Bobbysix.com's End of Year Review 2011 - 25ThC

In the latest of the Bobbysix.com End Of Year Review series, which will culminate in a grand announcement of the overall winners later this week, 25ThC - or Christos to those of us that know him intimately - tells us what has been floating his boat in 2011:

Top 5 albums
1. Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 - BEASTIE BOYS
2. From Africa With Fury Rise - SEUN KUTI
3. Battle for Seattle - LITTLE ROY
4. Hotel Shampoo - GRUFF RHYS
5. King of Limbs - RADIOHEAD

Top 5 gigs
1. Amon Tobin - HMV Forum, London
2. DJ Shadow - Dome, Brighton
3. Quantic and his Combo Barbara -  Scala, London
4. Jehst - Fabric, London
5. Rodney P + Skitz - Concorde 2, Brighton

Top 5 TV shows
1. Angry Boys

 

2. Dexter

3. Frozen Planet
4. Top Boy
5. Choosing To Die

Highlight of the year.
That Channel 4 and E4 have finally stopped showing Friends after 16 years!

2011 in words
The year that everyone really started to realise what a bind money and lack of it can be.

Prediction for 2012 That our world may well change beyond our comprehension come 21st December 2012 and the end of the Mayan calender.

25ThC - Contributor

As well as loving a diverse range of music, 25ThC is also an excellent photographer and DJ. He is the founder of the legendary Funky Junk nights.

Funky Junk!

Last Saturday, Funky Junk returned to Eastbourne in the South East of England to take up monthly residence at The Dew Drop Inn. The night is the brainchild of the awesome 25THC (above) and offers something for everyone, with DJs mixing a diverse collection of music including ska, dub, funk, reggae, hip hop and afrobeat.

Last weekend, Bobby Six (above) was honoured to be the special guest, and set about providing an hour of rock 'n' roll before 25THC ramped it up with a mash-up that featured some sick hip-hop and dubstep while segueing some old school Prodigy, some Hendrix and even the Murder She Wrote theme tune. True story. 

For details of upcoming Funky Junks, keep an eye on 25THC's blog.

Bobby Six's English DJing debut - this Saturday!

Having spun tunes in many of Sydney's coolest venues, Bobby Six will be making an excited English debut behind the wheels of steel this weekend, playing some old school rock 'n' roll at Eastbourne's Dew Drop on Saturday. Providing some ska, dub, funk, reggae, hip hop, afrobeat and dubstep are Rocspin and the legend that is 25THC.

Come along for a drink and a dance. Full details at the facebook event page.

A year in film...

A Year In Film is the debut solo photographic exhibition by Christos Christou and features double exposures, film swaps and cross processing.

Christos is an Eastbourne-based photographer who uses 35mm film and a range of classic and new analogue cameras. His first exhibition showcases some of the techniques he has been employing, such as taking a picture of an everyday image like a telephone kiosk, then rotating the camera 180 degrees and taking another shot before winding on the film. What is created is abstract and until the film is processed there is no way of knowing how whether it has worked. Another technique is film-swapping. Christos invites Flickr users to shoot a roll of 35mm film, then rewind without processing and send it to him. He then, without knowing what is on the film, shoots the entire roll again.

Christos' exhibition takes place at Okto in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England from Thursday 8th July until 8th August.

To see more of Christos' work, check his Flickr stream.