515 PRESENTS BOOKA SHADE THIS FRIDAY @ TRIPOD

515 tripod

OD CONCERTS PRESENT
Booka Shade

(Live)

Support

LRB



24th April 2009 @ TRIPOD/ Doors 11pm
Advance Tickets from usual outlets. Phone/internet bookings subject to extra service charges.
www.ticketmaster.ie /24hr Hotline 0818 719300
Advance tickets €25 including booking fee.
For more info www.pod.ie

Berlin-based Booka Shade (Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier) leapt to the forefront of contemporary dance music in 2005 with their classic singles “Body Language” (with M.A.N.D.Y.) and “Mandarine Girl”, and their debut full-length ´Memento´. Since then they’ve released a string of hit singles, become one of the world’s most sought-after electronic live acts and developed their unique sound on the acclaimed albums ´Movements´ and ´The Sun & The Neon Light´. 2008 was one of the duo’s most successful and madly busy years yet. As well as releasing ´The Sun & The Neon Light´, their most ambitious and full-realized album to date, they embarked on another exhaustive world tour. Performing at festivals like Glastonbury, Rock Am Ring and Creamfields in Argentina, they cemented their reputation as one of the most formidable live acts around (Resident Advisor voted them the 5th best live act in the world). Their single "Charlotte" was one of the top three selling underground tracks on Beatport in 2008 and Booka Shade was voted ´Best Tech House Act 2008´.



It’s been a long and winding road that’s got Booka Shade to where they are now. Following their formative synth-pop outings in the 90s and releases on labels like R&S, Music Man and Tommy Boy – including a huge hit in 1993, “Una musica senza ritmo”, as Degeneration - Arno and Walter sought a new, more personal outlet for their creative energies. They found this through Get Physical Music, which they co-founded in 2002. Since then they’ve been at the production helm of countless releases by M.A.N.D.Y, DJ T., Sunsetpeople and Chelonis R. Jones, and the label has quickly grown to become one of the most respected and popular underground dance music labels around, releasing hits from a variety of artists from the aforementioned to Samim, Lopazz, Raz Ohara, Elektrochemie and Jona.



In 2004 Booka Shade released their highly acclaimed debut album ´Memento´, but it was their seminal collaboration with M.A.N.D.Y, “Body Language”, that launched them into the stratosphere. An immediate underground hit, the track also broke into commercial realms and was awarded ‘Ibiza Track of the Season 2005’. Booka Shade’s solo offering “Mandarine Girl” became a club smash and subsequent live performances at the 2005 Sónar festival and a warm-up set for Depeche Mode. Garnering massive props for both their studio work and live performances, Booka Shade have become in-demand remixers, lending their production magic to respected artists including Moby, Yello, Hot Chip, Depeche Mode, Roxy Music, Dubfire, Tiga, Dave Gahan and The Knife. In 2006 the UK’s leading electronic music website, Resident Advisor, crowned Booka Shade ‚Best Live Act’ and awarded them the title of ‚Best Album’ for their second longplayer, ´Movements´. Released in May 2006, it featured “Mandarine Girl” and “Body Language” alongside new club anthems “Night Falls”, “In White Rooms” and “Darko”. During their Movements world tour – which saw them perform a staggering 150 shows over the course of 20 months – Booka Shade released the 12”s "Tickle / Karma Car" and "Numbers", both international radio and club hits, as well as a mix CD for the DJ-Kicks series which was chosen as DJ Magazine’s #1 compilation of the year and Mixmag’s #2. Soon after they brought out ´The Sun & The Neon Light´, their most diverse and ambitious album to date. Since then they’ve toured as hard as ever, bringing their sound live and direct to audiences all over the globe; meanwhile Get Physical is as healthy as ever, and recently celebrated its landmark 100th release. Booka Shade have conquered the clubbing underground and are taking on the world.



LRB

LRB. is one of Ireland's best known dance DJs and resident DJ @ 515 Tripod sharing the decks with everyone from Sasha to Carl Cox, Danny Howells to Booka Shade. After a lightening career promoting what would become some of Dublin's most infamous underground clubs it was time for the boy to go over ground. He soon had his own show on Dublin's Nova 947 and it wasn't long before LRB caught the attentions of POD promoter Robbie Butler and was booked for his first Red Box gig supporting Sandy Rivera. A Red Box residency was in the bag and sets alongside Tim Deluxe, Seb Fontaine, Groove Armada, James Zabiela, Tiefschwarz, Darren Emerson + many more followed. LRB went on to appear at the Witness, Oxygen, Garden Party & Electric Picnic festivals. He is also a member of new dance act Totally Random DJs who are signed to John Aquavivas definitive recordings and have had a number 1 record with the Potbellez in Australia.



UPCOMING @ 515 TRIPOD

Sven Vath 17th April
Booka Shade 24th April
Carl Cox 1st May

Jay D

Do you mind telling what was the story with the 'competition' for Sven passes?

RaverRo808

25 quid is a rip off especially with the current economic climate,and the drinks will probably be at extortioinate prices knowing tri-pod,pass

Davei141

Like you would go anyway? If it was 10 euro and 3 euro a drink you still wouldn't go. So why bother having another moan? For what it's worth i will be there.

RaverRo808

Davei141 wrote: »

Like you would go anyway? If it was 10 euro and 3 euro a drink you still wouldn't go. So why bother having another moan? For what it's worth i will be there.

Then I definately wont be going

Davei141

http://cornerstork.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/crying_baby.jpg

You should reconsider, i hear booka shade are ending their set with a savage what is love remix!

VinylJunkie

Excellent gig, the only thing that annoyed me is the live set started so late but still it was worth every cent for Darko live.

SRFC90

VinylJunkie wrote: »

Excellent gig, the only thing that annoyed me is the live set started so late but still it was worth every cent for Darko live.

Agreed. Fuckers took so long to come on it was winding me up. Only got on stage about 1:50am. And every song the fella before them played sounded them same due to the ridici amount of bass.

Still pretty good though.

VinylJunkie

Yeah was like Booka Shade where supporting LRB