Japanese Popstars-(DJ SET) 30th Dec @ The Forum

kcfusion

The Forum Presents

THE JAPANESE POPSTARS (DJ SET)

"The Biggest Dance Night of The Year" DEC 30th

"They Might Also Be The Most Exciting New Electronic Act On The Planet" Mixmag

The Japanese Popstars are riding a wave of great live gigs, major festival bookings, and media praise off the back of thier amazing energy driven live shows and their critically acclaimed debut album 'We Just Are'.
Native to Northern Ireland (any fetishists expecting cute Japanese girls can leave now), and consisting of Declan McLaughlin aka Decky Hedrock, Gary Curran, and Gareth Donoghue. The Japanese Popstars are signed to bespoke indie label, Gung-Ho Recordings (Gus Gus, Zoo Brazil) in the UK, and Beatink in Japan (home of Underworld, Aphex Twin, Cinematic Orchestra).

The Japanese Popstars' only parallel with rock music is that they'd built up a sizable live following before releasing their first major single - some might even say cultish, judging by the amount of clips on Youtube. Their gigs are typically raucous affairs, with an energy that crackles with each beat, chord, and keyboard stab.

However, let's get one thing straight about the music - The Japanese Popstars aren't indie rave, or any other sub-sub-sub genre, theirs is big room, cool as f**k electronic music built for festivals and stadiums. They're not dance kids aping indie kids, nor are they indie kids dropping synths and calling themselves 'ravers'.

The Japanese Popstars - back to the future dance music for today, tomorrow, and forever, and it's coming to a field near you very soon.

www.myspace.com/thejapanesepopstars

Support comes from Beat FM's & Planet Love's Darren Rice, Critical Distance.

Waterford Based, Top Notch, Irish Techno Label Gobsmacked Records will be also there for the Techno Lovers.
Karl Cullen, Diarmaid O Meara, Luke Creed.

www.gobsmackedrecords.com

Doors 10.30, Tickets €15 available from Next Door Off-licence, The Glen Waterford, Drink Offers all Night.

PatrickD32

Il be there anyway

kcfusion

Go on my son! Round up the troops, it will be a cracker!

kcfusion

Updated Poster....

Luke Creed

Really looking forward to this!

Luke Creed

Japanese Popstars: "We've had to cancel our show tonight in Waterford due to the icy traveling conditions. We can only apologise and hope to reschedule asap!"

Ruben Keeny and Audiofun and a few other heads wil be playing instead! should be good night in the forum either way.

only 10€ in the door now

http://www.myspace.com/reubenkeeney

Driven by a passion for electronic music in its more pure form, combined with an unhealthy obsession with the modern technology from where such music stems have resulted in fledging Letterkenny boy, Reuben Keeney’s swift ascent to credibility within the European House and Techno Fraternity.
With support of his tracks coming from esteemed underground artists such as Oliver Huntemann, Stephen Bodzin and Martin Eyerer right through to mainstream support from the likes of Judge Jules and Annie Mac, it seems his star is set to rise further.

At the age of sixteen, Reuben defied the usual gimmicks associated with being in the position of a young DJ, indeed performing sets at the World’s most esteemed clubs, such as the hedonistic Ibizan sonforia, Amnesia, as well as playing gigs for brands such as Cream and Eden.

Not one to rest on his laurels, Reuben is constantly in the studio, firing on all cylinders, with upcoming releases on the Fergie-supported label, Monu Digital, as well as maintaining a healthy fanbase through his weekly ‘Localized Sounds’ radio show, on the internationally acclaimed DI.FM.

One things for sure, if this is the techno generation, Reuben Keeney is soon to become a key player.

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http://www.myspace.com/audiofundjs

“AudioFun” is pseudonym of 21 year old music producer/DJ “Matthew Corry.” Originally from Derry (Northern Ireland) and now based in one of the UK’s biggest electronic music hubs, Manchester. It all came about in early February 2009 when Corry put together 4 tracks and sent them out to a few blogs. These tracks picked up massive support from blogs and DJs alike. Everyone from Kissy Sell Out to the Japanese Popstars were onboard with AudioFun.
This lead to a original EP being put together for Freek Records which has seen releases from Calvertron, AC Slater, Stupid Fresh and many more electro heavyweights with remixers “Tonka” and “Dirty Freek” set to remix for the package. This release has already picked up massive support from BBC Radio 1, Kissy Sell Out, Jaymo & Andy George, Foamo, Black Noise, Aquasky,Utah Saints etc and released in December 2009.

In july 2009 Corry was asked by Tonka to remix a track for his upcoming “Ready For War” EP being released through Fatboy Slim’s “Southern Fried Records.” This led to a series of releases for “Southern Fried Records “ including remixes for the likes of Malente and Last Japan and a 4 track EP of originals signed and set for release in February 2010, all of which cover the trademark genre bending of techno and bass driven jump-up electro styles that AudioFun merge in both DJ Sets and productions.

If 2009 is anything to go by the upcoming year is set to very busy with the remix requests and gig schedule filling up very quickly. The future is looking very bright for “AudioFun.”

pharcical

wow what an absolute waste of a journey, no headline act supposidly cos of weater conditons up the north but heres some other 17 y/o fellas instead, from the ...........Donegal. :rolleyes:
and the only other dj worth seeing ie that diramuid o'meara, finished up after 20 mins before people got the chance to get up stairs.
and some one would want to tell that sh1itical distance fella he cant mix for bollocks.
id do better with a breeze block in one hand and me forehead.
and he was meath to be warming up for the popstars....no wonder they cancelled.

the forum, much like the waterford dance scene is dyin a slow death and should be put out its misery......quick.

never again.

what a joke.