Wire Presents Eris Drew b2b Octo Octa

How do people who are interested get involved?

For people who has signed up with us before, we’ll soon send a newsletter about the future workshop. For those who are new and haven’t signed up before, we will post a sign-up form on our Facebook page so people can register. So, if you follow us on our Facebook page (EqualiserLeeds) or Instagram, you will probably see our post. Besides, we do some open decks from time to time as well; if anyone is interested in this, feel free to join our closed group EqualiserLeeds.

Who would you recommend looking/listening out for?

Maruwa is one of my favourite DJs/producers this year. She’s from Russia and had an EP released under Steel City Dance Disc, and one coming out soon under Lobster Theremin. Catu Diosis is also a fantastic DJ. I watched her Nyege Nyege Festival Boiler Room; her music really makes you dance and you can’t stop it unless she stops it.

Safi Bugel

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Wire Presents Eris Drew b2b Octo Octa (18/10/19)

As part of their series of DJ workshops, Equaliser organised a session with acclaimed DJs Eris Drew and Octo Octa. Two days later, the pair took to Wire for a night of thumping bangers and ___. Chesca Henderson-Cox gives us an insight...

T4T LUV NRG is a record label which was created by collaborators and romantic partners Octo Octa and Eris Drew in June 2019. They decided to tour their new creation worldwide throughout October and November, from Amsterdam to Shanghai. apparent to me at this event. The club‘s sound system was punching me in the face with bass (which is 100% a good thing!) and as the pair were playing b2b, they were relentlessly dropping banger after banger, filling the dancefloor with movers and shakers.

I found it interesting that Leeds was the only place in England for the American DJs to visit. However, as the event was in collaboration with Michael Upson’s self-described ’Pumping Gay Dance Party‘, Love Muscle, and Leeds’ DJ collective Equaliser, it made a lot of sense for the pair to grace this very LGBT+ friendly scene.

As both DJs are members of the trans community, LGBT+ attendees got a discount on tickets; a gender-neutral toilet policy also helped to promote this all-inclusive celebration of pride. The pair really brought an exciting atmopshere to Wire - a venue I’m used to seeing as a deep, dark techno dungeon, (mostly) riddled with white heteronormative men. The club was filled with people of all backgrounds and identities, feeling carefree in a specially-curated, judgement-free zone. Love was in the air. It‘s no surprise, then, that by 2am, the event was sold out.

Chesca Henderson-Cox