DJ Funk Boutique

Friday 10th March

DJ Funk Boutique has been spinning for ten years now, her debut gig being in front of ten thousand revellers at the legendary illegal Blackburn Warehouse parties. She has worked with Mr Scruff on several occasions and co wrote "The Haunted swing" EP under the name Squid Patrol for Delancey Street Records. Last year saw the release of "The Funk Boutique" featuring DJ Funk Boutique and Duncan Prestbury (ex Jazz Defectors) under the name Gravity's Rainbow which reached no 16 in DJ mag's Breaks 'n' Beats chart. Gravity's Rainbow have also been working with Vocalist Loretta Heywood (ex Bomb The Bass) remixing "The Air You Breathe" and working on two new tracks scheduled for release this year, along with DJ Funk Boutique's debut EP. Highlights for 1999 were: The Glastonbury Festival (back stage dance tent) Back again this year. Ninjatunes Yes Mate@ Mass, Brixton Chocolate City, The Blue Mountain Club, Bristol. Lizard festival with Finger Lickin' and Areeba! Records. Return To The Source, London Funk't @ mass, Brixton Sugar, Leamington Spa Funk Boutique also runs her own Night Humbug which celebrated its Fifth Birthday last November at Holy City Zoo and continues to be one of Manchester's most Innovative club nights, boasting such guests as 808 State, Wai Wan, Mr Scruff, Una Bombers (Electric Chair), The Runaways and the fastest rapper in the west JC 001.