event, here are a selection of photos from the last If You Tolerate Bis, Kenickie Will Be Next. The ones posted below are merely a selection: you can look at EVERY LAST PHOTO for AS LONG AS YOU LIKE by clicking here.
Or even if you don’t tolerate April Fools Day. Dancing will still be next!
A PURE STREAM OF FACT:
The triumphant return of IF YOU TOLERATE BIS, KENICKIE WILL BE NEXT, the club night with the best name as informally voted by the internet, is TONIGHT at the BETSEY TROTWOOD in LONDON.
We will be entertaining you from EIGHT PM until ONE IN THE MORNING with the best in pop music, silly dancing, drunken inability to use the turntables, etc.
OUR GUEST DJs: ALASTAIR, a man of taste and distinction, and PAUL AND FREYA, a one-two punch in the face from a fist of pure emotion.
As usual James and I will be bickering over what songs the other shouldn’t have played UNTIL THE END and PROBABLY AFTERWARD TOO.
IF SOMEHOW YOU ARE STILL UNDECIDED ABOUT COMING, I suggest you have a couple drinks and then make your mind up. Usually clarifies things.
Best,
Morgan
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Facebook event group: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=189304781109799
Possibly, but there’s no way in a million years we’d play Morcheeba, so it would be factually and ethically impure.
- Chris T-T
On April Fool’s Day you are only allowed to play a joke on someone before midday, but you can fall in love at any time.
Come along, dance, and maybe fall in love. We’re experimenting with a Friday for a change, so we’re curious to see how it pans out. On the one hand, Fridays = two days’ recovery time from drinking. On the other, it’s harder than it used to be to lure people out on a Friday night. So let’s see what happens.
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We’re back, no joke! It’s an April Fools Day special!
As far as I can tell, we are the only club night currently running that has vaguely supportive quotes from Lauren Laverne and Manda Rin on the flyer, so there’s that.
“Nice! x” — Manda Rin
“It sounds like a lark! X” — Lauren Laverne
Thanks, ladies…
DJs to be announced shortly. Get your dancing shoes ready!
Entry: £2 guestlist / £3 others / £3.50 students
To get on the guestlist, RSVP here on Facebook or email us at ifyoutoleratebis@gmail.com
Thanks to everyone who came. I hope you had a nice time. We’d like to do it all again some time. Perhaps at the end of March?
All pictures from the night are on our flickr. Here are some of our favourites.
