Category: On The Road
Plastic People & Optimo
We’re taking the Mister to the UK this week. For those in London town, here’s our message in advance of the party at Plastic People on Friday:
This is Mister Saturday Night. We’re a party from New York City. Brooklyn to be precise. Twice a month we roll our soundsystem out of storage, take it to a secret loft, hang a disco ball, invite some friends and get down until the sun comes up. Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter, the Mister’s residents, often play all night. Occasionally a guest will play alongside them. No matter who’s playing, though, it’s about as no-nonsense a good time as you can have.
Until now, Mister Saturday Night has always happened in New York City. It’s the only place we’ve ever felt fully at home (it being our home and all). But last year, when Eamon and Justin were invited to play with Floating Points at Plastic People, we fell in love.
The reason why we host our party in Brooklyn lofts is because there’s no New York City club that really does it right. When we stepped into Plastic People, though, we found lovely people at the door, the bar and behind the scenes; cosy corners for chatting and a perfect dancefloor; and a pristine sound system. Check, check and check.
So now, we are elated to say that we’ll be hosting the first ever Mister Saturday Night outside of Brooklyn at Plastic People on Friday, January 27. (Yes, you heard that right. Mister Saturday Night will be on a Friday Night.) Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter will be playing vinyl all night long, and Plastic’s got all the other bits and pieces covered. Except one. That’s you.
We’re hoping you’ll come and make it complete.
Love,
Mister Saturday Night
Mister Saturday Night
On A Friday Night in London Town
with Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin All Night
at Plastic People / 10p – 4a / 147-149 Curtain Road, London, EC2 / Friday, January 27 / £7 before 11pm / £10 otherwise / advanced tickets here
And then on Sunday the 29th, we’re at Sub Club all night long, playing for our Optimo friends. It’s gonna be a good weekend.
Chi-Town
We’re wrapping up warm and heading to Chicago this weekend. If you’re out that way we hope you’ll join us at Smart Bar.
Record Fair and Kids Disco
Brooklyn Flea’s 4th annual Superstar DJ Record Fair will take place this Sat., Oct. 8, inside the Flea’s Smorgasburg food market on the Williamsburg waterfront. It will feature about 20 vintage record dealers, plus 20 vendors as part of the Independent Label Market, which launched in London in May and is making its US debut at the record fair. ILM features top labels from the world’s best music cities, with the heads of those labels manning the booths, selling their own products—new, catalog, rarities—at this unique and intimate new format for record-buying.
This year’s record fair will also include a kids’ disco party, with ourselves – Mister Saturday Night – taking care of musical duties. Then label owners and special guest artists will take spins on the open turntables for the remainder of the event.
Among the folks and labels selling are… 4AD, Captured Tracks, DFA, Domino, Fool’s Gold, Jagjaguwar, Kanine, Mexican Summer, Minimal Wave, Secretly Canadian, Throne of Blood, True Panther, XL, Young Turks, EAT Records, Halcyon, Us (yep, you can buy records straight from Justin and me), Neurotic Drum Band (our friends Ulysses and John Selway), Piotr Orlov, Sound Fix, Doug Mosurock and John Allen.
Come by records from us, and bring your kids to get down.
Brooklyn Flea’s 4th Annual Superstar DJ Record Fair + Independent Label Market: Brooklyn / Saturday, Oct. 8, 10am–5pm
Smorgasburg, 27 North 6th St. (btw. Kent Ave. + East River), Williamsburg
it’s free // Facebook event page
Mister West Coast
We’re playing two very different types of gigs this weekend out on the west coast. On Friday, Eamon and I hit Vancouver, where we play the New Forms Festival along with Marcellus Pittman, Deadbeat, Sun Araw and a bunch of other folks. Then, two nights later in San Francisco, we’re getting down and dirty with the boys from Honey Soundsystem. The flyers pretty much say it all. The real challenge is figuring out which records will work for both parties…