Welcome to the first of what will be a whole series of our bite sized reflections that will capture each & every party we visit in the twelve strong schedule of events that make up this year’s Delice Dream Festival, the five day gathering in Calella that captures 25 performer, 16 D.J.’s and over 70 hours of clubbing & cavorting, truly evoking the festivals strap line “No Time To Sleep”. And what better way to start but from the beginning, the gatherings first club event “1001 Nights”, which took place at host clubbing venue, Zillion, a mere 10 hours ago, our short sum up going like this……
With certain events having crystallised our decision to make it down to Barcelona’s Calella resort for the five day Delice Dream Festival of events, we landed on the host hotel not long before the start of the first full-on clubbing event, “1001 Nights” kicking off at midnight at club Zillion, just a hop skip & jump away from our home for this, our five day frolic with all things Delice. So, slipping into smoothing more appropriate for this first of many parties, we arrived at the club’s doors not long before 1 a.m., being greeted by the ever smiling Delice head honcho Anthony Lille, the stresses & strains of masterminding this huge festival undertaking hardly showing on his face. With arrival formalities over we were down into the club in a trice, the opulent feel reminding us a little of Cafe De Paris back in London, although without the huge sweeping staircase & the bright chandelier lighting, although with regal seating around, balcony’s encapsulating the dancefloor below & a stage area at one end, the venue was very much shaping up to be the perfect place to hold this first of five main parties. And with Enrico Arghentini kicking off the musical proceedings with pumping euphoric & vocal house, the real curtain raiser was the first a many showings on the stage by the drop dead gorgeous Delice Boys, all dressed in Arabian costumes & exuding masses of middle eastern mystique & magic, as the flexed their taught muscles & moved to the music magnificently. With our supposed relative anonymity being broken within minutes of arriving, first by a handful of familiar faces from London, one based in Barcelona, then by D.J. Andrei Stan, but moreover by a very forward & obliging Diego Lombardi of Muccassassina, our night definitely ended up being a Delice Dream of a four hour frolic, second D.J. Luiggi performing a spectacular set, a good 1001 times better than the last showing we had seen at Red & Blue in Antwerp. So, with so much more to say, it’s “…Ready Steady, Go For The Review…” (DISCO MATT)