The 2 Bears + Benoit & Sergio / Button Factory

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Nightflight & Hidden Agenda Present:

THE 2 BEARS (Southern Fried – UK)
BENOIT & SERGIO (DFA – DC/Berlin)
LIL DAVE + STEVE MANNING (Nightflight)

Friday Feb 17th, Button Factory, Tickets €15

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The 2 Bears



The Bears – Raf Rundell and Joe Goddard – first began crossing paths in DJ Booths. Straight Outta Brompton (well, Putney) Joe spends his time away from The 2 Bears as a producer, remixer, solo-artist and one fifth of an obscure outfit called Hot Chip; fellow Sarf Londoner Raf divides his time between club promotion, DJ outings as Greco-Roman Soundsystem, radio show hosting and artiste management.

The pair’s DJ booth banter, soon led to a shared enthusiasm for house music and vague plans for a musical collaboration. So began several months of hanging out, making music ‘for the fun of it’ and ‘portamental’ arguments about obscure synths, that would wind up forming the ‘Follow The Bears EP’.

Characterised by the hitherto untapped vocal stylings of Raf himself (Joe: ‘I didn’t know Raf could actually sing!’), the Bears have already received radio support from Annie Mac, Rob da Bank, Giles Peterson and Toddla T, drawn towards The 2 Bears 21st Century take on house, disco and everything in between.

RADIO SHOW – The 2 Bears have a weekly radio show ‘Follow The Bears’ on Ministry of Sound Radio. During which you can expect to hear ‘Bear’ tunes, ‘bare’ tunes, some ridiculous anecdotes, and some extremely skilled (unskilled) technical radio know-how…!





Benoit & Sergio



Benoit & Sergio grew up thousands of miles apart, in Paris and Iowa respectively. In 2008, they met at a party in Washington DC and began making dance tracks in the long winter of 2009.

They make seriously great music while not taking themselves too seriously; a difficult feat which is rarely attempted and even less often successfully carried out. They achieve the unexpected juxtaposition of pristine production and playful lyricism — first exhibited on 2009′s highly praised What I’ve Lost EP, which included the brilliantly sardonic single “Full Grown Man“.

Not content to make DJ fodder, the duo draws from influences mostly uncommon to the house and techno zeitgeist; bands likeTalking Heads, Pavement and Roxy Music are sources of inspiration, along with contemporary electronic acts like Thomas Melchior and Ricardo Villalobos. While their lyrics speak of loneliness, their recent releases have been crowding dance floors. Their “Where The Freaks Have No Name” EP for Visionquest has dominated the dance music scene in 2011, reaching number one overall on Juno and on Beatport’s Deep House charts, while their single, “Walk and Talk” has topped RA’s DJ Charts, as well. With “Boy Trouble” for DFA, released in late February 2011, Benoit & Sergio added another dimension to their catalog, crossing further into pop territory, while continuing to make dance music from the lurid pleasures of a future bereft of time.

Adding to their prolific year they released the excellent singles “Principles” EP on DFA and “Let Me Count The Ways” for Spectral in May and June 2011.

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