FAKE BLOOD at Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Saturday (June 20), 1 am, 2 am, 3 am. $20 or NXNE wristband. nxne.com.
IF YOU LIKE THIS BAND, BE SURE TO CHECK OUT Pants and Tie at Whippersnapper Gallery, Friday (June 19), 11 pm.
“I take your music and do what I want with it,” declares DJ Theo Keating (aka Fake Blood) on his MySpace page.
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Despite the bombast, this isn’t some flavour-of-the-month indie kid running his mouth. Keating has a long history in the British sample scene dating back to the early 90s.
Along with partner Paul Eve, Keating was at the helm of trip-hop duo the Wiseguys, whose Ooh La La became a number-two hit in 1999. The band was also remixed by Fat Boy Slim and had tracks on ads for Mitsubishi Motors and Budweiser.
After a stint playing with rockers Simian (before they added “Mobile Disco” to their name), Keating teamed up with Simon Lord to form the Black Ghosts, an electro-punk outfit that’s been tormenting the blogosphere since 2006.
For a while after debuting the Fake Blood DJ/remix project in early 2007, Keating kept his identity as its creator a closely guarded secret. He almost always performs wearing a mask, which led many people to erroneously suspect that Tiësto was really behind Keating’s house-inflected remixes for Hot Chip, Bonde do Role, Underworld and Armand Van Helden.
