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Fevah Album Launch Party
Reported by bunny
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Submitted 19-11-02 21:02
Bloody hell. I’ve been to some eclectic nights before in my life but the only way they could’ve made Fevah at Heaven more varied was if they had a rhinoceros playing the glockenspiel as an encore in the Sublime room. Friday the 15th November 2002 marked the launch night for the sparkling new Fevah New Zealand CD at Heaven, one of the most renowned and established clubs in good old London town and the line-up pretty much had it all; Hard House, Hard Trance, Funky House, Latin beats, bouncy house and (just as essential) a very bouncy crowd!
Your first time at a new club is always an exciting experience and the bigger the club the more fun there’s to be had, so I was like a kid in a superstore sweetshop exploring the many labyrinthine tunnels and rooms in Heaven. All that had to wait though as the moment I stepped through the door to the main room Signum’s Coming On Strong came storming out of the speakers to give me a big bear hug, all courtesy of the scorching opening B2B set of Brad Thatcher and Sax, leading us stomping all the way into the weekend 
Heaven has to go down as one of the less dingy clubs in London, it’s surprisingly clean inside and fairly easy to get around, although it’s size means that keeping track of all your mates all night is slightly less likely than bumping into Lord Lucan in the toilets (although there’s plenty of opportunities to meet many other weird and wonderful people ). But with so many rooms on offer, if variety really is the spice of life then tonight Heaven could’ve put a curry house kitchen to shame 
Tearing myself away from the main room to investigate the selections of fine cuts on offer in the 2 other rooms reveals that in the Bedroom Ryza has dispensed with all warm up formalities and gone straight for the throat with a Hard House banging bonanza, while in the Sublime room Dean Webb is serving up a helping of fresh’n’funky flavours to give the more chilled clubbers a laid-back intro into the night. Both of the smaller rooms have an intimate and cosy atmosphere (by this I don’t mean that they’re as cramped and sweaty as a wrestler’s jockstrap) that provides a refreshing contrast to the madness of the main room. Speaking of which…
We make it back down to the main dance floor (very dark and sultry but with an excellent lighting rig and brilliantly warped lasers) just as Riki Shane launches into his set, and what a set it turned out to be! Livelier than a bed-bug infested mattress that’s been doused in itching powder, the Tunes (capital letter fully justified) just kept on coming; that track with the kicking Insomnia sample, a marvellously mental mix of Twisted, 99.9 and so much more. Riki Shane is one DJ who obviously loves his music and certainly knows how to work a crowd – by the time he’d done with us our feet were so frantic that the floorboards were in danger of igniting from all the friction. The whole place was in competition to see who could bounce hardest but the winner was obvious from the start – the music Amazing set from a DJ that, if there’s any justice, will go from strength-to-strength in the upcoming year.
1am and time for Marc French to relieve Riki of his DJing duties for the night but there’s no rest for the wicked – us – as the tempo keeps on driving at F1 speed and the beats explode like mini-firecrackers across our minds. An hour of uplifting Hard Trance pounds through the main room, calling all to action beneath a blaze of disco liquid lights, as the rising mercury achieves lift-off amongst a haze of dry-ice. Mmm, a top set indeed that kept the momentum going strong across the dance floor, but up next for us was something a little more mellow…
Up in the Sublime room the live act Boxer are coming to the end of their hour-long set but luckily enough we manage to catch the last 20 minutes – 20 minutes of absolute magic. The room is decked out like a psychedelic grotto with long fiery banners streaming down from the ceiling and the music, a blend of samba-style Latin rhythms accompanying a lady with the most gorgeous voice, is funky as hell and twice as hot. I’ve never seen anything like this before at a Hard Dance night but without a doubt it worked phenomenally well – the perfect contrast to the traditional mayhem going on elsewhere.
‘Not what you’d expect in a club, pretty different!’ – Sim Pat
sure thing sweertie, Boxer were very lively, talented and unique and the way they constantly played along with the crowd meant that the place was not only packed with people but also with a real party atmosphere I was very sorry when they’d finished (judging by the sizzling send off they received I’d guess I’m not alone there) and only hope I can catch their next set from opening to closing note.
All funked up and no place to go? Hardly, this is Heaven remember and there’s 2 other rooms to play in. Halfway down the stairs to see Smurreff and I execute the kind of U-turn that defies gravity then try to take a whole staircase in one bound. There’s something coming out of the Bedroom that can’t be ignored, an alpine-fresh track that bounces like a bitch and the minute I get into the fiesta-in-a-mental-institution that is currently room 2, the Bedroom, there’s no doubting it’s true; Rachel Auburn’s Every Fucking Day is being played, in a club. I’m a huuuge fan of Rachel’s work but unfortunately you rarely get to hear it out in a club, so hear it mid-way through a storming night, when you’re already in your element and surrounded by fellow mentalists all lapping it up like it’s pink champagne, is something even a near-amnesiac like me isn’t gonna forget in a hurry, hehehe!
The fellas to thank for this are Stevi D and Bizarre Q, tearing up the place with a B2B set that had all the markings of becoming legendary. There wasn’t a trace of seriousness in sight as a deluge of bouncy, ballistic tracks that made your toenails tingle poured out, leaving every bit of your body feeling wonderful just to be alive. Make it Happen, BK’s Wanna Ride and a Hard-as-you-like-it mix of Baby D’s Let Me Be Your Fantasy had the heaving, seething mess of stompers pounding the ground like they were making a break for Australia. Unfortunately it was so good that we only caught a glimpse of Smurreff’s set, a blend of very deep and Techy- Hard Trance that just didn’t match with our mad elated moods, so it was back to the Bedroom where Steven T was teasing the endorphins with more euphoric thumping beats. Favourite track of the set for me had to be The Sound Of Liberty, confirming that this was the best second room I’ve experienced yet.
Finally we make it down to the main arena where Ian M. is hurling out a line of tracks that you could mine diamonds with. By now the whole crowd has worked itself into a Fevah, the place is roasting hot – like the tunes – and the dance floor is littered with glosticks, people and plots. Even though we barely caught the end of his set, we could tell it was a good one from the people around us; smiles and sweaty tops all round
4.30am marks the last set of the night in the main room, and it’s up to Owen B and Eamonn Fevah to take us out with a bang. Can they deliver? Well, yes - more times than a maternity hospital. K90’s Red Snapper, DJ Virus’ All Your Base and Insomnia all provide the appropriate encouragement to make everyone present go completely and utterly berserk, but it’s the encore that drew the biggest, maddest smile from me. Arome’s Hands Up is now indisputably an anthem, but because of the nature of mixing you never hear it complete from beginning to end. For anyone who’s yet to experience this, it has one of the finest intros in Hard Dance and thanks to Owen and Eamonn at Fevah we got to hear that, along with every other luscious drop, as a signing-off from an incredible opening night.
So if tonight’s anything to go by, the Fevah CD should go down a storm, and now that I’ve been to Heaven, it’s only polite that I go back Thanks to all involved for putting on a very different and very enjoyable night and guess I’ll see you all at the next one!
The next Fevah event is the Fevah and Fahrenhite Hard Dance Christmas Ball - for full details click here.
Relevant Links
Fevah UK
With thanks to Sim Pat for the use of his photos 
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