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No upcoming party (at least not one we could tell you about). 20 SeptemberIn light of our upcoming 11th birthday, we thought to post a short review of 2007. Here it is: Mycket roligt! The strawberries at Unity The Island, the foaminess of Sun Mini Festival, and the shortness of One Minute Raves were the absolute highlights of the year for us. Speaking of which, rumour has it our world domination is spreading over the oceans, and not only to Sweden where One Minute Rave made the evening news. The idea has crossed the wide Atlantic and in a few weeks the very first all American One Minute Rave will be held in Washington, DC. Meanwhile, Art Goes Kapakka honoured Unity and DJ Orkidea with reward for making "Helsinki funnier". Hope you've had fun, too. We know we have. The annual DJ Mag Top 100 voting is on and we wish you would take the time to help Orkidea and other Finnish DJs to make the list this year. Darude, Proteus, Super8 & Tab, Miika Kuisma, and of course our resident horticulturalist Orkidea have a great chance to be in the Top 250. Let your voice be heard and vote.
So what about our birthday on the 6th of October? I can tell you that taking part in Unity's 11th birthday will cost you 20 euros. But we won't be throwing a party. Instead, we wish you to join our Fight For A Better World, and spend 20 euros and/or 6 hours on Fun. Do something fun, preferably something that makes someone else feel good too. Take your loved one to the movies. Surprise her or him by cleaning the flat. Go meet your grandparents. Buy candy. Even better, buy music. Give to a charity. Volunteer to help. Whatever you do, please let us know what it was by emailing Björn at bjorn@clubunity.org! 4 SeptemberIt began in Finland: 7 AugustWe are raving: 2 AugustLast Friday was a fine day and we all witnessed that if everybody is free, it is not about the duration, but the ultimate feeling. And on Sunday, well, Elton and us were quite drunk to be honest. Anyhoo, The Legend was born last Friday and now the only way is up. The story will continue, at least for one more minute. This Friday, that's tomorrow, we'll find whether there are no limits on the Helsinki Railway Station. We will pump up the volume from 18.00 to 18.01. The Unity One Minute Rave will take place at platform number 11, from where the train to Turku leaves at 18.03. People going to UMF should be able to ride on time. Unity Posse will open your mind with another exclusive one minute mix from DJ Orkidea and the Unity Mobile Sound System. Here is a short reminder how the show goes:
All rave paraphernalia is still highly recommended, lets see if we find the groove in the heart of the stone men. The Legend is in it's infancy, will you be one of the nurses? 27 JulyHere's a message from our favourite friend, Elton:
So don't take it from us, take it from Elton, and be there! 26 JulyDid you know that the first Love Parade was organized by a group of friends, and it had a participation of less than a hundred people? And what happened... Now is your change to be a part of history in the making. Unity Posse is organizing the first ever One Minute Rave happening this Friday, that's tomorrow (barely!). The rave will last from 18.00 to 18.01. The One Minute Rave will be held under the infamous Stockmanns Clock and the party will last for all the 60 seconds in one minute. Unity will provide a highly exclusive one minute mix from DJ Orkidea and the Unity Mobile Sound System to boost up the party. All you have to do is bring your self to the spot, follow these simple instructions and party like it's 1999, again, for One Minute. We want to keep this as confusing as possible for bystanders, so please:
Just walk around the corner, to the Esplanadi park or wherever, to mingle with your friends. Whistles and other rave paraphernalia is recommended for the rave, but are best kept hidden until The Moment. Let's not break the element of surprise! This will be the beginning of a series of One Minute Raves, which will be held on four upcoming Fridays at 6pm in locations to be revealed later. A Legend will be born, will you be one of the midwives? 26 JuneTickets for the annual Unity The Island were sold out this Monday morning in 28 minutes! That almost broke the old record of 25 minutes. Make from Street Beat said that handing out the CD flyers simultanously cost those three minutes. Maybe next time... Big thanks for support and trust for everybody and we're already looking forward to this big time! 20 JuneComing up in this year's only Unity The Island partee: a beach party with Unity Collective, Orkidea and Mr.A, with once in a lifetime sunset piano concerto by the beach performed by Lowland. If you heard the cigar smoking virtuoso's much praised set at the Unity 10th Anniversary, you will hear something familiar and something new. Not to be missed. The sauna has been extended to include a jacuzzi and if that is not soothing enough, Indigo will set you at ease with his night-time chillout set by the campfire. Well you know all you need already, but it's still worth chasing down our flyer. There's a strictly limited edition of summer chillout CDs available, which you can get from Unity posse. Ass licking might be required. (It is left to your own discretion how literally to take this advice.) Tickets will be on sale after the jussi-days, on the 25th of June, at Street Beat, 10:00 sharp. The price is 25 euros per ticket and each raver is allowed to buy 4 tickets. To be honest we're not getting any younger and we don't want to feel out of place in our own party. Hence, we set the age limit at very old school 24. The Other Party we will be putting on this summer is of course the hedonistic, sweaty, dirty, intoxicated Sun Club. On Sunday the 29th of July we return to our less heterosexual roots at DTM and we promise you sixteen hours of pure fiesta, max gay vibe on the street, the club, the upstairs foam cubicle, and zero straightness. Lined up for the DJ booth are the lubrica de la lubrica of Finnish electronic performers. Justifiably last, Unity's own moustache growing boy band Slusnik Luna and Lowland, the pianist popular with afficionados of vertical indoor transportation, have teamed up and sold their latest co-creation to Andy Moor. Andy is releasing the new single "Baas" on his AVA label during the summer. You can get the exclusive promo MP3 from AVA's web shop (exclusive indeed). Buy it. The guys need new presets. 16 AprilSummer is nearly upon us and this means Unity The Island is not that far away either. The date is set to Saturday 14th of July, and as George H.W. Bush would put it, it will be the Mother of all Unity The Islands! Ever. The most motheristic Island. So mark your calendars and reserve holidays now. It is also time for some democracy in the form of the annual Basso Gaala. Basso represents Finnish electronic & urban music and culture and is doing a great job with their FM radio. Cast your vote and show some love to Unity, DJ Orkidea and our classic house band Slusnik Luna. 30 JanuaryThank you for bringing joy, love & happiness to Botta on the magnificient new year's eve! It was a great ending to an amazing Unity-filled year: Pacifique 2006, Unity The Island, Sun Mini Festival, our 10th Anniversary and now the NYE event. If you want to relive those NYE moments or can't remember anything Platinum and Klubitus have photo galleries of the night and there's even a cool video on YouTube. There has been lot of questions regarding the possibility of a Pacifique event for 2007. Unfortunately this year won't see our collab with Labyrinth. The expectations we've built and our ambitions to develop the event even further just can't be fulfilled in a year. Luckily, there's always 2008... Here's a gallery to remind you of how 2000 Finnish ravers can party. As big friends of freedom and democracy-for-all we'd like to point out a chance to support Orkidea, Unity Collective or other Finnish DJs in the annual vote for the best scandinavian DJ. Make yourself heard at. 30 DecemberIt's Saturday and tomorrow is the last day of the year and the last day to party. We'll be doing exactly that at the sold-out Botta night club, with the following DJs and play times:
25 NovemberUnity wraps up the 10th Anniversary year by returning to the Mothership. At the eve of the new year, on the 31st of December, and for the first time in ten years, Techno takes over the legendary Botta night club. If there are people in the mailing list audience who are not familiar with the venue, let it be said that Botta is the birth- place of modern Finnish club scene. Such renowned club nights as Fiesta, Deep and It made sweat drip from the ceiling of Botta and the upstairs, Berlin. Many of the household DJs of Finnish scene made their name there: Eliot Ness, Jokke, Orkidea, Njassa and Ender played the venue during 1988 to 1995. Also, the place was the proud home for Finland's first gay club some 20 years ago. This new year house, trance and groove will reunite at Botta over three floors. Orkidea, Mr.A, Njassa, Heikki L (Dallas Superstars) and Super8 vs Tab will lead the way through the night. This won't be a retro night, but old school Botta-resident Jay Mellin has nevertheless agreed to play an especiale midnight classics set, Fiesta-club promoter Rami Korpi will be hosting the event and upstairs Jokke & Ender will throw a totally exclusive 2.5 hour Berlin in memoriam set. We warmly recommend you to get in early, enjoy some champagne with us, dress up in a fiestavive manner and maybe even to reserve a table from the downstairs restaurant Manala (09-580 770). Manala will be serving clubbers all night. You can see the menu at: http://www.botta.fi/ Tickets will be on sale next Monday, the 27th of November at 11am. At Street Beat, where else. One admission will set you back 16 euros and these precious pieces of paper are exclusively for persons of 24 years age and over. 5 OctoberFrom 1996 to 2006. We've had ten years of practice, and we're pretty sure we're now ready to throw a Really Good Party. The night will start with great food and dangerous drinks, in a true Unity stylee, while a concert pianist plays lounge renditions of Unity trance classics -- some of the same selection Orkidea and Slusnik Luna will be playing later in the night. You can sip your cocktail in the midst of our photo, decoration and flyer exhibition, wonder at the video installations provided by VJ *jen or bath in the massive light show executed by Tea & Severi. Before you enter the venue on Saturday night, you should take part in Unity The Tietovisa at Street Beat's website. There you can win super rare original copies of both Orkidea's Unity and Slusnik Luna's Sun vinyl records. And to celebrate the anniversary, everybody is a winner. Unity DJ sets are available for download this week only. Ready to come? A limited amount of tickets are still available at Street Beat. Get yours in advance and avoid disappointment. For those of you who keep your personal Unity The Museum, you better start digging: an original Nylon-era Unity VIP earns you free cloakroom service, and an unused Unity 5th Anniversary free drink ticket entitles you to spend the whole night at the bar. On our expense. It's gonna be packed, crazy, happy, delirious night to remember... 8 September
It's September and the summer is officially over. Thanks for enjoying this indian summer with us, and even more thanks for all of you who have faithfully stayed with us for the last ten years! To celebrate our first decade properly we wanted a venue we can decorate wildly and that can take in all the nice people we know and love. Hence, we're delighted to invite you to our castle, Kaivohuone, on Saturday the 7th of October. DJ Orkidea will play a set of classics from the last ten years of Club Unity and also to celebrate his 15th year of DJing. It's a long time. Slusnik Luna will play a selection of their finest classics (isn't that what they always do). Photographs, flyers and vintage decorations will be on display around the mansion to take you back along the memory lane. It's the Unity 10th anniversary after all, so we thought the flyer should be something special as well: starting tomorrow, we will be giving away Unity DVDs containing the video you have hopefully watched above. If you want it for yours to keep, download either the Quicktime (DVD quality) or Windows Media (Microsoft quality) version. Tickets will be on sale on Monday the 18th of September, at Street Beat, where else. One admission will set you back 20 euros and the age limit is 24 years to guarantee a herd of old school mamas and papas (children under 5 get a free admission with parents). Last and least.. now is the time of the year DJ Mag selects the best entertainers of casual chemists, so if you love our own kixu-king DJ Orkidea go to vote, vote and vote. 6 AugustUnity The Island was such a humongous success that I thought I would never gonna dance again. Fun and sunshine, enough for everyone, people watching waves break on the bay, a whole night's holiday. Just too funky for me! I won't bore you with the details, baby, I'll just move on to what's going down today. It's the traditional summer sunday extra-gay-vanza Sun Club: rivers of hot sweat since 1998. We will be showing faith and practicing the same religion of hedonism at Kuudes Linja, if 'only' for 14 hours this time. Unity Collective will start on the terrace after noon at 13 with something special, something sacred and will be your preacher teacher until 22. At 17 we're showing you the door, where you can buy a ticket for a very special night inside, hosted by Ritu of DTM fame and her draq queen biaatches. And of course, at Club Sun drinks are free! Well not all of them, but a welcome toast at 17 anyway. The terrace will be open for the whole day and night, all that's missing is the sea. Pack your bags full of food, ease your mind and make use of the hot grill. Wherever you lay your hat will be your home. If that's love in your eyes, make your way into the night tonight, and just look at all the wonderful people. Party until the next morning, but remember to wake me up before you go-go. Count the cost of your desire to be seen and come very early, we're guaranteed to sell out! With careless whispers, George Michael 11 JuneThe Finnish underground equivalent of the MTV Music Awards gala, the Finnish Club Awards, got skipped this year. Unfortunately so, because we would have thrown a crazee party, showering in Krystal for our victories as the Best Club, Orkidea's double win as the Best DJ and Best Producer and Tea & Severi as the Second Best VJ couple. Maxximum respect for all the winners and everyone in the scene, we luv you long time and might have let you had a sip of our crystalline bath water, had there been a party. On to blindigly brighter things, in effect The Future. This summer, we bring you maxximal excellence in midnight sun partying! In a perfect sign-of-the-times marketing twist we make Unity look even better while actually offering less. Less quantity, but always more quality, and you know quality rules, baby! We might throw only one party at Uunisaari this summer, but rest assured no money nor effort has been saved to provide You with maxximum excitement. We've put up to 280% more effort into this one night to create a better world for You, if only for one night. You know the coordinates: Unity The Island, Saturday 15.7. from 16 'til 04. Tickets from Street Beat on Monday the 26th. Of course we won't let you down by just having one party this summer, it being our 10th year in the bizness and all. Sun Club speziale prole edition on Sunday the 6th of August, starting at 13 in Kallio (where else) on the Kuudes Linja terrace and continuing non-stop for fourteen mad hours before ending inside at 03. Mr.A, Lil' Tony, Orkidea and Unity Collective will pump ya'll up and Ritu (DTM) and her drag queen bitches will keep the gayness at a jolly good level. Maxximally gay, megalomanically hot, multitudally uplifting, minimally cool, and unbelievably hangover-ish. You'll luv it, long time. And one last thing, kudos to the two photographers who donated their pics for this years flyers: Josh and Christophe. 9 AprilOur mega hard-working website update department got a new image here to celebrate the coming summer. So what's happened in the last six months or so? We had a hugely successful Pacifique 2006 party, with 2000 people and lots of hot, wet fun. Orkidea released two albums. Finnish Club Awards are up next, and we want to win! Also check out the page for Orkidea's chillout album Music Speaks In Thousand Languages. MP3 clips of all tracks coming up "soon". Stay tuned for more information about our plans for the coming summer, or join the mailing list to be the first to know. 22 NovemberWe're happy to announce a special section on our site for Orkidea's A Place Called Happiness album release tour. Check it out for preview clips from the mix CD, background on the tracks, future tour dates and musings from past events. 18 NovemberThe move is finished and the site is happily up and running again. 18 NovemberWe will be moving the Unity site to a new web server over the weekend and we hope it will be going smoothly. But if the site disappears in the deep cyber space, don't worry, we'll be right back. 6 OctoberUnity mailing list is reborn! Feel free to apply on the Mailing List page. From now on every email we send will have an unsubscribe link for convenience. 22 SeptemberThanks for everyone who visited us this summer. The final Unity The Island in August blew us away. Special thanks go out to everyone who dressed in white and raised the mood to the roof and above. The Sun Mini Festival was a huge success as well. 16 short hours, 1.100 mad party-goers, 25 insane DJs, 2.500 consumed drinks, 30.000 soap bubbles and 2 drag queens equals party! With the summer officially gone, it's time to look back. This is best achieved by checking the following photo galleries: Next year Unity will be ten and we'll celebrate with a bunch of special events. While impatiently waiting for time to pass, please vote for Finnish DJs in the following contests: 27 JuneMany thanks for making the party at the first Unity of this season. The second coming is already sold out, but you still have a chance to Unite with us for the last time this year, on the 6th of August. Tickets will come on sale Monday the 11th of July, 10 o'clock sharp, at Street Beat. Whether you're coming to Unity next week or not, for some extra summer 2005 hotness you simply can not miss the visit by the legendary grand pappa of chill-out music, José Padilla. At the tender age of almost 50 the creator of the Cafe del Mar mix albums and the original resident DJ at the Ibiza club of the same name is far from retired. Warm-up duties are taken care by local heroes Orkidea and Lil'Tony, with a special chill-out live PA from the handsome Slusnik Luna boys. Kaivohuone provides the setting for this luxus event taking place on the 10th of July and tickets are sold for 15 euros from your local ticket dealer Street Beat. The other must-go one-off summer Sunday treat is of course the 16-hour Sun Mini Festival on the 31st of July. The celebrated hedonism, xxxtravaganza and gayness of this annual fiesta are unparalleled. Orkidea, Eliot Ness, Dallas Superstars, Lil' Tony, Milla Lehto and Mr.A among others have promised to come out of their closets and play like the real men they are. Except Ms.Lehto who will play like a real woman, and Mr.A who doesn't need to come out. All of these 16 hours, 18 DJs, 3 rooms and 1 terrace will cost you a silly six euros! We anticipate lots of memory refreshing free drinks, drag queens, dripping sweat, and an extremely uncomfortable awakening on the next Monday. 4 JuneNext weekend's Unity tickets were sold out on the first day. If you're still looking for a ticket we might be able to sell a few more on the day of the party, starting at 18:00 on Kompassiaukio. But only if the weather is xtra-mega-great – which means not only sunny days but warm nights. Tickets for the July party will be on sale on the Monday after the first party, the 13th of June. 23 MayThree Saturdays, one every month of summer – 11th of June, 9th of July and 6th of August – it's time for Unity The Island, 2005 style. The island will be open all day, but you'll need a ticket to enjoy the programme after 18:00. Last year the tickets were sold out in 20 minutes for each event, so you better get up early on Monday the 30th. For our 10th year of putting up the Unity parties we selfishly started thinking about us. What would it take to create a perfect night that we would enjoy? How could we make ourselves feel special in every Unity party? We put down ideas and plans – and then decided to invite you all into the party as our Guests, make every one of You feel like Us. And here is how it goes: After 15:00 DJ Indigo starts with his chilled summer tracks to soothe the heat of the burning sun (we hope!), all the while you can start hunting for small treasures hidden on the island. During the summer you will also have the chance to experience Unity The Neppis Championship Race, Sand Castle Architect Of The Year competition, "How Low Can You Go" limbo competition and the classic Rubber Boat Madness race. At 18 in the early evening our house DJs will start spinning on the renovated terrace and we certainly hope to see the crowd in full action before 22. Guests dropping in during the summer are Lil' Tony, Mr.A and Dallas Superstars, among others. To celebrate the opening of the outdoors dance floor, champagne and strawberries will be served to all Guests on the island. To all of You, every night, at 18 o'clock. At 20 we invite you to enjoy the free buffet served by our chefs. If that doesn't satisfy your appetite, you can sit back at the bonfire and enjoy grilled knackorv during the night. That's plain ol' sausages for our non-Swedish readers. When the sun sets it's time to welcome you to the Club, where Orkidea and Unity Collective will be pushing you to the limits of your party-ability. The space will be lit for full action with the magic touch of Tea & Severi. On top of all this we offer complimentary sauna which will be open during the day and evening. Warm up after swimming or just enjoy yourself and get into that relaxing vibe of Finnish island life. We didn't want to give just something for everyone, we want to give everything for the 400 ones who get to The Island and get loose. Welcome! Check out the discussions Klubitus and Platinum. 19 AprilA big Thank You everyone who voted for us in the Finnish Club Awards. We were victorious in the following arenas:
17 MarchWe made it through the amazing weekend which was Pacifique 2005 and we could not believe how beautiful it all was once again. Europe's biggest waterpark was transformed into the most extravagant beach party we've ever seen. Steamy tropical heat, palm trees, shine of the mirror balls going through crystal clear water, warm summery sounds and 2000 smiling happy faces. We can't be much happier. Surely the setting was something spectacular, but it was The People who made the party, brought in the sunshine, happiness, friendship, love and even a bit of sex. The sold-out Pacifique 2004 was just what we hoped and that's thanks to You and your friends. We hope you enjoyed partying there as much as we did making it! Big respect to all the artists, all the people who joined the event and everyone who worked at Pacifique, especially all the volunteers making a huge effort during the weekend. You gave all that you had and made Pacifique a beautiful night to remember — hope we'll see all of you again next year! For those missed the action feel free to check out the photo gallery. To keep the Unity wheels rolling we already have the next chance to spend your well earned pocket money. We are teaming up with those happy people from Scandinavia's biggest gay club DTM and hosting Sun Club Pool Party at the forthcoming Munaristeily gay cruise, taking place on Eastern weekend's Thursday 24th of March. 21 hours on the Silja Opera luxury cruiser (familiar from last year's Oceania cruise) with a top line-up featuring house legend Robin S, Mr.A, Dallas Superstars and Unity residents Orkidea and Slusnik Luna, 1000 open minded party people, Paula Koivuniemi and Finland premier of the forthcoming 'Sillä Silmällä' TV-show. It's gonna be SO much fun and SO gay! For details and cabin reservations check out www.munaristeily.fi. |
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