Lee Pennington

2009 The Story So Far

Well what a good five years so far it’s been for our smoggie organisation. Half way through and we have been involved in some of the best parties around the country and the home nest has seen some top DJ's play on the turntables.

So far we have seen DJ's such as: Peace Division, Slam, Tim Sheridan, Matt Tolfrey, Jody Wisternoff, in fact I could be here all day listing the bad boys and girls (Chloe Harris) but I won’t.

Now here we are for another year of riffraff and scrinsey winseyness in our brand new spanking venue The Onyx Rooms.

We have said our teary eyed farewells to the Onion dungeon which was made our home over the years as well as our long goodbye to the infamous pre party bar Pacific. Now here we are in a much bigger venue that will see more madness in the way of the scrinse for the foreseeable future. Already we have capped off two fantastic parties with guests Justin Drake and Scott Bradford and we got high profile DJ’s itching to spin some beats with Matt Tolfrey fronting the queue.

Apart from the home nest flourishing with new life and change our residents have opened their wings and flown to other fantastic parties around the UK and Europe infecting the masses with the highly contagious riffraff bug.

Places of infection have been Ministry Of Sound, Zoo Project, Back 2 Basics, Shindig, Sankeys, Area 51, and Jaunt the list goes on and will continue to grow as the boys will repeatedly visit these clubs over the next year.

As well as dirtying these clubs with their mucky smogness the boys are going to be injecting the airwaves with the riffraff sound when the new riffraff radio show begins in the next couple of months with monthly host Dave Little.

If that’s not enough the record label is now set for a whole new launch with strong tracks from our residents as well as guests like Paul Lorraine, Glen Storey, Virus and Maxi Divine.

Well that’s it for now we hope to see you at our partys and thanks for all your support over the years to get us where we are now and one last word I would like to leave you with for now is “Plop” it’s a nice word and one that I want people to use more in conversation.

Absolute

Our pre parties are now going to be held at Absolute and not Pacific Bar. These parties begin at 9pm and go on until 12am. Here we will feature guest DJ’s that are only just breaking into the underground circuit and causing a stir. Make sure that you get down witnessing these boys and girls as we have proven in the past with Autophase, Bigger than Jesus, Gow, JD Turbine, James Barnsley and many more we find the best up and coming by keeping our ears placed firmly to the underground.

Onyx Rooms

As you probably now know we are nestled in to our new home and its going from strength to strength. Just in case you don’t know here are a few things that I think you should know so by the end of reading this you will know what you need to know and what some people already know so you will be in the know:

1. Onyx is situated above Absolute 2. Doors open at 11pm 3. To enter you must leave Absolute and walk round to the entrance for Onyx 4. Middlesbrough College students must show card to gain discount entry 5. Main guest usually plays at 12:30 AM but this is subject to change 6. Doors close at 4:30 AM but this is subject to change on how wild you are

Production

Well the lads have been busy in the studio over winter. Gow has seen an EP released on high profile German record label Trapez with many more to come. Lee Pennington has had more releases than I can count but one EP signed to White noise recordings has been featured three times in I’DJ magazine. Paul Bowen has completed an EP with Lee Pennington for the riffraff recordings label as well as other tracks in the studio ready for unleashing.

Riffraff Recordings and Matthew Gale

We would like to welcome Matthew Gale to the nest of mayhem who has taken up the position of record label manager. The label has been brought into line and will be seeing some strong releases in the future from our residents as well as artists Glen Storey and Paul Loraine…. There are some very special people lined up too. Anybody with any tracks that they feel fit for the label then forward to any of us. Please check out what music we play first before sending though as we get plenty of music sent through and don’t want any electro garbage, hard house, driving techno, funky house or trance.

2008 News

Well what a year so far its been for the smoggie organisation. Half way through and they have been involved in some of the best parties around the country and the home nest has seen some top DJ's play on the turntables.

So far this year top DJ's such as Chloe Harris, Cass and Mangan, Scott Bradford, Marc Ashken, Perc have played in the Onion to some well up for it crowds and we would like to also thank the many supporting guests that have came down to our pre partys and warmed us up nicely for the shenanigans of the Onion. Not to mention the off it party people that love what we do.

We have also seen the late licence kick in at the Onion meaning we can party harder there for longer. The afterpartys at Pacific bar are now a thing of the past and we would like to thank all the Pacific bars staff and Raymondo for their support over the years and allowing us to be the first monthly 6am club night in Boro. The Pre partys will still be held at the Pacific so you can still take in the beauty of their wonderful smelling toilets.

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