If the current state of the world - the bees are dying, Brexit is a thing yadda, yadda - is bringing you down, take the modern approach by immersing yourself in the fuzzy feels of nostalgia and a time when MSN and MySpace ruled the Internet.
The Vinnies Dive Limewire Party: All The Hits 2000-2010 will be the place to hear all your early noughties faves; you know that time where the temptation of downloading music for free (ie. illegally) was almost certainly going to result in your family computer exploding from viruses.
The Limewire DJs will be spinning a heady mix of 2000s classics, from the likes of Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Belle & Sebastian, Bloc Party, Daft Punk, Death From Above 1979, Franz Ferdinand, Grizzly Bear, Interpol, Justice, LCD Soundsystem, M.I.A, M83, Maximo Park, MGMT, Modest Mouse, Ratatat, Röyksopp, The Avalanches, The Black Keys, The Bravery, The Hives, The Killers, The Libertines, The Rapture, The Shins, The Streets, The Strokes, The Vines, The White Stripes, The Wombats, TV On The Radio, Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and much, much more.
"Limewire, oh Limewire. You cruel mistress you. Enticing so many of us youngsters with the promise of free music, movie, games, programmes; literally anything, with no consequence," the event's co-promoter Marli Eadon says.
"I have so many memories of endless nights attached to the computer searching through billions of downloadable files with reckless abandon. "So innocent at the beginning of our beautiful union; files such as My_cHEmicaL_roManCe_WelCome_To_thE_BlaCK_PArAde.exe were not a thing of horror, a movie file that was only 2.3MB was not something to avoid like it's the last thing you ever did.
"As I reflect on our times together, I have collated a list of my most memorable illegally downloaded songs which I probably burnt to a really weird, yet diverse mix CD for my sticker-clad CD player."
Baby Bash + Frankie J - 'Suga Suga'
Now this song I had on my 'So Fresh: 2004 Volume 2' DVD, which was a 'So Fresh' compilation, but for music videos. I LOVED this song so much that it was the first song I ever successfully downloaded and the first song I ever put on my tiny, yellow iPod shuffle.The first song I very unsuccessfully tried to download was 'Lonely' by Akon. It took 1,000 years and all I ended with was Bill Clinton telling me "he did not have sexual relations with that woman". I was young.
Justin Timberlake feat. TI - 'My Love'
Ah Justin, how I love you so. But my god, you ruined my family computer. I shouldn't have ignored Mr. Norton Anti-Virus and his warning pop-ups. But I did.And then. BOOM. Computer down. Computer no more. "Mum and Dad, something's happened. Well, uh you see, I was just trying to download JT's new song and well."
M.I.A - 'Paper Planes'
You know how sometimes the song you'd download wouldn't even be the actual song. I was in the shops one day and this song came on the radio, my friend pointed it out and I was like, 'Nah nah nah, this is not the new M.I.A song!?'.Little did I know, Limewire had fooled me again and what I'd actually downloaded was 'Lookin At Me' by Lady Gaga feat. Wale [Ed's note: the song is actually titled 'Chillin'' and is Wale feat. Lady Gaga track haha].
Yeah, I did find it odd there was not one mention of 'Paper Planes', and no I didn't look up the lyrics, and yes Lady Gaga sounds like M.I.A in this song OK.
Vampire Weekend - 'Oxford Comma'
I found this song when I was trawling through endless files in some sort of Limewire hole. I remember hearing this and it was like a giant beam of light shone into my eyes and a deep voice said: 'It's time to separate yourself from your Top 40 pop trash past."Crystal Castles - 'Alice Practice'
With this aforementioned separation from the Top 40 came a raging teenage angst. My hair got bluer (and also a little bit pinker), my Limewire nights got longer as my parents told me to go to bed earlier (you can't tell me what to do Mum), and most importantly, I started to watch 'Skins'.This song was a hallmark moment of my very short-lived brush with the electro-trash-punk-pop-witch-house subculture. Thank God.
