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The Bank Holiday Just Stomped Right Through All Over My Brain | Garnier, Villalobos & Secretsundaze

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 | Event Reviews | No Comments

Now that I’ve picked up the pieces (Yes its been three weeks..) its time to talk about the bank holiday weekend that recently stomped all over my brain. The first outing was way out at matter, where the French master Laurent Garnier was down to show off his new live show. Unfortunately being a working man meant it was a bit tough getting back and mustering up the energy to head straight back out again, so I didn’t end up getting down to the club till gone midnight and therefore missed the whole live show. Not to worry as I’ll be catching it at Sonar and Worldwide festival this year. But what I did catch was the mighty Francois K who did his usual trick of coming on and obliterating any warm up. It’s not a bad thing because it does often work and that night it picked the night up in the right direction. However I think he might have scared some of the after work drinks crowd with the blistering tunes he was playing.

The crowd itself wasn’t as busy as I thought it was going to be. Usually a Garnier gig is a road block event. Maybe it was, but with matter being so huge it comfortably held everyone with plenty of room to dance. The rest of the club wasn’t used though with room 2 being closed early on or all night and › Continue reading

Tags: Fabric, Francois K, Laurent Garnier, Matt Tolfrey, matter, Ministry, Ministry of Sound, Ralph Falcon, Raresh, Reboot, Ricardo Villalobos, Secretsundaze, Sonar, Tobi Neumann, Villalobos, Worldwide Festival