Ward10 - 27th May - Domenic Cappello (subclub,glasgow) Morning all, Our next installment of bank holiday sunday messyness comes just three weeks away. coming down from glasgow and bringing his bag of detroit and chicago flavoured house and techno, is longstanding subclub resident, Domenic Cappello. Dom has been at the controls of the world famous Subclub with DJ partner Harri for years and has played at every club worth its salt in the process. Citied as one of the best resident DJ's in the UK and by many as their favourite DJ full stop, this is another Ward10 session not to be missed. And remember, no work the next day.....geddin. WARD10 BANK HOLIDAY SUNDAY SESSION SUNDAY 27TH MAY with DOMENIC CAPPELLO (Subclub/7th Sign) plus Ward10 Residents. Doors 10pm-3am £5 before midnight/£6 after INDEPENDENT 36 Holmeside, Sunderland, SR1 http://www.myspace.com/ward10 http://www.myspace.com/yoursubculture http://www.subclub.co.uk Looking forward to seeing you's there. Cheers.
bit to read with your morning cuppa at work.... DOMENIC CAPPELLO BIO The word ‘underground’ is as overused and abused as the word ‘house’ or ‘visionary’. Domenic can lay claim to being the embodiment of all three. Since 1994 Domenic has maintained his weekly Subculture residency, the flagship Saturdaynight at the SubClub in Glasgow, renowned the world over for its musical credibility and its clued-up, passionate and hedonistic crowd. Subculture has thrived where so many house clubs have flagged in this post-commercial dance music era because the night has always embraced and sought out the most innovative and culturally relevant electronic music - regardless of fickle fashions or commercial pressures. The fact that its residents have remained while so much has changed is testament to Domenic and Harri’s credibility to a crowd that is notoriously hard to please and a scene over flowing with imitators and rivals. Domenic’s refusal to compromise his artistic vision was apparent from the start. After getting into electro and the breakdancing scene of the early 80s he became disillusioned with the lack of innovation and turned instead to old blues records. His first residency was at a blues club just outside Glasgow,where he surprised the grumpy old men with his encyclopedic knowledge of obscure blues records, most of which were recorded long before he was born. He was popular and was offered both the Friday and Saturday nights. Alas, though, Domenic’s career as a blues DJ would be short lived. Acid House was about to emerge. Going down to the late 80s warehouse parties where a young Stuart and Orde (Slam) would play the music that was emerging at the time from Chicago and Detroit, Domenic realised that he wanted to be part of the future - not the past. He tried to introduce acid house to the jazz club and was promptly sacked. By 1993 Domenic was guesting and doing regular warm-ups at the Sub Club’s (then) flagshipSaturdaynight, Atlantis (Harri & Slam’s massively influential night). He also had his own Glasgow residency at ‘Something Fishy’ promoted by Mike Grieve and Paul Crawford who would go on to own and run the Sub Club (which they do to this day). When Slam started to move away musically from the Sub Club’s vibe, Domenic was asked to come on board. Subculture was created and the ride has no signs of slowing. Over the last ten years Domenic has established himself as one of the most credible and consistently innovative DJs in the world. Regular headline slots at the UK’s most important underground clubs including Back2Basics (Leeds), Fabric (London) and The End (London), have made Domenic one of the most respected DJs by inthe-know promoters, crowds and fellow underground DJs. Domenic has also guested all over the world at the most prestigious and credible clubs including: The Rex (Paris); The Moog (Barcelona); Deep (Madrid); Food Club (Brussels) and Propaganda (Moscow). On the recording front, Domenic has released various material on different labels under several different alter-egos including Urb’n’ri and Hutton Drive on Glasgow’s Soma label. His long term relationship with Ralph Lawson saw him involved in the inception of the 20:20 Vision label and involvement in a number of 20:20 Vision projects including their European tour of 1999. More recently, Dom released “Push it” as Hutton Drive on Soma, remixes of Random Factor on 20:20 Vision and is now concentrating on his new label Seventh Sign whose inaugural release “OSB” by Hutton Drive gained much critical acclaim..... Domenic’s understanding of the dancefloor, his ability to read a crowd and to build a groove, means that he never has to resort to big tune after big tune to get the crowd going. This means that a Domenic set will always be fresh and musically interesting, with the possibility of going anywhere. Unafraid to take it deep and dark, Domenic’s sound represents a marriage between the underground house and techno sounds of Chicago and Detroit, an imagined future that is at once hauntingly beautiful and uncompromisingly hedonistic and intoxicating. Whether it’s a 1986 acid house record, an Underground Resistance tune from five years ago or the latest [check charts], Domenic’s DJ sets construct a futuristic narrative in constant flux- layer upon layer of sound patterns heading towards some target that is just out of reach. Technically breathtaking, Domenic has the ability to set any dancefloor alight, giving crowds the kind of clubbing experience that we’re told doesn’t happen any more.
the sub club is fukn brilliant, i went there a few weeks ago and the residents harry nd dominic were on, they played some absolutley mint house music, the sound system in there is quality aswell, shame about the Q for the bar
yeah mate...was up sub club in november, probably my fave club.. harri was playing all night when we were there...cracking stuff.. he played for us about 18 month ago.... really looking forward to having dom play aswell... you having a pop down?
I was at the Subby on Saturday for Cappello and Carl Craig...its was fooking mint! Wish i was back in toon for this....should be ace
set times for Sunday's Ward10 party : 10pm - midnight : Keiron midnight - 1am : Garry Ogden 1am - 3am : Domenic Cappello
my first ward 10 rave up! looking forward to it lads!! infact my first ever time to sunderland! haha!
cheers to everyone who came down on Sunday...class night! really busy....we all enjoyed playing and domenic loved the crowd and the club... 3 months for the next one, but more details on that party and our 6th birthday soon thanks again Ward10
