DM Reports – “Preview The Review” – Lovechild “The Birthday” – Saturday 12th Febraury

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Continuing what is fast becoming the norm for us now, we step into another “Preview The Review”, this time taking our fresh felt & bite sized look at Lovechild, which celebrated its 2nd birthday last night (Sat 12th Feb) at Fire in Vauxhall.

With club brand birthday bashes appearing with monotonous regularity, Lovechild’s 2nd had a much more distinctly exciting prospect about it, not least as Valentine’s weekend love was definitely in the air, Fire in Vauxhall playing host across three rooms of fun. A rapidly filling main room saw a sparkling opening set from D.J. Savin, a mix of tech house & uplifting beats hitting a high with “Release Me”, then Tony English set the standard with a brilliant opener, Rebeka Brown’s “Offshore”, following it up with some scorching selections, although the new styled ambient come progressive lounge, looked after by Tony Bruno & Gabriele Cutrano, received a more muted reaction. With lighting & pyrotechnic effects a-plenty, plus the injection of the drop dead gorgeous Delice Boys on the podiums, the main room was a hard act to follow, but Brent Nicholls took up the mantle in the Mirrorarch brilliantly, with a prolific performance that saw the space packed for the whole of his scintillating set, a string of successive octane fuelled house hits finding favour, heavenly highlights being “The Miracle Of Love”, “Trapped” & our new Doing The Disco Matt track “Now Or Never”, sending us into a spinning frenzy.  With the infamous contact room seeing plenty of audacious action, the amazing atmosphere added to by special Berlin boy guest D.J.’s Chris Bekker & Eduardo De La Torre, as well as PA Kaysee, who treated us to her latest smash hit “Lovechild”, this was a birthday celebration complete. However, we have seen Lovechild’s of old busier, perhaps an indication of how tough Saturdays have become in the capital and the piecing sound in the main room resigned us to an earlier than expected bath, although with so much more to lament on, “…its ready steady go for the review…” (DISCO MATT)

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The History........................................................Created in 2008 after a short period of blogging under his real name, the pseudonym, “Disco Matt”, was born on the back of a reputation for being London’s original party boy having partied and clubbed across the London gay scene since in mid 1990’s.........................................................Through his series of blogs via individual blogging pages which soon morphed into a full blown website (http://discomatt.com), Disco Matt established himself as an independent journalist come columnist who quickly gained a reputation for supporting & promoting one of the world’s most prolific clubbing scenes. He previewed, reviewed & recommended London gay clubs, as well as the diverse gay/metrosexual London club/bar culture, linking to & reviewing the scene top D.J.’s and generally covering the gay scene including international gay events....................................................Regularly reporting on the top events across the scene, Disco Matt’s reviews, over the years, developed a strong following, not just by clubbers, D.J’s, promoters, music producers & scene faces, but people far and wide that were looking for an insight to the incredible scene that was London. He also previewed upcoming events that signalled, either a major change or update of existing clubs, new ventures on the gAylist/metrosexual scene, or where he considered events that deserved more comprehensive coverage to that provided in other posts.............................................However, having pretty much reached the top of his game in his chosen specific field, due to a number of personal predicaments, challenges & changes in his life priorities, Disco Matt parked his writing and operation in February 2014. While the burning desire to continue remained, what this much needed period of inactivity did provide was the time & space to re-think & re-focus his activities on a broader spectrum of media and entertainment............................................................So, following this long two year lay-off, he built up the foundations for this diversification into the areas of film, theatre, radio & television where his reviewing, recommending & reporting was to be replicated & resurrected, also pointing his promotions through more visuals & video's linked to all these areas along with his core activities and passions ................................................................................The Present....................................After another (shorter) period of lay-off from mid 2016, a life changing event reignited his passion and early into 2017, Disco Matt has delivered on his promise for a new, more modern look to his website, shedding the old & tired skin in favour of something far more in keeping with the times and with his blogging roots. And he has waived a fond farewell to his clubbing days, this having also been ditched from his site & activity, rather now just focussing on the genres of film, theatre, radio, television, video and of course, music, in so doing, aiming to broaden his appeal to a much wider audience interested in the latest most cutting edge areas of media & entertainment.............................................................................His aim is to be highly regarded across the industry for his writing in these fields and ultimately become a full time critic in film &/or theatre.