From: Nick Matthews (nicktheagency_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 2004-01-05 12:20:10
Note: forwarded message attached.
---------------------------------
Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now
attached mail follows:
BEST KEPT SECRET
Booking Agents * Artist Management * Promotions * Consultancy
This months instalment includes :
- Best Kept Secret 2nd Birthday World Tour - Starting in South Africa
- Nicola Conte (Schema / Italy) returns to the London for an exclusive date
- Sidewinder (Fenetik) kicks off some tour dates for 2004
- Latest roster addition - Yam Who?
- Latest news regarding remixes and forthcoming releases..
- Tour booking opportunities - 2004 (Sidewinder, Drumagick, Boo Williams, Break Reform)
- Best Kept Secret 10 essential tunes for January...plus Top 25 for 2003..
------------------------------------------------------------------
I will spare everyone the turkey, stuffing, over indulgance and spending beyond one's means jokes and other boring seasonal anicdotes... suffice to say that whatever you did (or even celebrated at all) I hope it was a cracker (sorry - no more jokes after that - I promise).
The all absorbing beast that is Best Kept Secret has hits its second birthday. I'd like to feel that its been successfully parented through breast feeding stage (which was fun), growing its first set of gnashers (and losing them) as well as progress to baby crawl, its first words (which were "feed me") and take its first wobbling steps to childhood and its golden age of youth and adolesense. Over the next 4 months, there will be some very special appearnaces and announcements of new projects that Best Kept Secret will be organising, starting with....
BEST KEPT SECRET 2nd BIRTHDAY TOUR w/ NICK MATTHEWS
From now until the beginning of April, Nick Matthews alongside various members of the Best Kept Secret family and friends - will perform over 30 special and one- off dates around the world to recruit new victims for our cult - culminating in a very special show in London in April. How apt that this season should start with a brand new territory for Best Kept Secret.. SOUTH AFRICA...
Fri 9th January
THE IVORY ROOM (8 HOUR SET) - 192 Loop Street, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - 8 p.m - 4 a.m - 50 ZAR
A deep and dirty club for the real Cape Town heads to get their dancing kicks until the small hours of the morning.
Sat 10th Janaury
RHODES HOUSE - 60 Queen Victoria Street Gdns, CAPE TOWN - 10 p.m - 4 a.m - 80 ZAR
A fantastic looking, split level venue with alternate rooms. A right eclectic mash up, I tell thee..!
Weds 14th January
FEZ CLUB - 38 Hout Street, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - 9 p.m - 4 a.m - 30 ZAR
A little midweek jamboree to promote and showcase ... (see Fri 16th Jan)
Fri 16th January
BEST KEPT SECRET "ON SAFARI" @ LATE ED's - 9 p.m - 3 a.m - Guest List Only
NICK MATTHEWS (South Africa) vs NICK MATTHEWS (U.K)
They say that everyone has a namesake or a look alike - I guess that I have found mine - and so we are going to battle it out for supremacy - THIS IS THE BIG - all the big cheeses will be down to see what all the fuss is about.
Sat 17th January
SUTRA - 86 Loop Street, CAPE TOWN - 10 p.m - 3 a.m - 50 ZAR
Well established dance music venue in land of the Cape - great sound system ready for a heavy bassss session...
-----------------------------------------------------------------
SIDEWINDER (FENETIK)
Sat 10th Janaury
RAW! @ Medicine Bar (Custard Factory), Gibb Street, Digbeth, BIRMINGHAM - 10 p.m - 3 a.m - £3
Birminghams coolest promoters kick off the year with another fine offering - with support from RAW! Residents
Tues 27th January
Lampeter University Students Union - Ceredigion, WALES - 9 p.m - 1 a.m - FREE
A chance for the Welsh to show off their jazzmatazz and that their hunger for the one and three beat has reached starvation point - check it..
--------------------------------------------------------------
NICOLA CONTE (SCHEMA, ITALY)- U.K DATES
www.ishtar.it
The funky one from Bari, Italy makes a brief return to the U.K after rocking some dates. Nicola's productions have been from the top drawer in 2004 and Best Kept Secret shall be announcing some exciting news shortly about Mr Conte's future plans...
Sat 24th January 2004
GROOVE SANCTUARY @ MADAME JO JO's - 8-10 Brewer St, SOHO, LONDON, WC1 - 10 p.m - 3 a.m - £6 (b4 11 p.m) / £8 thereafter
Smiley dancefloor action in this Soho basement - one of the capitals most consistant weeklies - with resident don Raw Deal (Straight Ahead Records / THIS! (Bar Rumba)
---------------------------------------------------------------
LATEST RELEASE NEWS and GOSSIP (Don't forget... It's a secret)
January usually means two things - firstly making false promises to yourself about - (a) exercising more, (b) losing weight, (c) going to the sales with the other haords of bargain hunters or (d) going away because its so bloody freezing (unless you are in a hot place - in which case its... (e) visit somewhere cold for the experience). It also usually means everyone is flat broke from all the socks, ties, chocolates and bottles of wine that they have brought their loved ones over the festive season and thus hybernate for 31 days until the next pay cheque. But - this peace and quiet can be good for the creative juices...
No rest for Yam Who? though - BKS newest recruit - ever busy on the remix tip - this latest one of the track that started it all for Sidewinder - "Ego Riot" - out now on Fenetik Music - The Bitasweet camp have a new track by J B Rose entitled "Time". Another big Bugz in the Attic remix in the pipeline of Amp Fiddler track, "I Believe You". Alex Phountzi excellent remix of Flowriders track Different Spaces (4 Lux) - released at the very end of 2003. Sparks flew whilst Bruno E was in the U.K in December. He set up camp in a studio for a week with Xan Blacq for some Brazilian inspired nu soul....fresh. The full results will be unveiled later in 2004. Still on the latin vibe, Ben Mitchell (under the moniker Sao Benetiz) releases the album project - out now on Mr Bongo. Joseph Malik has added his distinct vocals to Innocent Sorcerers tracks, "Believe & see" - released now on Fluid Ounce.
And Finally...Five Best Kept Secret artists made it to the shortlist for Gilles Peterson's All Winners List for 2003 (Bruno E, Stateless, Mitchell & Dewbury, Drumagick in the singles cateogary and Break Reform in the album cateogary) - an excellent showing I would say. Big years lay ahead for all of them.
------------------------------------------------------------
FORTHCOMING TOUR DATES
PLEASE THE BOTTOM OF THIS E-MAIL FOR FULL ROSTER DETAILS...
Sidewinder (Live / DJ)- January / February / March / April
Drumagick (SambaLoco Records) - 13 February - 8 March 2004 (a few dates left)
Beanfield (Compost Records) - 4 March - 14 March 2004
Boo Williams (Anthology Launch & Tour) - April 2004
Bruno E (Trama / Nova Vida / SambaLoco) - April 2004
Ben Mitchell / Russ Dewbury - / January / February / March / April
Stacy Kidd (Chicago) - March / April 2004 (Europe)
Break Reform (DJ Tour) - 1 April - 18 April 2004 - North American Tour
Live Tours
Mitchell & Dewbury (5 piece) February / March 2004
Break Reform (Live tour) - 23rd April onwards - U.K / Europe
Patricia Marx (Full Live Tour) - Europe - Full details next month
PLEASE THE BOTTOM OF THIS E-MAIL FOR FULL ROSTER DETAILS...
------------------------------------------------------------
BEST KEPT SECRET CHART - JANUARY 2004
1. Sidewinder - Ego Riot (Yam Who? mix) (Fenetik)
2. Break Reform - Freefall (Abstract Blue)
3. Fried Pried - My Funny Valentine (King Britt Scuba Mix) (Poussez! France)
4. Roy Davis Jnr feat Ayro - Know what you are Thinking (Ubiquity)
5. Wally Callero - Family Tree E.P (Electrik Soul)
6. Rawsoul Orchestra feat. Sybille - Super Lover (Underground Solution)
7. Crate Soul Brothers - Flyin' down to Rio (Perfect Toy)
8. 6th Sense - Paradise (Afronaught vocal mix) (Joint)
9. Nu Era - Some think Electronically E.P (Twisted Funk)
10. David Borsu - Monster E.P (Counterpoint Records)
BEST KEPT SECRET CHART - THE BEST OF 2003
1. Mitchell & Dewbury - Beyond the Rains (Drumagick remix) (Mumo)
2. Break Reform - Ghosts (Abstract Blue)
3. Nu Spirit Helsinki - Honestly (Jazzanova Remix) (CDR)
4. Les Voleurs - No Funk (So Perfect) (Schiffo Disko)
5. Ty - Wait a Minute (Big Dada)
6. Spiritual South - Green Gold (Afro Art)
7. Fertile Ground - The Moment (Seiji remix) (Counterpoint)
8. Nitin Sawhney - Rainfall (Bugz in the Attic Remix) (V2)
9. The Detroit Experiment - Think Twice (Rope a Dope)
10. Jinadu - Turning the Tide (Domu & Jinadu's Broken mix) (Bitches Brew)
11. Sidewinder - Open Source (Tom Churchill remix) (Fenetik)
12. Macy Gray - When I see You (Bugz in the Attic remix) (Sony)
13. KV:5 - Chimurengaaah (Prolifica)
14. Patricia Marx - E o meu amor ui passer (Bruno E mix) (Trama / Sambaloco)
15. M-Gee feat. Mica Paris - Bodyswerve (Swing City)
16. RSL - Wesley Players (Players)
17. Frogsnatcher - Dirty Bird (Afro Art)
18. Global Soul - Look Into Yourself (Seiji remix) (Bitasweet)
19. Stateless - Bringin' Me Down (Freerange)
20. Mr Scruff - Giffin (Ninja Tune)
21. Pharell - Frontin' (Yam Who remix) (White)
22. Nathan Haines - Squire for Hire (Chilli Funk)
23. Electracoustic - Libertease (Meat Katie remix) (Outer)
24. Max Sedgley - Happy (Irma on Canvas)
25. Clyde feat. Capitol A - Serve It Up (Mantis)
----------------------------------------------------------
Nick Matthews
Best Kept Secret
7-11 Kensington High Street
LONDON
W8 5NP
T: +44 20 7368 3393
E: nick_at_bestkeptsecret.uk.com
W: www.bestkeptsecret.uk.com
DJ's:
Ady Harley, Alex Attias, Anderson Soares, Beanfield, Bitasweet Records, Boo Williams, Block 16, Break Reform, Bruno E, Domu, Drumagick, Joseph Malik, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Les Voleurs, Mark Luv'Dup, Mr Hermano, Mitchell & Dewbury, Mad Zoo, MK (Roots Manuva), Nick Matthews, Nicola Conte, Nu Spirit Helsinki, Phil Asher, Russ Dewbury, Sidewinder, Stacy Kidd, Stateless / Swell Sessions, Wagoncookin', Yam Who?
Live / Semi Live Acts:
Bluprint (Exceptional), Break Reform, Electracoustic, Fertile Ground, Izzi Dunn, Mitchell & Dewbury, Patricia Marx, Sidewinder
If you do not wish to receive any future mailings from Best Kept Secret, please reply to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the title and you will be removed immeadiately...