Together presents Noah's Ark: The Animal Rave

We’re Back... baby. Turnmills’ flagship Saturday night event and most consistently busy party of the past decade returns to clubland this summer for a brand new residency. TOGETHER will be re-launching on Saturday 28th June at SCALA, Kings Cross with the same serious take on new music and the same serious take on being silly!! We’re bringing with us all the best bits from Turnmills and embracing our new venue to the fullest to create a new phat chunk of dancefloor happiness.

Continuing our love-affair with fancy dress and all things silly, for the SCALA launch party TOGETHER PRESENTS NOAH’S ARK: THE ANIMAL RAVE. If you haven’t already guessed, the theme is of course ‘Animal fancy dress’... so we’re expecting a mega turn out of zoo favourites, sealife creatures, household pets, safari wildlife, mammals, lizards, bugs, birds, rodents, dinosaurs and Pat Butcher lookalikes!! If you’re in need of some gear then head to fancy dress specialists Escapades (150 Camden High Street, London NW1 0NE, Tel: 020 7485 7384) or Madworld (69/85 Tabernacle Street, London EC2A 4BA, Tel: 020 7253 1003) and quote ‘TOGETHER’ and you’ll get 10% off your outfit!!

Which will deffo come in handy, cos on the night Together will be hosting a special ‘Noah’s Ark Procession’, inviting the Together faithful to join us in a ‘two by two’ congo around the club (!), plus the first 200 people through the door will each receive their very own Free Animal Mask!! Other oddities include the return of two of Together’s favourite past-times... FREE FACE PAINTING (perfect to bring out the Tiger in you!) and FREE HAIRCUTS (is your Lion’s mane in need of a trim?) – courtesy of Spitalfields’ cool cutters Pimps & Pinups (www.pimpsandpinups.com).


On a musical tip, Together is bracing itself for a mini-French invasion with Ed Banger leader Busy P aka Pedro Winter and fellow label party starter DJ Mehdi crossing the pond together with Institubes Records’ Surkin and the latest Parisan prince Yuksek. The nu-wave noize coming from France has been taking over the world for a few years now - heck, even Kanye West is jumping on the band-wagon with his Daft Punk samples... and in Busy P you have the man mainly responsible for this new musical movement. As Daft Punk’s manager and Ed Bangers’ head-honcho, he’s helped shape the careers of so many of today’s hottest new things – from the robot rockers themselves, to Justice, SebastiAn, Uffie, Kavinsky and Mehdi. His own productions are coming on strong right now too, check out ‘Chop Suey’ for starters, and as a DJ he’s worshipped as a god by the Ed Banger faithful the world over. Last seen at Together in July 2006 with Justice in T2 at Turnmills, we can’t wait to have him back for our special opener!!

DJ Mehdi can expect similar adulation from the appreciative crowd as he makes his Together debut and brings his own ruckus to the decks. Brought up on a hip-hop diet, Mehdi’s 2006 album ‘Lucky Boy’ was one of the year’s best and we’ve been after him ever since. At last, we’ve got our man... so let the carnage begin!! Surkin is another DJ/Producer high on our hit-list. Making his name alongside Together fave Para One via his releases on Institubes Records – another ball-achingly hip label from France, Surkin is another big talent to watch out for. His latest joint ‘Next of Kin’ is his biggest release to date and with remixes for the like of Boys Noize, Chromeo, Justice, Klaxons and our next guest Yuksek... you could say he’s rather in demand right now!! As is our 4th Frenchman Yuksek who made his Together debut with some aplomb in January 2008 and is someone we’re tipping for greatness! As a classically trained musician, Yuksek is part of the next wave of French artists set to dominate clubland this year and his ‘Composer’ EP remains a big fave with all the heavyweight jocks. Oh la la.