Chilly Gonzales’ ace video for Ivory Tower’s “I Am Europe” also features clips from the film of the same name. It stars Gonzales, along with Tiga and Peaches and also has a cameo from Feist.

£5 adv. tickets (£10 door)
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Stop Making Sense Festival
3rd 4th 5th September 2010
The Garden, Petrçane, Croatia
www.sms-2010.com

Live: The Very Best / Django Django / Nathan Fake / Matias Aguayo / Son Of Dave / Wbeeza / The Worm / Joana & The Wolf / Fran and Josh / Latin Dub Sound System / Longjon La Flecha / Loose Fit / Belle
DJs: Carl Craig / Juan Atkins / Theo Parrish / Friendly Fires (DJ set) / Radioclit / Toy Selectah / Optimo / Richard Norris (Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve) /  Benji B / Patrice Scott / Keith Worthy / Kyle Hall / Allez Allez /
Isa GT/ Mark E / Rebolledo / Chris Coco / Tama Sumo / James Priestley / Giles Smith  / Russ Jones / Cal Jader / Sensu / Lakuti / Girlcore / Fact DJs / Ali Tillett / Rob Summerhayes / Gringo Da Parada / Count Chocula / Nick Agha
Tchiky Al Dente / Deany Swap-a-Rama / The Sea / Leon Lace/ Slutty Fringe / Sebilio / Silky Boys / Blonde Ambition / Bodytonic / Simon Pure Groove / Toby Tobias / Madera Verde

General Admission £80 (full ticket info below)

Beautiful Beaches / Guaranteed Sunshine / 2,000 Capacity / Main Stage / Beach Bar / Club / Boat Parties

Free DJ mixes from Friendly Fires, Django Django, Allez Allez, Russ Jones, Chris Coco, and more at http://stopmakingsense2010.blogspot.com/

Stop Making Sense festival have hand-picked an unrivalled line up for their inaugural party. The event promises an expansive soundtrack, taking in everything from house, rock and roll, flamenco, disco, balearic, techno, south American/African sounds, blues, psychedelia, dubstep, soul and beyond.

Highlights include the globe-spanning beats of The Very Best and Radioclit, Friendly Fires’ massively popular DJ incarnation, Son of Dave’s new take on blues, Django Django’s garage rock, pristine electronica from Nathan Fake, future beat arbiter Benji B and decade-spanning UK music legend Richard Norris (also one half of Beyond The Wizard’s sleeve with Erol Alkan).

If all that wasn’t enough, lifting mind, body and spirit sky-high will be Detroit techno leaders old and new Juan Atkins, Carl Craig, Theo Parrish, Patrice Scott, Keith Worthy and Kyle Hall. And, heading in from Glasgow via the world’s best clubs are none other than DJs par-excellence – Optimo.

Low-cost flights leave from most major UK airports for Croatia. Mix that with guaranteed sun, value accommodation, camping, crystal clear waters and boat parties, and for anyone who wants to dance in paradise to a world class DJs and live acts, SMS is a sure-fire winner.

Stop Making Sense festival is a round-the-clock experience with music starting at 12 noon and carrying on ‘til 6am. The all-night action takes place in the Barbarella Club – the perfectly-formed, circular space in the centre of the site.

Club Night Listings:
Need2Soul (Friday 23.00 – 06.00)
The premier suppliers of quality house, techno and much more present Detroit legend Juan Atkins plus young guns Kyle Hall & Keith Worthy and emerging south London talent Nick Agha.

Deviation (Saturday 23.00 – 06.00)
BBC 1Xtra star Benji B brings his radio extravaganza of forward-thinking music to the sunny shores with ultra-special guest Theo Parrish.

Swap-A-Rama (Sunday 23.00 – 03.00)
AKA “the most fun you can have with other people’s clothes on”!
The concept: every time the klaxons sound each reveler must swap an item of clothing with someone next to them.
Expect: ridiculous outfits, an unpredictable mix of rock & roll, R’n’B, sixties shakers, ska, boogaloo, dancehall and party classics. Add confusion, elation and grown men fighting over frocks. (There will be vintage clothes on washing lines strung out above the dancefloor, so no need to pack any extra items for this!)

Warm (Monday 03.00 – 06.00)
Renowned for downright messy parties across Europe, Warm head honchos Ali Tillett and Rob Summerhayes will be the sonic equivalent of an SMS grand finale firework display, and there won’t be a dry eye in the house!

Boat Party Listings
Movimientos (Friday 13.30 – 16.30) are all about the incendiary sound of the Latino Barrio, blazing tropical mash-ups and old school Latin bombs, alongside the choicest worldwide beats and ghetto bass. Featuring DJ Cal Jader, Sebilio, The Sea and guests, this tropical storm will be the perfect soundtrack to a blazing afternoon of dancing.
http://www.movimientos.org.uk/

Allez-Allez (Friday 19.00 – 23.00)
Kings of the podcast with their fingers firmly on the blog pulse, Allez-Allez will take to the Adriatic waves with guests (TBC) for a sunset cruise, featuring their unique DJ sets of krautrock, techno, electro and disco.
http://www.allez-allez.co.uk/

FACT/Bumbox Special (SATURDAY 13.30 – 16.30)
FACTmagazine.co.uk is the destination for essential new music & musings from the wittiest bloggers the web has to offer. Editor Sean Bidder and friends are along for the ride with for a very special daytime boat party where Matias Aguayo & Rebolledo are set to recreate their infamous Bumbox Street parties all the way from Buenos Aires.
www.factmag.com

Favela Chic (Saturday 19.00 – 23.00)
Set in the heart of Shoreditch & delivering some of the most imaginative alternative nights around, Favela Chic manage to be everything from a collective, restaurant, circus, art space to a club. Ringmaster Gringo Da Parada leads the charge on board, alongside Tchicky Al Dente for some Franco- Brazilian madness on the open seas.
www.favelachic.com

Warm (Sunday 13.30 – 16.30)
As well as throwing mean house parties across London every month, Warm head honcho Ali Tillett & Rob Summerhayes look after a fantastic roster of artists including Horse Meat Disco, Mark E, Friendly Fires & Tensnake. Always a guaranteed riot, Ali and Rob heat up what is already sure to be a scorcher.
www.warm-music.com

Sub Club (SUNDAY 19.00 – 23.00)
Scotland’s peerless venue and club night extraordinaire team up to bring us pure dancefloor diversity and joy at sea. Deck duties come courtesy of SENSU and friends.
www.optimo.co.uk / http://www.subclub.co.uk / www.myspace.com/sensuevents

SMS Tickets:
via Ticketweb, Paypal (no booking fee), Gigantic & We Got Tickets

As much previously reported, Beeb bosses published their strategy review back at the start of March. It proposed axing and cutting back on numerous BBC services, including various websites and digital radio stations 6music and the Asian Network.

The aim of the review seemed to be to placate those in the commercial media who accuse the BBC of using their guaranteed licence fee funding to unfairly compete, excessively expand and rampantly overspend. It seemed BBC bosses feared that said commercial media would have more political influence under a Tory government, and the plan seemed to be if the Corporation voluntarily streamlined now, they might not be forced to make bigger cuts later once a new government was in place.

The only problem was, the review mainly proposed cutting the Beeb’s more niche and therefore less commercial services, making more money available for those BBC channels that directly compete with commercial rivals, like BBC 1, BBC News and Radios 1 and 2. Therefore the review didn’t even achieve its own aims.

There was outrage from different quarters to most of the proposed cutbacks, though the campaign to save 6 was the most vocal. Numerous petitions, opinion pieces, official submissions and supporter rallies pointed out that nothing in the commercial radio sector provided a service anything like 6music, and never would. As if to prove that point, NME Radio, the digital station that was closest to 6, closed down earlier this month because it couldn’t make the service pay. 6music is, therefore, exactly the kind of radio station the BBC was set up to operate.

Music industry bodies also pointed out the woeful lack of airtime provided by the wider BBC to Britain’s vibrant and wide-ranging music community. With Radio 1 and 1Xtra focused on urban and R&B, Radio 2 on pop and Radio 3 on classical, and with BBC TV now almost devoid of any music programming, there are huge parts of the British music catalogue – old and new – totally ignored by the State-funded broadcaster. 6music goes some way to addressing that discrepancy.

Despite the most senior of BBC executives, including the Corporation’s dullard of a Director General Mark Thompson and the Beeb’s top radio man, fizzy drink marketer Tim Davie, insisting 6 had to go, no end of journalists, musicians, entertainers, celebrities, politicians and every day listeners lined up to demand the station must be saved. Many of them presented their outrage at the 6 closure proposals to the BBC Trust, the regulatory body which must approve the strategy review’s proposals.

According to The Times yesterday, while the Trust is likely to green light the majority of the strategy review’s plans, they will block moves to shut 6, at least in the short term. It is likely they will ask for a specific consultation to be undertaken regarding the digital radio service, assessing Thompson’s claim that the channel doesn’t justify its £9 million a year budget.

The paper says the Trust has been “overwhelmed” by the public response to the closure of 6. They may have also been influenced by the fact the top two Tories with culture and media responsibilities, Jeremy Hunt and Ed Vaizey, have both spoken in support of 6. The Times quoted one of 6music’s DJs yesterday who admitted there is now some optimism at the station regarding its future. They told the paper: “The optimism is growing. There is a feeling that they will not just kill us straight off”.