and now for something completely different....
After the fantastic Last Dance by Godskitchen that my main man ScotchMist took to me to for my b'day, this looks like the last big classic club event that will ever hit Birmingham. They will always have good new nights, but nothing on the scale of what they have done over the last 20 years. Failing this...
The line up will be the usual 'classic' sets from the likes of Danny Rampling, Healy and the like, but should hopefully include John Kelly at least,and if we are really lucky the likes of Seb or Tall Paul have good chance of putting in an appearance as well.
The best thing about it is that they are using Birmingham's Central Hall AKA 'The Que Club',, possibly the best venue in the country which anyone who has ever been in there will testify. Imagine the Digbeth Institute, The Bournemouth Opera House and the Camden Place perfected and doubled in size and you should get the picture....
The venue holds 3,500 - 4000 people (depending on how many of the plethora of extra music rooms they use) which are centred around this 3,000 capacity amphitheatre, taken during the day time
The venue has been used for dance events since 1991 and originally saw rave giants such as Fantasia, Quest, Pandemonium and Starlight among others use the hall for some of the best licensed showcase raves of the early 90's. By the mid 90's onwards, it became home to 'Flashback' (one of the countries leading 'old - school' rave promoters at the time), the peerless and possibly the best techno night in the country, 'Atomic Jam' amd has also hosted all night showcase events from the likes of Gatecrasher, Dreamscape, Raveology and Birmingham's own Godskitchen and Sundissential. Yet back in 1996 the Liverpool based Cream started to run monthly nights at the Arches in Glasgow and, of course, The Que Club in Birmingham to compliment the weekly parties they did at the The Nation.
Here they are setting up in the venue for a previous night. They may be Liverpool bred and (formally based), but they have been running one off events at this venue for 20 years, and it could be the last showcase dance event Birmingham may see for years.
Don't care about the line up. I have to be there really....
