**Dance Weekender Oct 27+28th Limerick**

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October 27+28 is going to be a big weekend in Limerick dance music history as Strutt and Dolan’s Warehouse run their first ever dance weekender bringing acts from all over the world and incorporating House, Funk, Techno and reggae music over 3 rooms, 2 nights and over 15 djs and live acts.
Strutt have pulled out all the stops and pulled in an array of talent from all corners of the globe to our treaty city.

Limerick has always had a healthy dance scene with an excellent following and Dolan’s along with a great atmosphere and friendly vibe is quickly establishing itself as one of the top venues in Ireland for live acts and club nights.

The October weekender will be no different with guests such as Green Velvet(Relief Recordings), Inland Knights (Drop music), Dom (Blood and Fire), Jazzman Gerald (Jazzman Records), Broken funk Djs and all the local record massagers and residents hand picked from the local clubs where they sample their wares every weekend including A2DF(Funktion, Trinity rooms, Mickey Martins) Cian Frawley + Bad Boy Blast (Strutt residents) Paul Dowling, Pete , Jonnie ( Broken Funk djs) Paul Tarpey ( Cheebah, Mickey Martins) ) Peter Curtain (Cheebah, Spin FM), John Greenwood (Wicked Chicken, Green House) Pa Mulqueen ( Strutt)

Tickets for the weekend are only a mere 31 Euro direct from Dolan’s Warehouse with a 1 Euro booking fee or from Ticketmaster.ie and usual outlets (Standard Ticketmaster fees apply)

Tickets for individual nights are also available from Dolan’s and on the door on both nights priced at only
17Euros for Saturday night and 19Euros for Sunday night.
Excellent accommodation rates are available in a choice of hotels in the city centre for the weekend ranging from 65 Euros per night per room.

Please contact 087 9757998 for more info;

Get your tickets early as numbers will be limited.

See you on the floor.

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All design by John Paul Dowling
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Inland Knights
As two members of Northern England's early '90s free party scene, Laurence Ritchie as a founder member with the smokescreen sound system and Andy Riley who joined in 95 were firmly entrenched in the region's rich legacy of house music.
As enthusiastic about DJ'ing as studio production Ritchie and Riley have maintained a relentless international touring agenda since their collaboration began. Their schedule has included visits to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, in addition to Singapore, Malaysia, Turkey, Chili,, the U.S.,and Russia as well as all over Europe.
Under the Inland Knights moniker the pair have been fruitful, releasing tracks on labels such as Ralph Lawson's famed 20:20 Vision imprint, Panhandle Records, Vista, Siesta, Sunflower, NRK, Low Pressings, double down and many more. Their original work has not gone unnoticed by their fellow artists; their tracks have been licensed to notable compilations such as the "Global Underground" series and Miguel Migs' "Nite Life" mixes. The duo are rapidly becoming a very sought-after remix team. Some of their credits include Faithless' "Mohammed Ali," Onionz and Tony's "Everywhere You Are," Floris' "Shake It," and Dano's "Horny Hustle."
Now into 2006, Inland knights will be concentrating on a two part ep to mark the 50th Drop release. This will be coming out towards the autumn and feature loads of new tracks plus maybe one from the vaults, and be released as a part one and part two ep package. An ep for San Francisco’s Amenti is also on the cards.







Jazzman Gerald

Gerald runs Jazzman Records with Fryer , DJs to packed dancefloors around the world and watches his team Middlesbrough lose at football. He collects modal jazz, funk LPs and 45s, titty shakers, latin jazz, 7” record boxes and 45 middles. At the moment his favourite jazz group is the Clarke-Boland Sextet, favourite funk 45 is Leon Gardner ‘Farm Song’ on Igloo, and most hated football team is Chelsea.






Green Velvet

Green Velvet (aka Cajmere) studied chemical engineering at the University of Illinois, where he exposed himself to the energetic culture and lifestyle of house. In 1991, midway though graduate school, Cajmere returned to Chicago to pursue his dream of producing house music.
In 1992, after surviving on cheese sandwiches and maximizing credit limits, Cajmere finally made an imprint on the dance community with his infectious experiment, "Coffee Pot" (It's Time for the Percolator) � Clubhouse Records. Then he moved on to more complex musical and lyrical arrangements with songs like Lidell Townsell's "Get With U" (Mercury Records).
The Cajmere and Dajae collaboration resulted in a #2 Billboard Dance Chart and International dance hit - "Brighter Days". It was at this point that Cajmere decided to start Cajual Records. Having his own label gave Cajmere the autonomy to attain his goal of developing a sound that was representative of Chicago - thus, putting Chicago back on the map.
Green Velvet produced the first release on the Relief label, "Preacher Man." He followed up the debut release with "Flash" and "The Stalker", both of which brought about unexpected praise and worldwide recognition.
In 2001, he unleashed his third album, the dark whatever which was a step away from his Kraftwork-inspired sound (although Sleepwalking had a similar style) to a darker, more political punk-esque style. On the album he tackled such issues as racism (highlighted on the song When?), drug use (highlighted on Genedefekt and La La Land), alienation (highlighted on Sleepwalking), and being told what to wear and do by the system (highlighted on the heavily punk-inspired track Gat). The more punk-oriented songs on the album apparently came from hours spent listening to industrial bands such as Nitzer Ebb and Liaisons Dangerous, and lots of "underground American industrial stuff." He released the single La La Land in 2001, originally designed as a wake-up call for clubbers to the dangers of pill-taking it became one of his most popular tunes. This was followed by Genedefekt. His live act had now became more like a rock band also, with the Curtis playing a keytar, and two other musicians (aptly named Nazuk and Spaceboy) backing him, playing heavily distorted synths. Initially Jones, as both Cajmere and Green Velvet, was receiving more attention in Europe than he did in the USA, playing a radio one live session on the Jo Whiley show and playing a host of festivals.




Dom (Blood+Fire)

The first time Dom heard reggae on a sound system was at a street party in 1977. He was hooked from then on.

After making a move to Manchester in 1983 he started to DJ more and more. He had weekly at Ten Bar with loads of local Manc DJ s and then he started the crazy DUBism club nights @ The Roadhouse and the Music Box with Guy Morely and Mr. Scruff.

By now the sounds of Jamaica had taken prevalence in his sets and he was known as a reggae specialists going from strength to strength.

By 1997 he had taken a job at the esteemed Manchester reggae label, Blood and Fire and embarked on a live sound system tour with original Jamaican deejays and Steve Barrow, an internationally known author, compiler, selector and reggae historian.

The Blood and Fire Sound System has since toured all over Europe, North America even Moscow, playing at major international festivals, parties and clubs.

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This weekend:D