The Gallery presents : VACCINE - Review from Harder Faster.net

Event: Vaccine takes over The Gallery on Sept 1st 2006!

23.09.2006

Vaccine present The Gallery: reviewed

Reported by josie / Submitted 20-09-06 20:09.30

After being slated… slated I tell you, following my last review, I will this week be offering no opinion on the trance scene whatsoever, apart from saying that having scoffed airily how commercial and pedestrian The Gallery is, I now have to eat my words, humble pie, and any other penance-related foodstuffs the clubbing public see fit. Flying in the great and the good from the four corners of Europe, Vaccine assembled a stellar cast for their first foray at the wheel of Turnmill’s The Gallery.

Ronald van Gelderen turned out a shameless tech trance set in the main room, including AvB’s ‘Control Freak’ and a ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ remix, which elicited a particularly wild response. It took a while for things to get going in the main room — the place felt unusually empty during RvG’s set, although by 3ish Turnmills was properly rammed.

No such hesitation was evident in the back room though, where the place was jumping for John O’Callaghan’s set. Star of the show there, however, was Lange, who played a dancey as f*ck set that had the room going bananas. A packed out crowd went for it to a big dramatic sound, including PvD’s ’Crush’, and Lange’s own tunes ‘Intercity’ and a wicked mix of ‘Drifting’. Lange was followed by an excellent uplifting set from Marc van Linden and driving, no nonsense stuff from Greg Downey.

At this point it was back to the main room for Johan Gielen’s set, which honestly could not have gone better. In this humble reviewer’s opinion, he is one of the best trance djs around, and an even better dj than he is producer. He is a fantastic showman behind the decks, and effortlessly incorporates techy sounds into driving uplifting trance. The crowd absolutely loved his set, which was one of the most fun I’ve seen and heard in a while.

It’s at this stage that the night dissolves into a bit of an alcoholic blur, meaning I didn’t catch Ben and Tom’s sets, or those from Dan Stone and Ben Gold, for which I heartily apologise. I’m sure they were splendid. As for the third room, I wouldn’t know good house music if it had a flashing neon sign round its neck, but Anil Chawla’s set seems to have garnered a lot of praise, so that bears repeating here. This drunken reviewer will next be hitting the Knowwhere and Wildchild birthdays in October, so if you’d like to give me money to see whether I’ll get up on a table and take my top off, that’s where to catch me. Laters.