June 11th Sean Johnston – Hardway Bros

With Curious People Residents

David Hazell
Colin White
Charlie X2

Downstairs Is the Hustle Guys with Ben Pistor (Disco BloodBath)

http://www.curious-people.com/

Friday 11th June 2010

Upstairs
The Horse & Groom, Shoreditch
28 Curtain Road
London, United Kingdom

free before 11/£4 After

After our last party where Rik Moran (TOTHEBONE) shook the foundations with his eclectic mix of H.O.U.S.E and D.I.S.C.O we have decided to ask someone who we have admired through his excellent mixes.

Sean Johnston//Hardway Bros//Beard Science

Sean began his DJ’ing career at Hull’s notorious “Welly Club” playing a mixture of early Chicago House, Indie obscurities and Hip-Hop. A move to London in ’88 saw him involved in promoting parties at the infamous Clink St Studios, where the young Johnston met the likes of Steve Proctor and Andrew Weatherall. Steve invited him to play at his revered ‘Promised Land’ night at the Fitness Centre. This lead to a long association and residency at Proctor’s nights “Better Days” and “Disco Universe” over the next few years. During this time Sean was also a resident at both the rave mecca Club UK and the Leisure Lounge.

By ’93, Sean’s tastes were evolving to more underground techno sounds, forming Flash Faction alongside his buddies Rich Johnstone and Jake Davies (later engineer to William Orbit, Bjork and Madonna). They soon became signed to Weatherall’s Sabres of Paradise label and surreally, in the space of two weeks, the band were interviewed in the Melody Maker, NME, and The Face.

After a DJ gig at the seminal “Sabresonic”, Sean’s DJ’ing (a high octane mixture of Detroit Techno and tracky Chicago numbers) was in high demand and residencies all over London and notably at Sean McCluskey’s “Complex” followed. Aside from London gigs Sean was guesting at clubs across Europe and running his own label Flashcomm.

More recently Sean’s tastes have diversified and his current sets take in Disco, Balearic, House and a fair sprinkling of techno. In recent years he has become involved with Trackwerk (the online mix hosting collective) and has proved to be a reliable stand-in for Bill Brewster on Ministry of Sound Radio. He has sat in many times for Bill’s long running show “The Far Side” and proved himself to be an entertaining radio presenter.

Recent DJ’ing includes a memorable session on the roof of the Downtown Standard Hotel in LA, the Tate Gallery St Ives, a raucous party in a Bristol Pub for influential bloggers TAPE, warming up for Weatherall at East Village and a sold out Disco Bloodbath with JG Wilkes of Optimo.

Sean has recently secured a residency at James Baillie’s new venture “Future Flash” at soon to open London club Cable which will see him developing his Acid Disco sound.

The Hardway Bros is a relatively recent production vehicle centering around Sean and his former Flash Faction compadre Jake Davies (now relocated to LA and working with uber engineer Spike Stent) and mysterious South Londoner Rico. Initally a re-edit project the Bros are now releasing original productions.

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