05.09.09 discoPUP present Idjut Boys @ Sodabar Cardiff Capital City of Wales

[mrs b]

Saturday 5th September 2009
9pm - 4am

Main room progessively retrospective

Idjut Boys - 4 hr set

Dan Tyler and Conrad McDonnell, as DJs they tour continuously and boast a diary packed with dates at the globe’s hottest underground party spots. They also have a production style that’s entirely their own. As a result, second - hand copies of their earliest releases command small fortunes amongst vinyl obsessives and major label A&R execs have requested that they sprinkle their deep, dubby disco magic on chart-topping artists including Dido and The Scissor Sisters, they oversee four record labels -U-Star, Noid, Discfunction and Cottage - that, alongside their own productions, and countless mix cds - the most recent Night Dubbin, Dmitri From Paris selects two discs worth of essential ‘80s disco dub mixes, the Idjut Boys transform them into a disc - long meltdown, so we are very honoured to welcome the duo for their very first appearance in Wales.

Craig Bartlett
Darren Stewart
Neil Young
Nick Reeves

The Terrace

A diverse and eclectic musical soundtrack provided by international guests, local djs, friends, and like minded music enthusiasts.

Advance tickets only from ticket web
£8.00 more on the door if available. ROAR

www.ticketweb.co.uk tel: 08700 600 100


Sodabar, 7-10 Mill Lane, Cardiff

Tel: 07816926111
Email info: enquirylamerica@btinternet.com
Websites: www.lamericapromotions.com // www.thesodabar.com

[mrs b]

The Idjut Boys don’t make the kinda dumb productions that usually proliferate dance music. Their tracks grab disco, dub, electro, funk, house, hip hop and rock, then fuse the lot into the kind of groove that leaves dancefloors reeling and their peers speechless. With odd track titles like ‘Frogs Arrrse’, ‘Tea Tray Formerly Known As Coffee Table’ and ‘Caught Short’ the lads are always looking to lighten a dance world that most producers take a tad too seriously.

Conrad and Dan met each other, in Cambridge, at the end of the Eighties, forming a ‘bond’ that led to them moving to London… throwing their own parties and launching the record label U-star. Famously one of their 12’s got heavily played by François Kevorkian an honor that drove them on to discover new highs touring the world and back again.

U-star, Cottage, Noid, Nuphonic all put out the lads dance-floor experiments, many of which now fetch big money on ebay and have become a massive part of British House Music History. The lads have also remixed all the biggies from the Scissor Sisters to M People shedding their own light with each new take.

Their eclectic DJ sets have become legendary, consistently winning them new fans as a ‘nu’ school generation of clubbers discover that the best music is made on the margins. To sample their pleasures check out ‘Saturday Nite Live’ on Nuphonic if you can find it. Or more recently ‘Press Play’ on Tirk which features exclusive re-edits compiled, tweaked and twisted by the lads. The Chemical Brothers were even seen walking on to their edit of Tantra, ‘A Place Called Tarot’ recently at Brixton academy. A sure fine sign that the lads still hold the torch.

Both still look hard to buy… new, old, different, unheard records in an age when most follow the lists. If anything the present climate is seemingly turning back to meet the Idjuts once more. Eclecticism, musical variation, the underground, those margins where the true music enthusiast thrives, are back and anything is possible again. Or did it never go away? All Dan and Conrad want to do is give people a good time and put a smile on their faces, while they do it. Amen to that.