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‘Everyone was partying for their life’: Bang Gang, bloghouse and the indie sleaze of the mid-2000s | Musique Non Stop

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Friday, December 17, 2021

‘Everyone was partying for their life’: Bang Gang, bloghouse and the indie sleaze of the mid-2000s

A new book charts the rise and fall of an internet-fuelled electronic music movement that sent Australian artists global and set Sydney’s Kings Cross alight

Back in the mid-noughties, one party ruled Sydney’s Kings Cross. It was called Bang Gang, and co-founder Jamie Wirth remembers it well.

“Oh my God, it was wild. It was just fucking mayhem,” Wirth recalls. “There was a bit of dodginess, a lot of smooching, it was pretty horny. It was wild, and colourful, and it was like everyone was partying for their life. But it was also a celebration of this new form of music: it was exciting, and it was coming out every week.”

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by Katie Cunningham via Electronic music | The Guardian

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