Jeff Automatic
Jeff Automatic mix - 18 05 11 - for Radio FM, Slovakia by jeffautomatic
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in the uk, jeff automatic runs his own transmission club night (various venues) and is a monthly resident
dj in london at club nme (koko) and one party state (barfly).
in spain, he's a bi-monthly resident at the razzmatazz (barcelona) and at low (madrid).
in germany, he's a regular guest at club nme germany (berlin & hamburg) and the atomic cafe (munich).
amongst many others, he's also djed at following festivals: reading (dance stage), v2008 (shockwaves/dance
stage), secret garden party, snowbombing, great escape, get loaded in the park, festival cultura quente,
inspiracion, murcia sound, canarias @ the hotel and benicassim/fib (as part of the line-up and at the
directors' private closing party!) as well as clubs/events in london such as insomiac's ball (seone), kill all
hippies (scala), electrogogo / the glitz (madame jo jo's), together (turnmills), nme big gig aftershow
(matter), in ibiza at the legendary manumission (privilege)...
...and at clubs/events in new york, paris, berlin, rome, valencia, alicante, genoa, bilbao, bratislava,
prague, essen, asturias, perugia, pontevedra, palma de mallorca, murcia, hamburg, dublin, edinburgh,
plymouth, lleida, manchester, turin, wolverhampton, tenerife, padua, verona, bassano di grappa,
birmingham, belfast, nottingham...
readers of spain's rockdelux magazine voted jeff into their top ten international djs list for 2008, whilst
london's time out magazine said "yes, he really is excellent" and no, he didn't ask them to!
currently resident at:
transmission - london / berlin / ghent www.transmissionlondon.com
since sep 03, this is an ongoing "argument between guitars and electro" - at various london venues,
berlin's bang bang club and ghent's make up club. "unruly guitar tunes, punk'n'funk, [electro] & beyond...
wow, stand back in amazement" said guardian guide, who twice made it a top 5 club choice, regularly
recommended & critics' choice in london listings bible time out.
club nme - london www.koko.uk.com
a monthly friday slot at this weekly night, since apr 05, at 1,500-capacity koko (ex-camden palace),
london - a killer guitar & remix set at this packed night, sponsored by the magazine of the same name,
which is now one of the top 5 biggest guitar-based nights in the uk.
razzclub - barcelona www.salarazzmatazz.com
bi-monthly fridays, since nov 03. transmission now hosts & brings guest djs to the main arena & pop bar
of the 5-room, 5,000-capacity razzmatazz, barcelona, spain - one of spain's biggest, best and most
influential leftfield clubs.
low club - madrid www.intromusica.com
bi-monthly fridays/saturdays, since dec 06, in the main room of the 1,000-capacity low club, madrid,
spain - a long-running night with a cool music policy and reputation for booking a-list international
electronic djs.
one party state - london www.myspace.com/onepartystateclub
a monthly saturday slot at this new fortnightly club, since sep 08, at camden's small-yet-cool barfly,
london - a chance to play new electro/crossover tunes to a select, switched-on crowd.
formerly resident at:
half cut (herbal, london)
kill all hippies (fortress / canvas / scala / 333, london)
ride the walrus (cargo, london)
smersh bar (london)
the glitz (madame jo jo's, london)
plus guest sets at:
[2009]
atomic cafe (munich, germany)
blast off @ wolves civic (wolverhampton, uk)
canarias @ the hotel (tenerife)
cotton club (lleida, spain)
club nme germany (berlin, germany)
club nme reading festival @ rivermead (reading, uk)
club nme rome launch party (rome, italy)
electromash @ radost (bratislava, slovakia)
excuse me (valencia, spain)
festival cultura quente (galicia, spain)
festival inspiracion (tenerife)
fever (bilbao, spain)
flowerpot (london, uk)
friday i'm in rock @ urban (perugia, italy)
imperial college summer & freshers' balls (london, uk)
matter (london, uk)
mish mash (mynt, belfast)
mondo (vigo, spain)
nme awards official aftershow (london, uk)
pacmad (girona, spain)
popcorn chic @ blackout (rome, italy)
reading festival - dance stage (reading, uk)
relentless garage launch night (london, uk)
revolution in the city (london, uk)
sala karma (pontevedra, spain)
silent disco @ komedia (bath, uk)
skalextric (tenerife)
stag hampstead (london, uk)
stereo (alicante, spain)
taboo (benicassim, spain)
[2008]
academy (sheffield, uk)
atomic cafe (munich, germany)
bang on! nye party (kings college, london)
blast off! (wolverhampton, uk)
button factory (dublin, ireland)
canarias @ the hotel festival (tenerife, spain)
club nme germany (hamburg, germany)
club nme - reading festival (rivermead centre, reading)
excuse me (valencia, spain)
faraday festival presentation party (villanova, spain)
fever (bilbao, spain)
fib festival - directors' closing party (benicassim, spain)
fiesta no siesta (333, london)
flow bar (valencia, spain)
half cut (herbal, london)
interzona (verona, italy)
king kong klub (berlin, germany)
kings college london freshers' ball (ministry of sound, london)
mitiko (padua, italy)
murcia sound festival (spain)
plastique (prague, czech republic)
pleasure magazine film premiere party (munich, germany)
poppourri (berlin, germany)
promotech pre-fib party (benicassim, spain)
radost (bratislava, slovakia)
reading festival (uk)
ride club (plymouth, uk)
sala karma (pontevedra, spain)
secret garden party festival (uk)
shut up and dance (bratislava, slovakia)
stereo (alicante & murcia, spain)
the mind (orihuela, spain)
v2008 festival (uk)
voltage (platinum, london)
week one student ball (rock city, nottingham)
you watt?! (electricity showrooms, london)
[2007]
3 blind mice bar (london)
93 feet east nye (london)
atomic cafe (munich, germany)
berlin hilton (nbi, berlin, germany)
confetti (alicante, spain)
cotton club (lleida, spain)
cultura club (palma de mallorca, spain)
electrogogo (madame jo jo's, london)
emerge (333, london)
excuse me (bassano di grappa, italy)
excuse me (valencia, spain)
fever (bilbao, spain)
flow bar (valencia, spain)
great escape festival (brighton)
hotel shanghai (essen, germany)
korsan bar (london)
le club du pop (valencia. spain)
lemon pop festival (spain)
levis corporate party (revolution, northampton)
milk club (genoa, italy)
mtv xmas party (sin, london)
mystic disco (on anon, london)
observatori festival (valencia, spain)
oca festival (tenerife, spain)
poppourri (berlin, germany)
publico newspaper launch party (madrid, spain)
reading festival (uk)
sa lluna (inca, mallorca, spain)
sala karma (pontevedra, spain)
secret garden party festival (uk)
shut up and dance (bratislava, slovakia)
snowbombing festival (mayrhofen, austria)
spies in the wires (cabaret voltaire, edinburgh)
stereo (alicante, spain)
subsonic (manor club & tap 'n' tin, chatham)
tdk cross festival (goods yard complex, london)
university college london winter ball (heaven, london)
voltage (333, london)
we get kicks! (barfly, birmingham)
xan xuan festival (asturias, spain)
year zero (proud gallery, london)
[2006]
atomic cafe (munich, germany)
benicassim festival / f.i.b. (benicassim, spain)
camelot - 17th anniversary (santa pola, spain)
carling v.i.p. tent (reading festival, uk)
deposito legal (barcelona, spain)
electrogogo (madame jo jo's, london)
get loaded in the park festival (uk)
insomniac's ball (seone, london)
issst (the key, london, uk) www.issst.com
kill robot kill! (hoxton bar, london)
le club & flow bar (valencia, spain) www.produccionesuhf.com
low club f.i.b. festival warm-up party (benicassim, spain)
manumission (privilege, ibiza)
o.c.a. festival (tenerife, spain)
rocker (cambridge, uk)
secret garden festival (uk)
shout nyc (bar 13, new york)
sound (barcelona, spain) www.fantasticoclub.com
spazio 211 (turin, italy)
stereo & stereo beach club (alicante / cartagena / la manga, spain)
stolen transmission & tiswas (the annexe, new york)
together (turnmills, london)
underground (ibiza)
we get kicks! (barfly, birmingham)
[2005]
amp (ulu, london)
big sexy land (strongroom, london)
canal 125 (london)
carling (reading) festival (uk - dance stage & v.i.p. areas)
cross central new year's eve (canvas, london) www.crosscentral.co.uk
fever (bilbao, spain) www.santana27.com
get loaded (turnmills, london)
get loaded in the park festival & aftershow (uk)
le truskel (paris, france) www.truskel.com
low club f.i.b. festival warm-up party (benicassim, spain)
milkclub (genoa, italy)
new year's east (93 feet east, london)
o.c.a. festival (tenerife, spain)
ride the walrus (cargo, london)
thee glitz (madame jo jo's, london)
u.c.l. freshers' ball (koko, london)
V2005 festival (uk - warming up for the prodigy to 10,000+ people)
[2004 & significant others] - for more of jeff's dj history, see biog, following:
casino royale (barfly, london) www.casinoroyale.co.uk
exploited (the social w1, london) www.the-social.com
ourdisco luVS f.u.n. (the key, london; with berlin's f.u.n. djs) www.ourdisco.com
international hi-fi (garage, london) www.internationalhi-fi.com
isladencanta festival '01 + '02 (majorca, spain)
misshapes (luke & leroy's, new york, usa)
tdk cross festival (goods yard complex, london) www.crosscentral.co.uk
V2004 festival (uk - warming up for the scissor sisters to 9,000+ people)
xfm remix night (cargo, london)
xplosiva (turin, italy) www.xplosiva.com
& many more...
then: since 1992, jeff automatic has been an inspired and often ground-breaking part
of london's club scene.
in the days when the capital's clubbing was dominated by both sorts of music - house AND garage - jeff
started automatic, just near the bright lights of leicester square. the night's refreshing approach to
then-unfashionable guitar tunes attracted upcoming stars of the scene (some of which djed, including
blur) but, mostly - and importantly - enthusiastic, dancing people. it also gave a certain erol alkan his
first warm-up djing break...
that set the standard (the guardian guide called it "hugely underrated") and, in '93, jeff went on to create
planet of sound, london's first non-dance all-nighter, at the 1500-capacity bagley's warehouse. that led,
from '94-'96, to the inspired, monthly club x all-nighters at the astoria & la2, followed (when venue
management demanded the club x name from him, with menaces) by the even-bigger, three-room,
triple-x all-nighters at brixton academy and the rocket, in '97.
jeff then promoted & djed sputnik at the monarch/barfly, on fridays from '97-'03. regularly recommended
in time out, "club of the week" in both hot tickets ("it is [a] determination not to conform that makes
sputnik such fun...") & nme ("a boozy mix of... breakbeats & new indie... as ever, unmissable."), sputnik
played breaks, beats, mixes & blisteringly-new indie with equal abandon. amongst its many guest djs
were soulwax, playing their second-ever london dj set, even as people still queued outside...
meanwhile, jeff also did regular slots at the legendary wag club's cigarettes & alcohol ("a gem of a club.
the anything-goes music policy seems to extend to the crowd. beware booze, late-night snogs and
women with mischief on their minds" - hot tickets), casino royale ("clubland royalty" - time out) and other
uk nights such as brighton's original rockers and venues as diverse as the dogstar, scala, powerhaus,
hammersmith palais, forum...
there have also been uk festival appearances, notably in the phoenix festival's 'second stage' tent for 2
years, where guerilla-flyposting each time ensured a capacity crowd and an encore after the official
curfew, plus a set at a volkswagen beetle festival!
but it's not just the uk... since '93, jeff has been around europe - italy, spain, denmark, germany - to spin
tunes. in italy, he had a long-running slot at xplosiva - one of italy's top 5 "leftfield" dance nights, with
other guests such as jeff mills, in spain, he's done the balearic thing in palma, notoriously ending his set
at '02's isladencanta festival (other artists included oasis, david holmes, tiga...) by setting the decks on
fire!