Chibuku Bows Out for The Summer with Fake Blood, Benga and Boy8Bit

Chibuku closes its doors for the Summer on June 4th – but in true Chibuku style, it ain’t going quietly. 

As festival season and Ibiza take hold of clubland, Chibuku is slowing down as usual to regroup, refocus and recover after a frenetic few months at the helm of UK clubbing. The closing soiree is usually a bit special; however this time the club has really pulled out something special.

The Theatre is a humdinger and a visceral statement of intent with Chibuku installing perennial party smasher Fake Blood alongside Boy8bit and Bowski. Theo Keating is dance music’s chameleon, who hit the top of the charts with big beat and the Wiseguys, forged a successful career as DJ Touché in the electro and techno fields and married erstwhile song writing and gut wrenching beats alongside Simian’s Simon Lord in the Black Ghosts before his Fake Blood project came underway.

Rejecting all the privileges his previous fame afforded him when starting out, Theo knocked out a slew of dancefloor bombs which were shrouded in secrecy and masked in anonymity, slowly going from unknown quantity to internet sensation. And the interest didn’t yield once his identity was revealed; with his instantly recognisable ‘I think I Like It’ smashing festival arenas and daytime radio playlists with deft ease and the Fake Blood road show headlining clubs across the globe.

Support comes in the shape of analogue supremo Boy8bit and super-hot producer Bowski. Boy8bit’s musical musings have all come off old school computers, a gloriously retro take which has resulted in the charm and warmth running through obviously electronic creations; an injection of personality into the machines. Jack Beats, comprising of DMC champions Plus One and Benny G (of the Scratch Perverts and Mixologists respectively), blend hip-hop technical prowess with the speaker shredding ideals of underground dance music; crafting furious ensembles of pure dancefloor fire.

The Loft is no less rowdy, headlined by the indomitable Benga. A third of the monolithic dubstep supergroup Magnetic Man, Benga has been one of the main proponents in dubstep’s’ explosion from the council estates of Croydon to the nation’s number one dance music.

He’s joined by Magnetic Man cohort Artwork. Whilst Benga and MM compatriot Skream hog the limelight, Artwork is the group’s central pulse (it is his computer which oversees the other two’s during live performance) and remains a hugely respected artist in his own right who has played a pivotal role in the genre’s steady development. Chibuku’s hugely versatile resident Rich Furness supports.

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