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Ballagroove FUNKY ZOO at Mannifest 2010 Saturday Night

Come and join us for our BIG FANCY DRESS PARTY WITH LOADS OF COOL BANDS on Saturday @ Mannifest !

Fancy Dress theme is 'FUNKY ZOO' - NO EXCUSES - its easy £1.99 for an animal mask from the shop in Douglas, a funky shirt and some dancin feet, its all you need, on the other hand you could dress as an octopus, or a sloth, or a monkey - the choice is yours, just dress up like a funky animal and join in the fun

Line up is as follows;
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12.00 (ha ha, thereabouts) BALLAGROOVE AND ROTTEN PLANET DJ's

Soundtracks, Childrens Music, Deep Rumbling Dub, Japanese Screamcore, Welsh Psych Folk, Slovakian Minamilist Beats, Transylvanian Jazz Boogie .... you knows it - it'll be unpredictable

4.30 SAMBAMANN

Top Drawer Manx Samba Band, great way to start the party

5.00 'INGIE

One man band bringing the beats to make yo shake yo ass !, expect Dubby stuff thats great to frug to

6.00 CHRIS T-T

Solo musician and Troubadour, he can make you cry, make you think and make you laugh all in the space of one song - he's a legend

7.20 TRASH 5

Stand well back from the stage, these guys are loud, 60's tinged garage mayhem - joyous !

8.15 SPACE MONKEY

Everybodies favourite Psych Reggae Freeform Dance band on the Island, if you don't dance to this you are dead

9.00 FONDA 500

We are soooo excited to be bringing you one of the best bands in Britain, impossible to describe but you will love them and you'll go out and buy all their albums after you've heard them

10.00 BALLAGROOVE DJs

Expect the unexpected ... and the expected .. and everything inbetween, we want to make you dance but we don't play dance music, well we might play a bit, but we might not, who knows ;-)

12.00 WOMBLE CONGA (hush hush)

Ballagroove TT Party – Senior Race Day (Friday 11 June 2010) – Space Monkey, Trash 5 and Ballagroove DJ’s – FREE ENTRY PLUS FREE CD

Jun
11
7:00 pm

You know you'll be bored of sweaty leather clad grandads screeching 'All Right Now' for the 1000th time by senior race day, so come along and get some light relief at The Claree (South Quay, Douglas, by the Bus Terminal) with Top Local Live Acts - Space Monkey and Trash 5, plus Ballagroove DJ's playing all sorts of crazy shit - its FREE to get in and you will get a FREE CD - Music starts at 7pm, be there or claim your'e tired and need some sleep cause its the end of TT week - DON'T BE A LIGHTWEIGHT !

Trash 5 / This Years Winner is / DJ Buggane Claree, Douglas 26th March – FREE

Mar
26
8:00 pm

 

Plus DJ Hairy Man Baby / Buggane / Gyp DJing tunes you'll probably hate ;-)

Respect the Egg – Ballagroove Easter Fancy Dress Party

Apr
3
8:00 pm

DJ's Pencil and Hairy Man Baby (Toots and Gyp) ;-)

Bay Sessions – Friday 26th February

Feb
26
10:00 pm

Punk Night ?, Indie Night ?, Rock Night ?, Electro Night ?, Funk Night ?, Reggae Night ?

Come along and find out !

Free Entry

10pm till Late

DJ Fionn

NB Not a ballagroove event, just a plug for our mate Fionn

Jurby Alive 3 – January 30th 2010 – Trash 5, Space Monkey !!!

Jan
30
7:30 pm

Ballagroove ‘Traa-dy-Liooar’ New Year’s Eve Millenium Party (10 years late)

Dec ’09
31
8:30 pm

Ballagroove NYE 2009 PosterBallagroove 'Traa-dy-Liooar' New Year's Eve Millenium Party (10 years late)

Bay Port Erin

FREE ENTRY

50's-60's-70's-80's-90's Fancy Dress

Ballagroove DJ's playing select tunes from the 50's-60's-70's-80's-90's

8.30pm—1am

Come along and see in 2010 in style!

Jurby Alive 2!

Jan
2
7:00 pm

Jurby Alive 2

After the huge success of the last 'Jurby Alive' event , which raised enough money to pay for the Jurby Kids Xmas party :-) , the 2nd one is to be held on January 2nd – just enough time to recover and get some sleep after New Year's Eve at The Bay Port Erin (Ballagroove DJs, more details soon).

Bands for the night are: Smealiean Race, Caution Runners, Jurby Mountain Daredevils and Brian Brough. And we're pretty sure Grant Trash will be spinning some tunes between bands.

It's 'BRING YOUR OWN BEER' and only TWO QUID to get in, so you'll need a good excuse not to go!

Reggae Night – Sub Zero – 30th October

Oct ’09
30
8:00 pm

Reggae Night Nov 2009

Top Reggae Man Shaun Hogg is doing one of his Reggae spectaculars at Sub Zero on fri 30th October, he'll be spinning classic Roots Rock Reggae , Dub , Ska & all reggae linked music . FREE ENTRY & open till late .

Trash 5 and Dr Q and The Evil Empire – Traf 31st October Hop Tu Naa Party

Oct ’09
31
7:30 pm

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The very, very wonderful Trash 5 are playing at the Trafalgar, North Quay, Douglas on Hop Tu Naa (Saturday 31st October), support is from Dr Q and The Evil Empire (who we have to admit to not knowing anything about, but they're bound to be cool), there is DJ's and its FANCY DRESS !!!

Bring ear plugs, wear fake blood, bug out