Calvin Harris at Gatecrasher

Date: Sat 25th Sep
Time: 22:00

Calvin Harris Saturday 25th September

After a mamouth sell out New Year show in Gatecrasher Birmingham and a phenominal show at Ultra! Gatecrasher the king of electropop, Calvin Harris returns for an unmissable event that is guarenteed to blow you away!
"What I’m into at the moment", says Calvin Harris, "is the idea of stadium dance. Playing football stadiums with massive riffs, big hands-in-the-air rave anthems.

The whole ‘minimal’ thing has passed, for me."A bold ambition, but such boldness is justifiable, coming from a man who ascended from the bedroom to the big time in the blink of an eye. At least, that’s how it appeared from the outside, back there in 2007.He may have barely turned 23 when he first hit the charts, but Calvin Harris had been making music, legend has it, since the age of 15 on an old Amiga computer in the Scottish town of Dumfries, when he wasn’t stacking shelves at the local Marks & Spencer."It seems like I came from nowhere" Harris admits, "but it didn’t feel like that for me. I had a successful record after having lots of unsuccessful records…"These early recordings, for the benefit of trainspotters, include the single "Da Bongos"/"Brighter Days" under the name Stouffer on the Prima Facie label in 2002, and a track called "Let Me Know" with singer Ayah (on the Unambombers’ Electric Soul 2 compilation) in 2004.

It was when Harris hit upon what would become his trademark sound - irresistibly infectious dance-pop tunes built from juicy staccato synths and squelchy electro basslines - that he caught the public imagination, first with breakthrough anthem "Acceptable In The 80s" (given a release in March 2007 by Sony, who had clocked his growing popularity on Myspace), then the even bigger follow-up "The Girls", and then his non-stop houseparty of a debut album, I Created Disco.And that’s where the trouble began. If only he’d slipped a modest ‘Some’ between the third and fourth words of the album’s title, he may have deflected some of the haters.

Instead, Calvin’s attempt to bring a little playfulness and wit to the dance music scene was misunderstood as arrogance, and his tall tales of womanising with females of every shape and race and living the high life in Las Vegas were taken literally, despite the fact that they were written in his Scottish shelf-stacking days."A lot of people thought I was cocky, but it was just a bunch of songs that were entirely fictional. With songs like ‘The Girls‘, I think people thought I was trying to profess that I was actually doing those things. Unfortunately that wasn’t the case…"

Admission: Early Birds £10 /Standard £12/ Door £15

Gatecrasher

The Elite Building
2 Queen Street
Nottingham
NG1 2BL

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Calvin Harris

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