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1 GET INVOLVED

GET INVOLVED

Date: Thursday 1st May

Doors: 6PM-1AM

Cost: £FREE

Get Involved is the only clubnight in town that dishes out maracas and tambourines to those keen to get involved on the dancefloor. Guest DJs Dean Chalkley and Paul Pensom join host G the P with mixed bags of old records that span many a genre. Expect to hear a riotous blend of rhythm'n'blues, greasy doo wop, punky party reggae, sixties soul, country hop and rock'n'roll. – anything to keep the tempo up and the tambourines a-shaking. Don't be shy, get involved. Doors 7pm, free entry

www.getinvolvedclub.com
2 BREAKIN BREAD

BREAKIN BREAD

Date: Friday 2nd May

Doors: 6PM-1AM

Cost: £FREE

BREAKIN BREAD presents FRIDAY NIGHT BREAD - Breakin Bread's intimate West End Session.  Dirtybeatbreakinfunkandhiphop with a bit of disco, a touch of soul and anything else in between. ROB LIFE and SKEG on the decks with guests from the record label including GHOST, NATURAL SELF and PAUL T (Color Climax).  This month the guys will be celebrating the release of the new GHOST album, so expect extra special guests and surprises.  Doors from 5pm, free entry

www.breakinbread.org
3 BROADER THAN BROADWAY

BROADER THAN BROADWAY

Date: Saturday 3rd May

Doors: 6PM-1AM

Cost: £FREE

The long-running party that likes to celebrate the very best in reggae, hip hop, dancehall, grime, electronica, pop and all manner of other bashment.  A ruffnek discotek that’s served with a smile from your hosts Carlos, TK and Zane.  Free entry, doors 6pm.

http://www.myspace.com/broaderthanbroadway

4 NITE + DAZE

NITE + DAZE

Date: Sunday 4th May

Doors: 7PM-1AM

Cost: £7/8

Electro-indie-techno-disco-tastic! SoS kick off the 1st Nite + Daze with big sounds for the dancefloor from NIGHTMOVES, Electro-rockin’ disko dance supplied by STEALTH DISCO and 80’s Italo disco from Lex Records HEARTBREAK! Alongside live sets from the British Uffie, MISS ODDKIDD, the bastard daughter of Peaches and Timbaland; Missy and Eminem, with scratching supplied by DJ Dekker. And former Beta Band frontman’s new project BLACK AFFAIR, who dish out retro beatbox electro, Detroit techno and synth pop, slightly spacey, slightly disco, sometimes seedy, but mostly fun.  Doors 7pm

1st 50 people for £7 - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/29692
£8 otherwise - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/29691

www.myspace.com/sonsofstereo

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/29691

ltd tickets at £7 http://www.wegottickets.com/event/29692






5 CLOSED

CLOSED

Date: Monday 5th May

Doors: 6PM-12AM

Cost: £FREE


6 ELECTRICITY COMES FROM OTHER PLANETS

ELECTRICITY COMES FROM OTHER PLANETS

Date: Tuesday 6th May

Doors: 6PM-12AM

Cost: £FREE

ELECTRICITY COMES FROM OTHER PLANETS - RPM celebrates its 1st birthday at The Social with an incendiary night of dance-inducing, electro-tric-tronic music to blast the cobwebs of ordinary club nights out of the water. Live: THE NACIENTE QUARTET, TEETH OF THE SEA, BEN GLASS (dj set) + REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE DJs will keep the beat at faster miles an hour by playing everything from Hercules and Love affair, Foals, Talking Heads, Klaxons, Can, CSS, Hot Chip, Sonic Youth, Devo, and everything that has ever plugged in and rocked out. Doors 6pm, free entry

www.myspace.com/rpmlondon
7 SONS OF STEREO

SONS OF STEREO

Date: Wednesday 7th May

Doors: 6PM-12AM

Cost: £FREE

SoS bring you the best new breaking bands - plus a healthy dose of the newest tunes and classic cuts from resident and guest DJ's, and it’s all FREE. THE FULLERTONS bring their exhilarating live rock n pop to this veritable indie line-up. Fresh from their BBC Session, SHAPES play out their razor-blade, stuff-strutting angularity, LR ROCKETS perform a perfect slice of riff heavy rock n roll and indie punks VAN CLEEF FOUR begin proceedings. Doors 6pm, fre entrt
 
 


8 ICE HOCKEY HAIR

ICE HOCKEY HAIR

Date: Thursday 8th May

Doors: 6PM-1AM

Cost: £FREE

The former Wolfgang Boppers return for their second outing with a heady mixture of top drawer live acts and tip top Guest Djs. This months Ice Hockey Hair doubles as a Single Launch perty for wonderful wizards of skewed pop Post War Years whose debut release on Chess Club is imminent. In support will be more purveyors of off kilter, raucous pop wonderment, The Laurel Collective.    

Ice Hockey Hair presents;

POST WAR YEARS

!Single Launch!

+

LAUREL COLLECTIVE

+ Wolf Gang Djs & Guest Djs tbc

 

9 BLAZE OF GLORY

BLAZE OF GLORY

Date: Friday 9th May

Doors: 6PM-1AM

Cost: £FREE

For Blaze of Glory in May we serve up a double helping of guest goodness!  First up we have NEIL SCOTT providing the northern disco connection. Neil runs the rather splendid El Diablo's Social Club party in Manchester & also promotes and spins records at Electric Chair sister night Nish Nash Nosh.  This is a rare opportunity to catch him spin in London town, so don't miss out!  Alongside Neil we are very happy to welcome ILIJA RUDMAN all the way from Croatia. Ilija runs his own disco imprint Red-Music Records & has released productions on most of the heavyweight nu-disco labels, including Bear Funk, Rong Music 20:20 Vision & Compost. We're very happy to have him down to play for us and provide a little taste of what to expect at The Garden Festival later this year at which he is spinning alongside Blaze residents MATTY J & BEN TERRY. Who will as ever, be on hand to provide the friday night disco & balearic fodder. Doors 6pm/Disco 7pm

www.myspace.com/blazelondon

www.eldiablos.co.uk

10 SCRATCH CLUB

SCRATCH CLUB

Date: Saturday 10th May

Doors: 6PM-1AM

Cost: £FREE

It's Scratch Club plus hip hop divided by three turntablists to the power of three mc's multiplied by 100% Saturday party madness subtract the suckers and add the prime number of girls on tables to give you the square root of London's hip hop party. You do the math.  Doors 6pm, free entry

http://www.scratch-club.com
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12 SONIC CATHEDRAL

SONIC CATHEDRAL

Date: Monday 12th May

Doors: 7PM-12AM

Cost: £5

The acclaimed shoegaze and drone-rock clubnight – reopens for worship at The Social with a very special line up featuring A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS from New York.  They’ll be joined by THE TAMBORINES and guest DJs.  Doors 7pm, £5 in advance, £6 on the door.

tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/28836
13 HUW STEPHENS' INTRODUCING

HUW STEPHENS' INTRODUCING

Date: Tuesday 13th May

Doors: 7PM-12AM

Cost: £5

Huw is on Radio 1 playing new unsigned and emerging music on Radio 1's Introducing shows every Wednesday night. These monthly gigs are a perfect platform for the best new, unusual and interesting bands around. PENCIL TOES are Hereford guitar heroes, loved by Moshi Moshi and all who see them live.

TRUE ADVENTURES prove there's something in the water in Norwich. Something charmingly indie-lo fi-like. You will be charmed. When was the last time you saw some Welsh dubstep live? Exactly. Played by Rob da Bank too, MONKEY DUBZ set will be fun, and Standard Fare from Sheffield made a demo that Huw adores and so they complete the line-up. doors 7pm, £5 entry

14 HARD KNOCK WIFE

HARD KNOCK WIFE

Date: Wednesday 14th May

Doors: 6PM-12AM

Cost: £FREE

GoldieLocks is again bringing the freshest and randomest sounds of the London underground, with the first ever live set from The Sick Kids, also playing live BB Manik and Illaman, DJs Rattus Rattus and Gloria Loves Valentine. Expect Reggae / Hip Hop / 90s and a bit of grime thrown in just to be cool.  Doors 6pm, free entry

www.myspace.com/goldielocksmusic
15 HIP HOP KARAOKE

HIP HOP KARAOKE

Date: Thursday 15th May

Doors: 6PM-1AM

Cost: £FREE

Putting a fresh twist on the ancient art of post-work karaoke, Hip-Hop Karaoke London lets you get on the mic and act out your rap fantasies to the fullest.  Easily as good as it sounds.  A truly amazing night.  Doors 6pm, free entry

www.hiphopkaraokelondon.com
16 STOP MAKING SENSE

STOP MAKING SENSE

Date: Friday 16th May

Doors: 6PM-1AM

Cost: £FREE

SMS switch to friday night after many hard years service at the social on a saturdays. you’ll be getting the usual nonsense from your hosts, Leaf Troup, Nasty McQuaid & Dr. Zzzz, expect r n' electro disco hillybilly hop and future wonky classics.  Doors 6pm, free entry

www.myspace.com/stopmakingsenseclub

17 PRIVATE PARTY DOWNSTAIRS - UPSTAIRS OPEN AS NORMAL

PRIVATE PARTY DOWNSTAIRS - UPSTAIRS OPEN AS NORMAL

Date: Saturday 17th May

Doors: 6pm - 11pm

Cost: £free

PRIVATE PARTY DOWNSTAIRS – UPSTAIRS OPEN AS NORMAL
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19 CHESS CLUB

CHESS CLUB

Date: Monday 19th May

Doors: 7PM-12AM

Cost: £SOLD OUT

Live: BON IVER + Brendan Campbell - SOLD OUT - One of 2008s most talked about acts plays his debut headline show on this side of the Atlantic for Chess Club. Bon Iver's debut album "For Emma, Forever Ago..." was written in the forests of North America during a hibernation period for Bon Iver's Jason Vernon. The result is a stark and beautiful record that is sure to feature in many peoples albums of the year come 2009. Support comes from Glasgow's Brendan Campbell.
20 NEURAL OHMLETTE

NEURAL OHMLETTE

Date: Tuesday 20th May

Doors: 6PM-12AM

Cost: £FREE

Monthly shindig of underground resistance with a live set by ONE MORE GRAIN, a post punk jazz affair headed by humourous observational banter, whilst album 'Pigeon English' continues to pick up a host of fans. BANJO OR FREAKOUT will be playing his blissed out vocal electronics which has caught the attention of DFA and Plan B mag. Plus young hopefuls JUST LIKE PICTURES perform spiky pop indie gems.  6pm-12. Free entry.

www.myspace.com/neuralohmlette

21 CHAMPIONS LEAUGE FINAL

CHAMPIONS LEAUGE FINAL

Date: Wednesday 21st May

Doors: 6PM-12AM

Cost: £FREE


WE'LL BE SHOWING THE GAME ON THE BIG SCREEN DOWNSTAIRS 

EMAIL CARL@THESOCIAL.COM TO RESERVE A TABLE 

22 BLANK NO MORE

BLANK NO MORE

Date: Thursday 22nd May

Doors: 6PM-1AM

Cost: £FREE

BLANKNOMORE.COM is a new website with a simple aim - to showcase the best artists and make their work accessible and affordable. To mark the unveiling of five outstanding screenprints BLANKNOMORE are hosting a party to launch a month long exhibition at the Social. Artwork featured includes eBoy, Dan Mumford, Eskimo Push and Little White Lies Paul Willoughby. DJ sets from Another Music = Another Kitchen DJs and Tosh Ohta. Find out more at BLANKNOMORE.COM. Doors 6pm, free entry

www.blanknomore.com
23 SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY

SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY

Date: Friday 23rd May

Doors: 6PM-1AM

Cost: £FREE

The greatest 'triple-threat' since J-Lo are taking over Friday night, to start the weekend right. DJ Superix, Rob Breezy and our wonderful emcee Kosher bring you the latest and greatest hip-hop infused party music, taking in soul, pop, hyphy, dancehall and whatever else we feel like along the way, yadidamean? You might know Southern Hospitality from behind the wheels at Hip-Hop Karaoke, you might know us from the mix CDs, you might know us from the Southern Hospitality Radio Show or you might just damn well know us. Either way, as Clinton Sparks would say…get familiar!  Doors 6pm, free entry

www.myspace.com/southernhospitalitydjs
24 SET THE TONE 67

SET THE TONE 67

Date: Saturday 24th May

Doors: 6PM-1AM

Cost: £FREE

4 years in and going strong. A cranked up night of original top boss reggae, rip roaring ska and smooth rocksteady.  Hosted by the rogues in brogues aka DEAN THATCHER, STEPHEN SAUNDERS and NICK AVINIT. Less anorak, more Harrington. Doors 6pm, free entry

www.set-the-tone-67.co.uk
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26 JEREMY WARMSLEY'S RESIDENCY

JEREMY WARMSLEY'S RESIDENCY

Date: Monday 26th May

Doors: 7PM-12AM

Cost: £6.50

The first of two shows in two weeks with Jeremy Warmsley who hasn’t graced the stage at the social for over two years.  Jeremy Warmsley is a 25-year old singer, songwriter and producer from London, England.
New songs! "The Boat Song" and "Temptation" will be released in the UK as a double A-side single on 7" vinyl and download on June 2nd. His next album, "How We Became", will be released in 2008. He is half-French, which is nice, but totally irrelevant.
 Support tbc.  Doors 7pm, £6.50 tickets advance.

http://www.myspace.com/jeremywarmsley
27 HEALTH AND HAPPINESS

HEALTH AND HAPPINESS

Date: Tuesday 27th May

Doors: 6PM-12AM

Cost: £FREE

If the good Lord’s willin’ and the creeks don’t rise, we’ll be sure to see you for another shot of HEALTH & HAPPINESS! This month we’re really pleased to be welcoming THE LOOSE SALUTE, new Heavenly signings whose debut album is out on the 2nd June. They’ll be joined by THE NO SORROWS and MIKE BONES.  Oh, yeah. Believe it or not, it’s all FREE!  Doors 6pm

http://www.healthandhappiness.co.uk



28 3M30 LAUNCH PARTY

3M30 LAUNCH PARTY

Date: Wednesday 28th May

Doors: 6PM-12AM

Cost: £FREE

Live: HIS GIRL FRIDAY, JUST JACK (DJ set) & special guests. This is a night to celebrate the launch of a brand spanking new digital label, THREE MINUTES THIRTY (or 3M30 to there mates!). Tonight's show will be headlined by the hot hot talent of His Girl Friday, who's single 'Boo Hoo' is set to be the labels debut release on MAY 26th 2008. Label co-owner Just Jack will be spinning tunes throughout the night from his rather large treasure chest and there will be several special guest LIVE performances during the evening.  & Just when you thought it couldn't get any better.  Its FREE FREE FREE ALL
NIGHT!!!  Doors 6pm
29 HUW PRESENTS - FILMED EVENING

HUW PRESENTS - FILMED EVENING

Date: Thursday 29th May

Doors: 6pm - 11pm

Cost: £free

This a special one off event that is being filmed, its free entry and you can get tickets by emailing the address below with you r name and telephone number. 

PIXEL H8

GIDEON CONN

PENCIL TOES

RIZ MC

ltd amount of tickets available

email tickets@cloudbase.com 

30 BAGGY MONDAYS 6TH BIRTHDAY

BAGGY MONDAYS 6TH BIRTHDAY

Date: Friday 30th May

Doors: 6PM-1AM

Cost: £FREE

Back in 2002, we had an idea. "Wouldn't it be nice to hear Northside and Flowered Up records on a proper club soundsystem?" Thus, Baggy Mondays was born (though it's never been on a Monday night). It turned out we weren't the only ones who wanted to get our groove on to classics from the Roses, the Mondays, the Inspirals, the Charlatans and all the other Madchester faves. Lots of people did. Even famous folks like Kasabian and Kings Of Leon have crammed into the Social to cut some baggy rug. Since 2002, we've consistently had people dancing on tables, queues down the street and one of the friendliest, least up-tight crowds you'll find in a central London night spot. And now we're celebrating our sixth birthday. We hope to see you down there. Top one, nice one, sorted.  Doors 6pm, free entry
31 IM WITH STUPID

IM WITH STUPID

Date: Saturday 31st May

Doors: 6PM-1AM

Cost: £FREE

Dust of your dancing shoes and join the I'm with stupid team for an extra special table top, microphone Wielding dance off! Expect a stimulating assortment of girl groups, northern soul, glam rock, pop and out right plop, accompanied of course by mandatory stupid dancing! Doors 6pm, free entry

www.myspace.com/weloveimwithstupid