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Thank you thank you to those of you who brought a ticket for the COR Disco Bus to Vintage and a big apology to those of you who missed out.

The plan has finally been finalised for Sat 14^th Aug and we can now share it with you.

The pick up point in Southsea to leave for the Vintage Fest will be The Little Johnny Russells.

Get there for 12noon and have a glass of vino on us. Just show them your disco bus ticket.

The COR Disco leaves LJR at 1pm on the button. We can’t wait for anyone past this time because we wanna see Mick DJ and he starts at 1:30pm. If you’re not there to leave at 1pm, you’ve missed the bus.  So make sure you get there before then!

For the return journey, the bus will be leaving at 2am.

Again, you gotta make sure you’re at the bus before 2am if you wanna catch it home. It’s your responsibility to be there if you need it. Both Tim and I won’t be in any fit state sort anything out by that time so please, if you need to get home on the bus, make sure you’re there before 2am. It’s a long walk home!

Think that’s about it for now. Looking forward to this bigtime, gonna be a belter of a day. Hope the weather stays good!

See you at the LJR’s for glass of vino before we set off and if anyone has any other questions before then, just give us a shout (hello@c-o-r.co.uk) .

Big Love.

The COR parties, after just the two and a half years of kicking out quality underground disco knees ups are now a bit of a Southsea fave.

But the COR parties themselves only happen every once in a while. Boo.

The COR parties are all about the drama. Every time we put one on we want it to be a pantomime, over the top and a bit of an occasion. But even with the elaborate décor, projections and sound systems, the CORE of COR is the music. Pure, unadulterated, underground disco, house and balearia, all served up by the 7 COR ressies.

We are so very lucky at COR to have such a tight crew at the centre of The Civilisation Of the Rough. Every single member of the COR fam have a deep seeded love for disco and understand it’s influence on the other music we love.

But even though we all share this love of disco, we all have our own takes on how and what we play. From the old to the new, the upfront to the dubby, from the housey to the Balearic, there a 7 different DJs who each have their own take on disco that completely complements the rest of the group. Perhaps this is why the COR parties have been so popular? Who knows.

Anyway, although the COR parties only take place once in a while, the COR ressies are always up to something else in and around Southsea town and beyond.

Just this weekend our disco ambassador Matt Seeney was working his disco magic on a side project ‘Unicorn Dream presents Sparklehouse’ at The Hobby Horse in London.  He can also be found on a regular basis spinning discs at the Brick Lane fav The Big Chill Bar.

The weekend before last, our COR disco vets Big Mick Hood and the south coast ledge Steve Laming were hosting yet another of their wonderful Mirrorball soirées across the water in Gosport. Keep your ears pricked for more Mirrorball coming back to Southsea village for bank hol blow out too.

As if Mick doesn’t get enough of a work out on Mirrorball duty, he has been invited personally by Greg Wilson to play at the wonderful Vintage Festival at Goodwood in a couple of weeks time, Sat 14^th Aug. What an honor, and testament to the quality to this disco vets skills, not to mention his gargantuan collection of original disco pressings.

Along side Mirrorball, Steve is also busy with the occasional visit up down London town to spin some of his finest cuts at ‘The Soul Night Out’ with old funk brother Owen Wasington.

Leon Windsor, our resident Balearic aficionado is spending a lot of time in the studio of late. If he’s not creating or remixing aural deliciousness under his Ladysmith or Hush Money guises (check the COR album coming very soon!) he’s working relentlessly with old production chum Triggs on their latest and greatest projects.

Another studio project taking shape at the mo is a collaboration between disco vet Steve Laming and COR gob Mark Persaud. Rumour has it they will be returning to the studio imminently to add the finishing touches to their first track, a chuggy disco floor burner they are just itching to air.

Mark (under the guise of ‘Who is Dave Balard?’) is also tied up at the moment with COR stable mate Rosko Siffredi in putting the finishing touches to their new club night foray away from COR, ‘The Carbaret Voltaire’, which brings their love of all things house and disco colliding head first to produce deep, dubby, disco et house vibe on a monthly basis.

So, as you can see, lots going on with the COR boys over and above the wonderful COR parties themselves.

If you love COR and you love the music, keep you eye on what else is coming out of the COR stable and get involved. You don’t have to wait until the next COR party to get your underground disco fix.

Sign up on the COR site http://C-O-R.CO.UK to be kept up to date on all things disco, not just from COR, but from all the COR Fam are up to and more.

You can also follow us on twitter http://twitter.com/cor_disco and of course our respective faceache groups :

COR – http://facebook.c-o-r.co.uk

Mirrorball – http://bit.ly/8Y1uIt

The Cabaret Voltaire – http://bit.ly/aesavp

Thanks for reading, get involved! Until next time, Big Love.

If you hadn’t already heard, COR have hired a 1950′s Route Master double decker bus to take us up to the brand new and wonderful VINTAGE FESTIVAL on Sat 14th August – And we want YOU to come with us! Check our earlier post for all the details. This is just a quick post to updated you all on the tickets and prices.

Tickets Available Now!

Tickets for the COR disco double decker are £15. They’re available now, as always from COR HQ – Head Hairdressing, 53 Albert Rd (Spk to Uncle Tim, he’ll sort you out). Day Tickets for the Vintage Festival are £55. HOWEVER, when you buy your COR Disco Bus ticket, Uncle Tim will give you a Vintage discount voucher that will give you a massive 25% off your Vintage ticket. That means you can get your COR disco bus ticket AND your Vintage festival ticket for just £56. The 25% discount vouchers are valid until 4th June and the COR Disco Double Decker has only 60 seats, so get yourself to Head ASAP if you’re planning on coming along! There’s already been a lot of interest so don’t sleep on this if you wanna ticket. I really hope you can make it, this is gonna be really special day and this festival looks set to really shake up what we’ve come to expect from our UK festivals. Really, check out their website to see what they have planned, it will have you raring to get involved. Promise! http://www.vintageatgoodwood.com/ Keep you eye on COR for more info as it unfolds… - Faceache Listing - Full Details in Previous Post All at COR Towers are VERY excited about this one, hope you are too! Get Involved! Big Love.

COR have been kindly invited by the mighty DURTY SOUND SYSTEM to join them at The Wine Vaults for a bank holiday takeover to raise much needed funds for providing clean water in Uganda. Friend of COR and Durty Sound System main man, Monkey Paul, has given COR a room of our own to transform in to an underground disco wonderland fully equipped with a disco DF just waiting to be destroyed by all of the COR Family. One room, 7 COR DJ’s, it’s gonna quick fire at the helm, back to back and covering all corners of the underground disco spectrum from late 70′s disco and 80′s boogie to old school house and chuggy new stuff with some eclectic tastiness in between to fill in the gaps. Looking forward to this a lot – Thanks for getting us involved Durty Boys – Fookin excellent cause too.

Durty Sound System Present :

NO MORE DURTY WATER!

with the Civilisation Of the Rough.

Saturday 29th May 2010

End of May Bank Holiday

At The Wine Vaults

7:30pm til Late

Tickets are just £5 – All profit goes to ‘Bridge of Hope Children’s Ministry’ http://bohcm.org. (Reg charity No-1126408)

Check the DURTY SOUND SYSTEM faceache page for all the details and updates. Also, you can join the DURTY SOUND SYSTEM group by clicking here Well done Durty Sound System, this is gonna be a crackin way to spend a bank holiday! Big Love.

Mirrorball Disco Lounge and COR cohorts Mick Hood and Steve Laming return to their playing roots unifying the Portsmouth, Southsea, Gosport and Fareham soulful disco family with a small bank holiday party Upstairs at The Vine in Stoke Road, Gosport. Joining them will be COR’s very own superstar Matt Seeney bringing his inimitable energetic mix of all things disco and beyond. There will be a mix of old and new and Steve will be delivering a set straight from the old Black Velvet Soul and Funk Club 1978-1979 days laced with disco, soul and classic jazz funk. This is going to be a stormer so please get down early. For those coming from Pompey, there is a late night ferry running til 3am. Admission will be a £5 on the door. Click here to check the faceache group for all the details Gonna be a corker, get involved in the Bank Holiday Disco Funtimes. Big Love.

Hello Disco Bunnies and COR Scallies, it’s been a while, hope all is peachy with you! Unless you’ve been living in a cupboard for the last couple of months, you’ll probably have heard about the brand new festival taking place at Goodwood called VINTAGE. This shiny new festival looks absolutely ER-MAZE-IN!! This wonderful new festival takes place over 3 day and is a celebration of 5 decades of everything cool about British culture, from the music to fashion, film to art, you name it they got it covered. And it will be taking place pretty much on our doorstep! The whole festival looks absolutely incredible, just take a look at the amazing website they have set up when you have a few minutes to spare or when your bored at work, they really are pulling out ALL of the stops. So many different stages and areas covering pretty much every genre from the last 50 years, but the two stages that are getting us all VERY excited here at COR Towers are the Roller Disco Arena and the Warehouse. These two wonderful stages will be playing host to some of the most wonderful and influential disco and house DJ’s to have emerged from these fair shores. If you like COR, this will be right up your street, so much so that many of the legendary DJ’s we’ve had as guests at our little soirée by the sea will be putting in headline sets at Vintage!… Bill Brewster Ashley Beedle Michael Cook Greg Wilson …In fact, Greg Wilson is the curator for the Roller Disco and Warehouse stages and he has hand picked the pioneers who have built the amazing disco and house scenes and who have promoted some of the most legendary parties ever to have been hosted. This really will be an amazing weekend, I’m so excited I think I may pop. Check out the line up for the Roller Disco and the Warehouse here.

COR Are Going to Vintage – Wanna Come With Us??

That’s right, COR are hitting the road!! All aboard!! We’re hiring an old Route Master London bus to head to the Vintage Festival on Saturday 14th August and we would love you to join us! More details to follow shortly, but the plan is to leave Portsmouth around lunchtime from our two official pick up points – The King Street Tavern and The Little Johnny Russell. The party starts as soon as you step aboard our vintage double decker, with the COR ressies on hand to mix up a disco storm to while away the journey and get the party off to a flying start!! We’ll spend the day at the Vintage Festival, taking in all the wonderful sights and sounds on offer (Really, check the videos on the Vintage Website to get an idea of what they plan to do with the site – looks just amazing!) – Then, as night falls, we’ll make our way to the Roller Disco and Warehouse were none other than the legendary LOWLIFE (Frank Broughton and friends of COR Bill Brewster and Michael Cook!) will be in charge of the party time!! What a day to go! It’s gonna be big!! Oh, and if that weren’t enough for ya,  rumor has it that a one of COR’s larger disco vets will be taking control of the ones and twos at some point in the day – Watch this space for details! The night finishes at 2pm – We’ll make our way back to our beloved Southsea on the Route Master and hopefully find somewhere to have an afterparty!! What a day it will be. Oh yes, it will be fun. More detail to follow very soon and tickets will be available shortly from Uncle Tim at Head Hairdressing, 53 Albert Road, Southsea. Keep you eye on COR for more info as it unfolds. All at COR Towers are VERY excited about this one, hope you are too! Big Love.

Wow! What a party!! Just a quick one to say a super massive THANK YOU to everyone who made it along to the COR Great Easter Bonnet Boutique this Easter Sunday. It really was a COR of epic proportions and our VERY special guest, the wonderfully humble yet uber legend DJ ALFREDO literally owned the COR dance floor with his amazing Balearic musical journey he was happy to lead us through the night with. He really did live up to the hype, and more. This man is a wizard behind the turntables and rightly deserves his place in the history of House music. HE WAS JUST BRILLIANT!! The night was just brilliant. YOU LOT were just brilliant! This was one of the best COR soirées yet! Such an er-maze-in effort on the bonnets, and outfits, too! Mr and Mrs Parmiter had a VERY difficult time with the judging and took quite some time to deliberate over who should win the Prize. Well, there was a trip to Ibiza at stake here!! A huge thanks to the Parmiters for volunteering themselves for such a difficult task, rather them than me! Also, a huge thanks for such a generous donation toward this wonderful first prize, we really wouldn’t have been able to offer a prize of this magnitude without your generosity. Thank you! The winners were announced at the party, but we will post pics of the winning headgear on this site very shortly incase you missed it. To mark this very special occasion and huge success of DJ ALFREDO coming to visit our lil club night by the sea, we will be printing a VERY limited run of t-shirts featuring the ‘DJ Alfredo – 2010: a balearic odyssey‘ artwork, based on the original artwork from DJ Alfredo’s favourite film and source of inspiration ‘2001 : a space odyssey‘. The run will be very short indeed, just 10 t-shirts, making these a bit of a collectors item. To bag yourself one of these hot tees, drop us a line with your size here. They will be just £20 each. The photos of this wicked night are now available for your viewing pleasure on the COR website – Click here to take you to the Gallery page. You can also see these snaps on the COR Flickr page – Just click our shiny new Flickr button to the top right of the page to be taken to our Flickr photos. These wonderful snaps are care of friend of COR Dean Howard from Centro Design. Big big Thank You for coming along and for all your help Dean, muchly appreciated!

♥ Click Here for the Photos ♥

That’s bout it for now. Enjoy the snaps, they’ll be more to follow shortly and if you have any snaps of the night you’d like to share on the COR website, click here to drop us a line! Thanks again for making this an unforgetable night – COR Loves you! Big Love.

Sooo excited about this one! Can’t believe this weekend has come round already!! Happy Easter All, hope to see you all on Sunday for COR’s one and only GREAT EASTER BONNET BOUTIQUE!! Don’t forget, there’s for the best Easter Bonnet – Make sure you get to a trip to Ibiza up for grabsthe venue for 6pm for the judging if you wanna be in with a chance!!

COR Presents…

THE GREAT EASTER BONNET BOUTIQUE!!

2010: A Balearic Odyssey

with the original Ibizian Legend

DJ ALFREDO

Easter Sunday, 4th April. 6pm-1am

Big prizes for the Best Bonnets

First Prize is a

3 NIGHT TRIP TO IBIZA FOR 2!!

All profit goes to the Haiti Fund

Hopefully see you on the floor! Big Love.

So, where’s the secret location of the Great Easter Bonnet Boutique with Ibizan ledge DJ Alfredo this Easter Sunday?? You probably guess from the picture, COR are taking over The Kings in Albert Road. And it’s not just the upstairs club space we have, oh no. We have the whole place, upstairs and down. We will be turn the whole venue in to a full on underground night club, with decor that pays a chunky nod to 2001 : a space odyssey. You won’t recognise the place. This will be our very own 2010 : a balearic odyssey! We will be bringing in our own er-maze-in sound rigs for both upstairs and down, you will not be disappointed with the sound. We have also hired 2 huge air con machines to draw the hot air out of the upstairs plus two giant fans to keep you all cool. We are all so very excited about this one here at COR Tower and we are pulling out ALL of the stops to make this our best party yet! DJ Alfredo, birthday boy Rosko and mixing boy Leon Windsor will be playing upstairs, boss man Percy Fox, disco vet Steve Laming and Mark Persaud will be manning the disco DF downstairs. Plently of hands in the air moments await. Get to the secret location for 6pm if you wanna get your bonnet in with a chance of winning the 3 nights trip to Ibiza. Cannot wait for this one, it’s gonna be big. Get involved. See you on the floor. With your bonnet. Big Love.

It’s whatever you want it to be!

Anything goes.

Go mental!

Really, anything goes, just get creative and you’ll be in with a winning chance! We used the strap line ‘Balearic Easter Space Bonnet‘ cos… We have the Ibizian legend that is DJ ALFREDO coming to whip us up into a Balearic frenzy and, of course, we are giving away 3 nights in Ibiza for 2 as the first prize for the best bonnet (Balearic) It’s Easter (Easter) The theme for this year’s Great Easter Bonnet Boutique is DJ Alfredo’s favourite film ‘2001 : a space odyssey‘. Expect some top notch space odyssey decór for the Easter Party of the Year. Blast off! (Space) It’s gonna be a bonnet!! (Bonnet) Just don’t forget, your bonnet can be WHAT EVER you want it to be!! Just make it look fabulous and you will be well in with a chance to win the wonderful 3 night trip to Ibiza for 2! Just wish I could enter!! Can’t wait to see what you wonderfully creative lot come up with, last year’s efforts where just er-maz-in, I’m sure you’re gonna smash it this year!

Don’t Forget

To be eligible for your bonnet to be the winner you need to be at the Secret Venue for 6pm so that the competition photographer can take a snap of your beautifully crafted millinery between 6 and 6:30. The snaps then go off to Mr Albert Road himself, Ian Parmiter, who picks a winner and that winner will be revealed later that night during all the disco Balearic space fun. If you’ve not got your ticket yet, there is still time! There are still some available, although not very many and they are going quickly. Just pop into Head Hairdressing, 53 Albert Road, or tap up one of the COR ressies (click here).

COR Presents…

THE GREAT EASTER BONNET BOUTIQUE!!

2010: A Balearic Odyssey

with the original Ibizian Legend

DJ ALFREDO

Easter Sunday, 4th April. 6pm-1am

Big prizes for the Best Bonnets

First Prize is a

3 NIGHT TRIP TO IBIZA FOR 2!!

All profit goes to the Haiti Fund

Hopefully see you Easter Sunday for a right royal disco balearic knees up!! Soooo, excited!! Big Love.