Freq Presents: The Drones Club

"We're pretty broad minded here, and if you stop short of smashing the piano, there isn't much you can do at the Drones that will cause the raised eyebrow and the sharp intake of breath".

PG Wodehouse, "Young Men In Spats"


The Drones Club



The Drones Club is involved with a new event - Checkpoint. Click the image for more information.

Next at The Drones Club

The most recent Drones Club was at Stage B, 98 Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16 0AP on Saturday 29 September 2007, with live performances from O Yuki Conjugate and Sunseastar. The next event will be announced soon.

The Stella Maris Drone Orchestra live at the Drones Club, 15 July 2004 (pic: John Eden)
About The Drones Club

The Drones Club is home to harmonic drones and jollity of all stripes, inviting artists, performers and audience to participate in a world apart from mundanity. We prefer to think cosmically, and act musically. Or is it the other way around?

Not all the music played at The Drones Club is necessarily droney (though it might well be). Sometimes it is danceable, sometimes thoughtful, sometimes melodic, often harmonic. No-one has yet smashed a piano, at least not literally, but it might happen one day. Thankfully the music and crowd at The Drones Club is rarely dull, and more often than not quite entertaining - as is only to be expected when the event is subtitled "an evening of jollity, romance and harmonic drones".

Venues

Our home for the first five Drones Club events, The Eye in Stoke Newington, North London, has long ago closed its doors. We would like to thank the staff and management at The Eye for making us welcome there, particularly for the spectacular final gig (the last at the venue) on 8th January 2005 when a storming two hour-plus show before a packed venue from S/T brought proceedings to a close in fine ecstatic-psychedelic style, their set only terminated by equipment failure. Other venues for the Drones Club have included Bardens Boudoir, The Others, and Barracuda, all in Stoke Newington. We have also presented events in association with Corsica Studios in Elephant and Castle, and at the eccentric legend which is The Klinker club. Our recent home has been Stage B on Stoke Newington Church Street, where we hold irregular events in the downstairs lounge.

Edward Ka-Spel live at the Drones Club, 18th March 2005 (pic: Richard Fontenoy)
Acts who have appeared at The Drones Club

Previous performances at The Drones Club have included sets from:

Le Couteau Jaune at the Drones Club at The Klinker (pic: Richard Fontenoy)

Drones Club promotional CD

EK-SS/T inner sleeveA limited edition CD titled EK-SS/T was given to the first 50 audience members at the Edward K-Spel and S/T Drones Club event at Barden's Boudoir on 18 March 2005. The Ka-Spel tracks are live recordings from 1993-1999, while the S/T tracks are unreleased or otherwise hard to find. A slightly different edition of 20 was presented to band members and other participants on the night. These two editions are now deleted.

Now live at the Drones Club, 26th August 2004 (pic: Linus Tossio)

Drones Club DJs

Resident and guest DJs are drawn from the Kosmische Club and Resonance FM, sometimes at the same time. Kosmische also has its own radio show every Tuesday night on 104.4FM in London, and streamed via the Resonance website worldwide. DJs have, can and will include Tango-Mango, Mink Pelican, Leo Avanti, Nick Denes (RE:MOTE), Barry K, Justin Paton (NOW), Raïsa Veikkola, Andy Wilson (Bourbonese Qualk, Stalker, Sunseastar), Marcelo Madrid and/or Jim Backhouse. There has often been a venue-transforming psychedelic light show courtesy of Lightning Rod of Bubble Vision.

S/T live at the Drones Club, 8th January 2005 (pic: Richard Fontenoy)


Flyer gallery





The mystery guests were Bobby Conn and The Glass Gypsies

  Drones Club XII flyerThe Drones Club Roadhouse flyerThe Drones Club at The Klinker flyer

  Drones Club XV flyer

Questions and links

For more information: dronesclub at freq dot org dot uk and The Drones Club on Myspace

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