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SATURDAY 23rd of August at the ABERCROMBIE THIS TIME IT'S FANCY DRESS! Don your finest Eastern European garb for a going off Gypsy knees up! After the highly successful initial SG&BB back in April, Uber Lingua and the Abercrombie Hotel have been inundated with inquiries regarding "When's the next one?" After a few months of tending to other cultural ambitions, UL is proud to announce another Eastern European themed 'Bash' with a twist... Fancy dress (optional). "Punters just seemed to get into the Gypsy thing so intensely that we felt adding a costumed element to the party would take it to another level" (Brendan Palmer). Feat DJs Vulk Makedonski (Macedonia) VIT (Czech Republic), DJ Sveta (Russia), Evrim (Turkey), Russian Disko (Melb), bP (UL Melb), Mashy P, Jack Shit, Ollo DJs & DubChaman... + VJs Videokidz (Polski) + LIVE ACTS Gypsy Dub Sound System featuring violin virtuoso Veren Grigorov (Bulgaria) & The Ticklers featuring Edouard Bronson of ARIA award winning Monsieur Camembert. The SYDNEY GYPSY & BALKAN BASH TOO! AT THE ABERCROMBIE HOTEL
with Slovakian BBQ by celebrety chefs Carin Gala and Edwina Blush! Adding to the out of control performances of the Gypsy Dub Sound System are Uber-virgins, The Ticklers... a Klezmer quartet that includes such Gypsy & Jazz luminaries such as Edouard Bronson (of ARIA award winning act Monsieur Camembert) and Daniel Weltlinger... Pulling from the pool of talent Uber Lingua has at its disposal in Melbourne, bP is bringing with him Macedonian DJ and MC Vulk Makedonski, famous for his work with Curse Ov Dialect. Alongside rapping in his mother tongue, Vulk DJs everything from Traditional music to Mak Rap and always brings a party with him... Russian Disko is an expert in, well, Russian Disko... Alongside having one of the largest Russian music collections in Melbourne, his sets embrace the Berlin inspired Disko scene that doesn't drop below 150bpm... V.I.T. is a Czech DJ who promotes a monthly Czech and Slovak night in Sydney and he DJ'd at the original SG&BB, a rare chance for him to spin Czech tracks un-heard in Australia. Evrim was a surprise replacement DJ at the last 'Bash' and didn't fail to deliver an authentic selection of Turkish exotics. Her work at SBS Radio allows her to stay on top of the latest party music form her motherland... be it Underground, Overground, whatever! DJ Sveta is known for her work with Star F*ckers and the Gay party scene, yet her Russian genetic heritage calls from time to time and she'll be dropping a set of all Ruski dancefloor tracks... Representing the locals and pulling out all the fave Gyp, Balkan, East and Northern European tracks are Mashy P, bP, Ollo DJs and SG&BB crowd favourite, Argentinean Gyp-music lover DubChaman... Working the LIVE STAGE are renowned Electronic Gypsy minstrels The Gypsy Dub Sound System. This four piece have been central to the growth of the Uber Lingua movement in Sydney and feature members from Macedonia (Sam Golding - Tuba, Trumpet) and Bulgaria (Veren Grigorov - Violin, Dancing) alongside a skankin reggae guitarist (Dirk Krithoff) and Band Leader Trevor Brown on Saxophone, clarinet & laptop programming... Also playing are The Ticklers, who specialise is Eastern European Klezmer. Guaranteed to appeal to both the young and old and create an atmosphere ripe for dancing. The band is led by virtuoso violinist Daniel Weltlinger, recently returned from Europe and from touring with Gypsy guitar legend Lulo Reinhardt. He will be joined by award winning multi instrumentalist Edouard Bronson (of Monsieur Camembert), the extraordinary John Maddox on bass and Nigel Date guitar. CHECK
OUT THE PHOTOS FROM THE LAST SYDNEY BASH!
More on the artists
Merchants of the sublime Gypsy-scape... Gypsy Dub incorporate Eastern
European and electronic composition, combining Bulgarian strings, traditional
brass and the skankiní riffs of a reggae guitarist. A favourite of the
Uber Lingua summer series of 2006/07, GDSS has grown out of a search to
bring the passion, excitement, skill and juice of European music into a
fat and funky club and festival context.
The Ticklers The Ticklers specialise is Eastern European Klezmer. Guaranteed to appeal to both the young and old and create an atmosphere ripe for dancing. The band is led by virtuoso violinist Daniel Weltlinger, recently returned from Europe and from touring with Gypsy guitar legend Lulo Reinhardt. He will be joined by award winning multi instrumentalist Edouard Bronson (of Monsieur Camembert), the extraordinary John Maddox on bass and Nigel Date guitar.
Videokidz (Warsaw) Videokidz are Bartek Reszelski and Karolina Adamczyk Videokidz produce
and present original multi-stream VJ performances, create screen sculptures
and design immersive environments. We are live video performers, who design
and create audiovisual installations, and develop performance projects
involving new media and projection technologies, working creatively with
light, performance, video and new media technologies and we are transforming
virtual spaces into reality and vice versa.
Russian born-Sydney based Sveta is widely known around Australia for her unforgettable and explosive sets at SydneyÇs annual Mardi Gras, the largest party in the southern hemisphere. Sveta plays a diverse and eclectic range of funky, twisted, deep and dirty grooves, her sets ranging from electro, rock, lounge, vocal house, deep-tribal house, funky tech-house, progressive house and techno. Sveta began her career as a radio DJ over and maintained a solid 12 years on underground community radio station 2SER-FM and joined FBI upon their launch. She has also hosted programs on other community stations such as all-dance station Radio Dex and Free-Fm. Sveta has held a true national club DJ profile and has played regularly all over Australia for well over a decade. As well as playing regularly with the Bang Gang DJÇs during their three year long stint at Moulin Rouge and Club 77, Sevta has held a diverse range of residencies spanning from Hellfire to the Chinese Laundry. Amongst her achievements Sveta played at THE BIG DAY OUT, DJing in between Chicks on Speed and Gonzales in the Hot House. She has supported The Detroit Grand Pubahs and Larry Lee at Killer for Fuzzy and launched the Sydney Opera HouseÇs new Recording Studio with Deiter Meier from legendary electronic band Yello. Sveta also specializes in thematic events including art openings and launches. 
Volk Makedonski Melbourne's own Macedonian main man Volk Makedonski drops one of his legendary sets of proud music from the region... He may even pick up the mic we've provided and see what mother tongue raps come out! 
V.I.T. (Czech Republic) V.I.T.'s Dj bio reads like this... "Hi, my dj nick is V.I.T. , used to be F@jt, but because of wrong english pronuncation I decided it to swop my nick, same as I changed my nickname I changed my music style as well , instead tech-house closer to techno I play now more funky house, but I still like to play my old records:) I have been djing and have been making parties since 1998, Im from europe/Czech republic, at this stage live in Australia/Sydney. I play from decks and laptop/cds" V.I.T. has agreed to play a very Czech and Slovak set of very dancey tracks with lyrics... 
Russian Disko (Melb) Russian Disko is a member of the Ang Fang Quartet and has a vast
array of eastern euro music... a special interest in Ruski Disko gets him
into trouble on occasion...
Evrim Evrim is a broadcaster with the SBS Radio Turkish program... she played the massive SYDNEY GYPSY & BALKAN BASH (representing the far east of eastern Europe) and did so well we had to have her back for another set at UBER SYSTEM! Turkish born- Sydney based Evrim completed her degree in screen production/
Media and known for her work with SBS Radio since 1997. Evrim plays a diverse
and free range of funky, gypsy grooves and began her career as a radio
DJ and Broadcaster journalist and maintained a solid 11 years on multicultural
and multilingual radio Station SBS. She has also worked in event /party
organisation and took parts in short films and commercials. Evrim enjoys
showing off her belly dancing moves while playing a Gyp, Balkan, East and
Northern European and especially
Mashy P Mashy P has been active in Sydney's underground playing, remixing and
creating left-field beats from hip hop and dub to electro and techno since
arriving from England in 1987. A few years back he travelled to Qatar and
remixed local radio broadcasts putting together arabesque electro, beats
and drum 'n bass. Since then, he's begun producing global music influenced
electronic music, and has DJed at Uber Lingua parties in Canberra, Melbourne
and Adelaide alongside running the Sydney residencies since 2005. Most
recently he toured Mexico, Canada and the USA gathering music.
With cultural diversity his primary passion, Australian DJ/producer 'bP' (Brendan Palmer) has been representing the musically 'not so represented' for nearing two decades. He has wandered the world gathering sounds and has performed in places as diverse as Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, London, Tijuana, Mexico city and Helsinki to name a few... In 2004 he launched Uber Lingua and his sonic activity has grown exponentially playing literally hundreds of gigs and promoting culturally charged music in most capital cities of Australia. bP's sets traverse language, culture, genre, history and social scenes; deliberately defiant of mainstream music fashions, he presents an intersection of underground and outernational sounds that capture his imagination. Roots to Futurism, East to West, Minimal to Maximal are all sonic stops on bP's translingual express. Brendan additionally works as a producer at the legendary Melbourne radio station Triple R during the day and presents the weekly 'Dialectic' radio program on the web and Tasmania's Edge Radio. ______
Ollo are a well known Sydney electronic act and moonlight as Ollo
DJs. When they play with Uber their cultural heritage rises to the
surface and the Germanic tendencies lead them to play a selection of music
not often explored... the 'Neue Deutsche Welle' is basically Germany's
answer to new-romantics... quite electro, very raw, a little trashy, lotsa
fun... at this event they're going much further east!
Dub Chaman Argentinean born, DJ Dubchaman represents the Sydney alternative Latin scene. A cumbia beats, reggae, dancehall and dub specialist, also plays bass guitar and efx as a member of 7 piece Sydney act 'Social Progression System'. With a flair for the rare groove, be it dub, free jazz, roots reggae, rub-a-dub, afrofunk, dancehall or musica latina and an ever expanding taste and knowledge of music styles, Dubchaman has been following this passion for music and honing his talents for more than twenty years. His focus is always about the feeling, the music and its message. Dubchaman never plans a set, avoiding predictability, never just settling for what's current. At the dawn of 2003, Dubchaman, together with other DJ's and MC's started Chimichanga, the first Latin alternative night in Sydney, with a residency at the World Bar. Since then, Dubchaman has played sets at many different Clubs and Venues, such as The Basement, Canberra's Old Parliament House, Candy's Apartment, The World Bar, The Hippo Bar, and The Marquee to name a few. As a member of Uber lingua DJ's, Dubchaman has also played at St Jeromes, in Melbourne, Uber Lingua Nights @ The Abercrombie Hotel, and The Sydney Laneways Festival, often under SPS Cru, a Sound System with MC's and Percussion. In addition to his musical adventures, Dubchaman is a Graphics and Web Designer with more than 15 years experience. 
Jack Shit Jack Shit is a ratbag radio-head and raconteur who reinvents the real
with every show and set - refusing repetition and gleefully experimenting
with expectations - keeping even the indolent on tipsy toes. He Jacks Off
Saturday arvos on FBi and goads crowds in every dive Sydney has to offer
throughout the work-king weak with haughty refusals to play The Presets
(or any other overly-fashionable saturated craps). Give him some love -
he needs it!
Previous UBER LINGUA - GYPSY & BALKAN BASH events
previous UL parties at the ABERCROMBIE...
here are some of the more beautiful punters and crew at previous UBER parties...
check out photos from previous Sydney Uber gigs...
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