No work on Monday means Whoa! on a Sunday.

Nobody likes a Monday......unless it's a bank holiday monday and there is no work.

Oh yes, Sunday 4th April sees Say Whoa! do what it does best and have a big ol' knees up on a Sunday night to celebrate the fact there is no work the next day.

Last years bank holiday parties were possibly our biggest and best, please check the videos below if proof is needed, and this year we return to do it all again.

This party will see Say Whoa! get back to its best so expect bubbles, sweets, glowsticks, decor, a very drunk Captain Kerk and some damn fine music.

For more details and to RSVP click here. See you at the bar!

It's us, we're back!

Thats right, after a couple of months off finding Nemo and our inner peace we return to MONO for a night of fun where it all began back in August 2008.

As ever you can trust whoa djs i-Dope, R-Kid, Doc McCoy & Ratzi to be spinning all the freshest tracks the world has to offer alongside all the old gems you love to hear. There'll be electro, bmore, mash ups, remixes, fidget, dubstep, disco, hip hop, 2 step, garage, crack house and any other genres that are given names in the next week........you know, stuff that makes you dance a lot. No JLS or N Dubz though, not even a remix!

It all kicks off at 8pm, costs just £2 after 10pm and will go until 2am.

So if you like to dance and have a drink or two we'll see you at the bar.............then the dancefloor!

We bring you... WHOA! STOCK: A NYE 09/10 Boutique Festival Experience

This year sees the 40th anniversary of the birth of the festival of festivals, Woodstock. To celebrate, this New Years Eve, Mono Bar and Rhino Club are teaming up with us here at Say Whoa to put on Southampton's premier boutique festival experience in the heart of the city, without the sound restrictions, the mud and all at an affordable price. You can expect and intimate and friendly club experience, with a big room carnival party atmosphere.

We've worked hard to put on an eclectic selection of music so there is something for everyone to enjoy. The vast soundscape will include classic hip-hop, soul, funk, boogie, mash ups, party breaks, electro, house, fidget, Baltimore club, dubstep and everything in between. This will be spread across two venues and four stages with plenty of entertainment bridging them all in true festival style.

This is a brand new and fresh approach to New Year celebrations in Southampton and we can't wait to share it with you.

Here is a little taster of what you can expect:

❚❚❚❚❚❚ MONO ❚❚❚❚❚❚ 8pm - 3am
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The Above Mono Stage: What Time Is It?
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Upstairs in Mono will be transformed into the Boogie Suite, equipped with fresh decor, visualz and the rotating disco ball.

What Time Is It? resident selectors The Wolf and Funky MF will be joined by Mr Muffle and DJ Yogi as they dig through their collections for a night of Past, Present, Future Hip Hop, Soul, Funk & Boogie.

Keepin the Funk alive from '85!

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Mono Main Stage
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Kicking off the party vibe from 8pm DJs Alex the Kidd, Envious Mind, Cluffy and Trucko will be serving up a whole host of musical styles from hip-hop anthems, mash ups, party breaks, electro a little later on and much, much more.


❚❚❚❚❚❚ RHINO ❚❚❚❚❚❚ 10pm - 6am
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Rhino Main Stage: SAY WHOA!
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Come and see in 2010 with your favourite party people. With Doc McCoy, R-Kid, i-Dope and newest member of the team, Ratzi providing a cracking soundtrack, black lit dance floor, lazers, smoke and that good ol' say whoa party atmosphere this New Years Eve is set not to be a let down.

WHAT WE LIKE TO PLAY:
Electro/ Baltimore Club/ Fidget/ Dubstep/ Mash Ups/ Party Breaks/ 80's + more from the likes of:

Daft Punk • Diplo • A-Trak • Justice • Herve • Treasure Fingers • Sammy Bananas • Busy P • DJ Medhi • The Prodigy • Simian Mobile Disco • Skream • Erol Alkan • Ocelot • Crookers • The Chemical Brothers • MGMT • Machines Don't Care • Fake Blood • Jokers of the Scene • Trevor Loveys • LCD Soundsystem • Boys Noize • Chromeo • Uffie • 2 Many DJ's • New Order • Cut Copy • Van She • Dizzee Rascal • Chase & Status • Caspa • Rusko • Benga • Mr. Oizo • Digitalism • Yo Majesty • Sebastian Tellier • Stanton Warriors • Empire of the Sun • Kill the Noise • Tittsworth • Top Billin • The Count of Monte Cristal • Armand Van Helden • Foamo • Major Lazer • Mylo • La Roux • Friendly Fires • Sinden • Siriusmo • Surkin • Alex Metric • Soulwax • Deadmau5... And everything in between!

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... And Friends Stage
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*** If you are interested in playing a set on the night, send ‘Say Whoa!’ a message on Facebook and we’ll get right back to you ***

Say Whoa is all about bringing people together and with this in mind they have created the ‘... and friends stage’. This stage, located downstairs in Rhino Club, is an audio lottery as the lineup is as broad as a bean. We’ve pulled in all our close friends who also happen to be great DJ’s to play a set each of their favourite music spanning a vast array of genres. Already on the bill we have Back 2 Basics resident and party master Ben Owens. We are also very excited to have Deejay Budd coming down to play a seriously cheese free hip hop set digging out all that good stuff from around '92.

❚❚❚❚ THE MARKETPLACE ❚❚❚❚
Located behind the Rhino Main Stage, you’ll find our magical little marketplace. Here you can get yourselves a whole host of goodies including cakes, your face painted, fancy dress/ accessories, free energy drink after 3am, glow sticks and a few more surprises!

❚❚❚❚ WINCHESTER STREET ❚❚❚❚
Connecting the two venues will be Winchester Street. We have a whole host of surprises for you including festival decor, lighting, a smoking area that will be second to none this year and loads more fun surprises and entertainment TBA.

We are still working on a few things but as soon as they are confirmed we will let you know.


❚❚❚❚ Tickets ❚❚❚❚
£15 before 20th December and more after.
Available from Mono, Rhino, Reskue & Addict store.

See you on the dance floor x

On A Boat Mutha Fucka!

That's right people, Say Whoa! is taking to the high seas for a halloween special. We have been drafted in by High Tide to take care of business on the lower deck for their halloween boat party.

To become part of our NEON SKELETON ARMY, get tickets and all the important info CLICK HERE!

Say Whoa! Presents: Masquerade Party 23/10/09

So, it's approaching that time of the month again to hear the bass and Say Whoa!

This month we're throwing a masquerade party because Doc McCoy watched Stanley Kubrick's 'Eye's Wide Shut' not too long ago and the repeated sex, spanking and drinking reminded him of Say Whoa! SO... We thought we'd throw to two together and make a night of it!

In preparation you can make a mask, buy a mask, pull that mask out of the back of your cupboard as anything goes. If you like your face more than your mask, bring it along anyway and wear it on the back of your head and as always, our resident face painter Nina, will be on hand to paint some slick designs all over your chevy chase! We're all about having a lot of fun here at Say Whoa to some beats, bleeps, synths, bass and bad ass acapellas so jump in and get involved!

As usual you can trust Say Whoa residents Doc McCoy, R-Kid and i-Dope to bring you the freshest new tracks as well as much loved classics with some mash ups, party breaks, fidget, dub step and more thrown in just for good measure. Glo sticks are available and Stacy the smoke machine will be back in full force to help transport you to a really ravey place.

So in summary, with great drink deals, cutting edge music and damn good vibes all for a few nuggets... You can't go wrong.

See you on the dancefloor.

For all information and to rsvp CLICK HERE

Time: 9pm - 2am

Venue: Orange Rooms, Southampton

Entry is £2 after 9pm and £3 after 10pm
Dress code: Masquerade (not mandatory but join the fun and throw caution to the wind)

It Was Bananas!!

So as you might have guessed from previous posts we had Sammy Bananas come and help us celebrate our 1st birthday on the 18th September. The hype was real and it WENT OFF! So a big thanks to Sammy for playing a sick, sick set going from party to electro to dubstep which is exactly how we like it here at Say Whoa! As ever the Whoa massive turned out in force rocking the right colour theme and made Orange Rooms a sea of yellow. Stay tuned to Say Whoa! as we have 2 parties this month which we are very excited about.

New Chromeo Single “Night By Night”

I for one have been waiting a very long time for this, Chromeo's brand new track and first original since 2007's seminal album 'Fancy Footwork'. The new jam is titled "Night by Night" and is available for free over at Green Label Sound. As you would expect from Dave 1 & P-Thugg, it's 80's... It's very 80's with that classic snare sound, driving synths, soaring guitars and catchy vocal hooks. Oh and not forgetting their now signature vocoder. If you EVER get a chance to see these guys live, do it... do it at any cost and I assure you won't be disappointed.

Remixes from Skream and & Siriusmo to follow. How exciting!

Stay fresh!

Doc McCoy

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!!!

I know we have been banging on about our birthday for some time now but we are uber excited to have Sammy Bananas come over and help celebrate our 1st birthday with us. Most of you have been down since day one and for that we salute you.

I don't think any of us thought when we had our first party on 29th August last year we would be booking acts like Sammy B. Tonight's the night, LETS GO BANANAS!!!!

Kanye West, Genius, Gay fish or Jack ass?

He thinks he's a genius, South Park thinks he's a gay fish and now Obama thinks he's a jack ass.

I can't decide, check the links below and make up your own mind.

Jack Ass?

Gay Fish?

Genius?

Johnny 5 is down with Ed Banger

Number Johnny 5 takes doing the robot dance to the next level with some Parisian audio delights!

Props to Ridney for pointing this one out!

Enjoy.

Say Whoa! Presents R-kid's Purple Mix

Vassup!!

Here's my Purple Mix, churned out for the purple party thrown at Orange Rooms last Friday (massive shout to everyone who made it down and shakked out hard).

It's a 45 minute live mix packed full of bass, breaks and beats. If you dig this then keep it locked... this mix should soon be followed by another to celebrate our 1st birthday. If you scroll down a post or 2 you can check what else we have in store for our birthday bash..It's gonna be straight up Bananas.

Enjoy!!

http://www.mediafire.com/?t5z23mwjlxb

TRACKLIST:

1. Kid Sister - Get Fresh (Alex Gopher Remix)
2. Thunderheist - Nothing 2 Step 2 (Sammy Bananas Remix)
3. Miami Horror - Don't Be On With Her (Treasure Fingers Remix)
4. Shab Ruffcut - For What (Edu K Remix)
5. The Gossip - Love Long Distance (Riva Starr Remix)
6. MSTRKRFT - Heartbreaker (featuring John Legend) (LBL Remix)
7. Ducksauce - aNYway
8. Marcus Price & Carli - Mat, Bira, Kvinnor, Weed (Kingdom Remix)
9. SonicC - Stickin'
10. Diplo & Blaqstarr - Get Off (Jack Beats Remix)
11. N.A.S.A - Gifted (featuring Kanye West, Santogold & Lykke Li) (Steve Aoki Remix)
12. Armand Van Helden & Christian Rich - Ski Hard
13. Major Lazer - Pon Di Floor (Afrojack Vocal Remix)
14. Crazy Cousinz - Bongo Jam (L-Vis 1990 & Bok Bok remix)
15. The Count & Sinden - Mega
16. White Lies - Death (Chase & Status Remix)

GET YOURS!!!

Say Whoa! Presents: SAMMY BANANAS (FOOLS GOLD RECORDS/ NYC)

Have you heard? Say Whoa is a year old and we cordially invite you to come and join us to celebrate our 1st Birthday. We're very lucky to be joined by the one and only Sammy Bananas who's flying in from NYC to party with us all night long. In his honour, this night is going to be straight up bananas from start to finish with bananas galore, some special drinks, a soundtrack that will send you ape as well as all your favourites such as glow sticks and a few other cheeky surprises.

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SAMMY BANANAS (FOOLS GOLD RECORDS/NYC)
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www.myspace.com/sammybananas

Rising Brooklyn remixer and party maestro Sammy Bananas lives up to his name by crafting ecstatic tracks that ditch trendy production tricks in favor of pure pop satisfaction. The approach has already made fans out of influential BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac and platinum producer Will.i.am, who ran up to the DJ booth at Sammy's last LA show to shout "YOU made this?!?".

Sammy stunned the DJ community in early '08 with his inventive bootleg of N.E.R.D's "Everyone Nose" which he rechristened as "All The Girls." He debuted the remix on the Screaming Bloody Murder tour in which he traveled North America with A-Trak, Sinden and Steve Aoki. The track was played across the world and became a staple in sets by heavyweights like A-Trak and Flosstradamus. After tours through both Europe and Australia in late '08, Sammy hit the ground sprinting in 2009 with remixes of buzzing acts Thunderheist and Passion Pit.

"He's definitely worth checking out, one for the future and an absolute party starter. Genius." - Jaymo & Andy George

"Wow I love these tracks! I don't know which one to play on the radio!" - Annie Mac

"In a musical climate where so many DJs and producers are doing the same thing as the next guy, Sammy Bananas is a breath of fresh air. His music is full of character and can be best described by one word: funky" - A-Trak

Free mixes/ remixes are available on his Myspace page and they are schweeeeeet!



Dresscode: Yellow (if you come dressed in a proper banana suit you'll receive a £20 bar tab!)

Tickets/ Entry: Early Bird tickets £3 (until 4/09/09) £4 after 9PM £5 after 10PM
Early bird tickets available for £3 until 4/9/09 from www.orangerooms.co.uk

TWITTER BONUS: The first 5 people to tweet "@yousaywhoa with Sammy Bananas @orangerooms 18/9/09?!?! I'm there!" will get free entry to this event!

Say Whoa is well and truly good for your health.

Check the Facebook event page and RSVP here.

Melting faces

Good afternoon all!

Just a quick message to say a huge thank you to all you cats who came down to party with us last night for our purple party at Orange Rooms. Yet again, it went off big time and we all had a great night.

See you in September for our yellow banana party featuring the king of parties and potassium, Mr Sammy Bananas!

Doc McCoy

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Michael Jackson Tribute: Boys Noize Style

Back in October of 2007, myself and Cpt. Kerk went on a road trip up to Leeds to see Boys Noize play with Chromeo in can what can only be described as several hours of being audibly punched in the face. Ever since then I've dubbed Alex 'Boys Noize' Ridha 'the milkman' as he ALWAYS delivers. Here is a video of him doing just that and paying tribute to the late and great MJ.

Chamone mutha fucka!

Doc McCoy

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Daft... Tron?

Some of you may be thinking that Daft Punk have been awfully quiet of late. The reason being is that they were commissioned by Disney to produce the score for the upcoming Tron Legacy film. Ignore the geeks in the attached video and you'll be able to hear the sweet sounds of Daft Punk's latest work.

Mmmm yummy!

Doc McCoy

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WHOA! This video is s-s-serious

So, I had my heart set on booking these Morris Minor & the Majors guys and have them d-d-dropping fresh beats all over our first birthday knees up. But, sadly, the rest of the gang have cast their vote against me and invoked their right to veto my decision. Instead choosing FOOL’S GOLD’s very own Sammy Bananas.

Damn you democracy.

Keep and ear to the street and stay tuned boppers.

Cpt. James Tiberius Kerk.

WINNERS!

If you were at the last party you will have seen me painting the board and a couple of canvases to raffle off. Here is one of our lucky winners......and his mate. There will be another chance to win some art work on the 21st so come down and get involved. Remember, you've gotta be in it to win it.

HOW WE ROLL

One track has dominated the shot gun calls between R-Kid, Doc McCoy and myself this month and I still dont know who will end up playing it. It just might end up getting dropped in all 3 sets and I'm not sure that would be a bad thing as it is a fooking monster.

If you're coming down on the 19th, get your thizz face ready for this one. It seems to have been knocking around for a couple of months but i have only just stumbled across it. AGGY!

August party details...

We're back again on Friday 21st August @ Orange Rooms and this time we're going PURPLE! The best effort will receive a bottle of champagne courtesy of our friends over at Alcohol in Emergency.

It all kicks off at 9PM with the finest selection of music you could wish to hear with beats, bleeps, bass and more.

Entry is £2 after 9PM and £3 after 10PM

See you there!

Doc McCoy

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Newsflash and thank you

So last Friday saw our first party in Orange Rooms and it was 'effing blinding so thank you to everyone who made it down and helped make it such a stand out and memorable night! Photos are on their way, videos are on their way so hold tight...

Information regarding our August party will follow shortly and we have just confirmed an AMAZING act to come and join us for our Birthday party which we're going to have in September instead of August... We'll tell all soon but here's a few clues to keep you guessing...

He's little, yellow, different.

He recently smashed it on BBC Radio 1's 'In New DJs we trust'.

He hails from Brooklyn, NYC.

So, so excited!

Doc McCoy

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