Miss Kittin and The Hacker LIVE - Sunday May 3rd (1 Viewer)

[Remedy]

MISS KITTIN & THE HACKER (LIVE)
SUN MAY 3RD
ANDREWS LANE THEATRE
(01-6795720)
DOORS 11PM
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This Dublin show is right in the middle of an extensive European tour to promote Miss Kittin & The Hacker's new album "Two." In her own words "We are back with a bang. And you better believe, it's a big, cosmic bang." The album, she continues, is a "wonderful, stellar sprinkling of metallic soul, glamorous space disco, glossy vocal nuances, crystalline beats and swirling melodies." That makes sense doesn't it? We say "Kittin & The Hacker Rock!" There were 1000 people at the last gig. Unfortunately not that many will fit into Andrews Lane so tickets will be like gold dust. It his highly advised to get your tickets in advance. You don't want to miss this show.



Biography:

Grenoble born Caroline Hervé aka Miss Kittin, has over the past years become one of the most inspiring DJs and voices to emerge within the electronic music scene. Her vocal collaborations have produced seminal moments of dancefloor heaven. Alongside long-time production partner The Hacker, tracks such as ‘Frank Sinatra’ and ‘1982’ propelled them into the spotlight whilst further collaborations with Felix Da Housecat ‘Silver Screen (Shower Scene)’, Golden Boy ‘Rippin Kittin’, Sven Vath ‘Je T’aime’ and T. Raumschmiere ‘The Game Is Not Over’ have confirmed Miss Kittin’s star billing status.

She released her debut solo artist album ‘I Com’ in 2004, that showed her spreading her wings with jacking Chicago house, distorted punk attitude, skanked-up dub and electronic pop as the singles Professional Distortion, Requiem For A Hit and Happy Violentine aptly displayed.
The heavily-accented deadpan delivery over techno beats that established her notoriety on previous recordings has been unseated by a desire to sing, to scream, to rap and to croon, all of which she manages to do with ample helpings of sly wit and wordplay and a musical landscape that incorporates both brazen beats and intoxicating atmospherics.

However for all her releases and collaborations Kittin’s first and main love remains DJing. From starting out in 1994 Kittin’s name first appeared on a flyer in the chill-out room for a rave in an old military fort in the mountains. From there on Kittin hasn’t looked back. From playing harder edged techno, rave classics, Chicago, acid and Detroit techno Kittin has progressed into more leftfield, electro and electronic realms. Able to play Prince with Black Dog or Aphex Twin with a new Kompakt 12” she has an uncanny and intuitive sense of selection that not only flows but also maintains that primary sense of the party. Anyone who has seen Kittin dancing behind the decks or grabbing the microphone mid-set will understand only too well that she is also a clubber at heart. As Kittin says, “I love playing records, it's probably the best thing I know to do in life. I do it because it's big fun and it makes me free.”

Currently based in Paris, Kittin just released her second solo album "BatBox" on her own label "Nobody's Bizzness" and is rightly placed as one of the most revered and recognizable artists in dance music today. As for the future? It’s looking purr-fect.

 

[Jasper]

Some good tunes but Miss Kitten is supposed to be an unbelievable asshole. This is a Derry promoter in 2006:

"We would rather be sitting at this stage reminiscing about a great night but instead we feel compelled to set the record straight about the actions of Miss Kittin at our event on Friday night past. After years of negotiations, we finally secured a date for Miss Kittin to play at our clubnight. It was a night we were really looking forward to enjoying ourselves but due to the actions of Miss Kittin, we found this impossible. In all our time of promoting parties, we feel we have never been treated so badly by a visiting artist.
The venue we had chosen to put Miss Kittin on was The Nerve Centre where we have put on a variety of DJ’s and live acts including Laurent Garnier, Dave Clarke, X-Press 2, Mylo, 2020 Soundsystem, Jon Carter, Layo & Bushwacka, Justin Robertson, Slam, Paul Daley, Tom Middleton, Erol Alkan, Andrew Weatherall, Lee Burridge, Mr C, David Holmes, DJ Format & MC Abdominal, Radioactive Man, Fingathing, Silicone Soul, Umek, Craig Richards, James Zabiela, Billy Nasty,Jazzanova, James Lavelle, Scratch Perverts, DJ Craze, The Psychonauts, Si Begg.
The Nerve Centre has also hosted some of the biggest names in rock music including The Thrills, The Undertones, Ian Brown, The Zutons, Embrace, Gomez,
David Gray, Sinead O’Connor, The Doves.

Miss Kittin was picked up at Belfast Airport by taxi which transported her to The Tower Hotel in Derry where we had booked her the most expensive suite as well as an additional room for her manager. On meeting Miss Kittin and her manager outside the hotel and welcoming them to our city, we were greeted by Miss Kittin with ‘It’s fucking freezing’ - no hello, nothing.

On returning to the hotel to bring Miss Kittin and her manager to the club, we advised Miss Kittin that the club was next door to the hotel so we would walk to the club. After walking no more than 15 metres, Miss Kittin stopped dead in her tracks and said ‘This is next door… where is the fucking club?’ We told Miss Kittin that the club was just another 30 metres away round the corner.

We then took Miss Kittin to the boardroom of The Nerve Centre where we had a large range of drinks, fruit and various snacks prepared for her. Initially refusing a drink, Caroline then said ‘How am I meant to enjoy myself tonight. It took me six fucking hours to get here and I’m fucking freezing. I could have been in New York’. Prior to booking her extremely expensive flights, we had suggested several alternative travel options to Miss Kittin that would have got her to Derry quicker. We also warned her of the regular delays that take place at Heathrow on Friday evenings. However there was no flexibility with Miss
Kittin regarding flights.

Miss Kittin eventually decided to have a bottle of water but complained that she did not want the water if it was too cold as she was already ‘fucking freezing’. We then brought Miss Kittin upstairs to the venue to commence her set. We pride ourselves on providing everything artists ask for. The setup on stage was perfect, as was asked for in the contract. Both our resident DJ’s tried to
introduce themselves to Miss Kittin but were greeted with a hateful ‘I don’t understand you’. After starting her set, we are informed by her manager that there was a problem. Basically, the problem was that Caroline was used to playing in bigger venues in front of larger crowds. At this stage the venue was only open an hour and there were nearly 300 people in the venue and there were
people still coming in to the club.

We are then informed that Miss Kittin will play for 1 hour only and that we should have one of our DJ’s ready to take over. Informed by her manager that there was no way of changing her mind, one of our residents took over from Miss Kittin after she had played 75 minutes. At the end of the night, when paying her fee to her manager, we asked what should we say to the clubbers who had came to the club to hear Miss Kittin. He informed us that we should lie, ‘tell the people she was sick or something as she has fans and she would not want to disappoint her fans.’

These are the fans that she refused to acknowledge all night and basically refused to play for. We have always found that truth is the best policy and we are not going to change now and we don’t believe feigning illness for Miss Kittin to keep her reputation intact as a good enough reason to change this policy. Within the genres of music we promote, we find that the majority of people that we invite to play are likeminded people, sociable and polite but more importantly professional. In almost eight years of putting on parties, Miss Kittin is the outstanding exception to this rule.

We have been lucky enough to host some of the world’s top DJ’s and producers over the years who always retain a sense of honesty and humility. Derry may not
be as cosmopolitan as New York, Paris or Milan but you will be hard pushed to find a more receptive or passionate crowd. Most visiting DJ’s comment on the great reaction and warmth of the people. There is no excuse or valid reason for Miss Kittin’s actions on Friday night. She was getting paid a lot of money to play records for a couple of hours. All we wanted was for her to do her job.

No way to act. What a Bitch

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

maybe she was on her period?

 

[UnaRocks]

I met Kittin before when she played the Music Centre. She was lovely and signed record sleeves for my mates.

Even if she was a bitch, who cares, she rocks.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I thought it was you who rocks. Now I'm confuzzled.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

confusies

 

[platters]

haha, Miss Kitten is actually a bitch, what a shocker!