Did anyone here check the TY show at The Tuesday Club the other night ? He's recently set the pace for UK hip hop with his genre bashing "Upwards" LP. He did a full 8 piece live band hip hop thing....really brave and ambitious and he had the personality and the skill to pull it off. Should have been a sell out but it seems a bit that at the moment in Sheffield people are a bit afraid of something different....(just my personal opinion). When it's a 5 or 6 quid to get in and see something that good it really is sad if people won't try it......

Which brings me conveniently to this weekend. If you want something on this saturday that you will not find anywhere else check this !!: At Phonetics (Element) we've got a band from New Zealand called FAT FREDDYS DROP...they are a seven piece band (3 horn players, 2 guitarists. vocalist and MPC DJ beats n FX biznizz). They've had 2 tracks which have had the likes of Worldwide Man GIlles Peterson (catch him at TTC next week!) all excited "Midnight Marauders" and "Hope". Basically they are a superb reggae, soul, funky jazzy dub band with an angle that sounds like nothing else. Check their website www.fatfreddysdrop.com and come along and see what you think.......or do sumthin more boring instead.....joke joke.....

Before the web administrator starts slapping my wrist, I have nothing to do with the tuesday club and can genuinely recommend Fat Freddys Drop on pain of death.

TY was awesome. Seems to happen a lot though when the less well known stuff is on, people stay at home. Should have been sell outs for The Bays, QSO, London Elektricity too. Then again, fewer people, more room to dance...

Some good music coming from the other side too at TC this week :thumbsup: Well played sir. What was that Amy Winehouse remix? Liked it. Any more remixes of her stuff do you know?

Will be checking Fat Freddys Drop site. Phonetics has been great last few times I've been, so any excuse to head down is more than welcome.

ALi H played the amy winehouse track methinks.....it is a Seiji remix of her second single which name escapes the top of my head........

Seeyer down there saturday !

Ty was awesome, my band is a funk rock outfit and it was so cool to hear something as different as the stuff we like. Keep it up TTC and sorry the rest of sheffield is still stuck in the oasis appreciation club and the eighties revival (in terms of live bands anyway).

Originally posted by welchiewelch
Did anyone here check the TY show at The Tuesday Club the other night ? He's recently set the pace for UK hip hop with his genre bashing "Upwards" LP. He did a full 8 piece live band hip hop thing....really brave and ambitious and he had the personality and the skill to pull it off. Should have been a sell out but it seems a bit that at the moment in Sheffield people are a bit afraid of something different....(just my personal opinion). When it's a 5 or 6 quid to get in and see something that good it really is sad if people won't try it......

Damn, I'd have been there had I known about it. Upwards is a permanent fixture on my CD player right now, and I'm not even that big a hip hop fan. There was a TY gig on 6 Music that night too, but I forget to record it, so missed two TY gigs in one night. Muppet!

edit - I just checked and the TY BBC gig will be available online for the next couple of days here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/6music_aod.shtml?dreamticket_tue)

Originally posted by welchiewelch
Did anyone here check the TY show at The Tuesday Club the other night ? He's recently set the pace for UK hip hop with his genre bashing "Upwards" LP. He did a full 8 piece live band hip hop thing....really brave and ambitious and he had the personality and the skill to pull it off. i'd have loved to go - never seen a live hip-hop band, it's good to get some more different things on.

however, i rarely go to tuesday club these days, mainly because 7 quid plus is a lot to spend on a night that ends at 2am, i don't think the crowd is very friendly, it's full of ******-up poser students who wouldn't know decent hip hop if it punched them in the face - you said yourself it wasn't full...

I know it sounds like i'm having a go - i'm really not, honest - but i much preferred ttc when cost 3 quid, had one room and was mostly the residents with the occasional low-key guest dj/act.

i know why they've had to put the price up and get more well-known acts in to justify it, build a better reputation and a good night, but it's changed and i don't like the crowd much anymore.

No offence but some decent promotion wouldn't go amiss. Last time I saw anything advertising Tuesday Club was in one of those Metro papers you get on the bus, apart from that I hardly ever see anything for it....

Those £3 days were good. Crowd was much more friendly and in tune with good music instead of just turning up in droves for the Radio 1 DJs. £1 vodka redbull. No stilettos or bleached mohicans.

Still good though- just more for the acts than the people.

Originally posted by ms de meaner
i'd have loved to go - never seen a live hip-hop band, it's good to get some more different things on.

however, i rarely go to tuesday club these days, mainly because 7 quid plus is a lot to spend on a night that ends at 2am, i don't think the crowd is very friendly, it's full of ******-up poser students who wouldn't know decent hip hop if it punched them in the face - you said yourself it wasn't full...

I know it sounds like i'm having a go - i'm really not, honest - but i much preferred ttc when cost 3 quid, had one room and was mostly the residents with the occasional low-key guest dj/act.

i know why they've had to put the price up and get more well-known acts in to justify it, build a better reputation and a good night, but it's changed and i don't like the crowd much anymore.

No offence or anything cos like you say you used to go. But I think your opinion of today's TC regulars is a little bit unrealistic.

Most people who go are still extremely friendly and welcoming. And a lot of them are very knowledgeable about the djs and music that they are listening to. There aren't many real posers there either.

fao Herbaliser> there certainly aren't many mullets or stillettos either. Have you never been to Layed?

I agree that Tuesday Club has changed, even in the last few years that I've been going. It used to be a chance to get away from all the Ben Sherman and Topman types where you go and relax, listen to eclectic music and feel less like a stereotypical student and now it is much more like a typical student night. There is a much less laid back atmosphere than there used to be and people who don't know as much about the music are starting to go.

But don't let experienced clubbers such as yourselves be put off by that or it will become exactly as you seem to think it is already. It's still a good night.

Originally posted by montayo

fao Herbaliser> there certainly aren't many mullets or stillettos either. Have you never been to Layed?



Yeah, there aren't too many, but the ladies never used to turn up in shoes you couldn't dance in.

As for Layed, been just the once. If I'm out on a Tuesday, it'll be at Tuesday Club. Can't justify suffering all day at work for a night like Layed!

Originally posted by montayo
But don't let experienced clubbers such as yourselves be put off by that or it will become exactly as you seem to think it is already. It's still a good night. very true ;)

but i've been unemployed for a while and money's become a bit of an issue, so on my rare outings to a club i'd rather shell out an extra couple of quid and keep going till 6 :D