Poi and Staff workshops in Spitalfields Market EC1 London

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Dear all

we have moved to a new location.... se here for the new treead
http://www.homeofpoi.com/ubbthreads/show.../o/fpart/1/vc/1


see you at the rag factory..


this is why we have moved...


We had discussions in the pub on Tuesday regarding the use of the market for spinning@spitz and thanks to friends we have a much clearer idea of what’s going on:

Unfortunately we are not allowed back into the market for our workshops. It seems that while we have been out the market for the work, there has been a change of management. The new management appears to want to “increase the value” of the market area (gentrification is the term being used). This has led to many of the existing tenants not being invited to re enter the market, our selves included.

The st’georges residents association would have had no idea we would not be allowed back in, so although annoying its not their fault. We still have contacts in the market and we don’t want to cut out any future possibility of re-entering the market at a later date by kicking up a fuss, especially when there is no chance at all of us using the space in the current climate.

We need to do 2 things… 1. Find a temporary place to play ASAP… (see top) and 2. Find a permanent new home… to help us move forward we need your help. Please think of the people around you, be it your parents, friends, colleagues etc and see if there is anyone who may be able to finds us a new home… put the feelers out there.

If you find somewhere that fits our criteria (see below) then please get a contact name, a number or email and if appropriate, have a brief chat with them as a recommendation or personal contact makes a huge difference. If they are interested, forward their details to me and I will then chase it up.

We require an indoor or covered outdoor area with adequate lighting able to house up to 100 people on a Tuesday evening within 10mins from a tube and centrally located. We also require power to run a portable stereo.

On another note we have decided to have a Xmas party to raise some funds to help us secure a new spinning@..... ‘s venue. The confirmed date is Thursday 20th December in a Brixton from about 7.30 pm to 1 am. More details to follow.

Hopefully we will get sorted very soon and in the meantime we will meet at the poet next week and maybe look at ice skating, bowling or something else there after.

Huge hugs

Kev and the guys at spinning@.... ‘s

Three cheers for Ewan and Carrey...

What stars thay are!
We all love you guys....

...and I love you more than chocolate......yep you heard it from me first.

Bam

Yes yes y'all.
Be there lots.....hurrah hurrah.
More than chocolate??? Damn that's a tough one...

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Hello!

I hope everyone's looking forward to trying out a new venue - I certainly am.

See you all there on Tuesday!
C

so its in the market ey? sounds alright...

is there going to be any quiet music? or parafin?

will be there...

*salute Carrey and Ewan*

Hello again!

Quiet music is being worked on right now - Ewan's scouting around for a Mac MP3 player at the moment, so we can have lots of different tracks.

Paraffin: I'm not sure. At the moment we are not insured for performing with fire and we thought that those who wanted to have a proper fire spin could come back to a park near my house (about 10 minutes walk away) to have a spin afterwards. There is usually some paraffin at my house!

Looking forward to seeing you there,
C
X

Cool, yeah if we're out by 10, it doesn't give us much darkness anyway....

howdy
it all sounds good, im new here but am really wanting to learn more after being at glasto, from staines so aint that far away, may try to come down tonite but mayb busy if not will c y'all there nxt week!
have fun!!!

Hey there!

I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU!! to all who came down to the first Spinning night in Spitalfields market. I really enjoyed the crowd and the atmosphere and I hope you all did too.

A special thanks out to Bam Bam, Dom, Dave, Dizzy, Hazel and Smallboy, without whom the night wouldn't have been the same... (Thanks again Haze for gathering a possie together for us!)

And of course, the wonderful Ewan, who opens so many doors for me...thank you!

See you all Tuesday next week, if you can make it!

Cheers!
C

Hey there,

Wonderful Ewan here

Just had to say a huge THANK YOU to all the smiling faces that turned up last night (and all those who wanted to but couldn't make it.) Simply thank you for taking the time to check it out I'd wanted to keep it small for the first night to see how the word spread (and to not go out with a flash,) and we had a shed-load of people (inc. a birthday party and a friend of mine I've not seen for about 9years!) Really good night, and it was so cool that so many non-spinning people came to just have fun with their spinning friends. All far better than I'd feared it might be (was actually going to expand the area at one point (so not too bad for first day.))

Next week I'll see if I can get another couple of speakers, though the volume wasn't too bad I thought - background beat while still being able to talk naturally. And we'll probably rope off two quads instead of the one.
Apart from that. Yay! Erm and Yay!! again!!!
Love it when a plan comes together (puffs on big chocolate cigar.)
So, every Tuesday until we run out of money (we were close to breaking even last night, which is far better than I'd feared.) Ahh, good point, as of next week I hope to have some funky sets of Poi to sell (if anyone's interested)- doesn't seem as though it'll be that easy to cover the rent with admission fees. So, off with the coordination hat and on with the mad and funky Poi hat.

Have a great week y'all,

Ewan

Ewan and Carrey have done all us spinners / twirlers / nutters and everyone else who came or is thinking of coming along proud!

We all enjoyed a space filled with positive energy and happy smiling faces. I could hardly believe how many people turned up for the first night, and what a crowd. It was really nice being in a space where you could either learn or play, and with so many people skill sharing.

Tuesday nights are spinning nights again! so lets see all the London crew next week.

Bam

Ohh did anyone spot the majorette girl do the doubles? Fuckit she was good

[ 11 July 2002, 03:46: Message edited by: BamBam ]

Many peachy peeps, and loads of teachy/socialisy type atmosphericness.
Plus there's a pub 20 metres away.... rahhhhh.......plus some dodgy type people getting stoned (No names mentioned) - (**sneaks off trying to stay anonymous and shadowlike**)

DRAG ALL YOUR FRIENDS DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay, Tuesday again

Jazz - Howdy
Did you make it down last week? And if not, this week? Staines is a bit of a distance but we've got good travel links at Liverpool St. + Sorry if you were there last week and I haven't recognised your name, there were quite a few peeps and I'm much better at hitting myself repeatedly in the head than remembering names (folds hands in contemplation of whether the two could possibly be related.)

If not then I hope we'll see you at Spinning in Clapham Common this Sunday? (Doubt you'd need to, but give me a bell if you need any details for it.)

Part from that, might have a larger area tonight as I think we'll need it.

Happy Tuesday y'all.

SmilE

Hey guys

There were more people (I thought) at this week's gathering - cool! It was wicked and I'm now going to get my own staff! YAY

BTW you probably don't know me - I'm the majorette bird But I ain't that good!

Hope your ribs are feeling ok BamBam

Hi Ali-bird, nice to see that you've joined us.

Ribs are feeling a tad broken right now, hmmmmm wounder why?

Looking forward to seeing you all next week.....ohh or perhaps at Clapham Common on Sunday?

Bam

Ohh and Ali don't down your abilities....you're good!

Ali-Bird, I thought you had too many forums already! We must be special! :-)

I'm glad you're having so much fun finding your talents again. It's really great to watch too.

See you soon!

BamBam...I hope your ribs feel better soon...
XXX
C

Well, I can never resist another way to chatter

Hopefully I'll be at Clapham Common on Sunday, might see you there! Especially if it's as nice as today!

If not I'll most likely be at Spitalfields again on Tuesday...

A x

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Hi everyone...it's nearly Tuesday again and nearly time to Spin in Spitalfields...

Hope to see you there...

C

hello hello

so i know i havent been to the last few sessions at spittlefields market *slaps own hand. . my bad*

but i will be there this tuesday (err the30th july??? )

so hopefully i can see all you lovely ppl before i leave on saterday!

cant wait till tues.

hugs, bugs and purple monsters
lolli xxx

It's Tuesday, yuesday, tuesday, tuesday, whoop-de-woop-woop-woop.
**Runs round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round his office** Hurrah, hurrah, woop-woop-de-woop-woop.
**Pauses to ponder whether 8 cups of coffee is too much in the mornings**
C Y'all there peeps
Much love and hugz
Keep Smiling and Stay Green - xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I take it you are going then!! btw, 2much coffee is never enuf! gulp it down!
yipee!! i to share in your happiness for tuesdays!!!!! yipee!!!!! i can come and see all my poing friends and make lots of new ones and maybe, if your lucky, i will get naked!

wwwwwaaaaaaahhhhhoooooooooooooooooo!!!!

argh! i so wanna go but im too chicken to go by myself! i will so have to try and get there next tuesday...

But you wouldn't be there by yourself, we'd all be there too and some of us are really quite open, friendly and chatty. But not me, I'm the moppy bastard in the corner who won't let anyone borrow his equipment. Get awf mai land!

Awwwww - Jonathon, you didn't get naked mate. I am sooooooo disappointed - LOL.
Rasputina - Honey, babe, OMG, why didn't u come? We were there, the peachy firey peeps u met at the beach party......
If u don't come next week, I'll tell your mum that you've been lunching out your mates and she'll ground you - LOL.

Hey ho to Lolli and Ali who i met for the first time.......and several others that wont see this coz they don't post.
(have a lush time away Lolli, but come back soon)
And a BIG Hello to HerbyBiscuits who made all the effort to come down and then blatantly ignored me - LOL.

Special Thanks (as always) to Ewan and Carrey for organising such a cool meet....and thanks to Dizzy, BamBam, Knoxious, DromePixie and others for making the evening greener.

Jez, Simon, Dom and anyone else that I haven't mentioned - Sunday...............aaaaarghhhhhh I know too many people.......aaarrrrrgh
(**runs off twitching**)
(**but leaves a handily placed note made of kitchen roll and tea leaves**)
To all you others...........
If you missed it, you missed out....but much luv and hugz all the same.
Keep Smiling and Stay Green peeps
SmallBoy -

I didnt want to scare the little children who appeared. Anyway, you heard what i said to simon about getting naked with a small boy!! ;-)

In all fairness, it was a wikeddy, wickeddy woo wah night (it was dead good!) and yes, again a HUGE thank you to everyone who makes it possible to spin every tuesday!!

I HAVE GREAT NEWS!!!!!! THE POING CD IS READY FEATURING GREAT ARTISTS SUCH AS:

STING AND THE POLICE
PPK
RONI SIZE
SASH
DJ DEEKLINE
APHRODITE
PRODIGY
CHEMICAL BROTHERS
DJ FX
DARUDE (NO PRISES FOR GUESSING WHICH SONG!!)
DJ SAKIN
SEAN NA'AUAO

IF YOU HAVE ANY REQUESTS FOR SONGS YOU WANT ON THE CD, POST THEM UP AND I WILL TRY MY BEST TO PUT THEM ON THE NEXT CD- BUT ONLY IF I CAN GET HOLD OF THEM

erm, yeh, i think thats it...wait...nope....i am really looking forwards to sunday (pip day)as i have only ever been to the first one and i want to go again and experience the ambience!

don you think we should change PIP to PAPIP? (Poi and People in the Park!) or even PAPAPIP (Pankcakes and People and Poi in the Park)

anyway, thats enough from me!

[ 01 August 2002, 02:43: Message edited by: THE UNITED CHAINS OF FIRE ]

Much respect.....
I'd just posted Give me Andy C, prodigy and Aphrodite on your "Spinners who meet in London" thread, with a little "let you listen to first coz u might not know who the fuck I'm talking about" - and THEN I notice Aphrodite, Roni Size etc... so you know your D&B......ooo and obviously prodigy......

**Doffs Hat**

......Purple Pumpkin Pie and pink punch and Pancakes and People and Poi in the Park
PPPAPPAPAPAPIP
LOL

Helloo aaallll,

SmallBoy I want your job, what ever it is, I don't care, I'm just not getting enough HOP time at work

Don't know the official name of the Clapham Common ting, but did notice the other day that it works out quite well as 'SICC' or 'SOCC.' - Spinning in or on Clapham Common. But check with Dom, he de man on dis.

Ahh Mr Fire, thank you, both for putting the music together, and for keeping your clothes on Thinking about it, nudity should classify under both meteor and staff, (and Poi for the ladies perhaps,) even before you pick up your equipment as it were. (Ahh, quick thought - on the CD could you avoid (I know, I'm sorry) anything too offensive, just that we're attracting kids and members of the public... (SorrE.) But really really nice one for the effort.)

Ahh, while we're on it, and it can't happen tonight but... We're definitely going to have a... a... Classical evening!!!!!!!!! I know I know, please don't all cheer at once, and I know it's a lovely blouse that I'm wearing. But seriously, it can be so cool. The ups, the downs, changes in tempo. -It'll do wonders for your ability to improvise/ to not get stuck in a rut simply because it can be so changeable.) Had a bit of a spin to Vivaldi's Four Seasons (at an open-air concert that Carrey dragged me to (bitch! Stop improving my life!!))a bit ago and, well, it… just… has… to… happen.

News of the week - the bladers have moved their night to another (Monday I think) so we could move to the other end of the market. Good points are - larger, flatter space and further from the bar . Bad points are - further from the bar Ooo, and with that flatter space, if anyone fancies joining me - if we are at that end tonight I’ll be bringing my blades for a bit of RollerPoiBoyJoy (hey, didn’t expect that to work.) S’great fun if you can manage it, and it’s probably easier than it might sound – your brain can’t process both at the same time so you just go with it. The results are great fun.

Don't know what to do about this but I'm up for suggestions - some people would prefer not to have the potential onlookers, and others quite like the blend we have of Poi and sociability. Hmm, we'll see tonight, and we can always change back.

FunkE then, ahh, last thoughts –
Lolli, yay, great to see you again last week. Think you said something about going on holiday (?) but if so/ not, hope you’ll be back.
HerbyBiscuits - good man!! Nice one for making it down, always the more the merrier, and I’m really hoping you’ll be making it merrier tonight.
AliBird – Sorry you and yo man can’t make it tonight, but there will be others, ohohoho yeesss... And yay for Hazel!!
Hazel!! Yay!!! You're cool (but I can't stand your in friends )
Stickman!! Where are yooouuu? Still haven’t been able to make a funky set of small Poi for yours yet but it is going to happen, and in the mean time we have enough toys and moves to keep her entertained/ confused for hours (if not days.)

So, Happy TuesdaE y’all.

Hope it all goes off well tonight I must admit I quite like being near the bar but as long as we can still go and get drinks from it(?) I don't think anyone will mind!

Stickman is in Spain at the moment at the Benicassim festival (if we are talking about the same guy!) but I'm sure he'll show his face in the next couple of weeks!

After you left last night SpaceMonkE I had my first go with fire and it ROCKED! I've gotta get me some paraffin! (And some covers for my now very sooty staff ends )

see you next week!

Ali xx

[ 07 August 2002, 04:08: Message edited by: Ali-bird ]

Didn't make it, went on a mission to steal my brother's X-Box instead, so that's me gone for a few weeks!

Ali-bird, cool to be at your (and so many others!) fire baptism! To be honest, I didn't realise it was your first time as normally people don't spin that confidently first time. Looked very good!

See you all next week! Or Sunday at Clapham Common!