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For those who are not familiar with Spooky.

About SPOOKY

Charlie May and Duncan Forbes signed to Guerilla Records in January 1992 for their first single "Don't Panic" under the name "Spooky". From the release of their first single, Spooky went from strength to strength and by the end of the year had finished recording the debut album "Gargantuan". From the moment of it's release Gargantuan received widespread critical acclaim and became a landmark album of it's time but still sounds as fresh today as it did then. Following a succuessful release in the UK for Gargantuan, licences were obtained around the world including IRS in America and Play it Again Sam in Germany and the Netherlands as well as Virgin in France.

Spooky then set about creating a live set up with which they could take "Gargantuan" to the live arena. Their first gig was to be at "Renaissance" at it's original home in Mansfield, the gig was given the gig of the week in Melody Maker. The second was at Roskilde in Denmark , on stage after Jamiroquai which earnt them product licence for Scandinavia as well as a short tour of Denmark with Aphex Twin and Autechre. Over the next five years Spooky continued to expand their live concept over three UK tours as well as two european tours and took part in the Midi Circus alongside Orbital, Underworld, Aphex Twin and the Drum Club. They also played many festivals around Europe including Glastonbury, Roskilde, Lowlands, Sonoria, Esential, Earth Energy, Womad, Phoenix, Live Link and the ET Jam in Prague to name but a few.

They remixed tracks for the likes of Ultramarine, William Orbit, Sven Vath, Lush, Natacha Atlas as well as various collaborations with other artists. Spooky were stopped in their tracks by the untimely demise of the Guerilla Label . Picking themselves up out of the ashes of Guerilla Records they eventually reappeared in a new guise with their own "Generic" label through A&M releasing a set of three Ep's, one of which ( "Stereo") became Radio One's evening session single of the week.

The Ep's were then followed by the album "Found Sound" with which Spooky obtained their highest critical acclaim. A twenty-five minute short film was made for parts of "Found Sound" and was given video of the year at MTV Europe. The film was made by Grant Gee who then went on to make videos for Radiohead. The film was displayed on a continuous loop outside the Pompadou centre in Paris as part of it's re-opening display.

After Found Sound Spooky spent several years pursuing separate projects.

Charlie met Sasha in 1998 and the two collaborated on a range of projects including the soundtrack to Wipeout 3 for playstation and the Xpander (Xpander was a reworking of a Spooky track that was part of the Spooky live set but had never been released) and Scorchio ep's both of which attained top 40 positions in the UK. The culmination of this period of collaboration resulted in the album "Airdrawndagger" in 2003. Charlie and Sasha continue to work closely on various recordings including the recent "Involver" album on Global Underground.

Duncan began working on a new album on his own. He then joined up with Laurant Webb and together they completed the album "Tempting Fate" under the name Animated. Skelectro - the first Animated 12" was released on Dust 2 Dust records. Tempting Fate was released in 2000 on Deviant Records and the singles Wired, Container No.2 (which included an animated video made by the artist Mark Wigan) and "Grab The Rope. 2003 saw the release of "Quivver" a 4 track vinyl only ep again on Deviant.

In 2002 Spooky began working together again and later that year "Belong" was released on Deviant records and received much airplay by day as well as night on Radio 1 in the UK . John Digweed included one of the mixes on his compilation MMII. Sasha then remixed Belong and included it on his Global Underground Cd "Involver".

2005 saw them team up with Sasha at their studio in London and together they did 2 remixes of Depeche Mode's single Precious - they were released as Sasha's Spooky and Gargantuan mixes.

Spooky have since finished recording an album called Open with Julie Daske ( who sang on Belong ) and Celestine Gordon. Open is released on the 4th June 2007 with New Light on 26th May 2007. The last single to be released off Open will be Shelter in July 2007. September 2007 will see the release of an EP of brand new club material. They will be touring throughout the rest of the year.

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spooky is the shit...should be an all around good show.

Where's Adam at? I know he's going to be nuttin' his pants all night....

-Josh

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For those who are not familiar with Spooky.

About SPOOKY

Charlie May and Duncan Forbes signed to Guerilla Records in January 1992 for their first single "Don't Panic" under the name "Spooky". From the release of their first single, Spooky went from strength to strength and by the end of the year had finished recording the debut album "Gargantuan". From the moment of it's release Gargantuan received widespread critical acclaim and became a landmark album of it's time but still sounds as fresh today as it did then. Following a succuessful release in the UK for Gargantuan, licences were obtained around the world including IRS in America and Play it Again Sam in Germany and the Netherlands as well as Virgin in France.

Spooky then set about creating a live set up with which they could take "Gargantuan" to the live arena. Their first gig was to be at "Renaissance" at it's original home in Mansfield, the gig was given the gig of the week in Melody Maker. The second was at Roskilde in Denmark , on stage after Jamiroquai which earnt them product licence for Scandinavia as well as a short tour of Denmark with Aphex Twin and Autechre. Over the next five years Spooky continued to expand their live concept over three UK tours as well as two european tours and took part in the Midi Circus alongside Orbital, Underworld, Aphex Twin and the Drum Club. They also played many festivals around Europe including Glastonbury, Roskilde, Lowlands, Sonoria, Esential, Earth Energy, Womad, Phoenix, Live Link and the ET Jam in Prague to name but a few.

They remixed tracks for the likes of Ultramarine, William Orbit, Sven Vath, Lush, Natacha Atlas as well as various collaborations with other artists. Spooky were stopped in their tracks by the untimely demise of the Guerilla Label . Picking themselves up out of the ashes of Guerilla Records they eventually reappeared in a new guise with their own "Generic" label through A&M releasing a set of three Ep's, one of which ( "Stereo") became Radio One's evening session single of the week.

The Ep's were then followed by the album "Found Sound" with which Spooky obtained their highest critical acclaim. A twenty-five minute short film was made for parts of "Found Sound" and was given video of the year at MTV Europe. The film was made by Grant Gee who then went on to make videos for Radiohead. The film was displayed on a continuous loop outside the Pompadou centre in Paris as part of it's re-opening display.

After Found Sound Spooky spent several years pursuing separate projects.

Charlie met Sasha in 1998 and the two collaborated on a range of projects including the soundtrack to Wipeout 3 for playstation and the Xpander (Xpander was a reworking of a Spooky track that was part of the Spooky live set but had never been released) and Scorchio ep's both of which attained top 40 positions in the UK. The culmination of this period of collaboration resulted in the album "Airdrawndagger" in 2003. Charlie and Sasha continue to work closely on various recordings including the recent "Involver" album on Global Underground.

Duncan began working on a new album on his own. He then joined up with Laurant Webb and together they completed the album "Tempting Fate" under the name Animated. Skelectro - the first Animated 12" was released on Dust 2 Dust records. Tempting Fate was released in 2000 on Deviant Records and the singles Wired, Container No.2 (which included an animated video made by the artist Mark Wigan) and "Grab The Rope. 2003 saw the release of "Quivver" a 4 track vinyl only ep again on Deviant.

In 2002 Spooky began working together again and later that year "Belong" was released on Deviant records and received much airplay by day as well as night on Radio 1 in the UK . John Digweed included one of the mixes on his compilation MMII. Sasha then remixed Belong and included it on his Global Underground Cd "Involver".

2005 saw them team up with Sasha at their studio in London and together they did 2 remixes of Depeche Mode's single Precious - they were released as Sasha's Spooky and Gargantuan mixes.

Spooky have since finished recording an album called Open with Julie Daske ( who sang on Belong ) and Celestine Gordon. Open is released on the 4th June 2007 with New Light on 26th May 2007. The last single to be released off Open will be Shelter in July 2007. September 2007 will see the release of an EP of brand new club material. They will be touring throughout the rest of the year.

no mention of Spooky - Little Bullet ?? wtf!!!!

C May is still the man... he & Barry J. have made Sasha the icon he is today.... and thats a true statement...

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Spooky live + the Maven :cool:

Sasha's mixes this past couple months have all been ace. Essential mix, dance dept from 2 weeks ago and his live set from lovefest sf the other week are all genius. I am excited to see him back!

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didnt we meet sasha's dad in otown for steve potter?

Hey Diogo! Long time no talk!! Yes, indeed we did. He was the older chap (probably the oldest:)) there. Nice guy!

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I will deffinitly be in attendance for this one.Karen loves Sasha,so she's talked me into going to this one.So i hope that he brings it hard, although i doubt he will bring the dirtiness at Mansion but we'll have to see i along with many other's have been wrong before. Im kinda in between on Sasha these days because he's dissapointed me the last three times i've seen him.That being said he's one of the greatest dj's of all time and when you have one of the all time great's spinning you never know what he can bring.It may be an epic night that blows you away or it may be a sleeper.He is one of the greats so i reserve my opinion until Sunday morning.For that reason and also like Rizzo said before his mixes as of late have been some of the best i've herd from him in years and for that matter some of the best this year..

So that being said im soooo pumped up about this one!! Since im giving him a third chance to "wow" me like he used to back in the day, im leaning towards the positive and hoping that he pays no attention to the venue and kills it so i can eat my words!

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who the hell are those two tossers?

and better yet why are they playing computer games while there's a crowd waiting to hear music? :-p

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