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Bido Lito! June 2015
Abandon Silence 2.0
Words: Andrew Hill / @abandonsilence
Having just completed a run of stellar, sold-out shows to
commemorate its fifth anniversary, club night ABANDON SILENCE
can rightly claim to being one of Liverpool’s biggest clubbing
success stories, certainly in recent times. A who’s who of the
decade’s best electronic music artists has played to an Abandon
Silence crowd over the past five years, from early performers
Disclosure, Joy Orbison and James Blake to more recent alumni
Four Tet, Motor City Drum Ensemble and Levon Vincent. Promoter
Andrew Hill looks back to where it all began…
In the summer of 2010 something amazing happened in
Liverpool, quite by chance. A selection of today’s most established
names in Liverpool’s creative community – The Shipping Forecast,
Bold Street Coffee, Waxxx and Bido Lito! – all launched in the
same six-month spell. It was something of a purple patch and,
without being too brazen by putting it in that pot, my own
venture, Abandon Silence, began in the same period. It would
be intriguing to speak to all of the founders and see how many
believed they would still be here in 2015: I know I didn't.
At that time, I saw Abandon Silence the club night as a
temporary excursion from a blog of the same name, rather
than the other way round. I was halfway through a Journalism
degree at LJMU and I had set up a (now-defunct) Blogspot page
as a means of getting my writing 'out there'. With five years of
accumulated hindsight, most of the article