{"id":396,"date":"2015-04-03T10:28:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T10:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unstabled.co.uk\/?page_id=396"},"modified":"2023-12-01T12:16:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T12:16:33","slug":"horseplay-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mikepony.co.uk\/?page_id=396","title":{"rendered":"Horseplay (2011 &#8211; 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Described by The Guardian as \u201cBristol\u2019s best gay dance party\u201d Horseplay was a queer-leaning art-disco-club with a fine dusting of glitter and sleaze. Horseplay began in April 2011, holding regular club events until 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Horseplay filled a gap for a hedonistic queer party where people could dance without inhibition in a haze of smoke and lasers, but it was also a platform for performance art. <span style=\"font-size: 1em; font-family: var(--font-base, 'Crimson Text', 'Baskerville Old Face', Garamond, 'Times New Roman', serif);\">Horseplay resident jockeys Pony, Bronco and Jim Carna played a frisky mix of underground house and disco.\u00a0Sometimes they hosted international DJs or hold theme parties, such as their Yves Klein inspired Blue Party, Andy Warhol Silver Factory party, or sensory event Synaesthesia. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Horseplay: The Silver Factory (Performance Edit)\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o-bYfs_e0j8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Horseplay developed a reputation locally and nationally for presenting playful art, music and performance as part of the night. They hosted artists, DJs and musicians such as Octo Octa, Rrose, Horsemeat Disco, Little Boots, Rosana Cade, FK Alexander, Panther Panther,\u00a0Queen of Hearts, Antoni Maiovvi and Kucka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Horseplay held wild parties in a number of unusual places, including an abandoned strip-club, the autopsy room of an old coroner\u2019s courts and in the underground cells of an old police station. Their audiences were fed pavlova by drag-ballerinas, had their genitals immortalised by an illustrator and displayed on the walls of the club and were visually assaulted by a huge range of avant-garde podium performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Horseplay was a Bristol based party. Their bigger spinoff party <a href=\"http:\/\/unstabled.co.uk\/dressage\/\">Dressage<\/a> was created for Bristol Pride, and was later developed into a touring concept to be performed at Festivals such as In Between Time, Love Saves The Day and Shambala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PRESS<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qxmagazine.com\/feature\/life-outside-london-bristol\/\">Life Outside London &#8211; QX Magazine 2015<br><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2015\/may\/29\/clubs-picks-of-the-week\">Clubs Pick of The Week &#8211; Guardian 2015<br><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/dalstonsuperstore.com\/features\/bronco-of-horseplay\/\">Bronco of Horseplay &#8211; Dalston Superstore 2015<\/a><br><a style=\"line-height: 1.71429; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.qxmagazine.com\/feature\/pony-tricks\/\">Pony Tricks &#8211; QX Magazine 2013<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SOCIALS<br>#Horseplayclub<br>Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Horseplay_club\">@horseplay_club<\/a><br>Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/horseplayclub\">@horseplayclub<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikepony.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12087298_10156074395965702_8158811021800666354_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" data-id=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/mikepony.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12087298_10156074395965702_8158811021800666354_o-1024x702.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikepony.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12087298_10156074395965702_8158811021800666354_o-1024x702.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikepony.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12087298_10156074395965702_8158811021800666354_o-300x206.jpg 300w, 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Horseplay began in April 2011, holding regular club events until 2018. Horseplay filled a gap for a hedonistic queer party where people could dance without inhibition in a haze of smoke and<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikepony.co.uk\/?page_id=396\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Horseplay (2011 &#8211; 2018)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-396","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepony.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepony.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepony.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepony.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepony.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikepony.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"https:\/\/mikepony.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepony.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepony.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}