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Bunter vs Freeland: Heat @ Turnmills - Review
Reported by littlemissgenki
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Submitted 07-02-03 10:23
All you hard headed foot stomping, glow stick waving cheesey quavers out there will be forgiven just this once for missing the main event @Turnmills on the 11th of January, on this usually unattended date at this venue, usually home to the totally poptastic swank and bank ultracommercial DJs Judge Jules, Tall Pall, Fergie and the like...but yet again the Heat team have kicked sand in the face of convention, dragged into the dock the usual suspects and ripped the ears off any gucci wearing toilet hogging non dancing trendsetters that didn't log on and find out it may not have been their flute of verve, darhling. And by the end of this night, even the smoothest of operators could be could be found shirtless, wide-eyed and clutching their friends’ bottle of water with a huge grin from ear to ear.
There were many reasons why this event shouldn't be missed, but for me, Turnmills is the club closest to my heart, all jokes aside for this is where I met my partner, the incredibly talented in all departments individual known to some of you as mrbicgit. Our lives collided during a Normal Cook set on the main dance floor...and to date, we’ve had much better luck in love than poor ol’ Fatboy! House aside our music tastes clashed and of course, I won our own heavyweight championship…out of this came our passion for this scene that's called hard dance, and Saturday night eleven months on I’m back at Turnmills and at Heat, not carwash or some cheesy west end club...
 When I arrived a little (fashionably?) late as always, Stretch was bringing up a growing group of appreciative groovers in the hard house room with some hard arsed beats, whilst in the hard trance room Dee-licious was whipping up some more than delectable tunes. In typical Heat style the main room was packed and going off already, and you could well be forgiven for thinking Steve Blake was actually playing at the end of the night and not near the beginning.
However, a burning question was haunting me as I wandered around the three ‘rooms’. Pardon my ignorance those of you more musically inclined out there (that’s probably most of you!) but in attempting to write about the evening,it was a question I thought I should try and address: what's the difference between the three main rooms? Is there more bounce in the hard trance? is there more digger digger in the hard dance? is there more duff in the hard house? a lot of happy contented people were dancing round doing there best to figure that one out…
Back in the hard house room, Jamie Duncan was hitting everyone's spots with some real dirty hard house...or was that hard dance? there's definitely some 'digger digger' in there somewhere, and that bass…whoooahh, one hell of a ‘duff’! But K90 was about to start, and the hard dance room called. Watching K90 come on is always an incredible all out assault on the body and mind, and tonight was no exception. This guy is on fire at the moment (sorry, I promise no more cheesy heat puns…) and the packed main room loved it. The main room at Turnmills usually has a wicked atmosphere at the best of times--perhaps due to the shape of the room as the DJ seems so close, or the low ceilings, which give a sense of intimacy unusual to most London clubs—but tonight with the added extra of the Heat crew going hard it really was incredible. And although Turnmills doesn’t have a vast array of lights, the rig they have on the main dance floor is so close, you can look straight into and through the lazers, something difficult to recreate in larger clubs.
Although the night was still young, in the hard trance room one of London’s coolest new additions had the crowd really ‘aving it—Eduardo Herrera, with his unique uplifting hard trance sound. Anyone who’s seen Eduardo play will have noticed the incredible energy he puts into his sets and tonight I felt he even managed to better his awesome set at Too Much But Never Enough a couple of weeks earlier—and believe me, that’s no small feat! I was lost in his sounds for a good while, until I remembered that Tara Reynolds was on in the hard house room.
I managed to get there just in time to witness Tara blowing a packed hard house room away to James Lawson's Times Like These, and it was definitely one of the defining moments of the evening. So many happy smiling faces, but Times Like These has to be one of the few hard house numbers that gets so many people moving their lips as well! In fact, it felt like the ghost of James Lawson was haunting both the main hard dance and hard house rooms throughout the evening, with Energise being mixed through countless tracks.
In the main room I was just in time to see Phil Reynolds come on—as if the crowd needed to be taken up any further! I’m not sure if it was Phil or K90 who dropped Underworld's Born Slippy into the mix (there were a coupla DJs in the booth…), but when the bass finally dropped, it had us all stomping harder than ever. Meanwhile in the hard trance room, Daegal Brain had a large but intimate group bouncing along to the hard trance version of Heaven. Bryan Adam’s ears should surely have been burning, as I’m sure he’s never had an audience like this! It would appear that extremely positive energy is a criteria for the hard trance room if these guys were anything to go by.
Back to the hard dance room, and resident Marc French was sitting at the helm of his new ship with its ultra hitech perfect pitch controlled bunker of a DJ booth. Marc sounded the battle cry to the blood thirsty super heavy weights of this our hard dance championship with an absolutely fabulously incredible set that lit the fuse paper of the main event. Can’t wait for the CD launch Marc!
Word spread like wildfire that Spencer Freeland had played a phenomenal set @camden palace forcing time to stay still (OK, mrbicgit came in late and bedazzled!) but Bunter wasn't scared: he's seen it all, from the first prodigy live PAs@the four aces club to jumping jack frost at his very best in the hardcore days gone by. He was here to set the record straight and straight into it he played...
Now it was time for the gladiators to go all out, and so they did. I hadn’t left the main dance floor since Marc’s spectacular set had had me glued to the front right speaker, and with apologies to the DJs in the other rooms, there was no way I could get away now…I did try, I did, and forced myself to go for a wander about 5am to hear Justin Bourne playing a very hard mix of BK’s Bad Ass, but with the atmosphere in the main room being as it was, I couldn’t stay away. The rest of the night is pretty much a euphoric blur, although I have to make my point about James Lawson again: Spencer Freeland played Times Like These for the at least the third time I’d heard it that night, but hey, if only there were more nights like these--or should that be mornings?
Billy dropped Energise around 6am and the crowd went crazy, and when Damo was called in at 6am to be told there were still 1000 people going hard, he said avviiit, and so we did... I’d well given up trying to work out who was playing what by this stage of the game, and then the guys played Everybody get moving around 7am, we certainly didn’t need to be told! The night was capped off perfectly for me by K90’s Red Snapper, and when the music finally stopped, I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who wished we could keep going.
And who was the winner of the championship? Most certainly the future of hard dance, in the forms of Marc French, Spencer Freeland and Billy 'Daniel' Bunter. Heat has taken the fabulous venue that is Turnmills to new levels, and with the CD launch party there this Saturday [see link to win tickets], I know I’ll be in for another incredible night which will more than remind me why I love clubbing! And this time James Lawson will be there in the flesh too… Now I’m off to the Retox bar to hear Eduardo, The Ignition Crew and Spencer over a few glasses—what perfect start to the weekend could there be?
With thanks to mrbicgit for the use of his photos
Heat return to Turnmills this weekend for the HeatUK CD Launch party... for full details click here.
Win tickets to Heat this weekend here.
Relevant Links
www.heatuk.info
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