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IMMEDIATE RELEASE – July 15, 2009 BOOTIE – San Francisco's bimonthly mashup bootleg party and the biggest bootleg mashup event in the world – celebrates six years with an anniversary party so big, it can't be contained in one night! On Friday and Saturday, August 7th & 8th, A Plus D present the Bootie 6-Year Anniversary Weekender at the DNA Lounge! Both nights will feature showcase sets – including video mashups – from Bootie's founders, DJs Adrian & the Mysterious D, who were recently voted "Best DJs" in the SF Weekly "Best of SF" 2009 Readers Poll. Live Bootie house band Smash-Up Derby – the world's first live mashup rock band – will be doing two different shows at 11pm each night, including a special presentation of "Mashups 101: A Bastard Pop History Lesson." At midnight on
both nights, Bootie SF welcomes Bootie LA's resident 10-person dance
crew R.A.I.D.
(Random Acts of Irreverent Dance), who will take
the stage in their trademark full gold bodysuits,
with a trio of choreographed mashup dance numbers. R.A.I.D. has been
blowing up and most recently performed with Yo Majesty and Peaches in
Los Angeles,
and will also be featured in an upcoming Peaches music video. And of course, there are FREE exclusive 20-track Bootie 6-Year Anniversary CDs for the first 500 people through the door each night! Sponsored in part by the SF Bay Guardian.
FRIDAY AUGUST 7 kicks things off with "School Night," featuring classic mashups from the past six years, with DJs Adrian & the Mysterious D and a guest set from Bearracuda's DJ Boyshapedbox. At 11 PM, class is in session as Smash-Up Derby presents "Mashups 101: A Bastard Pop History Lesson." Complete with a "pop-up video"-style slide show, the band will trace the chronology of the mashup scene's most landmark tracks, from 2002's seminal "A Stroke of Genie-us" to the multiple mashed-up versions of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" to the most current mashup hits. Also on Friday, Blow
Up -- named one of America's hippest
indie dance parties by Spin magazine -- takes over the
upstairs room, with local DJ darlings Jeffrey Paradise and Richie
Panic spinning the best indie and electro on
the West Coast, along with photographer Ava Berlin snapping
party pix all night. There will also be surprise drag queen performances
by Suppositori
Spelling and Renttecca, as well as naughty
schoolgirl and schoolboy go-go dancers presented by The
Indra. SATURDAY AUGUST 8 continues the party with "Pirate Night," as Bootie's resident DJs spin Adrian & the Mysterious D the newest and best mashups from the past year. House band Smash-Up Derby will be playing a special pirate-themed "Greatest Hits" set, featuring such crowd favorites as "Tricky Sandman" (Run-DMC vs. Metallica), "You Believe Me All Night Long" (Cher vs. AC/DC) and new hits like "Shut Up, American Boy" (The Ting Tings vs. Estelle). In the upstairs room, it's the return of LA's club Illumination Radio, featuring electro indie remixes and mashups from Jells Mayhem of The Illuminoids (who will also be doing a late-night main floor set) along with special guest star mashup producer DJ Earworm, who just worked with Annie Lennox to release a mashup retrospective spanning her solo career, called "Backwards/Forwards" which was just officially released. There will also be more drag queen performances by Anna Conda and Cookie Dough, and The Indra will be bringing her pirate go-go dancers. Dressing in pirate attire, stripes, or skulls & crossbones welcome! ABOUT
BOOTIE: Launched
in 2003 in San Francisco by DJs Adrian & the Mysterious
D, Bootie was the first club night in the United States dedicated
solely to the burgeoning artform of the bootleg mashup --
and is now the biggest mashup event in the world, with monthly
parties in eight cities on three continents, from NYC
to Paris, to
the most recent new monthly which opened in Berlin in
June. DJs
Adrian & the Mysterious D have perfected the formula for a great
mashup club party, both in sound and in vibe, and have brought it all
over the world, with additional one-off Booties being thrown from Beijing to Hong Kong, to
the very first Bootie Brazil in August. Bootie's DJs and house band Smash-Up Derby, as well as guest mashup DJs from around the world, keep your brain guessing and body dancing with creative song combinations, celebrating -- and satirizing -- the many different forms of music. Bootie also presents the infamous Midnight Mashup Show, featuring local drag and burlesque performers. Bootie showcases the best mashup productions from around the globe ... because one song at a time just isn't enough!
PRESS PHOTOS (click to open high-resolution version
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For
more information email aplusd@bootieusa.com
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NIGHTS of MASHUP MADNESS!
