TEAK presents Miami Vice,
Jacob’s Market / Blue Honey Night Café, Cardiff
Sat 10 June
Once in a city’s club generation a promotion comes along which ends up defines a particular era in its history. Older inhabitants of the capital might talk in hushed reverence of names like Time Flies, Cool House, Sumo, Studio 89 or Backroom. Teak is likely the one which the old-timers of the future are likely to look back on as the one which switched the game up in this particular era.
While Teak’s monthly parties, which have welcomes the likes of Prins Thomas and DJ Sprinkles to the basement, are all well and good, it’s the annual Miami Vice party which really gets folk salivating. A two-legged affair, it comprises of a daytime party (often with a separate ticket) and a nightime event downstairs. This year, TEAK have buddied up with fellow discerning party-starters Blue Honey for another option, too.
Bringing the heat to the Jacob’s car park this year is Glaswegian duo Optimo, whose Sunday residency at their eponymously named night at the Sub Club ran from the mid-90s until 2012. Nowadays the lads – JD Twitch and Jonnie Wilkes – stick to what you might conceive as a more conventional schedule and also find time to run the superlative Optimo Trax label. Their eclectic sets take in techno, electro, rock and other leftfield treats, and with a five-hour slot, they’ve got the time and space to take us on a journey of cosmic proportions.
After that’s done and dusted, events split in two. Two ticket options could find you descending into the basement of Jacobs for a set from Swiss selector Sassy J, ably backed by TEAK residents Seka and Rikki Humphreys. Or, you could be moseying over to Blue Honey’s excellent new Night Café for an Italo set from Bristol-based DJ October, playing under his Malestripper alias. Fantastico!
Alas, tickets for the night events have all been snapped up (although there appears to be a brisk trade in sensibly priced resales on the promotion’s Facebook page) but just as Buzz was going to press, daytime only tickets were released. The car park stage kicks off at 3pm, and with events at Jacobs usually running until the wee small hours, best pace yourself, eh?
Tickets: £24/£22 for day + night events; £12.50 for daytime only. Info: [email protected]
words KRISTIAN DANDO