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Fidelity Kastrow live in London

Skrufff DJ Fidelity Kastrow has been featured as a key female artists from Germany this week in Deutsche Welle’s HITS IN GERMANY show ‘Girls on Top’ alongside Peaches and Nic Endo (Atari Teenage Riot).

Deutsche Welle (available online and on-air) is Germany’s equivalent to the UK’s World Service. It’s massive with an audience of nearly 90 million listeners and viewers worldwide every week .

To hear the show, tune in 4:30am or 5:30am (Berlin time / GMT+1) in the early hours of Sunday, March 7th. The show will be repeated also on Sunday, March 7th at 8:30am (Berlint time / GMT+1) and again on Monday, March 8th at 6:30am. The show was first broadcast on Monday, March 1st at 5:30pm and has been repeated at 7:30pm, 9:30pm and 11:30pm the same day.

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Fidelity Kastrow @ SE One (Torture Garden) February 2010 (click to hear FK's Bad love) photo by Bobette

London clubland suffered another devastating blow this week as 3,000 capacity superclub SE One suddenly shut down.

“It is with great sadness, that I must inform you that seOne London ceased trading on Monday Afternoon, 22nd February 2010,” said SE One general manager Marcus Kay in a statement posted on the club’s website.

“After 8 Long, hard and exciting years, seOne London has fallen victim to the recession and hard times felt in Nightclubs all over the UK,” he added.
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Skrufff DJ Fidelity in feathers (click on the picture, 13 seconds in)

Fidelity Kastrow in feathers in Berlin back in the day (click here)

Click on the picture to hear Fidelity Kastrow singing on Spartak's new track 'Bad Love'

Click here to listen to Skrufff DJ Fidelity Kastrow singing on Spartak’s new track ‘Bad Love’.

Fidelity DJs at Torture Garden tomorrow night (Saturday February 13, at SE One) and will be playing the track live in London for the first time.

Germany Calling: Gay Gothic Valentine’s Day

This month’s show has a distinct gay/ gothic tinge angled around Jonty Skrufff’s upcoming gig in Prague supporting Jimmy Sommerville as well as his brand new ‘Gothic Horror’ remix of Dare & Haste’s techno anthem Ghost Machine

Fidelity Kastrow meanwhile gets in the (Torture Garden) Valentine’s Day mood, showcasing the Carl Craig (or is that Carl Crack?) remix of Hot Chip’s One Life Stand and Peter Horrevorts’ devastatingly powerful new techno monster Bloody Hands.

Jonty’s remix of Motor’s Death Rave is currently up for a highly prestigious Quartz Award in France (having been chosen from over 4,000 tracks) and kickstarts the show in suitably slamming fashion, with Kylie and Bauhaus tossed in for good measure (in homage to still under-the-weather missing link Mark Reeder)

click on the picture for full line-up details (NOT SAFE FOR WORK)

Licensing authorities have ordered South London superclub Mass to refrain from hosting bashment or funky house events in the future, under strict new licensing conditions intended to reduce the threat of gang violence.

Local police chief Sergeant Steve Strange said they closed the Brixton venue for 28 days at Christmas after receiving intelligence that a doorman was marked for assassination following a fight he was involved in at a Farringdon club.

“We know there are disputes between gangs, and gangs have affiliations to certain promoters and venues,” Sergeant Strange told the South London Press.

“We are taking steps to keep warring – and I don’t use the word lightly – factions apart,” he continued, “This has been a problematic club and the main reason is the type of music that is played . . . ‘bashment’. We know it attracts gang members.”

Fetish institution Torture Garden (TG) briefly cancelled their New Year’s Eve party following the December 26 police closure though ended up opening after a judge over-turned the ban specifically for TG. Allen TG told Skrufff they’ll be going ahead with their March 20 Mass date as usual and said they remain confident of the club’s security.

“I don’t think these new conditions have any implications for Torture Garden at all,” said Allen, “In fact, they show that the authorities actually prefer to have fetish nights in their borough because they never bring any trouble.”

“When we were told Mass was being closed just four days before our New Year’s Eve party and we announced we were cancelling and looking for a new venue, we all got a few more grey hairs and we lost a few people, but in the end the event had more energy and felt more special,” he added.

“The fact people were relieved the party was happening added to the vibe and it was a great party. And on the flip side we got to check out some very interesting venues while we were looking for a replacement,” he said.

The sometimes extreme-dressing club promoter also downplayed the threat of violence in London in general, declaring ‘I’ve been clubbing for over 20 years and never had any trouble, at least since I left (South Coast town) Hastings, but then socializing on the alternative scene makes clubbing a very safe option,” said Allen.

“Neither myself not David (his ultra-flamboyant dressing TG partner) have been harassed on the street or anywhere else for many, many years,” he added, “London is a very tolerant place.”
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Take 300 or so mainly Berlin and Swedish DJs, artists, revellers and ravers and drop them on a deserted, treeless, infrastructure-less, Swedish island, for a few days or more. Add a sound system, generator, lighting rig, vegetarian café and water container and you’ve got the recipe for Secret Island Nation Festival, one of the best events I’ve ever played at and attended. And toss in a hurricane: a proper serious, fuck off hurricane, one powerful enough to be given an official name (Per) and deadly enough to sink 70 metre Norwegian cargo vessel Langeland, with all hands lost: the result: an experience: one to remember for life…..

Island newspaper The Secret Standard (in reality a photo-copied sheet of A4 paper) has the key details two days after the tempest.

“About 3 sea (nautical) miles away, six persons died last night- in the storm,” the Standard reveals.

“Some 150 more fortunate people have been homeless for the last two days, before arriving on Secret Island Nation. Between ten and twenty people got homeless after their tents were flattened by the wind. The answer could have been hiding in the stones, like two people did.”
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Fidelity DJs in Berlin this weekend at the Mid Sommar Festival on the banks of the Spree: she’s on from 3pm-6pm on Saturday July 4

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“Secret Island is different from other festivals, there’s a genuine family feeling in an incredible beauty spot where you’ll have a great time even if you happen to not like techno music. It’s the overall concept of the event that people find appealing, it’s the entire package rather than the whole package, most people don’t care which particular DJs are playing.”

Sunset

Though Secret Island’s 2009 line-up includes Berlin DJs such as Salon Renate’s Peak, Gigolo’s Joel Alter, Tresor’s Fidelity Kastrow and live acts DOP and Yapacc, Secret Island organiser Bjorn is impressively blasé about the key pulling points of his week long event.

“Actually all the artists we book always put a lot of effort into their shows to impress, though as a matter of fact, no DJ will, and has ever been, paid a fee,” he reveals, “Nevertheless I receive way more requests than I could possibly fit into the timetable.”
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