Shaking up the scene and championing clubbing change across the capitals circuit, we find Vauxhall’s Club Covert at the centre of this magnificent movement, so delve deep into the aims & achievements of this band of brotherly club owners, promoters & figure heads, both for this coming Saturday’s “A New Beginning” event and for the [...]

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With February seeing a heap of new happenings from both new to the promoter game guys & experienced operators, it seems Orange Nation also wants to join the party as it announces the launch of its latest Friday frolic, replacing the ill fated Onyx & A:M “Ultra” forays, we delving into what new meet Manic [...]

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With As One seemingly shunted away in it’s shed, there is a creative new clubbing combo that is preparing to connect its brilliant brand couplings, brim its boiler and speed out of the sidings on Saturday 16th February, prolific party Prohibition preview propelled in dynamic detail.     Combining clubs and brands into one gigantic [...]

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As the Deelooded day draws captivatingly close, we follow up our preview, “Making Majestic Moves” with the latest news on this Eastside event, including the announcement of the second space line-up, while also recapping on the important info ahead of this must be seen on the scene spectacle.     We just love it when [...]

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After a break of just over five months, Matinee makes its mark on the capitals clubbing circuit once again with its “Pervert – The Beauty Of Darkness” themed event, a host of stars from the international scene landing on London as the brand prepares to storm into 2013, bigger & better than before, we delving [...]

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Very much back in the preview groove, it seems that the scene, after a brief January respite, is exploding into action from the first weekend of February, Pushca right up there as one of the top notch turns, its “Undercover – Let The Mystery Begin” event expected to euphorically erupt with enthralling excellence at Electric [...]

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It was the soiree sensation of 2012, turning heads & wagging tongues even before the actual launch in February, while true to form in 2013, the divine Deelooded is doing it again, making majestic moves out east, throwing the cat amongst the pigeons and creating a scene shake-up stir, we looking at this brilliant brand [...]

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When we look back across our clubbing life in the capital there is no doubt that times have certainly changed since we first arrived on the scene back in 1990 and it would also be fair to say that our tastes in clubs & the music they play has also changed, we not necessarily moving [...]

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Having taken our tender steps onto the capital’s clubbing circuit some twenty or so years ago, we can count ourselves pretty lucky to have encountered some truly tremendous times in the hands of some of the biggest & best brands along the way, from Action to DTPM, Factor 25 to FIST, Matinee to SuperMartXe & [...]

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During our time both clubbing and reporting on clubbing we have seen a whole host of new concepts, launches & events that have tried to make an impression on the scene, some more successful than others, some standing the test of time, while others have fallen at the first hurdle, some even hardly getting out [...]

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Having ventured forth to this, one of the clubbing scene’s hottest tickets, back in March, we pretty much haven’t looked back, Room Service filling our weekly schedule of showings with increasing regularity and despite competition in the form of Gigolo having sprung up in Soho, it seems that the penchant for Jodie Harsh’s prolific Thursday [...]

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For a while now we have been thinking about creating a post that reports back to you on how the week’s bar, club & events scene in the capital played out, sharing the hits, the highlights, the movers, the shakers & much in between, also looking at those we recommended & others that you made [...]

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In a clubbing capital that sometimes seems to be ravaged by competition & politics, it is so refreshing to see club, club promoters & scene faces come together for the healthy cause of creating a collaborative event designed for the clubbing public to enjoy and that is exactly what the branded brilliance that is As [...]

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We really do adore a t-dance style soiree, but Salvation’s “The Future” event was always going to be more than that, this second foray at Koko in Camden, on the cards at least, looking like a smash as well as creating a splash on the spring bank holiday scene, meaning it simply had to be [...]

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In any given weekend it would be fair to say that all roads tend to lead to Beyond, although come this Spring Bank Holiday, the meaning in this saying was all the more explicit, as with Spanish giants SuperMartXe & WE Party playing out beforehand, not to mention other happenings around the capital emptying out [...]

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Having been literally on the go since the early hours of Friday morning with all things Muccassassina & Rome dominating the next 36 hours, it was well past midnight on Saturday that we landed back in London, pretty much laying to waste the first leg of our Spring Bank Holiday partying plans in the capital. [...]

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From the very first time we saw Muccassassina’s magnificence in the flesh, we have adored everything about this brilliant Italian brand, having seen it out & about on tour both for the massive London Global Dance Festival & then at Delice Dream in Barcelona, the opportunity, however, to see it in its natural home in [...]

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  Of the two new Soho social soiree’s that we said would soar, the latter launch was the one than very much captured the imagination of the capitals clubbing crowd, as Gigolo opened its door for the first time and were aghast by the huge response that saw host venue Lo-Profile packed to the rafters [...]

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It is almost a week since we made our wonderful way across London to the O2 Arena to witness what can only be described as THE best concert EVER in our lives (we we have been to a few) and while these days have passed, the memories of all the magnificent moments of music we [...]

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When we look back through our now considerable chapters of clubbing, we can re-collect a huge amount of brands, events & ventures that have made their way into our catalogue of calendars, although there are only a few that can claim the prize of being true milestones in our life, stand-out statements in the sea [...]

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We have kind of grown accustomed to having the Latin influence play a major role in the capital’s clubbing circuit, La Troya having shown the way some seven years ago, quickly followed by Space and then, in 2006, by Matinee, at the time these three mega brands very much accounting for the so called Spanish [...]

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With our conscious mind having told us for a while that we need to strike an alternative pose every now & then, while there have been a handful of devotions, Circus, Paradise 45, & Reverse springing to mind, the one hip & happening hangout that seems to continually fly underneath our radar is East Bloc, [...]

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Well, we are back with yet another Preview The Review, although with so many full on devotions to still declare, nine to be precise, we can’t quite believe we are adding to the workload, although having savoured what was, without doubt, THE best Beyond for us in weeks (and there have been some truly terrific [...]

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Welcome to yet another “Preview The Review” (PTR) report, a series that is proving increasingly popular due not just to their bite sized nature, but that they hit our pages & the wider world before any other reviews in magazines & on-line. And continuing that tradition is our latest fresh felt reflection, but a very [...]

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With our weekend crammed full of emotions, some truly ecstatic, others the complete reverse, we wanted to end our four full days of frolicking on a high, especially after we had slept through much of the most anticipated parties of the weekend and so with those excitable emotions intact, we made plans for a liaison [...]

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  Having been pretty much wowed by the last two WE parties, both the opener & WE Attacks very much floating our boat, expectations were high for this our third & WE Parties fourth foray of a clubbing colossus in the capital, although with our day having started like a dream at Beyond, then continued [...]

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Having eventually made it down to Jodie Harsh’s aaamazing Thursday night club Room Service (twice in fact) when, on the second visit, the queen of the socialite scene gave us the lowdown on a new Sunday adventure, our eagle eyes were excited with the arrival of the official press release confirming all the details of [...]

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Having sampled Brussels’ best clubbing brand first hand back in February, when we made it over to the Belgian capital for La Demence, when news came through that it would be returning the favour and tripping across to London, its arrival simply had to be a date in our diary. But when the integral ingredient [...]

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In a clubbing capital that tends to see far too much what we have been noted to term as generic genocide, it is such a pleasure to see something a little different to the same old, same old Vauxhall scene, not that we have anything against Vauxhall per say, but it is good for the [...]

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Having been running for a full twelve months we felt a tad guilty that Booster had continued to miss our review radar, although we did make a brief visit last October following the Jean Michel Jarre concert, but with Booster positioned right at the end of our usually hectic weekend, plus with work & writing [...]

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It seems an absolute age since we tripped across to Fire on a Sunday afternoon, the host venue for the craziness that is Later, the natural follow on from Beyond, serving up the option of dancing in the dark (ish) or socialising in the sunshine, well at least when the sun is shining! But with [...]

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If there are two events in our clubbing calendar that are made to go together, it’s an extended weekend & the citric colossus that is Orange, the Monday morning bender that can put paid to the start of a working week, yet on a Bank Holiday when it shouldn’t feel as decadent, it ends up [...]

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Having had a hell of a week in Calella, Barcelona with the drop dead gorgeous Delice boys for their Dream festival, landing back in London and then facing the manic Easter weekend of events left us a little stunned, our heart still very much beating for a boy in Belgium that had featured large in [...]

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If there is one event that we look forward to more than any other (well with the exception of our favourite afterhours of course!), it is As One, the colossal combo created by Lovechild’s Alex Erfan in association with iLondon events that took the capital by storm two NYD’s ago and has since attained critical [...]

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So here we are at fifth & final bite sized reflection of the Delice Dream Festival of events and our last night in the hands of Anthony Lille & his captivating crew, our curtain call being the Muccassassina party, which proved to be the best way to end our stay in Calella. Why?, well this [...]

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Welcome back to our delectations on the Delice Dream Festival, this fourth of five tasking a look at the “before” parties held in the host Hotel bar, four different nights with four very different D.J.’s, two in particular topping the scales superbly, our bite sized summary going like this…. With the Delice Dream festival daytime [...]

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Well, here we are again, reporting on the third of five mainstream parties in the twelve strong Delice Dream Festival schedule of events down here in Calella, Barcelona and whilst the constant clubbing cavorting was beginning to take its toll, we hit Zillion club last night to report on the rapture in bite sized form [...]

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Welcome to the second in our series taking a fresh felt & bite sized look at the succession of Delice Dream Festival parties, this time it being the turn of the Spanish & Victor Pallas’ WE Party to take centre stage, but did “Attacks” live up to its billing?, well this is what we had [...]

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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 [...]

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It hardly seems a year since we found ourselves spinning around the skating ring at The Renaissance Rooms in Vauxhall, on that occasion, celebrating the 1st birthday of Gay City Rollers, the roller skating disco brought to the London clubbing scene by Lovechild’s tip top promoter, Alex Erfan. So, after a natural break, we were [...]

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Billed as a special thank you to everyone that had voted for the club in the recent Boyz awards, Beyond was in celebratory mood, swinging open its doors extra early at (as the title hints), midnight, the Terrace Room spilling out into The Chapel and eventually the main space. Now, given the special start & [...]

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Despite our mounting backlog of reviews, reports, newsletters & the like, given our most recent clubbing escapade in Elephant & Castle, we simply had to put proverbial pen to paper on our fresh felt & bite sized view of the night just savoured, our latest Preview The Review looking like this……   When Brazil’s best [...]

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With our reviews mounting up we were considering putting on the brakes for a short while, but such was the extent of our enjoyment, courtesy of one man, at the last two Beyond’s, we simply couldn’t resist reporting on it. So, as is now traditional, we give you our bite sized reflection, in advance of [...]

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Back from South Africa for just over a week and the second review gets handed to cousin Crisco Matt, who stepped into his leather & rubber for a special event at Hard On! and this is what he summarises of the night, all in advance of the full review……. Getting strapped into rubber for the [...]

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Welcome to the latest edition in our increasingly popular series, where we take a bite sized look at club experiences fresh in our minds, in advance of the full length review, this time we going to print as rapidly as possible on Lovechild’s latest party, which we think has marked a tide change in the [...]

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If there was ever a club review of ours that was more anticipated it was going to be Room Service’s, the creation formed in association with the peeps behind photography company “Shootmeup” and currently steered by Circus’s Jodie Harsh along with Kris Di Angelis, that made wonderful waves right from the first innings a good six months [...]

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You find us ready to post the next in our instalments of bite sized reflections, soaking up yet more of the scorching South African sunshine and relaxing in the tranquillity of the gorgeous guest house, Villa Costa Rose in Cape Town’s Seapoint district. However, such has been the hectic schedule we have been keeping, this [...]

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Well, you couldn’t get any fresher than this, as we have literally landed from another breathtaking Beyond, so it simply had to get our bite sized look in advance of the full review, which joins a growing list of those we still need to pen. But that aside, this “Erotica” event was exceptional, why?…well We [...]

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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 [...]

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With the love weekend under a full head of steam, we bring you the first of three in our new series of posts, this time taking our fresh felt & bite sized reflection on the now annual London leg of Rentboy.com’s “Escort Of The Year” competition, which took place last night at Ku-Bar/Club. Generally unplanned [...]

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Welcome to the second of our new “Preview The Review” reports and this time our fresh felt bite sized reflection of Red & Blue’s “I Wanna F***” party, we coming away with mixed feelings & reactions, summing up the event as follows… Our return to Antwerp and to Red & Blue was filled with much [...]

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For a while now, we have been scratching our heads for a way to break the fresh feeling news on our various visits, be it a bar, club or event either at home or abroad, as more often than not our extensive reviews take a few days (sometimes weeks) to appear. So, having found inspiration [...]

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Without doubt if there is any club brand in London that has attracted a huge amount of media activity, gossip & intrigue over the last few months, it has to be SuperMartXe (SMX), the massive Spanish club brand which, even in its roots in Madrid, has been going through quite a tumultuous time of late. [...]

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Now you should know by now that we love a bit of a birthday bash, indeed it hardly seems a month (well it isn’t quite yet actually) since we were celebrating our very own at Beyond, although with ours wrapped up in pre Christmas partying, we have come to expect that the emphasis is more [...]

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Back in July last year, following some disturbing developments with a favourite clubbing brand of ours, we decided to add to our already extensive family of reports, Disco Matters, a vehicle aimed at tackling the big issues of the day, delving into the new & exciting developments to hit the scene and also dealing with [...]

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The date was 29th July 2006 and the event, the introduction to London gAylist clubbing of a Spanish brand that very much shook up the scene & heralded a wave of what was commonly termed as the “…Spanish Armada…”, pretty much transformed the style of clubbing in virtually every respect, from the music, to the [...]

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Having not long returned from Berlin where we sampled a true clubbing legend in the form of Berghain, the byword for techno in this most dazzling of cities, it seems appropriate that we take a preview look at another clubbing legend, which may not have the purist techno base in its music like Berghain, but [...]

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