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Taken from Mixmag - September 2000
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BLOCK ROCKIN' BEATS It's the best club ever - if you're yellow and one inch tall |
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Ever fancied building your own club? Imagine it: your own bar to raid, all your favourite DJs playing and random
birds hanging on your every word. Theo G Tigger and Phil Costello(e) have done it, but the only problem is,
unless you're about an inch high you can't get in, because it's a club for Lego people.
Theo and Phil started making their Lego club after a night clubbing, and ended up painstakingly peicing it together over three weekends using more than 5,000 Lego pieces. "It's all down to a friend of ours who decided to put on a Lego party as a Saturday morning chill-out thing," says Theo. Brix comes complete with two dancefloors, a snack bar, cloakroom, chill-out garden, cybercafe, toilets, medical facilities and a hot tub - "Everything we look for in a night out!" It even has it's own website (www.brix.org.uk), where you can scrutinise the one-metre-square creation in its full glory. Ever wondered what kind of tunes Lego men like to get down to? Old skool rave and happy hardcore only here, please. "The music reflects our tastes," says Theo. "So when we're reincarnated as 1.5 inch plastic figures, we'll still be able to enjoy the uplifting trance and tearing gabba we like now." On the decks are resident DJ and pagan priest Dark Angel (based on the real dark Angel, who married Theo and Phil in a pagan wedding at this year's summer solstice), ( we have a website for that too...) crustie trance DJ Oberon and hardcore hero Sharkey. They churn out 'pumping Lego psy-trance' to an up-for-it crowd of 150 Lego characters (they're like the Village People's 'YMCA' characters, just smaller and yellow). There are guest DJs too: Lego luminaries Barticle and Hedgehog. According to Theo, Lego men cane it as hard as anyone: "Our Lego men are too cool to gurn. But there can be a few casualties slumped in corners, which is why we've got the medical team in there." Just as Cream grew into Creamfields and Home expanded to Homelands, the boys (boys! It's short for Theodora, you know!) plan an outdoor Lego festival of dance. Theo says: "We plan to have stages and marquees, a market, a teepee village, an enchanted forest and a beach to chill out on." So all you spacemen, Robin Hoods, pirates and train drivers: form an orderly queue please, and have your Lego money at the ready.
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Taken from Mixmag - December 2000
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LEGOLANDS Three days of building and a significant amount of drugs has resulted in Brix2: The Festival |
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There isn't a word that adequately describes the sweet sound of two bricks of lego being clicked together but
it remains a favourite of Phil and Theo, even after the completion of the mammoth Brix2: The Festival.
"We had a three day Lego-building party for Phil's birthday from Friday evening right through to the Monday morning,"
says Theo, on their follow-up to the mighty Brix club featured in our September issue.
A room full of stoned people wandering out as they head off to clubs, lots of Cold Cut, Hexstatic and "lots and lots of psytrance" were the recipe for this current masterpiece of plastic architecture. "There were some people who got into a bit of a state and needed looking after," says Theo, giggling, "There was definitely some of that going on." Brix: The Festival was partly based on the Big Chill festival Phil and Theo attended on the Wiltshire/Devon border during the summer and partly on the Megadog Beach festival they went to in 1998. (actually, only Phil was at that one...) Like all festivals Brix has had to come to the end and the site has now been packed up and cleared away. "It's all gone except the stage. That took Phil a whole three days to complete so we've kept that for his sake, but we needed the space 'cos we had friends coming around to stay." And is that the last we'll hear of Brix? "We've all said this is the end, but it would be nice to do a Brix version of Reclaim The Streets. We've got loads of road bits and wheels and Lego policemen. We might get round to it."
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