People’s Republic Of Disco

Comrades - you all know the drill by now, so suffice to say that after 9 months away, we’re all VERY excited about this.

It’s also Comrade Dubversion’s 40th Birthday, so expect it to get busy AND even drunker than usual.

We’re so very sorry to announce that one of our favouritest comrades (and a good friend), Comrade Yves (Steiner) passed away last week. If you were a PROD regular, you can’t have missed him - always smiling, always dancing, always brightening up the room.

He was a true one-off, as Comrade Pie Eye said, “he had the light in him”, and we’ll really really miss him. Our thoughts go out to Emma and to Yves’ family and friends.

Yves, we salute you.

Comrades -

The People’s Republic of Disco aren’t above tackling the big issues, so can we point you in the direction of this petition.

He’s taken to checking out some patois website and starting his show with stuff like “wha’ppen, listeners” and the like. He really needs to be boiled in oil. Tiresome, talentless, unfunny, puerile, offensive little twatmonkey.

So Christmas and New Year are out of the way, the rehab has hopefully started in earnest and the rubble has cleared. The PROD crew can’t begin to thank you all for what seems in many ways the best People’s Republic of Disco ever. The odd technical glitch aside, it was fantastic fun from start to finish (or we thought so, anyway!). Thanks for the drinks, the presents and the hugs, and we hope you had as good a time as we did. We must admit, the odd tear was shed, around the time this photo was taken:

So you can try and recall at least some of it, here’s some prompts:

The playlist for the night is here.

The photos from the night are here

And - perhaps best of all - we managed to catch almost all of the first 100 people through the door getting their Xmas gift off Santa (aka Comrade Stark the door prole). So feel free to download your own magic PRODmas moment from here.

Huge thanks to the staff at the Canterbury, to Who’s Afear’d, and to everyone who came along. See you soon - watch this space! And as some of you have already worked out, we’re happy to bring PROD to you - be it somewhere out of London, or for a birthday or wedding or something! Just drop us a line…

(NB: If you missed out on the PROD Xmas gift, at very least you can download the mix we handed out from here. It’s a bit late for this Xmas, but maybe next year…. )

Comrades

as you may know, the collective behind the People’s Republic of Disco have decided to take PROD back to its guerilla beginnings.

The monthly club night is being folded, in favour of occasional surprise raids on the forces of the megaclub and the superstar DJ. PROD will still be there - biding its time, planning its next move, cropping up when you least expect it.

But after nearly 6 long years of a sustained campaign for discocracy, the Christmas Party on December 22nd marks the end of the regular PROD night.

So we’re going to wrap things up - for now - with a very, very special night.

The People’s Republic of Disco Xmas Party will - in addition to the usual thrills’n’spills - include:

• a live band! (the mighty Who’s Afeared, as seen at Endorse It!)
• a late licence!
• a fantastic gift for the first 100 through the door!
• dressing up, messing about and some hardcore Santa action!

So.

You really don’t want to miss this.

Come and send us off in style and start your Xmas week with a bang!

Ahead of next week’s People’s Republic of Disco, the PROD deck proles Ouchmonkey and Dubversion are out and about in their Randy & Earl’s Old Record Club guise this coming Friday (October 19th).

Those intrepid folk from the Blue Light District are staging “I Love You Deptford, Will You Marry Me”, a night of art and music at the Deptford Arms. It starts at 8pm, runs till late and it’s entirely FREE!!!

As the BLD crew have said, “In the basement gallery we have the photographic works of Ann-Marie Mullarkey and Kate Stothert, on stage we have the king of Deptford himself, Mr. Nathan Persad, plus Beans On Toast and Pyepi & Friends all backed up by beautiful disc spinners Randy & Earl’s Old Records Club! There’ll also be films and visuals outside, plus installation work from the ever gorgeous Victoria & Anna!”

see - we’re beautiful, it says so on the intermaweb so it must be true.