Friday’s at Fabric aren’t just your usual clubnight... FabricLIVE is a way of life... almost a religion to the thousands of London clubbers that return each month.

Tonight's FabricLIVE will be nothing short of amazing as another example of fine Australian talent will be featuring in the main room for the second week running. Last week's affair featured Melbourne's Infusion performing Live on stage in Room One... and yes - it was a huge night. This week... Australia’s award winning king of break-beat - Kid Kenobi will be representing!

Kenobi will be playing alongside the Plump DJs and Stanton Warriors and a very special live set by The Freestylers in what is set to be another big night for the 2000+ that will come and go on the night. Room Two (and Three for that matter) will of course be delivering some special treats as Zinc, Krust, DJ Die, Scratch Perverts, Mampi Swift, Dynamite Showcase, High Contrast with MCs CW & 2 Shy. Ali B, Talvin Singh and Joe Ransom complete tonight's picture in Room Three.

As previously reported on RA (click here for previous news article), the new Nottingham club, Stealth, will be bringing a variety of music to the midlands from Thursday to Sunday every week. With their opening weekend on April 30 and a packed month ahead, fun can be had on any number of nights that suit your fancy. Take your pick!

Opening Weekend - April 30, Friday – Keep It Unreal : Mr. Scruff, More TBC
May 1, Saturday – Tyrant : Craig Richards, Lee Burridge, Captain Comatose (live), The Grid LIVE, Dave Congreve
May 2, Sunday - Official Stealth Opening Party : Damian Lazarus, Silver Surfer (live), KiKi (live), Soul Mekanik, Matt Tolfrey

May 6, Thursday - Official N.M.E. Club Night Launch Party : Queens of Noise, Home Taping Is Killing Music, Joey Bell, Riotous Rockers, Live Bands tbc
May 7, Friday – Spectrum : Rahzel (The Roots human beat Box), Hyper (Bedrock Breaks Album Launch), DJ Yoda, B.L.I.M., Quantic, Bent, Pete Jordan, Itchy Fader Fingers (4 Deck Set), DJ JS-1, Dave Boultbee, Spectrum Breakers
May 8, Saturday – Stealth : Magda, Chicken Lips, Dave Congreve, Matt Tolfrey, Timm Sure, More TBC

May 13, Thursday – N.M.E Club Night : Queens of Noise, Home Taping Is Killing Music, Joey Bell, Riotous Rockers, Live Bands tbc
May 14, Friday – Soundsystem : Gilles Peterson, Leftfoot DJs, DiY DJs, Percussion DJs, More acts TBC
May 15, Saturday – Bugged Out : Carl Craig TBC, Luciano LIVE, Kelvin Andrews, Rob Bright, More acts TBC

May 20, Thursday – N.M.E. Club Night : Queens of Noise, Home Taping Is Killing Music, Joey Bell, Riotous Rockers, Live Bands tbc
May 21, Friday – Manuva Manuva 48K : Justin Robertson, Michael Morph, Paperboy, Pitman (live) tbc, Fluff, Bonobo (live), Mikey Wilding
May 22, Saturday – Stealth : Ivan Smagghem, Luke Vibert, Hiem (live), Dave Congreve, Matt Tolfrey

May 27, Thursday – N.M.E. Club Night : Queens of Noise, Home Taping Is Killing Music, Joey Bell, Riotous Rockers, Live Bands tbc
May 28, Friday – Detonate : Ed Rush, Keaton, Transit Mafia, Jehst, Asaviour & IQ, Detail, Santero, DJ E.A.S.E, MC SP, MC E-LL
May 29, Saturday – The Boutique Opening Night : Slam, MU (live), Maurice Fulton, DJ Touche, Radio Slave, Soul Mekanik

June 3, Thursday – N.M.E. Club Night : Queens of Noise, Home Taping Is Killing Music, Joey Bell, Riotous Rockers, Live Bands tbc

As you can see, the lineups are varied beyond belief with some world class names alongside talented locals. Be sure to keep an eye out for upcoming news involving this hot new club.

A friendly reminder that Throwdown Part III is on this Thursday night 11th of March at Plan B. This time it's a 'Booty Bass Special' - last months 'Body popping/B-Boy' contest attracted contestants from all over the UK and a couple even came all the way from France.

Former Scratch Pervert - Mr Thing will be ripping it up alongside UK Bass criminal mastermind Cutlass Supreme who will be going head-to-head with the original 'body popper' DJ Deekline, with support from the likes of Donna Dee and Blowfelt aka Scrappy, this is an event not to be missed!!!

The full lineup for all you doubters:

The Booty Bouncers Feat. Yolanda Performing a live P.A of Get Dirty Baby

And DJ's on the night will be;
Mr Thing (ex Scratch Perverts)
DJ Deekline (Rat Records / Throwdown / Breakbeat Connection)
Donna Dee (Rat Records / Throwdown / Breakbeat Connection)
Cutlass Supreme (Wide Records / Novamute)
Blowfelt aka Scrappy (Throwdown)
Deep Cut (Throwdown)

Throwdown Thursday will be hosted by: MC HyperActive (ex Flex FM/Freeze FM) & MR E (Throwdown) with all the action taking place at Plan B, 418 Brixton Road, Brixton, London, SW9. More information about the Throwdown below.

‘Trigger’ at the Medicine Bar in Birmingham has played host to some forward thinking DJ’s over the years, but on Saturday April 24, one of the most weird and wonderful will grace the Custard Factory decks. Tipper of Fuel Records fame will play alongside Novamute’s Si Begg at the event, billed as ‘The heavyweight programmers ball’.

Joining residents Kosmikneil and Nobody the nights electro/breaks policy will have its boundaries stretched as Tipper brings in his quality randomness.

Curfew is a new Thursday night launching at The Elbow Rooms in Islington and will be a once a month (every second Thursday) affair. Launching on March 11, “…Curfew will offer up the best collection of block party hip hop, starring a line-up of the finest hip hop connoisseurs playing anything from Jay-Z to Schooly D.”

Fabric's Joe Ransom heads up the resident's list and is joined on the launch night by 1xtra's Rampage, and Choice FM's DJ279. With future guests including Scratch Perverts, Mixologists, DJ Vadim and the Russian Percussion this night looks set to be a midweek winner. Tickets are only £4 on the door.

As Type enter their 4th year of parties, there is no slowing down as they get ready for an impressive lineup of DJs to grace the 3 rooms of The Cross on Saturday March 13. Seb Fontaine will be leading the main room while the Finger Linkin funk All stars take up in the tunnel room for a night that will please people with wider musical appetites.

Main Room - Seb Fontaine, David Guetta, Nic Fanciulli, Richard Dinsdale
Plastic Room - Savers, Seamus Haji, Wes
Tunnel Room - Finger Lickin funk All stars feat: Soul of Man, SLYDE, Abel "Wedding DJ" Reynolds and Special guest DOM "SKI"MOIR

Type is on every second Saturday of the month.

This Friday (5th of March) means its Foreign Muck time again. Last month M.A.N.D.Y shook the underlit dance floor out of place with their bass heavy sleavy house set and continued to pave success for this underrated underground London monthly. This month sees Zurich hotrod Headman (Robbi Insinna) step up to the turntables with his eclectic blend of electro acid punkfunk. With a fistful of recordings on Gomma, Relish and Output, grab this rare chance to catch the man in action. Residents Boris Horel and Greg Sonata provide quality support for this growing night. Do it!

The Key, Lazer Road, Kings Cross Goods Yard (Near the Cross) N1
11pm-6am £7 B4midnite and concessions / £10 thereafter

For reduced entry, email guestlist@foreignmuck.co.uk

Never to be outdone, Godskitchen have whipped up a tasty collection of internatonal and local DJs to bang it out at Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle this Saturday, March 4. Godskitchen events are not just sound system and DJ, the crew go out of their way to showcase themes and live entertainment with something new at each event, all year round. This party will see trapeze artists take to the air and circus entertainments in their amazing costumes providing entertainment alongside cranking dsance music.

Godskitchen in Newcastle Lineup
Main Room : Ferry Corsten, Judge Jules, Marco V, Fergie, Tall Paul, Timo Maas, Scot Project, Matt Hardwick, Richard Tulip
Room Two (Polysexual) : Tidy Boys, Andy Farley, BK, K90 Live, Karim, Hinsley, Amber D, Mark Maitland, Kerry James

Visit the Godskitchen site for more information.

The winners of the annual BreaksPoll Awards were announced on Thursday of last week at their special event and all the usual breaks suspects were there. The event, held at Egg just around the corner from London's Kings Cross featured quite a collection of DJs and producers ripping it up on the decks including - Rennie Pilgrem, Krafty Kuts, Adam Freeland, Freq Nasty, Stanton Warriors and Meat Katie in a 4 hour breakbeat DJ battle - with a warm up on the night from Phantom Beats with Evil 9 (Live), Skool of Thought and more in the other two rooms.

This years winners looks like so;

BreaksPoll 2004 Awards
Best DJ - Adam Freeland
MVP - Rennie Pilgrem
Best Label - Fingerlickin'
Best Retailer - Vinyl Addiction
Best Single - 2 Freaks (Rennie & BLIM)
Best Producer - Plump Dj's
Best Remix - Emit / Collect (Rennie Pilgrem)
Best New Label - Streetwise
Best Club - Spectrum
Best New Act - Friendly
Best Radio Station - Breaks FM
Best Magazine - MOFO
Face of Breaks - Adam Freeland
Best Album - Eargasm (Plump DJ's)

One of the UK’s leading club-life photographers (and latest additions to the RA ranks) Paul Underhill got down to the event and has provided some great snaps of the break beat happenings on the night. You can view the photo set on RA below.

One of the UK''s finest Hip Hop crew, The Extended Players are coming back to host a new monthly night at The Elbow Room in Islington.

The crew, whose members include the award winning Shortee Blitz, Harry Love (ex Scratch Perverts), Mr Thing (ex Scratch Perverts), MK and Mystro have been busy hosting various radio shows, winning all sorts of awards and DJ''ing for the likes of Roots Manuva and Jay-Z no less.

And now, having finally found the time, they will all get together in one place for the last Thursday of every month for a funked up showdown of the finest hip hop beats in town.

The information for the opening night is as follows..

NAME: Extended Players
DJ's: Shortee Blitz, Harry Love, Mr Thing, MK and hosted by Mystro
PLACE: The Elbow Rooms, Chapel Market, Islington, London N1
DATE: Thursday, 25th March
TIME: 9pm - 3am
PRICE: £4
TUBE: Angel

The last Thursday of every month will see the above crew members appearing plus some very fine guests including Big Ted, DJ Kofi, Yun Gun, DJ 279. So stick it in your diary, take Friday off if you must, coz you need to see what extended players is all about.