the rolling london dancing thread

i was at that love fever i think. god it was shit. really nice people on the door and a nice crowd and a decent venue, but i was astonished at how poor the system and worse, the music was. it sounded great and the way they sold it it looked really good, but it completely wasn't.

there's been more than one love fever this year, the one with sprinkles in april would have been a whole different thing to that one in may - which was super disappointing

I couldn't make the Sprinkles one which was a shame. The one I went to was in May. The music was all over the place. The DJ played that Steve Moore 12" on L.I.E.S. and then moments later Braxe's mix of Kelis' Bossy. The crowd were pretty transient. They were charging £15 which was OOT considering it was so low key. I followed that with SecretSundaze in Greenwich, oh dear. My friends from out of town did see the funny side of it.

the may one was really disappointing, won't go to another of those

would have gone to sprinkles but was at soundstream/portable/sud

not sure what to think of secretsundaze....tempted by fred p this weekend but i dunno...they don't seem to do too good with venues. i heard the moodymann one was good but the zip one not so much. v likely to be going to zip at camp tho

SecretSundaze has the same problems that Superfreq, Wiggle, Faith etc. has for me. It attracts an older, generally male crowd which has some nasty and heavily druggy elements. They have been around for years and need large venues which London doesn't have enough of. They're not all bad obviously but it can be enough to ward me off. I think it's because London promoters have the difficulty that certain nights attract certain types where smaller cities often have more of a mixed crowd; fashionable, gay, students, music-heads, older clubbers etc.

Zip at CAMP will be ace though.

I'm also way out of touch with pretty much everything - what's so good about Low Life?

I've not been to a normal Lowlife party but they've been doing them for like 15 years or something and they always seem to sell out - I'm not expecting anything revolutionary, just really enjoyable house and disco. There's a big group of us going due to a friend's birthday, which always helps.

Zip at CAMP will be ace though.

Problem with this will be that it's at CAMP, atrocious venue.

yeah last fun secretsundaze i went to was at canvas..not sure they ever managed to find the right venue after that.

i have just been talked into going to this krankbrother halloween loft party on friday w/ matt tolfey but it's 'secret east london venue' arggggh

best nights i've had in london this year were both at cable (ostgun ton night with marcel dettmann + ame and the resident advisor party with loco dice)

i find it hard to have a good time at fabric normally

*ostgut

i'd be up for something the weekend of nov 3-6...

funny, the couple of times I've been to SecretSundaze what I've liked about it is the older crowd - it feels less tryhard, less drunken, less attitude-y. but maybe i've just managed to avoid the nasty element.

just bought tickets for this too actually: http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?302984

ooooooooooh

Don't think I could make Boxing Day cos I normally see my Mum on the 27th, but should be up for a bit of a rave up around the dates Geeta mentioned.

best nights i've had in london this year were both at cable (ostgun ton night with marcel dettmann + ame

I was at this, that was a good night. ame was a strange fit with it being dettmann and fengler but that track they played which sounded like a piano being thrown down a flight of stairs while someone shouted YEYAH was really great. pity about 2nd room in cable...steffi/efdemin was a definite draw but 2nd room isn't a good space so spent most of time in room1

yeah the 2nd room is kind of awkward although i quite like that it just runs through into some messy afterparty in there on sunday morning. i think we left at 11am that night

ha i didn't know that think we left around 830

actually i think it was the RA night where it ran on (but it was some completely different party with a weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeird crowd)

sounded like a piano being thrown down a flight of stairs while someone shouted YEYAH

http://youtu.be/OUFQbc5ymrw

this one?

ha no it was very different to that. there was v pronounced panning, then the falling down piano stopped and there was a pause and someone shouted YEAYAH

not sure about the YEAH but there are a couple of wolfgang voigt tracks that sound a bit like that

it didnt really sound like voigt - it was kind of silly and boisterous. the other problem is, i can hardly remember the track now

who's coming to lowlife? totes looking fwd to it, feels like it's been AGES since i had a proper rave

typically i have to be semi-sensible as i have to review a gig on sunday night but i'm sure i can manage to be home by...midday, right?

i have just been talked into going to this krankbrother halloween loft party on friday w/ matt tolfey but it's 'secret east london venue' arggggh

OMG I AM SO PISSED OF ABOUT THIS NIGHT

all the worst things about london 'clubbing' in one

- 'secret venue' miles out of town
- massive queue for event which you already have £18 ticket for
- violent queue for cloakroom which turns out to be full
- half hour wait to use portaloo
- two times over capacity
- 20 y/o kids in shutter shades whose dancing involves leaning into everyone next to them

the venue was actually incredible and matt tolfrey was great but it's like...impossible to have fun at these things. left in a huff.

jesus, tpp, that sounds grim. how the hell do people get away with putting on nights like that?

super excited about low life! i have perhaps unwisely agreed to go for brunch with my parents the next morning, but you don't actually have to sleep before going to brunch, right?

the venue was actually incredible and matt tolfrey was great but it's like...impossible to have fun at these things. left in a huff.

this is why i go to clubs once a year if even that often

last weekend i went over to trouw in amsterdam which was such an incredible experience and really put london clubbing in perspective. god i might just save my money and do that once every few months instead

yeah i am pretty jaded with the things that surround dance music (tho quite into the tunes) tbh so my views not representative, but i feel like an annual trip to berlin does the job for me.

Well, when Germans communicate, you listen.

Wait, that joke doesn't even make sense...

(the trick is to figure these things out before posting)

TPP your experience reminds me of the last party I went to at the Union Street Car Park. Amazing space and music, terrible bar, toilets, temperature.

one toilet is a massive no no for me....

sorry tmi

- 'secret venue' miles out of town

how far out? I've always been suspicious of these "secret venue" things.

going to Plastic People tonight, first time since they remodeled it. have heard mixed things so will be interesting to see if it's any good.

let me know what it's like temperature-wise - i've been once post-refurbishing, not long after it reopened, and it was like a fucking sauna in there because no one thought to put the air con back in o_0

sounds like a horrible but all too common experience tpp - like ronan i think that's a reason i go raving less, cuz i can't be fucked with that shit any more. this is why i don't go to camp (the venue) despite their reliably amazing line-ups, it's just grim in there.

Secret venue for me tonight is Proud2. Not looking forward to it.

i guess i can be relieved that i didn't get a ticket for low life, since i slept for about an hour on friday night and then was busy from 9am until midnight last night. I'D HAVE DIED.

i have friends visiting on the 5th, anything notable going on?

Lowlife was super fun, most fun I've had out dancing in a very very long time. I barely went into room two at all because everyone in the main room was absolutely killing it. Also watching a load of zombies and vampires dancing on the stage gave a nicely surreal touch.

theo parrish is at plastic ppl on the 5th i think

Mulletover was dreadful, as predicted. I'm giving clubbing in London a miss for a bit after last night.

What's the deal with Theo and Plastic People. I am to understand he has some sort of quasi-residency there?

not even quasi, he plays all night once a month

That's kind of a quasi-residency, no? Anyways, good to know. Could always use more Theo P in my life.

Ugh, maybe this is why my reading comprehension scores on the GRE were so low...

lowlife was amazing, had such a great time. raving i have missed you <3

from Dimitri from paris thread:
wish I could go to this tonight http://www.brixtonclubhouse.com/club/

I didn't even know they had revamped Dex, looks like it has potential for a s.london dancing venue especially if the funktion 1 soundsystem is still there

Anyone going to the Ostgut night at Corsica. Line up doesn't look especially missable.

Tobias playing a "live analogue hardware set" sounds great

Errm, I'm referring to this

been to the last 2 ostguts, dont think i can make this one tho:/