Club Reviews: Bedrock - Heaven

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Bedrock - Heaven
	Date: Thursday 20th March 2008 Address: Heaven, Under The Arches, Villiers Street, WC2N 6NG, London Occurrence: Monthly Hours: 10pm - 6am Ticket Price: £8/£10/£12/£15 Genre: Progressive House Dress Code: None Capacity: TBC
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I’d never been to Heaven before. This club is famous. From the top of my head, I think this was the biggest club in London for a long time and was also where Oakenfold’s famous Spectrum night was, so there’s a lot of history in this place! Tonight’s Bedrock event was sold out well in advance, and that shopping arcade area was el rammo at 22.00. Bedrock is quality, we all know that, from the label, the DJs and the night itself. John Digweed, X-Press 2 and Eric Prydz were the star attractions tonight. I loved the club, and the main room arches reminded me of The Arches club in Glasgow. The upstairs Star Bar reminded me of the terrace at Amnesia, lay out wise. The club is excellent and certainly confused me when trying to navigate between rooms! You can also come down the stairs and stand above the main room dancefloor, so you can see it all unfold almost VIP style. I also thought the sound system was fantastic, very crisp and clear. Diggers was on from 10 till 3.30 and to be followed by Prydz. The main room was busy very early, with the expected Bedrock progressive style in full flow. It was quite chilled out at times too. It was already hot in that room so we went upstairs to have a look, and to get some cooler air. Upstairs was relatively full, and I even heard Cirez D’s Teaser at 11pm! Gradually this room got busier and Matt Von Holtz played a superb set and he was clearly loving it! It’s always nice to see a DJ enjoy it as much as everyone else. His tunes even had a melodic and at times almost euphoric tinge to them, which was very nice. He had it built his set very nicely, and left a packed room very happy. X-Press 2 followed on and changed the tone completely. They started with a long intro, and the tunes were much more techy and proggy. I’d heard about the notorious main room temperature before I arrived tonight. Okay, picture the scene; you are relatively cool and then you make for the main room… and…Wham!! The heat almost knocked you out! It was like hitting a wall! The hottest I’ve experienced in a club for ages and that includes the famous night at El Divino in Ibiza on July 17th 2003! But that’s another story…. Diggers was playing some good stuff, really progressive and lots of minimal too, reminiscent of the sound on his Transition CDs. The room was packed to the limit, and then some, and the lasers were now on too, from the lofty DJ booth. At 3.30am Mr Prydz appeared in trademark hat and Diggers introduced him on the mic. This was top stuff! Massive intro…typical Pryda style, then a kick comes in and YEESSSSS! The room erupts! I didn’t know many of the tunes but a massive mention to the remix of Blue Monday…they all knew what was coming! Even Eric swayed from side to side on that one, but no smile flickered…very Scandanavian cool. Overall: an excellent night. No complaints!
Venue: 9 Music: 9 Crowd: 9 Sound System: 9 Total: 36 / 40 Rating: Gold Award
Review written by: Kevin Boyle	kevin@uk-cl.co.uk

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