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[28 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Transglobal Underground @ Hare & Hounds – June 2009

Last night was an exceptional display of great musicianship, and talented performers. Legends in their own right, and with an ever evolving line up. Transglobal still rock the house like they did 13 years ago!

I had the fortunate pleasure of djing all night, and…

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[23 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Great performances @ Live & Free # 3

Massive elephant noises to everyone who came down and filled the Adam & Eve with appreciative sounds to the great array of talent on show from our 3 special guests this month.

Flame of Fervour were dark, gritty, acoustic with a very cool sound and great musicianship, the flamenco & latin fusion of the Hidden Half ignited a huge response from the audience, and The Heels, once again, set the whole place on fire, with one hour of inspired musicianship, and plenty of crowd pleasing ska….literally a band so large the brass section wouldn’t fit on the stage! :)

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[20 Jun 2009 | One Comment | ]
Djing with the Destroyers single launch @ Rainbow Warehouse – Fri 19th June 2009

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Last night was a truly memorable Birmingham gig @ the Rainbow Warehouse supporting the Destroyers for the release of their debut single “Out of Babel”, and the night, as Rich Batsford quite rightly puts it, “was the most eloquent response to noise abatement you could want”..

The Rainbow Warehouse looked magnificent with it’s 1000 …

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[19 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Mr Elephant’s 2nd Birthday Video by Jack Brabant

Our first professional produced video by super talented Jack Brabant. Along with Jules Hyland, we captured the footage, and he’s spent the last week creating the video below.

Suffice to say we are all somewhat blown away with the result!

Great to have you onboard Mr B :)

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[17 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Our 1st Cinephonic was ….

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A lot of hard work, but ultimately a great experience

Liam & i have been working on getting an a.v set together all week with 3 am finishes most nights. Hard work but necessary as we were both using new technologies, and obviously wanted the launch to be something special, not least …

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[17 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Going self employed

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For the past few months i’ve been trying to get on a provision which allows me to test trade for 3 months. Today i had my second meeting with a very nice man at the Birmingham Chamber called Barry Hudson, and i’m pleased to say that he seemed impressed with my final draft …

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[7 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Dramask & Mr Elephant @ BBC Water Festival

Its was a very wet sunday, but despite the torrential rain, the festival was great to be part of. Dramask had been asked to host a tent at the annual Water for Life Festival run by the environment agency, and i was asked to provide a suitable audio backdrop to the mask making activities (i thought i’d take our mr elephant banner with us what with it being the bbc)…

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[7 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Custom Made Party Rockin Mammal Sessions #6

This month was a blinder for the party rockin mammal stable. Mark Smallman on those wheels of music was a treat, along side some nice juicy plump sets from our residents.

We only caught a few snaps before the camera ran out, but big props to all who bought the smiles and filled the floor….

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[6 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Paper Tiger & Funkbox rock the Adam & Eve @ Live & Free #2

It was no surprise that our graphic designer Aart Tanner was so keen to get the 8 piece Paper Tiger Band down from Leeds! After seeing them at a festival in Croatia, he came back with one clear instruction…Book Paper Tiger for Mr Elephant. Our first available opportunity was our 2nd Live and Free event at the lovely Adam & Eve, and they were awesome…