hey hey,
i’ve been sat here in a smiley haze for the last ten minutes trying to recall my all time bestest ever clubbing night… and so many came to mind, all for different reasons and reading through the posts i’ve been to alot of the same places as other members…
Sven Vath at Fabric rocked, i danced my arse off, the vibe was lovely and although it was packed ther is something nice about it, usually its just a few people barging about, grrr… have to put Roger Sanchez down for that too…. he played a seven hour set there a few years ago with was amazing..
also have to rate the now closed Blue Note in Hoxton square, used to go see Talvin Singh play his Anokha nights there, drum n bass with asian flavours, Anokha means unique by the way and for a british born asian it was really something, it was a simple show that we as asians were here, we have evolved in a western society to create our own fusions of music that attracted a cross cultural audience not made up of beer swilling rudeboys that we had seen at Bhangra events, they were socially acceptable too, if i told my dad i was going there he often used to lend me a score for a drink or a cab home, i remember being teary eyed as i danced as i heard old movie classic from Mother India that i had grown up with on sunday morning telly ( Movie Mahal – GL will know) being mixed into killer breaks and a crowd dancing away with some of us knowing the cultural significance of what was happening around us. No longer were we the subserviant immigrant community that our parents generation might have been,
we were here, and
we were now, and
we were going to stay.
