Mark Knight, Kissdafunk and Defected in the House at Classic Grand

Mark Knight, Kissdafunk and Defected in the House at Classic Grand

27 December, 2007 | 1.33PM

• Written by: jamiegardiner1
• Filed under: Music News: defected in the house, glasgow, kissdafunk, m8

With so many top guests heading to Glasgow for the holiday season - it will take a lot to beat this night.

On a cold December evening the Glasgow masses turned out in force to support Scotlands premier charity dance event the “M8 Christmas Party”. M8 being one of the UK’s leading dance music/lifestyle magazine based here in Scotland.

The event has been running for over 5 years and continues to top the previous events billing.

Local DJ’s took to the decks first to get the early arriving crowd warmed up, DJ’s Woody, Fox McLeod and Stereofunk got things warmed up nicely - playing a mix of soulful house with a Defected vibe, Dennis Ferriers “Church Lady” set the tone for what was to follow.

The clubbers soon realised this was no ordinary club night when Defected in the House’s legendary DJ Spen took to the decks.

On the other side of the room we had Shovell on percussion - they seemed to feed off each other with kinetic energy, Spens soulful beats being replayed and further improvised by Shovell. 

The shirtless bear of a guy decked out in red-indian style body paint gave a performance as crazy-looking as his costume! (If you like your 90’s pop music you might remember Shovell as the drummer/percussionist from UK group M-People).

Working and teasing the crowd for over an hour they took the roof off when Spen dropped Mark Knights remix of the Derrick May classic “Strings of Life”.

Indeed Mark Knight had just arrived in the venue and was soon making room for himself on a heaving dancefloor to get funky with the rest of us punters!

Before we knew it Mark Knight took to the decks armed with a selection and deep filthy house soon had the swelling dancefloor eating out the palm of his hand.

He played current and classic house tracks from D.Ramirez and Bobrov’s “Pleasure Me” to his own “Drug Music” (Will Bailey remix).

Things stopped for a second before the Toolroom Records supremo dropped the Angello and Ingrosso accapella from “Be” and the always-up-for it Glasgow crowd went bananas the look on Marks face was a picture at the 800+ crowd roared in approval!

The sign is a good night for me is when you lose track of time and tonight simply flew in - Mark Knight dropped his final tune of the night, an unnamed white label of filthy funk of his own his that will be released in “March sometime”. I pestered him for the name of it but to no avail.

Chatting to Mark backstage afterwards He did say that we have “some of the craziest clubbers in Europe” and he “was very much looking forward to returning to Scotland”.

Roll on next Christmas Party if this night was anything to go by!!

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