LOL i know the feeling!!!!

Hi there, just to throw my bit in but I’ve be doing parties with varying degrees of success over the past few years and would still like to carry them on. The longer I have been doing them the smaller and MORE underground they have got which to me isn’t a bad thing as for us it’s all about the MUSIC! However, I have not had the privilege to be involved with the promotion of a true “illegal party” (I hate that description, I think FREE party is much better, after all I don’t consider people getting together to have fun as a criminal activity now.

I’ve also made a new friend who does my pirate radio show with me on House FmM it gets lonely on your own  and we’ve managed to scrap together a very small soundsystem that we use for some of our most recent parties and for our latest party we managed to hire a 10K sound system for literally nothing through some mates! They basically went form COMMERCIAL funky house parties in clubs in ROMFORD of ALL PLACES! To underground jams with out own sound systems, quite a journey really!

Here’s a bit of info about our parties from our site . . . Hope I don’t offend posting it up here  but thought you might like to see what we’re about and maybe get in touch or something, you never know?

Simon Page is the founder and resident DJ of [socialise] as well as the long running, but now expired, Essex based party called JuicyFunk. Simon has previously held long term residencies on FORCE FM and VISION FM. Currently, Simon presents [socialise] every Saturday afternoon on the respected London based radio station HOUSE FM.

Along with his two good friends James Reading and Richy Hicks, Simon began promoting with a series of successful one-off parties known as JuicyFunk, instantly recognisable for their loud flyer campaign that mimicked the ever famous Wrigley’s chewing gum packaging. Growing with each new party and gathering a loyal following JuicyFunk settled into a regular residency at the Essex based venue Pacific Edge.

“Initially, in 2004 I took on a joint promotion with an outside promoter at Pacific Edge and actually showed them up by packing out the venue with a bigger crowd even though we were hosting the bar room on a notoriously quiet night, proving how serious a promotion we were. Pacific Edge’s manager Brad Milo had enough confidence in me to offer us the whole club on a regular basis and I never let him down in all our time working together. Pacific Edge was without doubt one of the most consistent house clubs in Essex and we were their favourite outside promotion, which makes us very proud.”

[socialise] concentrates on the underground side of house music with most of our parties featuring in and around central London at some of our favourite venues such as Herbal, Turnmills, Anexo Bar, Edge, Cosmo Bar, Epicurean Lounge, Public Life, Charterhouse and Tabernacle. Meanwhile, James and Richy have departed to concentrate their efforts on the successful ‘House of Lords’ party which features prominently at the Tabernacle in London’s city area every month. Together with his closest friends, Simon has brought a touch of humour and lashings of fun to the parties he promotes, from his humble beginnings with a one-off party called Underground Pressure at Legends nightclub in Barking, via a residency at Pacific Edge where the JuicyFunk brand was born and now [socialise].

The newest addition to the [socialise] cannon has been Rob Stringer, after a chance meeting through a mutual friend, who’s enthusiasm and love for house music is on par with everything the party stands for. Rob has a similar outlook to Simon when it comes to music and buying records, so they instantly clicked. Recently Rob has accepted co-hosting duties on the regular [socialise] radio show on House FM.

We are always looking for other people to team up with and do parties with together in LONDON – Musicla styles do not matter at all, the more varied the better, so anyone who wants to talk can drop me a line. We not hotshots or anything and sometimes we can have real quite parties while other times everyone decided to come out to play, it’s just the way it goes really, but the more people involved can only mean a better party and more NEW friends to be made.

Hello Fruitisbad – the 200 people who come to your parties, who are they mainly? Friends of yours and the DJ’s as that’s quite a fair number of r a word of mouth party, quite impressive 🙂