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Heat NYE - Review Reported by littlemissgenki / Submitted 16-01-03 11:12 It was a night filled with guys and gals, frills and spills, heels and deals, smiles and sweat. New Year's Eve always has the biggest build up to any night of the year—which is why for so many it's usually a bit of an anticlimax. Big ticket prices, silly queues and far too many lager louts in wanna-be swanky venues can turn what should be the best night of the year into an exercise in survival. So when we heard that Heat had the Brixton Academy for NYE we were most excited--and very curious: how would the capital's coolest day party specialists pull of the passing of the new year? Traditionally London's underground clubbing scene has stuck to a safer New Year's Day format—how could these guys compete with the more commercial ventures on NYE, as well as the underground events on New Year’s Day? But this was no school disco baby (well, unless maybe you’re a Lisa Lashes fan) and when hard house academy fans found out Heat had scored the Academy for NYE the hype really started. The launch of the flyer at Supernova, with its superb graphics and mind-blowing line-up got us all a bit weak at the knees--in fact Mixmag were so overcome they put it as the number 1 place to be at NYE, which started the build up as it surely meant to go on... A bit more on the flyer: after a friend put it up on her wall, her mother predicted that aliens would indeed come down to the academy at midnight to start a new life. And her reasoning? Other than the UFO on flyer, the electronic music we listen too has already prepared our brains for their arrival! Would they come... ? Checking out the incredible venue that is Brixton Academy at the beginning of the night we bumped into heat's resident DJ and man of the moment Marc French, and observed one of the most fascinating transformations of the last night of 2002. I spoke with this squinting hangover of a man as he warmed himself up on a pair of 1210s in a duffel coat amidst the army of teckies and helpers in this grand old auditorium, then later on saw this fresh faced clubber grabbing his last jar of the year at the bar, then later still this sharply dressed demigod of a DJ with his specially designed and immaculately pressed Heat embossed shirt on his DJ throne. But more on that later... Queues can be a frustrating place to be at the best of times and on NYE no-one wants to be stood in one, but aside from the odd group of people frantically phoning friends to arrange the gathering of their rave groups, the queue was a fast-moving affair, with happy smiling email collectors on hand to help any wasters who couldn’t get the info they needed. Once inside the well marshaled cloak room queues did take a bit of time to navigate, which was a good way to catch up with any friends you may have missed coming in. Now NYE is all about occasion, and when you walked in those doors, the occasion hit you smack across the face, the two huge stairways adding grandeur while the stalls of cybermerchandise at the top were like an east end market meets Star Track convention. Following the flow of glowing bouncing people back down the stairs and through the foyer, already one of 2002’s main stars was at the helm—James Lawson was playing to a most appreciative group, making you feel like the lucky millionth customer in club paradise. Once reserving your gift of heated heaven sent hard out dance music, you quickly realize there’s a hell of a lot more to tonight than the occasion and the venue—o yes, the music. If only all times were like these... thanks for such an energizing start to the evening James! For those of you who’ve never been to the academy before, you can be forgiven for never leaving the foyer or main arena—but this venue has areas that are like entire clubs in themselves. After all, this is Heat, with its holistic view on clubbing—from bars to superclubs—and they’ve chosen the academy as the venue for its swansong dance party of the year. Up the stairs we go, into an upstairs but underground room where Tom Allen was ripping up a storm and through the NextGeneration, which like the other rooms had an electrifying atmosphere that was just building as the countdown to NYE got closer. Not only had Heat gathered the year’s biggest DJs to my favourite venue and arranged the DJ play list in fantastic order, but they had also hired one of the best lighting teams around, with our Gandalf the wizard of the London club lighting scene, freelancer Mark Tigwell, who has also lit the Radio 1 stage at Glastonbury and Pickle’s 4th birthday party at the academy. You can spot him by his goatee... and the magic he makes. The 26 moving lights, 84 kilowatts, 350 amps and 4 tonnes of kit in the air was the biggest lighting rig ever used at the Academy for a clubbing event—and it sure showed. The truss/rigging holding most of the lights reached out from the back of the stage over the crowd into the auditorium, echoing the triangle of the Heat logo. Not only were the lights programmed and operated live all night by Mark, but the graphics had been co-produced by two VJs who’d painstakingly sat in front of the computer for weeks creating stunning images guaranteed to send your aural nerve into euphoria: in short, the 12 weeks of solid preparation had paid off, and now it was time to paaaarty... That’s right, it IS NYE and the academy was now in a right frenzy with everyone rushing from room to room trying to find friends. The flyer had it right when it asked, ‘where will you be at midnight’, and it seemed that despite 12 weeks of warning many hadn’t quite figured that one out yet. At 11.30 the foyer and stairs made Paddington on a busy day look like a Sunday school picnic. Many were lost without their automatic tracking devises, others found that they weren’t actually much help, while some were more than content to prepare themselves to welcome in the new year. For me there was no question: the main arena was the place to be, and our group had a spectacular spot up a few metres back from the front left speaker. As Spencer Freeland & Steve Blake warmed the already fizzing crowd up into even more of a frenzy, the atmosphere was alive with the other number one question of the night: what would they play at midnight? The countdown begun, then the moment arrived: Gandalf raised his staff, the roof lifted and the sun shone, strobe lights blasted the stars falling from the sky... 2002 shall not pass this line... At midnight Mark switched on the daylight button while the strobes blasted, the glitter confetti fell, and the crowd erupted into a sea of hard-dancing hard-snogging party animals. Again, as it turned out, after nine hours in the studio, these guys were ridiculously prepared. Spencer and Steve opened my mind to all the things a new year can bring with an absolutely mind bending track put together over a 9-hour, yes, that’s a 9-hour studio session. The crowd went ballistic as they dropped one of 2002’s most treasured clubbing anthems, K90’s ‘Red Snapper’, sampled with Arome ‘Hands Up’ Scot Project, with Cortina’s ‘Music is Moving’ vocal over the top. What more can I say? You had to be there, the atmosphere was incredible. It all gets a bit sweaty and blurry at this point as we were transfixed to the main dance floor until Phil Reynolds came on in all his splendor, but having seen his stunning set at Chemistry on the 28th, we decided it was time to go exploring and see what his other half was up to. By the looks of things in the foyer, Tara was going hard and the crowd was loving it: in fact ‘foyer’ is rather misleading here, this was no foyer, this was more of a mosh pit! We’d also seen Tara in Camden Palace’s black n white bar three days earlier and this bigger venue only made her sound better. She seems to be going from strength to strength at the moment, and I have a funny feeling this year will be her best yet. But we could only drag ourselves away from the main room for so long. How could BK outdo his floorgrinding Chemistry set? By sending the crowd into convulsions with his mixes of Tony De Vit's ‘Are You Ready’ and 'I Don't Care'. The cybers went off, in fact the whole main dance floor did—bring on some fabulous fireworks, a few lasers, a tad of euphoria, a touch of majorhappy, a slice of heaven, and you might be almost close to how we started our new year... Next up in the main room was Heat’s main man, Marc French. This was his night and we’d seen him pacing himself at the bar earlier in preparation for the countdown. After what would have to have been one of his best sets ever at his birthday party at Too Much is not enough a few days earlier, we were really looking forward to seeing him in such a massive venue—and we certainly weren’t disappointed. The highlight of his set for me was when he dropped DJ Virus’s ‘All Your Base’ (Prime Mover remix), fireworks erupted and he nearly lost his eyebrows! Andy Farley’s ‘Khemical Imbalance’ also went down a storm—what a DJ, what a set, what a night: 2003 is surely going to Marc’s year. Having never seen Anne Savage play I’d been looking forward her set, to the extent that I sacrificed seeing one of my favourite DJs, Paul Glazby, who evidently blew the roof off the foyer until 5.30am. But Anne in the main room was more than enough for me by this stage of the morning, and we blissfully danced until the end to her wondrous mixes, in what was my best New Year’s eve in London yet. As it turned out, the day party specialists are even better at night! And did the aliens come? It all depends how you look at it! Thanks to the Heat crew for an extraordinary start to the year: it was definitely your best party yet! Congratulations on pulling off such a coupe, and we’re all hanging out now for the CD launch on 8 February... With thanks to mrbicgit for the use of his photos Share this :: : : : Follow HarderFaster :: Other Features By littlemissgenki: HeatUK (The DVD) – From The Backyard To South West Four - World Premier Preview: Interview with SnowBall Productions Paradise City 001 Preview: From free parties in pubs to private jets—interview with Antiworld promoter Enrico Sorbello Blatantly Brisk: interview with Paul Nineham Paradise City 001 preview: interview with Mauro Picotto Never Enough Maria: Interview with the Queen of Hard Dance The views and opinions expressed in this review are strictly those of the author only for which HarderFaster will not be held responsible or liable. Comments: From: mrbicgit on 16th Jan 2003 14:58.51 i like the cut of your gib young lady nice review things have become much clearer now x From: bunny on 16th Jan 2003 17:46.06 Yeah, great review + really made me feel like I was there! From: Nomi Sunrider on 18th Jan 2003 16:22.55 Summed it up pretty well. Was a totally manic night! From: LOZ on 21st Jan 2003 13:21.03 What a wicked banging nite;0) The first New Years i've had out in London. That's i'm moving here to stay. What is happenig next year. Our is a little too early to ask??? I couldn't have put it into words better my self. Thanks Heat xxxxxxxx From: dazzyboi on 21st Jan 2003 17:54.04 gonna print out the report and read it l8r, Wikid night!!!!

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