Red Bull Music Academy have kindly given us 2 pairs of tickets to the special one-off night at the Royal Festival Hall, bringing a host of pioneers from the worlds of experimental electronics and avant-garde music. The mighty line up includes: Carl Craig, Francesco Tristano, Moritz von Oswald, Matmos, Bugge Wesseltoft, Henrik Schwarz, and Terre Thaemlitz as DJ Sprinkles.
To win a pair of tickets we want to know the funniest thing witnessed or happened to you in a club, DJing or as a punter…stick it in the comments
One of my funniest moments of the top of my head was when a friend of ours was mid set and needed to relieve himself, so tried to go for a cheeky one in the both, backfired as the bouncer seen him and threw him out… trousers round the ankles. Music died so everyone was looking at him, I couldn’t breath I was laughing so hard.
It takes place in London on the 12th of February at The Southbank’s Centres Royal festival hall. Check Here for full event details.
If you can attend the event in London, yo can enter anonymously just include your email address in the comment post, if not, we would still like to hear the stories- but tell us if you cant attend. We will pick the winner on Wednesday night/ Thursday morn latest.
Francesco Tristano & Carl Craig – The Melody
One of my funniest memories was when the ceiling caved in at the Bierkeller in Manchester and a full-scale water fight broke out, the bar man was just filling up glasses of water. Woke up the next day covered in red wine, so I didn’t even get clean.
One of my mates was fucked and pissed in a speaker, he didn’t get electrocuted unfortunately but did fuck up the speaker and killed the sound, pretty funny.
Hahahaha I remember that night at the Bierkeller, was Tramp and the Presets were playing?
Funniest thing i EVER seen was at Sonar a couple of years ago, not really at a club kinda the cue, but hey! Some guy was tripping out big time after the festival around 5ish and was running around La Rambla, (outside Felenis) with his cock out, completely off his face on what (im assuming) acid, trying to jerk his limp sausage.
It got worse when the hookers got involved, comedy all round
During a particularly sweaty and heaving night at The Cosmic Truth, I went to get my friend’s coat from under the table decks were perched on. When I emerged I realised I’d pulled the plug on the mixer and went ashen-faced as everyone stared at me and the boys tried frantically to get the soundsystem back.
Or there was the time at Bugged Out! walking through the second room I could smell a strange smell and was asking my friend if they could smell it when suddenly someone threw a drink over my back and grabbed my hoodie off me then started stamping on it. Turned out someone had dropped a cigarette in the hood.
i watched whilst 3 men recreated 2-girls-1-cup in the laboratory, not that funny really.
hahahaha these are gold, keep em coming and don’t be shy. Check out a couple more vids to wet your appetite
Bugge Wesseltoft & Henrik Schwarz Duo – Dreaming
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caVf8vGMUek
Matmos on XLR8R TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu8ask7aSnU
Me and my friends where at a big night @ Cream Liverpool it was pretty late on when we noticed a guy with his top off swinging it around his head dancing in the rafters amongst the lights in the main room. There was like 10 bouncers trying to get him down. He was proper fucked think he jumped or maybe fell into the crowd. Either way I was in stitches laughing!
The year was 2001, the venue Sankeys Soap. I Can’t quite remember who I went to see but anyway there I was watching Peaches perform fuck the pain away with a bemused look on my face. It was quite early on and the club was only half full. I don’t think people were that into it as there were only a handful of us stood near the stage. Peaches decided it would be a good idea to crowd surf/stage dive and I remember thinking this probably won’t go down to well. Anyway she took abit of a run up and then went for it! As she jumped everybody moved out the way, somehow she managed to twist in the air like an olympic diver and drop kicked me with both feet in the mouth before falling on her back and winding herself. My face was hurting and i’m sure there was some blood. I was slightly confused & shocked by the whole thing and then she got ALL up in my face and started screaming at me because I’d dropped her. I just walked away.
Mine was at an afterparty a housemate had thrown, usual afterparty shennanigans were occuring. Several housemates had managed to get to sleep (this was about 8am) but there were still plenty people milling around, mostly in K induced dazes.
I started to become aware of someone sounding very pissed off in a nearby room and went to investigate. Turns out a somewhat known Bristol musician had wondered off and ended up in one of my sleeping housemate’s rooms. He had somehow become under the impression that he was giving a magazine interview and had began laying on the couch and interviewing away.
Unfortunately the ‘interview’ went something like this
Friend (apon being woken to find some stranger in her room) – “WHAT ARE YOU DOING!”
Artist: “Well DJing alot which is good, we’re starting to produce too, which is exciting…”
This went back and forth for a short while before we managed to move him along
i was given a pork chop to hold by a random girl while she had a piss
think my funniest was when i sonar and my skinny white mate (a guy, straight) got chatted up by the biggest black guy i have ever seen, he was called Laurence I think, and he eventually tried to go in for the kill which was definatley one of the most hilarious things ive seen in my life, taking into consideration that my mate was ever so slightly loved up on something or other
Can the worst ever be funny?
I was introduced to Michael Meyer at Life and we talked about a gig in Japan, I was pretty sure that a group of minimal Techno DJ was chopping off their small finger as a sign of common appreciation. And I am not talking about Mafia traditions. But Michael thought so and so did the guy next to me, who was really hoping to get something out of the conversation. I almost got murdered. IN A CLUB
one of my funniest moments was one of the nights at warehouse project 08. during Andrew Weatherall’s set i was walking passed some wheelie bins at the back of the venue when i thought i saw a group of dwarfs dancing in the bin, i thought to myself, “i haven’t had that much to drink”, did a double take and sure enough standing and dancing inside these wheelie bins were about four dwarfs. it was so surreal. i thought someone had spiked my drink. but sure enough i asked some guy passing if he saw them too and he said yes oh my god. having found it all a bit funny and not trying not to appear rude i then asked them what they were doing and they said they couldnt see anything from the front or the back. i guess its pretty unlucky if your that small. but it was one of the most bizarre and hilarious sights ive ever seen!!
Back in 2005 a promoter friend organized a night with the legendary John DaSilva from the old Hacienda days at a venue in the north. I was still living at home at the time but the folks had gone away, so i thought it would be great to invite every one from the small club back to mine. To my surprise John came back too and started playing tracks on the decks. He had clearly had a great night and was a bit worse for wear so my friend thought it would be funny to start blagging him. This obviously didn’t go down to well and he stormed off in the direction of the bathroom. The next thing we heard was a huge bang and when we went to check it out, he was lying on the floor passed out with my toilet seat snapped in half. I spent the whole day sunday wrecked trying to replace it and did so only to get rumbled as I forgot that I left the broken one in the yard. Idiot!
A former Hacienda resident came to an after party at a friend of mines house a few years ago. He was pretty wasted. He went missing somewhere in the house and was discovered some time later in the bathroom on the floor having completely broken the toilet half and flooded the room.
Whilst absolutely battered and dancing on the stage once in Fabric, I was trying to chat up some European girl who was having none of it. Even though I was pretty ruined I could see it was going nowhere so decided to walk away trying to be cool, like.
I completely forgot I was on the stage and just walked straight off taking a step off the stage toppling over like a bloody slinky onto the dancefloor. I was so battered though I didn’t notice until I opened my eyes and I’m flat on my back looking up at load of people looking down on me, similar to this picture from Scrubs. . .
http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/blog/scrubs_season_1_dvd_1.jpg