Keeping the love in the family – all local like – as we celebrate the disco hero that is Patterns in VICE with Charles Green Accidental Meetings Luke James and our Queenie Click here to read David Hillier’s great article Meet The Local Heroes Holding British Music Together. Continue reading Vice celebrate Local Heroes Patterns
It’s in the trees and its coming – oh its coming. Yes, our favourite foray onto the foliage is finally returning and we can’t wait to join our Alfresco family for a three day wiggle in the woods. And with the first announcement of artists wetting our disco whistle just right – how could Daniel Avery, Daniele Baldelli, Lowlife, Crazy P Soundsystem, Sophie Lloyd, Jonjo … Continue reading Alfresco Festival 2021
Fancy a festive ding-dong with some elf-ly good DJs as we get all Santa baby – socially distanced of course – at Patterns residents this Christmas. Yes, it’s the most wonderful time of the year (apparently) so come join some right seasonal angels as we deck the halls and do that merrily thing. Swing by, settle in and join the Patterns family we celebrate the … Continue reading A Very Patterns Christmas
I could list the many things I’ve leant on this year to get me through. Most involve calories I’m going to find hard to shift once this is over, but one has kept me happier than anything else. Disco. A small name for a mighty real genre that has kept me connected to the community I’m so proud to be part of. And so it … Continue reading Horse Meat Disco NYD at Patterns Distanced Series
Something seated, socially distanced but very exciting comes to Patterns this December including some NYD action with Horse Meat Disco Queenie and I are proud to be part of. Tickets go on sale this Friday but register your interest today here Continue reading Patterns Basement : December and New Years Distanced Series
Eleven years ago I reviewed a debut disco compilation on Strut Records for DJ Magazine that would go on to become legendary – unicorns and all. Since then I’ve become lucky enough to call Horse Meat Disco part of the family – friends of Dorothy who always bring the disco, the compilations, the radio shows and the hands in the air moments of heaven. Coming … Continue reading PRS M Magazine : Horse Meat Disco Interview
This is an urgent call for everyone in the nightlife and events ecosystem. We need you to let the government know what you stand to lose culturally or economically from the ongoing shutdown of nightlife and events. The government needs to hear our stories. Whether you have been directly affected, or this has affected your friends/family, favourite venues or events, it’s time to speak up! … Continue reading Protect Music Save Culture
I’ll be honest here, I don’t like change. So when Spiller added some Sophie Ellis-Bexter vocals to Groovejet back in 2000 I wasn’t best impressed. I like my house music like my flock wallpaper, stripped back. But as the years passed and the Aspergers wiring was challenged I grew fond of the lass who was Janet’s pride and joy. Fast forward 20 years (seriously!) and … Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Sophie Ellis-Bexter’s Crying At The Discotheque
The past week I have really struggled, my mental health buckling under the reality that is the new normal. The industry I love, the industry I call family is being left to flounder, life-support removed, jobs lost, hope fading. Where once a Tory Chancellor accused disabled people like me of being skivers hiding behind closed blinds, another now declares me unviable, fit only to be … Continue reading Let The Music Play
If house music is my church, disco is my shining cathedral. My nightlife is my life. Friendships made, communities created, changing lives, especially mine, forever. The love I found for myself on the LGBTQI dance floor is the reason I am here today. Disco is more than just syncopated beats and corking cowbells, it’s a reason to get up, get down and get on. Save … Continue reading Let Us Dance
Wildblood and Queenie 