UK club review: Slinky

UK club review: Slinky

31 March, 2008 | 10.55AM

• Section: Music News Topics: Beatport Blog
• Written by: Ellie

After a Halloween Ball with Marco V in 2006, the Slinky organisers swore they’d never return to the Opera House in Bournemouth.

A year and a half later and clubbers have already been treated to three Slinky events in 2008, with more to be confirmed over the next few months.

Good Friday saw up and coming DJs Bart Claessen and Michael Dow join Ferry Corsten for a night of banging trance and electro in the newly refurbished venue. 

The ex-theatre was given a multi-million pound refit last year, and with much of the tiered seating on the balcony gone, the view of the dancefloor is now even more spectacular.

Clubbers could be seen raving under a multitude of green lasers and they were everything you expect from a trance crowd: friendly and unpretentious – although with less furry boots and UV bikini tops than you usually see at a Slinky night. Some trance fans did however embrace the tradition of dressing up, including two girls who’d written “I slept with Ferry Corsten last night” on their backs (which apparently Ferry found quite funny).

An artist who tricks die-hard electro fans into liking trance, Ferry’s ‘electrance’ set echoed the sound of his newly released album, ‘Gatecrasher: Sheffield mixed by Ferry Corsten’.

He opened with ‘Beautiful’ and played a euphoric remix of his classic ‘Out of the Blue’ (which is released under his alias ‘System F’). It’s good to know that some superstar DJs (unlike Paul van Dyk, who now refuses to play his anthem ‘For An Angel’) recognise the tunes that helped to get them to the top and play to please the crowd.

The only disappointment was that he only played for an hour and a half, but sets from the likes of Bart Claessen more than made up for it. He dropped his own anthem ‘First Light’ and ‘As Playmo Comes,’ a fantastic remix of Motorcycle’s ‘As the Rush Comes’ (a classic which has been played a lot since Godskitchen refreshed our memories when they released it on the ‘Trance Anthems’ compilation).

So although Slinky has been revamped with an electro backroom, hosted by ‘Yakuji Love’, instead of drum ‘n’ bass night ‘Cocoshebeen’ and its weekly residency has been abandoned to prevent overkill, it looks as if the trance night has returned to its beautiful home in Bournemouth.

And even though Slinky organiser Lee Haslam has said that their aim is to turn the event – which has recently become known for hard dance – back into a trance night, be sure not to miss the 11th birthday on 2nd May with Lisa Lashes, Richard Durand and Mark Sherry.

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