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Chasin Charlie: Heat&UCP@Coronet Reported by littlemissgenki / Submitted 07-05-03 14:49 The first people outside the first big night at a brand new venue—who could ask for more? The excitement in the air was infectious as we stood first in the queue outside the Coronet on Easter Saturday 19 April 2003, uncharacteristically early for the first night of Heat & the mysterious UCP at London’s newest superclub. The birthplace of Charlie Chaplin’s great stage and picture career, the Coronet has just had £2.5 mill spent on it, and we were as up for it as Beckham at a Spice Girls concert—although I suspect the security at the Coronet was possibly one heck of a lot tighter as I guess you’d imagine the opening of any superclub to be—crawling with cops and security. Needless to say our overexcited hyperpunctuality meant we didn’t have to queue for long, and within minutes we walking up the hallway into the main room…and what a main room… For those who haven’t made it to the Coronet yet, upon arriving at this refurbished venue you could be forgiven if you walked right by it, for it still as a movie theatre exterior, and most of the locals still know it as the old cinema. Walking in the entrance it all seems to be laid out well: as you pass the last bouncer one cloak room is opposite with a cash machine on the left, and that door monkey is close enough for even the most timid of us to have no worries about someone pinching cash off you as you draw it out. Plus for the vainer ravers out there, you don’t have to pass more than ten people before getting to the toilets. When you first walk up the hallway and open those massive doors you step right straight into the brand new glass bar, then over the top of the bar you can see the laser show and screen, giving you the feeling that you have walked into a very super club indeed. Understatement: I was completely unprepared for what awaited me. Tonight Heat & UCP had really gone over the top with three lasers and a huge liquid screen, and as soon as I walked in it all really hit me right in the optic and aural nerves—a sensation I haven’t felt in a club for a bloody long time. After getting a drink from the friendly bar staff (usually an oxymoron I know, but these guys even made conversation and were spotted dancing on more than one occasion!) it was hard not to hang out at the wicked glass bar and chat. But it was time to explore, and given that this brand new club was still practically empty we had ample opportunity. First up and already playing an uplifting set in the main room was Simon Rutherford, who I have to say looked quite lonely at first right up the front of such a massive dancefloor. And I mean massive—think a smaller Brixton Academy with great sound—but without being so large as to alienate the crowd. The high ceilings sure give a feeling of awe about the place, plus providing plenty of airspace for the stunning lasers to do their thing. By the time I had pulled myself away from the mesmerizing visuals, complete with photos of happy smiling Heat regulars, there was a small crowd forming, and the night was taking off. Next up in the main room was Anthony Dean, and what an incredible warm up set! Dean not only got a decent sized crowd up and moving, but his excellent mixing meant the feeling of a steady build-up only grew. It’s that feeling when you know that within a very short period of time everyone’s gonna be going mental, but for now people were happy to mill round and explore and make the most of the ample bar. Finally upstairs opened and by now my curiosity was really killing me—two more rooms to explore! Up the stairs we went, to find the middle room already had a few stompers doing their thing, then on up to the top room, where Disciples of Sound were mixing all manner of funky stuff. It was the first time I’d seen these guys play and I was like a camel finding an unexpected oasis in the desert. Let me let you into a wee secret here…while I was wearing my dancing shoes, they were taking a while to get their groove on, as I’d been battered and bruised in the carnage that had been Bedrock just two nights before. But this funky mixing from the Disciples quickly turned me into a Disciples’ disciple, ah-meeeen. The atmosphere in this top room was well funky and slinky, and the number of glamorous but friendly people getting down only made it better. Grooving away I lost track of time and by the time I made it back down to the main room Billy ‘Daniel’ Bunter had a packed dance floor going mental, to a superb selection of hard dance and trance classics, and the lasers and visuals were breathtaking. James Lawson’s Times Like These and DJ Meister’s Can You Feel It were just two of the tracks the crowd obviously knew and loved if their rapturous response was anything to go by. I don’t know what it is about the crowd that goes to Heat—maybe it because the Coronet really blew people away that night, maybe it was the Easter holiday atmosphere, maybe it was the pictures of the happy heat regulars on the big screen at the beginning, maybe it was because the music and production really were spot on, or the fact it really is one of the international crowds I’ve come across in London—but everyone is always just so damn friendly! The atmosphere in any Heat event always makes me remember why I fell in love with clubbing the first place—and the thousands of happy smiles around me in the huge main room of the Coronet only reconfirmed it on Easter Saturday night. But perhaps best of all, even though there was one hell of a crowd there, the place never felt too packed. There was always room to dance and move around, and with such a wicked crowd going off we all needed plenty of room to stomp… But stomping reminded me what I was missing out on in the middle room, and we went to check out Spencer’s set. If the atmosphere in the main room was like a huge friendly open-air festival, then the middle room was a more intense dark hard dancing den, perfect for the kind of music Freeland plays, and he certainly looked right at home. Paul Glazby’s Fucking Hostile was a sure test of the new wooden floor…and it passed with flying colours. The low ceiling, dark lighting and very sweaty bodies boshing hard made this room more than a club in its own right—in fact half our lot were lost there for the rest of the night, preferring it to the main room. I left my friends going ballistic and went upstairs to the top room for a bit of R&R, only to find the Ignition Crew had it all under control with more than a few funky beats going down. Unfortunately by this stage of the game this was all a bit too slow for me—if the Disciples had got my dancing shoes moving, then Freeland had got them positively springing, and they weren’t too keen to touch the floor for long again, let alone even try and pull a few stylish moves to the Crew’s sexy funk. It was back downstairs for me for some more hard stuff, which Spencer provided on a platter, thank you very much! Leaving one favourite DJ for another has got to be a rare occurrence, but I had to go and check out Nick Sentience in the main room and got there just in time to see Bunter finish and Nick Sentience come on. Like a fine wine, Sentience can be an acquired taste as he takes the listener on an aural journey which I find more like a progressive house set: only in Sentience’s case he gets progressively harder and harder. I’ve written about his incredible mixing before and hope to do so again, he really was wicked! My friends were still going off to iLogik upstairs, and I went a joined them for a bit of a hoe-down. By now the middle room was getting frighteningly hot, and despite loving the music I was forced downstairs for Lisa Lashes. If anyone can catch the crowd in a club it’s Ms Lashes herself, and she took the tempo up from Sentience’s more minimalistic beats by chucking on a few clubbin classics, which combined with the three blinding lasers, screen and lighting really had the main room going. By now the bar had closed (take heed drinkers, it’s only licensed til 2am) and a massive crowd was tearing up the concrete in the main dance floor. Oh yes, now we know why Charlie Chaplin had a limp or should I say waddle…it wasn’t gout or the local weather getting to his bones, it was all that bloody tap dancing! It was blatantly obvious by now that opening the grand circle balcony would’ve blown the roof off the place, as about this time several hundred weary clubbers were waddling around Chaplin-style looking for somewhere to sit down…but unfortunately the council had already pulled the pin on this one, as after taking one look at how steep the stairs were, they wouldn’t allow the area to be opened unless the main lights are on when people arrive and leave. Needless to say, this would not do much for the atmosphere of any clubbing event, and until some work can be done on the stairs, the balcony will be used for other events at the club. But don’t despair dear waddling clubber—there will definitely be more seating at the next Heat event at the Coronet on May 23, I have the promoter’s word! Meanwhile Karim was picking up a few converts in the middle room, and tracks like Fascination had the atmosphere erupting—this was indeed heat as I had never experienced it before, subliminal advertising perhaps? But I was more than happy to go back downstairs as Heat resident Marc French took to the decks of his new playground and, despite being slightly under the weather, mixed an excellent selection of tracks from the Heat CD and his more recent projects. Finally by Sharkboy and Honeypot’s Round and Round were just what the doctor ordered at this time of the morning, and combined with those lasers and visuals, it wasn’t surprising that we all demanded an encore. Prime Mover’s Existence was one hell of a choice as it just made us want more! After spending Easter weekend at three superclubs, it would perhaps be wrong to compare the established ones with our new kid on the block, as any new venue is going to have teething problems—but I know where I had the best time. After being a battered sardine at Bedrock on Thursday and feeling more like I was about to get on board a plane than have a dance at the sterile airport-like Ministry of Sound on Sunday night, the Coronet certainly won hands down for me. Thank you to all involved and a big congratulations, that really is no small feat, especially in the current clubbing climate. Heat and UCP really put the super back into superclub—and renewed my faith in clubbing at the same time. For full details of the next Heat event which is at Turnmills on Saturday May 10th please click here. With thanks to mrbicgit and paul for the use of their photos and to all the harderfasters who gave me their comments and feedback 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:

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