Ears Not Eyes is a night built on bringing you quality artists, playing quality music, on the original format.. Its also a night committed to helping those who use music to help others. All profits made on the door are given to a music related charity in the city the night is held in, for the launch we will be donating to Crossings, a charity that helps intergrate asylum seekers and refugees into the local community by hosting open jam sessions and forming bands.
The Vinyl wizards...
LUV*JAM
Mysterious as he is, LUV*JAM has revealed more than enough personality between wax grooves, with a string of strong releases over the last year for the likes of Throne Of Blood, We Play House, Tsuba, Blind Jacks Journey, Crow Castle, Rawax, Housewax and Phonica White. When Move D and Daniel Avery are playing your tracks out you know your doing something right. We could try and describe LUV*JAM’s beautiful sounds but it wouldn’t do them justice, so give his sound cloud page a listen to hear the synthy goodness for yourself.
https://soundcloud.com/luvjam
As a DJ LUV*JAM has had the pleasure of playing at numerous festivals, parties and radio stations including Bestival, Chibuku, Creamfields, Global Gathering, Mulletover, Samurai, Sankey Soap, Secret Sonar, Tribal Gathering, Wakestock and We Love, as well as enjoying a residency at Space Ibiza in 2010. Two weeks after we will be partying with him he’s be playing records for the lucky people at Gottwood.
LUV*JAM is the perfect artist kick off Ears not Eyes parties, having built his career on producing and playing quality vinyl records. As well as a host of tasty records already released, we will, if his mix for FabricLive is anything to go by, be treated to numerous unreleased tracks and remix’s from his bag of treats.
Jonny Dub
Without Manchester’s contributions to music, the past three decades for UK music would not be the same. From indie rock to dance music, Manchester has never been afraid to mix it up and do things its own way. For Jonny Dub, co-founder of Hoya:Hoya, it all comes down to the city’s penchant for cross-pollination: “It’s part of what makes this city. There’s a diversity and synergy in the music.” There is no typical Jonny Dub set and he possesses the ability to jump the gulf between disparate genres and styles seamlessly. One of his sets could include everything from Wiley, Fourtet all the way to The Beatles. It is difficult to capture in words the majesty of his art. He is quite simply put, a DJ's DJ. He's closing up the night and the night is set to end on strictly bangers.
Oli Warriner
We couldn’t claim to be giving back to Newcastle’s music community without showcasing one of its finest local Dj’s, Oli Warriner.
We first met and heard Oli play at one of his all day Tunnyl terrace parties, which have consistently proven to be a melting pot of good people and good music. Tunnyl has built its growing reputation on booking interesting and high quality artists, with no regard for current trends and popularity.
Oli himself has built a reputation for his ability to dig deep and pick out tracks and stylisations that aren’t being excessively milled by the popular demand. It hasn’t taken long for his production to get noticed, with his ‘See this World EP’ being released on Miocene Records, and his upcoming collaboration with Oussama due for release soon. We had him down for an intimate terrace party last year and we can promise you, you’re in for quality first hour and a half.