60 Million Postcards

Field Day 2010

This years Field Day left the rain as a distant memory as the sun held out for a glorious event with a magnificent line-up.  Electronic mayhem saw Mount Kimbie fill out the Bloggers Delight tent with a rush of experimental dubstep and head boppers.  Gilles Peterson introduced Chicago hip hop/jazz collective the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, tailor made for sunset with chilled vibes reaching across the park .  Caribou were uplifting, positive and ballsy and unsurprisingly drew a considerable crowd, all eager to catch the psychedelic pop-electronica.  The highly anticipated Gold Panda proved a popular draw and Matthew Herbert entertained the crowd, mixing discordant sounds whilst mounting a silver step ladder and finishing his set inside a tent.  The juddering techno of Moderat echoed an awe-inspiring headline set that leaves Field Day 2010 as a memorable one.  Its just finding that there is not enough time to fit it all in, especially having to wait for so long for a beer.  Field Day is an evolution of improvement as we pursue the best new music, sound and visual entertainment and this years proved that all the hard work does pay off.

Errors

The Twilight Sad - Reflection Of The Television (Errors Remix) by WeAreErrors
Errors head to 60 Million Postcards on the 10th of September.  Heres a remix by the Glaswegian quartet of The Twilight Sad.  Errors seem to be one of the most interesting young bands around at the moment with a sound that’s both intelligent and euphoric.  Woozily oscillating whirls of electro, bubbling bleeps and minimal beats underpin a backdrop of haunting vocal samples that leave you feeling that this is a band who have much development potential. The It’s Yours guys have clubbed together to bring you this one off rare live performance from a band who already have a cult following. 

Friday 10 Sept, £4 / £3 Regulars & Student Cards | 7pm - 2am

http://www.myspace.com/weareerrors

Deco Disco with Kate Jackson (Long Blondes) DJ set

Deco Disco have a very special Bank Holiday party lined up for us on Sunday 29th August at Sixty Million Postcards. The Deco Disco guys are joined by Long Blondes front woman and icon of an indie generation Ms Kate Jackson. Expect a whirl of post punk to pop gems.

August 7 - Jazz Chronicles: Futuristic Music

Futuristica Music host this Saturday afternoon jazz session. You’ll
hear music from the classic labels Blue Note, Impulse, Strata East,
CTI, & Black Jazz along-side future classics from modern, forward
thinking labels Sonar Kollektiv, Tru-Thoughts, Kindred Spirit, Wah
Wah 45s and of course Futuristica Music.

3pm-8pm
Free Entry

Shiver N Shake

Prepare your auditory sensors for the experiments of the Velvet Underground, Hendrix and Sonics, the harsh delights of Bauhaus, the Birthday Party and DNA, to the modern advancements of Crystal Stilts, Ulterior and the XX. Expect dark visuals, Catwomen and cave dwelling movers and shakers…

Gold Panda at Field Day

Gold Panda exemplifies all that is great about new music at the minute. Tracks of devastating beauty are constructed almost entirely from found samples using “old records, VHS’s brought in charity shops and the odd 90’s computer game samples. Live, he adopts the common posture of the knob twiddling laptop gazer with his eyes scanning the array of esoteric machines and boxes that lay before him.  He splices beats and deconstructs sounds to their core and where any semblance of a regular pattern is omitted in a track, it’s replaced by ambient noise. A unique blend of samples and warm, euphoric beats.

Saturday 31st of July
Victoria Park,London, E3
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http://www.myspace.com/goldpanda

Field Day

is on the horizon.

WeThreeClub

WeThreeClub is an illustration and design agency recently set up by Alex Curtis and
Chris White. They predominantly work within the music industry creating stuff for
such artists as Dizzee Rascal, Foals, Gallows, Pulled apart by Horses, Jamie T
and Blood Red Shoes.

They have a large passion for screen printing and gig posters, recently setting up the
company Poster Roast.com which promotes UK gig poster artists.

Alex has also just set up an invitation company as well..dearsoandso.co.uk

In the future they have a exhibition lined up at The Nook in London, which will
be the launch of their new website..but for now there is a holding page up at
wethreeclub.com

www.wethreeclub.comwww.posterroast.comwww.dearsoandso.co.uk

Wednesday 28 July — FUTURISTIC MUSIC

Something a little different for Sixty Million Postcards, and something we are definitely excited to host. Futuristica Music, the respected and influential London record label, host the evening, playing the best in jazz, hip hop, soul and broken beat. Record label boss, DJ and remixer, Simon S, will ensure that this night fills the gaping hole that exists in Bournemouth’s bar and club scene for jazz and soul heads.

DJs
Simon S (Futuristica Music)
Martin Gordon (Brownswood)
8:30 pm to 12:00 am
Free Entry

SEXBEAT / Branchage viral series part.4 - Friendship

The 4th and penultimate part of the SEXBEAT / Branchage viral series is a collaboration between director Kate Jessop and left field indie duo Friendship. You can watch it HERE!

Alex Reuben @ Public Domain 17 July

Public Domain is a festival if digital art, music, interaction and screenings which runs through the 16th, 17th and 18th of July. It’s held in bournemouth lower gardens and you can find out more by clicking the link below. For the Saturday we’ve teamed up with Public Domain to make a No Fun Americana Special, a night which celebrates the new ALex Reuben film ‘Routes’, which is being shown at the festival. Reuben’s film looks at American through the prism of it’s popular music, our No Fun DJs will be adding finishing the night off with a mixture of barn storming country classics to the latest Brooklyn dance duos.

http://www.scansite.org/publicdomain http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=139065016106246&ref=mf

New Young Pony Club live and free this Sunday!

Join the facebook group for this weekend below…

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127118543995679&ref=mf

Friday 2, 2010 8:30 pm to 2:00 am — Beck’s Music Inspires Art Tour

New hot act ‘Summer Camp’ signed to Moshi Moshi will be playing at the Beck’s Music Inspires Art Tour, along with ‘The Invisible’ who are one of the best live acts on the planet right now, Luke abbott with a club-friendly set of dance music to drag you onto the dance floor and Lone Wolf with a gliding guitar, a velvet voice and lustrous harmonies.

20.30-02.00
Free Entry

http://www.myspace.com/summercampmusichttp://www.myspace.com/theinvisiblethree http://www.myspace.com/lukeabbottmusichttp://www.myspace.com/thisislonewolf

Dam Mantle - Sat 3rd July

Dam Mantle is a hotly tipped live electronic music pioneer whose knob twiddling as earned him support slots with the abstract tendencies of Tickely Feather and Gary Way, as well as super slick chill wave innovator Pantha Du Prince. Hi remixes for Kele Okereke and Gold Panda are future club classics.

You can see him live for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, along with Plaid (WARP) dj set and Pariah at Postcards this Saturday!

Grey EP by dammantle

New Young Pony Club - Sunday 4th July

The Becks Vier: Music Inspires Art tour hits Bournemouth this weekend, with it comes some of the most exciting live acts and artists in the UK. To give you a taste of what to expect, we will be releasing some of the featured guests work right here on the Sixty Million Postcards blog. Influential designer, music video director and man behind the SEXBEAT (London diy label / promoter) pin up girl, Zac Ella created this video for New Young Pony Club’s latest single - We Want To. You can catch the electro pop super stars at Postcards on Sunday 4th July for FREE!

http://sexbeatlondon.com/http://www.myspace.com/newyoungponyclub

Sonar 2010

This years Sonar Festival in Barcelona took place across two indoor and two outdoor stages with over three days of events focused around “advanced music and multimedia art”.  Art, audiovisual concerts, and medialab presentations next to DJ sets, electonic music, film and more.  This years bill ranged from glitches, glides and ethereal vocals from London based Nedry, to experimental organic electronica that is Caribou, to bigger named acts such as The Chemical Brothers and Dizzee Rascal.  As part of the mayhem there were a range of Interactive multimedia installations: Marcel-lí Antúnez created a video wall of cartoonish craziness that placed viewers’ faces in the action.  ReacTable, by the Musical Technology Group from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, was a video-terminal table that responded to users moving around blocks and discs, showing connections like a flow chart as it triggered clicks and clatters.  And Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman displayed a piece called Messa di Voce that made bubbles and drew lines using a microphone and tracking system.  Lets hope i can actually make it along next year.

Beck’s VIer Music Inspires Art Tour Gets The Cinema SIgn Treatment

Join the Facebook group to find out who’s on, which friends are going and who’s not checked their messages for a while and will now miss one the best week of events ever at Postcards. Click the link below.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127118543995679&ref=mf

Beck’s VIer Music Inspires Art Tour: New Young Pony Club, The Invisible

A four day line up that’ll blow your socks off! It’s all free entry and it’s all excellent, we’ll be featuring videos from these artists on this site over the next few days so keep an eye out.

Our Name In Lights

Our beloved cinema sign continues to guide Bournemouth’s favoured sons to our welcoming door. Like a mermaid, but with more beer and music.

Rube Goldberg music video

Discovered this music video, another visual masterpiece for Ok Go.  You’ll probably remember them best for their choreographed routine on treadmills.  And you probably want to check out the collection of videos on their website:

http://www.okgo.net/media/videos/