REDSHIFT
Interview with Scroobius Pip
about Launching his Clubnight
We.Are.Lizards @ The Stillery Camden
Saturday 24th January 2015
Simply a great night out. Which sounds a bit too simple but thats really the sole aim. We don’t have a music policy as such, we just try to book great guest DJs (to add to our eclectic residents) and ask that they play whatever they want as long as people can get down to it. It can be popular or obscure, as long as it bangs and people aren’t standing around bored/confused.
2. Tell us a little about the kinda guests we can expect from who you have had play at previous parties?
The list is varied and endless! I will reel off a few rather than explain too much. DJ Yoda, Zane Lowe, Rob da Bank, Enter Shikari, Madness, Don Letts, Eddy Temple Morris... I could go on and on. Its been a busy three years!
3. You have stayed loyal to your team of resident djs too, who are they?
Our guests are always strong, but its our residents that have built us such a huge regular following. People like Yoda and Zane have got people through the door (and, indeed, smashed their sets) but what has had people coming back month after month for three years of sold out nights has been the quality from start to finish. DJ Destruction is PROBABLY the name I have had to shout in enquisitive ears the most. I have also revelled in watching guests like Yoda, John Kennedy and many more stand and watch his sets in awe. He is a former DMC champ, he has worked with a long list of your favourite rappers...and is the best kept secret in London. Add to that Push Music who brings insane variation and the greatest inside line to the best new tracks and mixes, Redshift Rebels who will have you dancing to RnB one minute and house the next and you have a packed night. And I have GENUINELY only just remembered that I DJ every month too...so I guess that adds to it all.
4. Ok, well you have mastered the spoken word performance stuff, how do you rate yourself as a dj and what is your approach to you dj set?
I'm really proud of how I've developed as a DJ. Infact, it’s only really in the last year or so I'm even comfortable referring to myself as such. I confess that, when it started, I was very much just a guy playing songs... but, having done this for a while now, I feel I can now hold my own amongst these beasts as a DJ. My approach is always fairly open. Again, experience now kind of allows me to just get the feel of the room and see where it takes me (then just play Ante Up anyway...). The more drunk I am, the more likely you will be hearing a lot of aggressive Hip Hop. That’s about all I can tell you.
5. People may think the night will be all about hip hop and spoken word…is it?
It really isn’t, no. Infact we started to limit the "live" element for exactly that reason. This is music as loud as your body can comfortably receive it. This is a night out. This is ringing ears and spilt beers. This is a party.
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