Events 471 - A Guy Called Gerald (30th + DJ set)

A Guy Called Gerald x The Jungle Drummer

30 Years of Black Secret Technology
LIVE

New live show to appear at events including Glastonbury Festival, We Out Here and now at Future Yard in Birkenhead with Events471.

 

Celebrating three decades of Black Secret Technology, iconic acid house pioneer A Guy Called Gerald is teaming up with The Jungle Drummer for a groundbreaking new live show.

Fresh off sold-out dates at London’s Jazz Cafe, this powerful performance—set to appear at Glastonbury’s Glade Stage, We Out Here Festival, and Strange Brew Bristol—reimagines classics from Black Secret Technology and Essence, alongside unreleased gems straight from the vault, all constructed live using Gerald’s signature fusion of real-time software and hardware manipulation. 

This is no backing track set but a fully live dynamic performance. Expect a fully live, high-voltage set built on beat-for-beat improvisation and seamless synergy between Gerald and The Jungle Drummer.

A Guy Called Gerald—widely regarded as a founding father of UK electronic music—is credited with launching Europe’s acid house explosion with the iconic Voodoo Ray and shaping the sound of Jungle and Drum & Bass with a series of releases on his own Juice Box Records in the early 90s and the seminal Black Secret Technology.

Joining him is The Jungle Drummer, whose powerhouse drumming has featured on releases for influential labels including Metalheadz, Ninja Tune, Hospital Records and Valve. With a history of collaborations spanning Shy FX, London Elektricity, High Contrast, and Beardyman, he brings a live energy that’s second to none. 

This collaboration is a bold fusion of live Jungle, Electronica, and raw improvisation—built for the dancefloor and designed for progressive festivals and venues looking to showcase the cutting edge of UK electronic music.

 

A Guy Called Gerald Extended Dj Set

An iconic name in dance music, A Guy Called Gerald stands out for consistent innovation, excellence and refusal to compromise. A Guy Called Gerald kick started Europe’s acid house frenzy releasing the first UK acid house record, the ’88 classic ‘Voodoo Ray’ and 'Pacific State' and went on to lay down the blueprint for jungle / drum n bass.

Nine albums and 25 years of independence later, he continues to push the boundaries of electronic dance music touring worldwide bringing his "true school" flavour to a world overloaded with pop pap.

Although his remixes are relatively enviable including the likes of David Bowie, Cabaret Voltaire, Black Uhuru, Finley Quaye, Lamb, Tricky and The Stone Roses, it is Gerald’s own productions and refusal to plough anyone’s furrow but his own which has marked him out.   A Guy Called Gerald is responsible for the birth of British dance music as you know it today and continues to explore what is possible both in the studio and in the club with his "Live in Session" performances. 

Since 2012 he has been working on a side project with Graham Massey (808 State) called REBUILD performing live jams on the Roland machines. “How Long Is Now” was released on Bosconi Records in 2012. A live album Silent Sound Spread Spectrum followed from the Society of Sound Series – a collaboration between Bowers & Wilkins and Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in 2013. 

In 2017 he continues to be in demand worldwide with his Live In Session shows using a vast patchwork of past, present and future experimenting effortlessly between early acid house through abstract tech breaks into dreamscapes of futuristic oscillations. 

At Glastonbury Festival this year he will return to perform with Funktion One’s Experimental Soundfield – a six stack Ambisonic full-sphere surround sound technique that is ‘capable of recreating accurate three-dimensional sound stages from original recordings’.