From Greg Earle Sent Wed, Oct 7th 1998, 11:31
Spotted on the Ceremony mailing list: ------- Begin Included Message All star line-up for monster Mean Fiddler New Years party Underworld - Temptation indeed New Order and Underworld will be headlining the Mean Fiddler's huge Temptation New Years Eve dance party at Alexandra Palace. Alexandra Palace has now become the venue of choice for dance promoters on December 31, with the Mean Fiddler following in the footsteps of Universe and Essential, who have both held events there in the past. Joining the headliners will be Laurent Garnier and Monkey Mafia, who will also be playing live in addition to DJs the Chemical Brothers, Sasha, Luke Slater, Richard Fearless, Dave Ralph, the Bronx Dogs and the Scratch Perverts. There will also be a live audio-visual link-up from the Essential Mix New Years Eve bash at the Blackpool Winter Garden featuring Pete Tong and Judge Jules. The event will take place across three rooms between 9pm and 10am. The Mean Fiddler will also be putting on another Temptation night on December 29 at the Manchester Evening News Arena, Manchester. This will also feature New Order, Underworld and Laurent Garnier playing live with Justin Robertson, Luke Slater and Andrew Weatherall DJing. [At Nynex arena, apparently.] ------- Message 2 [From next month's Musik] NEW YEAR: NEW ORDER AFTER several successful comeback gigs, indie-dance icons New Order are headlining two shows called Temptation in December. At Manchester's 8,000 capacity Evening News Arena on December 29, they'll be joined by live acts Laurent Garnier and the Lionrock Sound System, and DJs Justin Robertson, Luke Slater, Andrew Weatherall and James Holroyd. At London's 12,500-capacity Alexandra Palace on New Years Eve, their guests are Underworld and Audioweb, plus Sasha, Judge Jules and Pete Tong in the Radio One Essential Mix room, and Monkey Mafia, The Chemical Brothers (DJing), Richard Fearless, Bronx Dogs and the Scratch Perverts in the Heavenly Jukebox room. Both events run from 9pm to 6am, with tickets priced at 30 quid for the Manchester show and 39 quid for the London show. Contact 0161-832-1111/0181-963-0940 for further details. ------- End of Included Messages (Sorry for the non-IDM content. But hey, Slater and Garnier and Weatherall count, don't they? :-P A rave in Manchester with Slater, Garnier, Robertson and Weatherall, with New Order playing a few Joy Division tunes. I think I could hang with that, yeah ... ) - Greg