BBC Essential Mix (Less Is More)

My new track " Less is more"

Justin Drake from peace division will be hosting his exclusive mix on Misstress dafunk's show on BBC Radio one 26th May 2007 @ 2am, which will feature my new track "Less is more"

Thanks to Justin for the support!

Loads more to enter in here when I can be arsed :)

*riffraff review on BBC website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/tees/content/articles/2007/05/11/riff_raff_feature.shtml

*riffraff @ Back2basics

Theres nothing much left to say about this really. It was one of the best *rr events to date and we have to thank the Boro massive that travelled all the way to Leeds to rock the middle room. Big thanks to the Basics crew for asking us to host that room and we hope that we will return to do the same sometime in the future. Respect to James Barnsley who accompanied the *rr boys.

May 2007

New release "Less is more"

"Sounds good. nice bassline. good effects on the notes and tones. good job. x "

Choloe Harris

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"Hello paul,

i've used your track less is more on mix set that i've just finished for misstress dafunk who has a show on radio 1.

it's braodcast saturday night 26th may 2am.

Hope thats cool with you. i really like the track"

Justin Drake (Peace division)

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"Thanks paul,

I really like the less is more track.

it's fucking sci-fi house.

i'll def be playing"

Justin Drake (Peace division)

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April 2007

New release "Ill show you house"

Reaches No:22 on Beatport, support from Anthony Pappa, Hernan Cattaneo, and more

Jan 2007

New track Dirty Weekend:

"Really good track man, will play for sure, thanks a lot!"

Hernan Cattaneo

December 2007

No Deal Remix on Helvetica Recordings:

Hi mate, hope all is well.

"Thanks for the new tunes. I'm into the "Original Mix " and the "Paul Bowen Dirty Mix.

I will be playing this out"

Anthony Pappa

The Orange Corner Ibiza News:

Well people just got back from Ibiza was fucking awesome playing with my old pals, Dan Welton, Lee Pennington, Dave Watson & Gow. Roll on next year for some more Ibiza Madnes ;O)

*riffraff News:

Update May 2006

*riffraff will play at the UK's biggest night club "Tall Trees" playing for one of the UK's biggest nights "GOODGREEF"

The line up will feature the worlds No1 DJ mr Paul Van Dyk him self making his north east debut. Along side PVD is Matt Hardwick | Adam Sheridan | Mark Norman | James Alexander aka KID | Paul Bowen | Lee Pennington | Bardsley | Dan Sudron | Strakes

THE NIGHT IS ON THE 28TH MAY 2006 PLEASE CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS

Update March 2006

Over the past couple of months the guys have been working really hard pushing riffraff higher and higher, and the result has been outstanding!! Big thanx the all the riffraff gang for all the hard work.

Also taking a step further riffraff have booked Scott Bradford for the next instalment of riffraff @ The Onion, Scott is Co Promoter/Owner of world class "Shindig" and we cant wait for Scott to come and rock the show on the 7th April.

The guys have also been busy again in the studio and have finished the remix of Moonbeam's Heart and Soul. The track is tribal/tech dub for Helvetica recordings, which is on sale now. Also Paul Bowen has finished the remix of Dan Weltons "Wanna Love" which is the first release for Helvetica’s sub label "Helvetica Noir"

Mark Galloway has been busy too travelling out to Doncaster to play at a really cool event "Vibe" he warmed up for "Full Intention" and done a really great job!!!

riffraff have also been busy playing at other gigs too which consists of Paul Bowen, Bardsley, Gow, and Lee Pennington traveling out to the Newcastle playing Interference @ WHQ.

Also riffraff where traveling again, out to Whitley Bay to play @ Sound Sessions which was awesome!!!!

Febuary News

Well so far its been a great start for *riffraff in 2006 on and off the decks. Paul Bowen, Paul Crook and Lee Pennington (Section 75) have seen a total of 9 releases/new signings between them in the past month including

king & charles - parallel realities (section 75 mix) - cp recordings

king & charles - parallel realities (paul bowen mix) - cp recordings

sterio&mcgrath vs section 75 - illusion - source of gravity

riffraff - spirits from the tide - cp recordings

riffraff - unauthorised war - cp recordings

Section 75 - the paradox - fade out recordings

Section 75 vs paul crook - sound control - fade out recordings

riffraff - vertical line - helvetica recordingz

Paul Bowen & section 75 - impaired perception - fragile

ALL TRACKS CAN BE BOUGHT FROM WWW.3BEATDIGITAL WWW.KARMADOWNLOAD.COM WWW.BEATPORT.COM WWW.DJDOWNLOAD.COM WWW.RELEASERECORDINGS.COM

Other news is that Matty Gillespies first production "Ye Mam" has been receiving support from top swiss DJ Dan Welton

Gow's first production "The Drug Track" has seen support from James Talk whom is also working on a remix.

Lee has completed an exclusive Source Of Gravity mix that will be aired on KVK's new Radio show in America.

Mark Galloway has been asked to be VIBES monthly resident.

Paul Bardsley travelled to play in switzerland and is also working on a remix for FRAGILE RECORDINGS

Paul Bowen and Lee Pennington are working on remixes for Source Of Gravity, Gravitation, Adjust and Helvetica. They are also working on an EP for Helvetica.

Lee Pennington has been given the job of head of promotions for Source Of Gravity Recordings.

Paul Crook has got a job down the mines and has bought a canary.

CANCELLED

*riffraff in asociation with GoodGreef

A special thanks to the local police force for once again holding Teeside back in the dark ages and cancelling an event that could have opened many doors for the local music scene. *riffraff will not be giving up the fight for this all nighter event and we will be pursuing our goal of putting one on ourselves.... WATCH THIS SPACE!!!

FEBRUARY 31st 2006

*riffraff in association with GoodGreef

Yes thats right people riffraff will be working with massive night "GoodGreef" we will be taking to the decks at the after partie @ Blue and basement in middlesbrough on albert road. Get your arse down for some dirty - prog - tech - tribal madness from 2am on saturday 18th through till the early hours on sunday morning.

FEBRUARY 3RD 2006

JAMES COLLINGBURN and the mighty DAN WELTON completely rocked the socks off our crowd at this months event. We would like to thank lots of people for this event going ahead including all the crazy Swiss that travelled a long way to see Dan play and also the Grenadier gang who totally rocked it. A big special mention to Big Lee who was the tour guide for the Swiss and showed them how to fit into the Tesside culture ; )

Watch out for DAN WELTON in 2006 you heard it here first.

JANUARY 27th 2006

Meltdown V *riffraff went down really well when *rr boys Paul Crook - Paul Bardsley - Paul Bowen - Matty Gillespie and Section 75 took to the ones and twos. It was that good of a night the chaps will be back on the 24th Feb joined by more of the mob including Gow and Mark Galloway.

JANUARY 05TH 2006

*riffraff is back for 2006 with a whole new strategy to make the events more strong and ultimately more exciting for you guys! We would like to make a big welcome to our new residents for 2006 "Gow" "Paul Bardsley" and "Mark Galloway" welcome aboard!!! The lads have been picked out from a whole bunch of extra special talent around the northeast and these guys totaly rock.

Looking forwards our next bash will be on the 3rd of Feb and we are delighted to have Intense promotions and adjust recordings star from switzerland Dan Welton take to the *riffraff turntables. Also playing on the night is new upcoming star James Collingburn with recent slots @ shindig Newcastle probably one of the best uk club nights around!!

Watch this space for more exciting stuff very soon!!!!!

MELTDOWN V *RIFFRAFF @ LAVA IGNITE / MIDDLESBROUGH

*riffraff will be coming together with top Middlesbough club promotion meltdown for one night only, *riffraff will be in room 2 and meltdown will be in room 1, expect this night to be huge as the capacity of the club is 1500. See you on the dance floor details in the events section January 27th

NOVEMBER 25TH 05 CHRIS STERIO @ THE SESSIONS

We had a very special guest at this particular Sessions to celebrate the release of Lee Pennington’s SECTION 75 PRESENTS EP. Chris Sterio agreed to take time out from his very busy schedule and play at our Sessions event held at the Pacific Bar. We are very grateful to Chris for playing especially so soon after his USA tour. The EP is released on Chris Sterio’s Source Of Gravity Label from 28th November under Lee’s SECTION 75 alias. It can be bought from www.beatport.com, www.edmdigital.com, www.xpressbeats.com

SWITZERLAND 18TH – 20TH NOVEMBER

Well what possibly can we say about this?

I think that the photos in the gallery will tell the story of how fun this entire trip actually was Top Swiss producer / DJ Dan Welton and his lovely Caroline with all at the Paradox club made sure that the *riffraff were very welcome.

Lee Pennington, Paul Bowen and Dan Welton rocked the club from 10pm until 4am and left the Swiss clubbers of Nau Chatel shouting for one more.

We would like to thank everybody that travelled with us and lived up to our reputation both musically and for partying.. Big Lee, Crook brothers, Sam, Nat, Dug, Jon, PB, Key, Lil Ste, Gaz…. You are all shhhhhpot on!!!! 

Roll on the next outing

NOVEMBER 4TH

We celebrated our second anniversary in style. Big thanks to all the DJ’s that played at Pacific pre party who were: MARK GALLOWAY, PAUL BARDSLEY, GOW and Source Of Gravity'sTOM COLLINGBURN.

The fun all happened down at the Onion, after a late kick off of 10:30pm. Paul Crook completely rocked our crowd followed by Matty Gillespie playing his brand of electro techy Matty G style house. Next up was Section 75 with his Tribal Tech madness then Paul Bowen whom played a blinder of a set and working over time.

The real stars of this show however was the crowd, we have never had such a good *riffraff, and the photos will show it. From Ian Pickett wearing a dress, down to Gary Miller attempting to balance a bottle on his head for two hours; the laughs were great.

Not sure who the streaker was at about 2:30am, stood on a bass bin, but word on the street is that he had been doing similar antics all summer in Ibiza, anyone know any local DJ’s that spent their summer in Ibiza?????

OCTOBER 29TH

Paul Bowen and Lee Pennington (Section 75) travelled to Dundee to meet up with Club Headway. They played at the Cotton club and by all reports rocked it, leaving the stain of the *riffraff on all of Headways clubbers. The photos of this event can be found at www.club-headway.co.uk.

Big thanks to Bruce and the boys for making us feel very welcome and hope that you find Mars in the kitchen. Big thanks also to DJ Adam Carter for all his help on this trip.

OCTOBER 7TH

Octobers *riffraff party was another great night, it had everything including an injured man playing until full time. Lucy Hutchinson took to our turntables and showed the boys how to play cutting edge tech house for the first hour. Followed by the fantastic Paul Lancaster (Fragile) and Scott Udberg (Habit). This was an amazing display of djing from these two guys, particularly from Paul whom cracked his head on the roof and played on until the end of his set (*riffraff salutes you). Next up were the Adjust boys RED & BLUE; they completely took the roof off with their tribal mayhem and also managed to drink the bar dry.

Posted 18th September 05

We are happy add our new message board to the website please feel free to add your coments about riffraff events and just the usual crack ;o)

Posted 31st Auguat 05

August the 19th seen Lee Pennington (Section 75) travel to Londons top Progressive underground night Audio Deluxe. Lee played the *riffraff sound to the southern Progressive lovers and went down really well.

Lee will be travelling to many more UK underground nights in the next few months to help promote his new EP that is to be released on Source Of Gravity Recordings. We will keep you posted in this section.

 

On August the 26th, a large segment of the *riffraff crew made their way to the gorgeous Isle Of Ibiza.

They held a *riffraff party at the Orange Corner in San Antonio. The party kicked off at 3PM and flowed right up until midnight seeing DJ's Paul Bowen, Paul Bardsley, Junior Jones, Mark Galloway and Lee Pennington all playing back to back. We would like to thank all those that were in Ibiza at that time and came down to enjoy much drinking and merryment.

 

In the meantime back in the UK the *riffraff Sessions night has been going down a storm thanks to our resident DJ's Paul Crook and Matty Gillespie whom have been keeping the sound dirty and deep in the Pacific bar. If you happen to be out and about on a Friday night then make sure you pop into the Paficic Bar and say hello to our residents. You can even buy them a pint if you want.

Posted 1st August 05

The *riffraff camp are happy to present you *riffraff sessions!!!!

riffraff sessions will be based @ The Pacific Bar On corporation road Middlesbrough, the night will take place every Friday night from 6pm - late, and will feature some of the northeast's finest artists. Over the weeks you will see *riffraff providing guest slots for not only the finest artists but for up and coming DJ's from around the area too, giving them a chance to play in front of a crowd and to get a feel for the scene which they live to do.

*riffraff are very supportive for the local talent, and know just how hard it is for new djs to get 1 single slot, so this is a great chance for all new DJ's to come on down and introduce your self to the gang!!!

The riffraff gang.

Posted 12th July 05

*riffraff will be packing up and going to Ibiza this year from the 24th August till the 31st August, you can catch the *riffraff gang playing @ The Orange Corner on the 26th August from 12noon till late.

Playing some dirty tough tribal from mr Paul Bardsley, Lee Pennington with his twisted Tech house Prog sound and Paul Bowen knocking out some quality tough prog for good measure!! If you in Ibiza at this time pop in and say hi the lads are very friendly and wouldn't say no to a pint hint hint ;-)

Track playing:  Paul Bowen - Less Is More