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60 METRO Thursday, May 23, 2013 follow us Life&Style going out @MetroUK CLUBS EXHIBITION REVIEW PROPAGANDA: HOSPITALITY + POWER AND PERSUASION HHH BLOC + UNKNOWN ANDREW ATTAH What do Morph and Goebbels sided intent. Here, though, it is + SECRETSUNDAZE have in common? Not much, but more broadly applied to any they’re both here in this new information used to promote a exhibition exploring state particular cause or point of view. Before Hospitality put the finishing propaganda from the 20th and Yet the presence of a section on touches to plans for festival 21st centuries. public health campaigns, domination, head honchos Tony Alongside obvious featuring the 1987 ‘Don’t Colman and Chris Goss have examples such as Mao’s Die Of Ignorance’ Aids programmed an epic show this Little Red Book it also campaign, feels Friday at Brixton Academy. shows how propaganda questionable. Likewise, Returning to the venue after its infiltrates popular while it makes sense to sell-out show in January, the label culture – from the use address social networks, has recruited Belgian drum’n’bass of a silk scarf decorated the finale is a digital superstar Netsky and Hospital with a map of Blitz artwork focusing on Records stalwart Danny Byrd – bomb sites to a 1900 Twitter reactions to the who will showcase tracks from his board game inspired Olympic opening Golden Ticket album – while High by, and raising money for, the ceremony and Obama’s re- Contrast play classics and Spectrum- Boer War. It also considers recent inauguration. This is thought- inspired tracks. With additional sets events – notably the 2002 provoking but it is frustratingly from London Elektricity, Logistics ‘dodgy dossier’ on weapons of slippery at defining what and Nu:Tone’s collaborative venture mass destruction in Iraq. propaganda is. Amy Dawson Nu:Logic, bass mutator Reso and A colloquial definition of Culprate (Inspected Records), this is propaganda usually implies a Until Sep 17, British Library. the only way to start your weekend. somewhat dangerously one- www.bl.uk For the super keen, head to Hospital Records’ pop-up in Shoreditch Boxpark for an in-store hangout with Netsky today and a pre-Brixton set tomorrow with Danny Byrd. For night owls looking for a dark stomping place with a great sound system and warm hospitality, look no further than Bloc’s current home at Autumn Street Studio. On Saturday night the Bloc family Fighting fit: Danny Byrd will play a pre-show set before the main event welcome Anthony Childs, aka techno mastermind Surgeon, to main guys Luke Handsfree and Unknown has recruited headline a night of the best in James Tec. underground pioneer and experimental bpm. Berlin’s DJ Pete On Sunday, join the Unknown SWAMP81 owner Loefah, Jessie and Rene Lowe, uniting under the crew for another edition of their Ware remixer and label buddy Scion moniker, will also take the free party at Lightbox in Vauxhall. Two Inch Punch, Butterz affiliate stage with ragga-tipped vocalist The impressive line-up caters for Spooky who is gearing up to Tikiman, while support comes bass-hungry punters and those on play an all vinyl garage set, the courtesy of London label Plex’s the look out for something new. creative genius that is My Panda Shall Fly and Shox (Rinse FM). Sign up ASAP to secure a spot on the THEATRE REVIEW BULLET CATCH guest list via the Unknown Facebook page. HHHH Fresh from the mighty outdoor Essex gathering We Are FSTVL, the Pitched between a Derren audience volunteer plucked at Secretsundaze family make their Brown stunt, a philosophy random and, on Tuesday night, way back to east London to take lecture and the restaging of a Drummond hit the bullseye over Oval Space in Bethnal Green notorious killing, Rob with Jessica, the perfect foil to on Sunday. With 12 years in the Drummond’s one-man show is his slightly shambling comedy. game and a string of prestigious tricky to nail down. Inspired by Drummond is no mean international takeovers on the the mystery surrounding the illusionist, playing neat mind- cards, Secretsundaze has taken fatal shooting of 19th-century reading games with the over summer. It welcomes a line magician William Henderson audience and cleverly exposing up of the best in techno and on stage, Drummond (below) magic ‘secrets’. But it’s the house, starting early afternoon fires off in all directions as he human story behind the bullet with Nick Höppner who is a chases after the truth. catch which is closest to his regular at infamous Berlin haunt The human quest for heart, the impact on the Berghain. Energetic musician KiNK knowledge, the secret of unwitting stooge who shot will perform a live set of his happiness and the need Henderson, one Charlie signature Chicago inspired acid to connect with our Garth, unfolding in house tracks, while NJ producer fellow beings all come heartbreaking detail. Joey Anderson, signed to Levon into play as Drummond What the show Vincent’s Deconstruct label, will builds towards the lacked was a big make his British debut alongside infamous ‘bullet finish. But it takes a Secretsundaze founding members Use our SmartMaps to catch’ – a shot at posing James Priestley and Giles Smith. potentially fatal questions, triggering Hayley Joyes pinpoint exactly where stunt in which a much food for Fri, Hospitality, Brixton Academy. you want to live. magician thought as you head www.hospitalitydnb.com catches a fired for the exit. Sat bullet between Keith Watson , Bloc, Autumn Street Studio. the teeth. Key www.bloclondon.com/surgeon Smarter property search to this is Until Jun 1, The Shed. Sun, Unknown, Lightbox. tinyurl. Drummond’s www.national com/unknownmetro interaction with an theatre.org.uk Sun, Secretsundaze, Oval Space. www.secretsundaze.net.