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Solid Sunday - Review Reported by Shaun / Submitted 20-06-02 23:34 Now to me Sundays have always meant Eastenders Omnibus, the Sunday papers, crap TV and the desire to eat, but the inability to actually consume, a traditional English roast dinner (due to the excess of the previous two nights...) However, to a large group of people in London Sundays mean only one thing: More clubbing! Clubs such as Sunday School, Riot and Solids (as its regulars call it) cater for this party hard crowd who don’t wanna stop after the madness that is Saturday night. Having resisted the lure of Sunday clubbing for so long, fearing the effects of the next day at work, I finally managed to stoke up the desire to attend my first ever Sunday club: Solid Sunday. The line up and venue both promised something a little different from the norm so I was well interested in going. The venue “Subterrania” is usually used for R’n’B/Garage and Reggae nights so this was a chance to discover another venue in London for a change (instead of the usual suspects.) Once past the thorough search you enter what I would describe as a mini Fridge: a spacious dance floor, high ceiling and an ‘upper’ level from which all those voyeurs amongst you can peer down onto the dance floor. The sound system hits you as soon as you get in and the bass starts vibrating through your chest straight away, I walked in just as Voltswagen’s “Bugs and Beetles” was finishing and the crowd were dancing and smiling. Now as I had been to Heat the previous day and stayed up through the night I wasn’t in much of a party mood when I arrived to be honest – but I was the only one. Skol was playing one of his trademark tough, hard and bouncy house sets, the dance floor although not packed was busy enough and people were boshing all over the place like their life depended on it... Was a great sight to see. Now, that kind of music really isn’t my bag at all, I prefer my hard dance with a trance tip, but it was certainly energising the room and everyone seemed to be really enjoying themselves. It was also a very friendly vibe and good atmosphere, some crowd noise could even be detected which is rare for a predominantly antipodean club. The only negative point at this stage was the severe heat of the club, the air conditioning consisted only of a few fans scattered around and it was easy to break into a sweat after just a few minutes of dancing – yet another club that needs to have a serious look at its ventilation system. Although, to be fair, the club does offer free glasses of iced water to all that want it and that was refreshing (no pun intended!) to see. Anyway, back to the music, after Skol had destroyed the dance floor, Jamie Duncan (Resident) took up his place behind the decks and layed down two hours of hard dance ranging from hard house at the start of his set and building up into a hard trance frenzy towards the end. His mixing was exemplary and he appeared to really be enjoying what he was doing, which is always good to see as it projects energy into the club itself. Sorry, I am not much of a trainspotter when it comes to Hard House tunes so can’t tell you what he played but he was mixing it up a storm and the club was loving every minute of it. After Duncan came the man I was waiting for, Mr Spencer Freeland. As one of the finest purveyors of Hard Trance on the London hard dance scene his reputation precedes him. You know you are in for 2 hours of uplifting, banging anthemic hard trance tunes and sure enough they were all played during his fab set. You name the tune it was there from “Frantic Theme Tune” to “Hallucinogenic Effect” to “Get a Rush” to the hard dance version of “Rapture” : A role call of what is big in hard dance at the moment and of course he played what seems to be his signature tune, the fantastic “Jetlag” by DJ Kim. Feeling energised by his selection of tunage I started dancing for the first time in the night and my tiredness melted away as Freeland pounded it out. The crowd started to disperse a little at this time, which is to be expected at 10:00 on a Sunday evening and I think that the crowd preferred the harder bouncier tunes that Skol and Jamie Duncan were playing but I loved every minute of it. Then unfortunately, my body hit a wall, as it always does eventually and my bed started to call me. With the melody of “Get a Rush” ringing in my ears I left Solid Sunday having had an unexpectedly great evening. The best thing about Solids was the friendly crowd and the atmosphere, I wasn’t massively keen on the music for the first few hours but the last 3 hours were fantastic – Solid Sunday are taking a break for the summer to enjoy the sun (if we get any!) But I’ll be sure to go back in those cold winter months. If you like your house bouncy and hard and your trance banging then this is a great club to check out – Its sure beats the crap out of the Antiques Roadshow and the Sunday Times..... Related Sites: www.hardmongrel.com Share this :: : : : Follow HarderFaster :: Other Features By Shaun: Nastydirtysexmusic, Interview with Tim Sheridan and Smokin' Jo The Big Three in Ibiza reviewed: We Love Sundays at Space, Subliminal Sessions at Pacha and Cream at Amnesia... Interview with Tim Davison. Review of SW4 - Clapham Common, 21/08/04. Review of Cream, Amnesia opening party. 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