basilika

In the glory days of Sunday night’s on Kiss FM, with Norman Jay and Gilles playing back to back shows, the highlight of the year was the All Winners Show.  Anything, well almost anything, was okay to tape over in order to have those four hours of goodness. The most important tool for a dj […]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I know what your thinking.
1)what’s with the gold bruce lee statue-he wasn’t down at basilika was he ?
2)isn’t it time for a really fawning review of the gig where you go on about how great you all are and how the music you played was the best music anyone has ever heard ?
Well, no and […]

There are a hundred good reasons to be making your way eastward tonight to the bi-monthly musical riot that is basilika at the elbow room. First and foremost it’s about the music, but there is also the added bonus of keeping up with Hatwatch;one dj’s mission to explore the rights and wrongs of ghetto-millinery.(he’ll be […]

My local Somerfield decided to put their Christmas Tree up more than two weeks ago.  I refuse to write off the whole of November as a pre-match friendly, but when it gets to the 25th, Christmas doesn’t seem so far away. Ironically, Christmas never seems far away to our Jak, who once starred in a low […]

 
No basilika action this weekend. (although I’m at the freshly refurbed BRB sat 8-11) So it’s the perfect opportunity to check out the mighty Sambalanco @ The Funky Munky in Camberwell. This week they are joined by our mate Russ Jones (Future World Funk) and as ever there will be resident djs dave blackgroove and […]

Saturday night was special (as ever)-we managed to overcome a myriad of technical disasters to take basilika to new heights. Maybe it was the booze but at least a couple of times I was left thinking ‘this is what I always wanted basilika to be like’. Great music that continually kept changing  direction (disco-hiphop-disco-house-disco-disco..etc) but […]

Saturday is another basilika session at the Elbow Room. The illa is down from Manchester and no doubt itching to drop some rainy city exclusives and I’ll be rockin up with a couple of secret new re-edits myself(boo-yah!)
 Also saturday will be our first opportunity to ‘break in’ the new allen & heath set-up (woh-hah!), which […]

Despite the fact we have been playing our own re-edits and basilika exclusives for over a year now, Friday was the first time someone came up and excitedly asked ‘what is this tune ?’ whilst we’ve playing one. 
Positive feedback !
The tune in question was brubekk’s mighty earthshaker which, as part of his ‘endless loops’ […]

In the spirit of keeping things FRESH (see below)-here is some exclusive basilika music.  I was having dinner with Russ a couple of weeks ago and  he was playing me all this wicked off-beat gospel music. A few days later I was watching The Wire and  felt the theme music-Tom Waits ‘Way down in the […]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
If you’ve read this site more than once, you will probably have noticed a theme emerging in the posts. The theme basically boils down to the ‘check out this night-it’s going to be rockin’ posts or the ‘that night was wicked’ posts, with a bit of slightly homophobic/playground style trash talk  thrown in the […]