Musiklab @ Waterford Spraoi Festival

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Waterford Spraoi Festival 2005
July 29th, 30th & 31st


Musiklab @ Spraoi
In association with: BEAT 102-103 & BOWERY BAR & CLUB


Saturday July 30th 2005
Willima Vincent Wallace Plaza, The Quay, Waterford - 8pm - Free
KENNY HAWKES
OPTIMO (JONNIE WILKES)
PAUL BRYAN
VISUALS: SWIMMINGINGLASS.COM


Musiklab Goes Late Night @ Spraoi
Bowery Bar & Club at Reginalds Tower (Axis Mundi) - 10.30pm - 10euro
KENNY HAWKES
OPTIMO (JONNIE WILKES)
PAUL BRYAN
& SUPPORT
Festival club armbands valid for this late gig also.


This is the 14th year of the Waterford Spraoi Festival, which turns the streets of Waterford into one giant carnival for 3 days and nights each August Bank Holiday Weekend.

Having started out as just a set of decks outside a local shop at the 2001 Festival the Musiklab Stage has now become one of the biggest attractions, last summer attracting 6,000 people. This year, in association with Beat 102-103, the radio station which broadcasts to five counties in the south east and the new Bowery Bar & Club at Reginalds Tower, The Mall, Waterford, Musiklab presents Kenny Hawkes, Optimo's Jonnie Wilkes & Paul Bryan for two differnt shows. One outdoors strating at 8pm and the 2nd indoors starting at 10.30pm into the early hours. Visuals by www.swimminginglass.com

OPTIMO: Jonnie Wilkes & JD Twitch make up the Optimo duo which started out as a clubnight in Glasgow in 1997 and has now spawned two critically acclaimed mix albums. The night started out one November Sunday with the aim of allowing them to dip into their vast vinyl collection and not stick to any particular music policy. Optimo was born. It was liberating. It was the most fun behind the decks either of them had ever had. Most weeks it lost money but the 80 or so people who came enjoyed it. Live acts started making appearances and the music would get wilder and wilder. Sleazy funk, post punk, electro, 50's swing, torch songs, disco classics, percussion workouts, sublime house, 80's pop all started making an appearance. Then one night in July 1999 instead of 80 there was 250 people and it continued to grow. Today they have been hailed by The Guardian as making “clubbing seem like the most exciting activity in the world” and have become festival & club favourites, including an upcoming appearance at this years Electric Picnic.

KENNY HAWKES: A stalwart of the London house music scene and a DJ who puts the fun into funk Kenny has been making the trek to Musiklab for some time. Each appearance better than the last and each time winning over new fans for his extremely enjoyable take on what goes into making a dancefloor rock. As a kid in Brighton Kenny soaked up the sounds of Motown, Ska, Hip Hop & Dub Reggae. On hitting 18 he left for Europe & developed his DJ skills. By the 90’s he was back home, broke and unknown. He discovered a radio station playing the music he loved, got a job there and ended up becoming the stations manager. While there he met another young DJ called Luke Solomon - his soon to be co-resident at one of London’s most influential nights ‘Space’. Within a few short years he became one of the most respected DJ’s & Producers in house music. Kenny cites his biggest influences thus far as rock n` roll old timers The Rolling Stones & dub masters Sly and Robbie.


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Rollo Tamasi

I'll defo be at that to see Kenny Hawkes. Any chance we could all the kids locked up for the night. They ruined it last year with all their shananigans.

lukemusiklab

Its a free open air gig part of the festival so not much chance of that. I didn't notice much shenanigans last year tho'.

There won't be any kids at the later show in The Bowery Club (Axis Mundi) if thats any help to you.