Thursday, March 13, 2008
Square Roots - Volks Tavern
Brighton’s a great breeding ground for would-be promoters. Fuck knows what the stats are but there must be what? 6.29 night clubs per student house? The upshot being: If you know your shit, have got a bit of time on your hands and are blessed with a legion of up-for-it mates you might as well have a crack at putting a night on.
Few young promoters though can compete with the runaway success of upstarts ‘Square Roots’ In 2006 when dubstep was in its infancy, they booked ‘Skream’ for £100; spin on to 2008 and they’ve got all the scene’s heavyweights on speed dial, a succession of packed out nights under their belts and whaddya know? The big boys are knocking. Audio, SE1 and the hyper cool Amersham Arms all, apparently, after a piece of this mouth watering square pie.
And how? Other than a knack for super savvy, forward thinking line-ups, they refuse to limit their programming to one genre. On any given night you’re gonna get grime, electro, ragga, B-more…Basically, anything with a sick bassline. And by God! There are plenty of those here tonight.
From the scene inside the Volks you wouldn’t guess it were a Thursday night, such is the sheer volume of people and hyped atmosphere. Downstairs the STDJs are peddling fierce gutter house and upstairs even though it’s not yet midnight, Hatcha’s rammed the dancefloor with a pulverising selection of re-tweaked 2 step and shuddering sub-sonics. The ludicrous Gramp’s Hifi soundsystem is rattling every rafter of the creaky old Volks and though it sounds like the club could conceivably collapse at any given moment, indeed Western Civilisation itself could be collapsing around us and it wouldn’t stop the party. This is utterly essential, future clubbing.
posted by: Jim Brackpool @ 5:32 PM
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