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Review: Sundissential North, Club Evolution, Leeds, 20/4/2003 Reported by Bouncing Ben / Submitted 02-05-03 11:46 Bank Holidays were designed for Sunday clubbing. With no work looming on Monday, we had the perfect opportunity to attend the Sundissential North bank holiday event and party hard all Sunday afternoon and into the night. We arrived at club Evolution about an hour after it opened. After the obligatory McDonalds and mince about in the car park we joined the queue and were soon inside. The venue is a clean and modern purpose built club, which holds around 2500 people and is divided into three rooms. Five bars give clubbers ample opportunity to get drinks, usually without a long wait. The dance floor occupies the centre of the large main room. Around all the edges there is seating and plenty of room for chilling out. Stairs on either side give access to a smaller upstairs level with more room for dancing/chilling. You can also look down on the main room from the balcony, which gives a great view of the dance floor. In the main room, Lee Haslam was busy warming things up. The dance floor was half full and the rest of the room was packed. Already there was a real buzz going through the crowd and it looked like it we were in for a good night. We escaped to room two until people had settled down and there was space to move in the main room. The second room is smaller and has the dj booth bang in the centre of the square dance floor. Again space for resting your backside any weary feet is provided around the edges. Room Two usually offers something a little bit different music-wise. On Sunday it was hosted by Vicious Circle, featuring the DJs Tolley, Paul Glazby, Karim, and promised a much harder sound than that in the main room. Music started off with some very slow minimalist stuff. I wasn’t sure what it category to put it into and neither was anyone else in the room, but it wasn’t hard house and not really my cup of tea. A return to room two later on found things sorted and some proper hard stuff thumping out of the speakers. Glazby is scowling from behind the decks and playing his trademark style of hard as you like hard house. Incidentally, has anyone ever seen Glazby smile when he’s playing out? I don’t think I can. We forgive him though, because he plays a top quality set including the now essential ‘Fucking Hostile’. What a tune! That set the standard musically in the second room for the rest of the event. Despite Karim not turning up (AGAIN), we were treated to a selection of tunes from the much harder and housier spectrum of hard dance. Mixing was pretty poor but the music remained spot on throughout. Fucking Hostile is dropped again later in the night. Everyone’s ready for it and the room erupts in a surge of madness when it kicks in after the hoovers. As I write this, much of the night is already forgotten, but thankfully that memory will stay in my head for a long time. Room Three opens halfway through the afternoon and is reserved for Funkisential, playing, surprise surprise, funky house. Hard house clubbers needing a break mingle with funky house purists. It has a much more chilled atmosphere and gives a huge contrast to the madness in rooms one and two. Unfortunately it contains too many pretentious people looking down their noses at others, and so many people give it a miss. This is a bit of a shame because some quieter funky house is often very welcome after jumping around to hard house and trance for four or five hours. Funky room aside though the crowd was excellent. To be honest it’s the clubbers who go there that really make Sundissential North the special event it is. The vast majority of people are really friendly (certainly much more so than in most of the London clubs I’ve been to), and are there with one aim in mind which is simply to enjoy the music and have an amazing time. You can always be assured of making new friends when you go, and so far I haven’t seen any trouble inside or outside the club. This is generally helped by a noticeable lack of scallies, which is always a massive bonus on a night out. The crowd's attitude produces an atmosphere inside which is among the best in found in any club anywhere. On Sunday the whole club was absolutely buzzing from start to finish. Music was more mainstream in the main room with DJs playing a good variety of hard house and trance which was generally not as savage as in room two. Lashes and Farley and Ilogik played really enjoyable sets, but all the DJs kept the clubbers smiling and dance floor packed throughout the night. Mixing was generally good and the sound system in club Evolution, whilst not being among the best I’ve heard was certainly adequate to keep things nice and loud without distorting the sound quality. Many people I spoke to commented on how hard they thought the main room DJs were playing. I wasn’t too sure. It certainly wasn’t harder than a typical night at e.g. Frantic. However I think it is worth mentioning that the Sundissential sound has definitely evolved a lot in past years. Whilst not being really hard or dirty, there was barely a hint of bounce that used to be the trademark sound of northern hard house until quite recently. Despite this and a noticeable decrease of cyber dress and fluff in favour of try hard outfits, Sundissential has thankfully at least managed to retain some of the silliness that used to occur at hard house events despite the scene seeming to have ‘grown up’ in recently. While I escaped to room two for a final stomp, Sundissential favourite Rob Tissera played the last set in the main room. A fairly uplifting hard dance set with loads of trance anthems and classics thrown in gave most people a quality end to a cracking night. Usually I love to have a good moan following a night out and get really critical of things I thought detracted form the night’s enjoyment and should have been different. On the journey back home from Leeds, I remained pretty quiet. OK so Karim didn’t show up, and yes the twenty one-pound ticket price is bloody expensive for advance tickets for a night out. This was more than compensated for by the superb atmosphere, friendly crowd, and top quality selection of hard dance we were fortunate enough to experience. For many of you reading this in London, Leeds is bloody miles away and may not be the first place you think of going for your clubbing fix. However, I can’t recommend Sundissential North strongly enough. If you do get the opportunity to go to SDN then take it. You’re unlikely to be disappointed. Share this :: : : : Follow HarderFaster :: 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: Huggies on 2nd May 2003 16:01.37 Was my first real experience of SunnyD, all i can say is, see you there this sunday... From: Luckyfuka on 2nd May 2003 16:54.56 finishes @ 2 or 4 tho, hell of a long way to go for that !! Never seen Glazby smile while mixing - but have on plenty of other ocassions

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