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| Slinky |
Date:
Friday 19th October 2001
Address: Slinky, Opera House, Christchurch
Road, Bournemouth
Occurrence: Weekly / Friday
Hours: 9pm - 3am
Ticket Price: £7
B4 10.30pm / £9 after. £10 in advance
Dress Code: Slinky club
wear, street wear & smart clean clubbing trainers
No lager boys.
Genre: Trance / Hard Dance
Capacity: 2000
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Main
Room: Hard House & Trance - John Kelly,
Dave Lea
Room 2: Funky House -
Scott Nusckool, Bob Baker |
So then a visit to one
of the UK's premier superclubs was this the destination
of this lucky member of the UK-CL team.
Now on our travels we have visited differing venues
across the UK and we arrived at the Opera House
in Bournemouth, the home of Slinky. The venue itself
is a dramatic and atmospheric ballroom spacious
in apperance.
On arriving we were given the briefest search by
the door personal and then confronted by the news
that Taucher was not in appearance and that Dave
Lea would be filling in for the missing act.
The venue itself houses two genre's of music, the
main dance floor houses Slinky's traditional Trance
and Hard House with a glitzy foray of Cyber kids
donned with their forever apparent glow sticks.
And a second room which conveys a feeling of funky
fresh house beats. Over the years, room two has
taken on several different themes, most famous was
the Drum 'n' Bass which later became so popular
it became Cocoshebeen and now can be found at Urban
in Bournemouth. More recently it was the UK Garage
style that tried but sadly failed to take off, and
now it's the turn of Scott Nuskool and Bob Baker
mixing a smooth funky style of house.
Well a few drinks were taken on board in a gentle
but upbeat start to the night in room 2; which was
overseen by the strange but moving start to John
Kellet's set. The DJ responsible for Slinky Super
Club DJ Part 2 started his set off with Daft Punk,
strange for a club so well associated for hard house
beats. However the smoove introduction paid off
and the main dance floor was pumping to the well-oiled
routine of great house music. The night smoothly
flew past as fast trance moods where brushed over
the responsive and appreciative Slinky crowd.
The friendliness of the crowd has to be mentioned
as every one was so egar to show their appreciation
to every one else of what a great night they were
having. However I will make one other remark regarding
the crowd and that on the dress code it mentions
no larger boys, however sadly there where a few
that had snuck through the doors to pester the largely
enjoyable crowd.
The music on this night was more trance than hard
house, contrary to much of the reports I had heard
before visiting the venue. But on speaking to many
of the clubbers this was "different to the
Hard banging beat that is Slinky"
As usual in any review the big question, how good
were the toilets? We can safely approve of the Slinky
toilets, fully operational, and clean, what more
do require from a toilet?
My last words with regard to my night at Slinky,
if you're into Hard House and or Hard Trance you
are missing out on a night that will blow your mind
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Venue: 10
Music: 8
Crowd: 7
Sound System: 10
Total: 35 / 40
Rating: Gold Award |
| Review written by:
Oli Pavitt |
oli@uk-cl.co.uk |
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