This month sees our first gig in Brussels at the world renowned Fuse ; kind of like Belgium�s answer to Fabric. So we are massively looking forward to that!

Friday February 6th is our first party of the year back at our home Wire in Leeds with the rather excellent DFA darling Jacques Renault. Disco, house and plenty of re-edits will be the order of the evening.

Saturday February 21st sees our spin off night Is This Disco? launch at the Elbow Room in Leeds. We aim to soundtrack your evening with a delectable selection of disco bombs, future funk and forgotten house gems. We shall be dusting off our 12�s, digging deep for long lost classics as well as providing fresh new electronic funk and disco.

Friday March 6th we�re back at Wire and proud to present you with another Leeds debut. Disco Bloodbath will be leaving their east London bunker for the trip north to lay down some �ecstasy disco� at Polaroid. Do not miss.

Polaroid x

Happy New Year! Hope everyone had a great Xmas and New Year. Normal service will be resumed on 6th February now the silly season is over and we took a well earned break.

Producer and DJ, Jacques Renault was a post-punk Washington D.C. native who moved to Chicago in 1997 to continue his studies of viola, but in turn got a serious education in dance music. Tapping into the well established Drum n’ Bass scene, he held a residency at Smart Bar and became a buyer at the legendary Gramaphone Records. This broad, raw exposure to House music lead him straight back to the classics of Disco and to it’s heart, New York City, where he landed in 2002. His distinct sound and ability to gauge his audience has made Jacques a stand-out amongst his peers in the elite, international sphere of electronic music. He has performed everywhere from the Guggenheim’s Art After Dark event to Berlin’s Rio Club – even gracing the pages of Paper Magazine’s 2007 Beautiful People. Recently voted as Best NYC DJ for Paper’s Night Life Awards, Jacques has held residencies at New York’s famed venues Happy Endings and Tribeca Grand while currently hosting a 205 Club party showcasing an impressive line-up of weekly guest DJs. Along with friends at DFA Records, Jacques is pushing the disco conscious sweep into the new dance-punk scene. With his edits, original tracks and collaborative project RUNAWAY he has released music on the internationally acclaimed New York labels, Italians Do It Better, Editions Disco, and Wurst Edits while having EP’s slated for Brennan Green’s Chinatown, Cosmo Vitelli’s I’m A Cliche, and the new internet only label RCRD LBL. As well as getting coveted spots on the Glimmers’ Eskimo mix and the Lindstrom and Prins Thomas BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix, Mr. Renault appears regularly on Beats In Space, EVR and contributes a weekly show, Runaway Disco, to VIVA Radio.

Jacques Renault Mix

Polaroid l Friday February 6th

JACQUES RENAULT (DFA/REKIDS, NYC)

Marcus – Live (Fuse/Weekendancer, Brussels)

Plus Residents:

Polaroid Soundsystem

11pm – v late

Wire, 2 Call Lane, Leeds

£6/5

For guest list – email info @ polaroidclub.co.uk

http://www.jacquesrenault.com

http://www.myspace.com/polaroidclub

http://www.myspace.com/weekendancer

Some Polaroid dates for your diary:

1 Feb 2008 Polaroid – Infadels + Bobby O’Donnell + Broken Hookers
8 Feb 2008 The Empire w/Justice + Fancy (Middlesbrough)
15 Feb 2008 Polaroid@Sankeys w/Trevor Loveys + Foamo (Manchester)
7 Mar 2008 Polaroid w/In Flagranti (Brooklyn, NYC) + P&P
15 Mar 2008 Space Camp w/Reverso 68 (Dublin)
23 March 2008 Polaroid & Asylum Garden Party @ Faversham
4 Apr 2008 Polaroid 4th Birthday w/Very, Very Special Guest
24 Apr 2008 Love Beats presents… Polaroid (Revolution, Leeds)
1 May 2008 Polaroid – Guests (TBC)

Salut!