Dear Friends:
This show will be one of Pleazure's last events, if not the last. It has been a long strange trip from the first small after-hours I threw in 1996 to the booming rave scene 97-01 to the club scene of 2001-04. I want to say farewell in this event because this embodies everything that I was passionate about in dance music: unique progression. I spent my entire career trying to get Laurent Garnier to Atlanta and it only seems fitting that after almost 8 years, I officially hang up my hat at this event.
So please come out this Thursday and pay your respect to a legend that you are so blessed to have an opportunity to hear. And thank you for all your years of support!
Thursday April 29th -
LAURENT GARNIER w/ special guest:
GREG ADAMSON
Doors at 10:00pm
Thursday April 29th 2004 - yes this month, for sure, all papers in order!!
We at Pleazure & The Crescent Room are proud to have hosted some big shows in a little room over the last year, from Deep Dish to Lee Burridge, Mark Farina to Roni Size, but, THIS SHOW is the apex of it all........
LAURENT GARNIER, the legendary Frenchman, eighth wonder of the world and all around musical genius plays The Crescent Room for what is sure to be a legendary evening of house, disco, funk, TECHNO and everything in between for one night only in his first ever Atlanta and extremely rare stateside appearance!!
A former staffer at the embassy in London, Frenchman Laurent Garnier began DJing in Manchester during the late '80s and became by the following decade one of the best all-around DJs in the world, able to span classic deep house and Detroit techno, the harder side of acid/trance and surprisingly jazzy tracks as well. He added production work to his schedule in the early '90s, and recorded several brilliant LPs with a similar penchant for diversity. One of the first Europeans to begin mixing American house music in Britain, Garnier was one of the prime cogs in the late-'80s Madchester scene. His DJing at Manchester's legendary Haçienda club provided a major inspiration for the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays to begin adding house rhythms to rock music. Garnier shifted his attention back to France in the early '90s, running the Wake Up club in Paris for three years and gradually moving into recording as well. For the FNAC label, Garnier released "French Connection" and the Bout de Souffle EP; after the label went under, though, he formed the F Communications label with Eric Morand (a friend who had also worked for FNAC). He had amassed quite a discography by the mid-'90s, but his first LP Shot in the Dark wasn't launched until 1995. His second, 30, appeared in 1997, followed by the retrospective Early Works. After trotting the globe with multiple DJ appearances during the late '90s, Garnier returned to the production realm with Unreasonable Behaviour, released in early 2000.
Doors will be at 10:00pm and we will be teaming up with UMIX for some special giveaways so stay tuned to www.umix.net and if you are not already on it, then get on The Crescent Room e-mail list for special e-mail only giveaways. A limited amount of $10 pre-sale tickets are now available at www.ticketalternative.com so don't miss out! Give us a ring at 404-875-5252 or get on the e-mail list at www.thecrescentroom.com for more info..