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The International Indoor Festival at SeOne: reviewed
Reported by josie
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Submitted 21-02-07 02:12
Having spent more cloistered weekends drinking lo-cal lager and watching Lieutenant ‘just one more thing’ Columbo movies recently than I care to remember, I snatched unbecomingly at the opportunity to slap on some glitter and stay up all night. In fact, it had been so long I’d have jumped at the chance to review the annual Women’s Institute jam sale if they’d asked me nicely and I’d got something clean to wear. Or at least wipe-clean… what with all that jam and their tendency to cut up rough with guests unable to satisfy them on perestroika and primary school funding. Anyway, no settling for second best was necessary, as the knees-up in question was The International Indoor Festival at London Bridge’s SeOne, a celebration of all things psy.
The last one ever in fact, although I’m not strictly sure what that means. I attended Paradise City 001 at the Alexander Palace — organised by the same cyber-lovin’ peeps — and had a wild old time. It was with a glad heart and clubbing butterflies in the tum-tum*, therefore, that we rounded the corner into Weston Street and blithely sailed past the mahoosive queue.
Surveying the place with cold, full fat beer in hand, revealed that SEOne was nicely full, without glowering ranks of security, and with all sorts of colourful characters moseying about. The breaks room wasn’t particularly breaksy early on, and the big room where you first go in was pretty measured and steady, but the main room was already kicking it, even before one o’clock, and the assembled masses were loving it. The place looked great as well — giant screens behind the main room DJs, and loads of wicked lasers and lights.
It’s after this point where the flaw inherent in my cunning plan became apparent. It turns out I really don’t know all that much about psy trance. My inability to recognise a single track or indeed DJ meant that I was forced to make notes about ‘the bassline in room such and such at quarter to four’. The trouble with that is even if you manage to rip the set times off the wall and cram them in your pocket when the bouncer isn’t looking, tentative biro corrections and blanks mean it would take a brave man to step up to the plate and say ‘DJ so-and-so played at three o’clock and he was ace/cack’. And I ain’t brave. Or a man.
Even more worrying were the number of notes in my possession offering an opinion on Infected Mushroom’s set. The more astute among you will know Infected Mushroom did not, in fact, play at the Indoor Festival. If they weren’t superstar DJing around the world, they were doubtless home in Israel enjoying falafel and Arak, and possibly watching re-runs of My Name Is Earl. One place they emphatically weren’t, was south east London.
Here’s what I can tell you. The atmosphere was really excellent — loads of friendly faces, loads of interesting looking types, and loads of ass shaking. The festival theme was picked up with stalls of luminous tat, balloons, and a guy spinning lights on long cords in the back room who was spectacularly awesome. K90 (the one DJ I could recognise) played an energetic set in the small back room to a not particularly enormous crowd, dropping in (on request) his own wicked tune ‘Liberation’, for which we must all be truly thankful. Whoever I thought was Infected Mushroom were ace — a really buzzy electro vibe, and loads of grit and grind and pout. And the main room, during whoever was playing at 4.30am, was incredible. Driving as a monster truck and with the whole place going wild. Psy trance DJs largely play out on Ableton (at least I think that’s true) and you honestly don’t notice, there’s so much energy going on. Investigation after the event suggests Infected Mushroom were in fact Domestic, and that John Phantasm was calling the shots at 4.30am, so each deserve a 24 carat name check.
Claiming something as the ‘next big thing’ or even the ‘current big thing’ is almost as trendy as being the next big thing, but I honestly think those who have been hyping psy have not been too wide off the mark. Maybe it’s because there’s absolutely nothing precious about it at all — old timers bang on about how much better clubbing used to be back in the day and how it’s become soooo commercial and cynical (cynicism for the win if you ask me), and whether that’s true or not, psy is a genre that is genuinely all about the music. Its popularity is testament to the fact that in these lean times, SEOne, a large venue no matter who you are, was satisfyingly full. Wildchild managed it (not to drag up that whole saga again), but then they were presumably pulling in trance, hard house and hardcore crowds.
So… a crap review from moi, but double thumbs up to the event. Quick plug as well for the venue (currently being Assistant Managed by my good friend Mark ahem) as it looked nice, and everyone’s always pretty charming. A good time had by all, bless us everyone, and a lesson learned by yours truly.
*small organ next to the stomach — used for digesting muffins.
Photos kindly provided by HF members sao and Mike Redina. Not to be used without permission.
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