Review: Just Jack is Veryveryverywrongindeed

Review: Just Jack is Veryveryverywrongindeed

28 December, 2007 | 5.50AM

• Written by: Mike Monypenny
• Filed under: Music News: just jack, mr c, tim sheridan

Just Jack is Veryveryverywrongindeed @ Motion Skate Park, Bristol

Somebody forgot to tell Just Jack it’s Christmas.

Forcing my way through the rave-hungry hordes to escape the ball-bustlingly cold weather, a quick glance around the club reveals a distinct lack of neon ball-balls and techno tinsel.

Instead human heads hang motionless from the vaulted ceiling like some sort of macabre mannequin mortuary. You think that’s weird? Just Jack is just getting started.

Now two years old, this night has been pivotal in Bristol’s recent dance music renaissance, and has become home to a rapidly increasing number of hardcore house and techno aficionados and fancy-dress touting freaks alike.

None more so than the guys who run it – behind the DJ booth, Just Jack resident Tommy Rio is sporting a disturbingly realistic horse’s head, and is later reduced to whinnying and gnawing on carrots (well, you’re bound to work up an appetite when you’re partying this hard).

Not your average party, not your average club

Just Jack isn’t your average party, and Motion – the venue – isn’t your average club.

Discovered by promoter Rag Satguru two years ago, by day this three-room 700-capacity rave-box in the heart of Bristol’s industrial wasteland is a skate park.

The cavernous main room - tonight swathed in darkness apart from the red spots that scythe through the shadows – is in the half-pipe.

It is here that, high above the dancefloor, like two omnipotent DJ deities, tonight’s headliners Tim Sheridan and Mr. C are launching into a mammoth 8-hour back-to-back barrage of pounding techno.

It’s relentless, unforgiving, and completely irresistible.

Granted, the room is so cold that the only way to stay alive is to dance, but when they drop Worthy’s horrifically infectious ‘Crack El’ the crowd descends into a frenzy, completely in their thrall, hanging off every beat.

Rioooo!

Tonight though, it’s all about the tunnel room, where Rio is slaying the rapturous dancefloor with his unique brand of rolling house and techno.

– has revved-up ravers screaming ‘Riooo, Riooo’ and leaves Sheridan and Mr. C, moving into the tunnel after their main room set, with an impossible act to follow.

you know they’ll find a way.

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