The day after Valentine’s Day. Decided to go to dance up a storm at Mercury Lounge. The event was called Bass Camp North presents V. (The theme was vampire) DJs that was playing was Sokotta and Return of the Jaded. Proceeds from the event went to Rainbow Brick Road in support of the sponsorship process. …
Shamelessly enough I had to go to Algonquin Commons Theatre to check out DJ Pauly D and Teddy Rose. There was nothing happening that night so why not? It was quite something and I will leave at that. At least Pauly D made it in Ottawa or at least pass the border. Anyways check out …
Attended the shoe launch and exhibition party for Raised by Wolves and Saucony Originals at Cinqhole on January 17, 2020. A celebration of their first collaboration of their shoe called the AYA “Asphalt Jungle”. There was an installation by Simon Petepiecef and photos on the wall by Nathan Lang. It was a great time for …
Mercury Lounge turned 23 years old on November 2, 2019. Every year they hold their annual Epic Red Party to help celebrate with past/present residents DJ since 1996. This year was residents Trevor Walker, T-23 AKA Andrew Pakuts and Balu Adamowicz. There was a late night live percussion by Philippe Lafreniere of Soul Jazz Orchestra …
A Tribe Called Red‘s Bear Witness did a solo DJ set at Babylon Nightclub. It was the last Oh My Jams presented by The Queer Mafia. Fun dancing to his music on a crazy packed Saturday night! Partial proceeds of the event went to Ten Oaks Project and Ottawa Dyke March.
Mercury Lounge held their annual German Sparkle Party on April 5, 2019.Framework Music‘s 8th Anniversary Extravaganza and the theme was The Glitter Fantastic. All the way from San Francisco was DJ Eli Wilkie. Fun night of people all dressed up and over sparkly, flashy, glittery decoration
Kid Koala stopped by Black Squirrel Books on January 30, 2019. Despite the winter vortex Ottawa is dealing with, people actually came out to this. It was to celebrate the release of ‘Music To Draw To: io’ which came out on January 25, 2019. While not really a show-show, this free show was mostly for …
Mercury Lounge turned 22 years old on November 3, 2018. Every year they hold their annual Epic Red Party to help celebrate with past/present residents DJ since 1996: Trevor Walker, Lance Baptiste, Jeff Laprate and Balu It was a wonderful night of dancing and celebrating a great venue in the market.
Eduardo Brechó from São Paulo, Brazil played a wonderful DJ set at Mercury Lounge on September 8, 2018. Mixing Afro-Brazilian Soul, Disco, Brazilian rare grooves, Yoruba & Candonblé tracks to get people dancing on the dancefloor. Trevor Walker Random images
Photos from Open Air Social Club on August 2, 2018.
With DJs JFun, Wasa Bibi and Ski Sheik