'kin hell! :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:
What an amazing night. I knew I was gonna enjoy it, given the selection of rooms but I hadn't bargained on being this impressed
:alcohol:
Got to the Crown for a few drinks about 9 ish, and meet up with everyone. Ended up getting carried away nattering etc... til well gone 11. Finally strolled up the road to the Rainbow warehouse, and even as we were outside the place you could hear the tunes pumping out of the shutters / over the exposed parts of open wall giving you that excited butterlies in the tummy feeling of an impending ace night ahead, just like the old days also the Hac themed graffiti outside done for the night was a cool touch
The venue was amazing , totally fell in love with it Filed into the place past the ice cream van, which was a bit surreal, then straight ahead was a gazebo with BBQ going on underneath it. Swift detour to the right and we ended up in the beach (room 3), which was even more surreal as you realise its not just an uneven floor, its the room with the 40 tonnes of bloody sand they'd shipped in especially
It was under a railway arch but also had a retractable roof attached, so you were kinda outdoors but indoors at the same time
The tropical trees, and sun longers all added to it too, and the DJ booth was a wooden beach hut, like the little carribean beach bars you get, and the music was all happy and party stuff making you feel like you should be limboing or doing the lambada or something
lol
Made it to the main room which was the Hacienda one, which is where I stayed nearly all night, proper warehouse feel to it (err, because it WAS one , lol) every tune was good, toilets were even ok! and I cant fault the crowd either, very up for it, and not an ounce of attitude anywhere 
grungy types dancing next to bling gangster types dancing next to old fogies dancing next to glammed up trendies..... was mint 
Some memorable tunes played were such stuff as : Brand New Heavies 'back to love', Charles B 'lack of love' , Fast Eddie 'Can you dance' (which obviously made uas buzz even more at the thought of seeing the man himself play it only the week before) , Roberta Flack, Kid n Play, Papau New Guinea... the list just goes on and on :banana:
Oh and the sound sytem was incredible ~ Funktion 1 ~ sounds fantastic
Surprised myself by pretty much going there because of the wobble room, but then ending up only poking my head in there a few times. The main room was just too good though!
Was great to catch up with loads of my old lot, plenty turned out so I was really pleased
Shout to the mini OSA contingent that turned out : Duke (quick pint in the Crown), Youngy, Simmzz and his lot (nice to meet you at last mate) and my Road Trip accomplices Saysay and Mr Radish and Woody
Amazing venue, great company, great music, great crowd, what else do ya need?
9.5/10 with points only docked because they should've painted the pillars in the warehouse yellow and black striped...
Bostin'!
What an amazing night. I knew I was gonna enjoy it, given the selection of rooms but I hadn't bargained on being this impressed
:alcohol: Got to the Crown for a few drinks about 9 ish, and meet up with everyone. Ended up getting carried away nattering etc... til well gone 11. Finally strolled up the road to the Rainbow warehouse, and even as we were outside the place you could hear the tunes pumping out of the shutters / over the exposed parts of open wall giving you that excited butterlies in the tummy feeling of an impending ace night ahead, just like the old days
also the Hac themed graffiti outside done for the night was a cool touch The venue was amazing , totally fell in love with it
Filed into the place past the ice cream van, which was a bit surreal, then straight ahead was a gazebo with BBQ going on underneath it. Swift detour to the right and we ended up in the beach (room 3), which was even more surreal as you realise its not just an uneven floor, its the room with the 40 tonnes of bloody sand they'd shipped in especially It was under a railway arch but also had a retractable roof attached, so you were kinda outdoors but indoors at the same time
The tropical trees, and sun longers all added to it too, and the DJ booth was a wooden beach hut, like the little carribean beach bars you get, and the music was all happy and party stuff making you feel like you should be limboing or doing the lambada or something
lolMade it to the main room which was the Hacienda one, which is where I stayed nearly all night, proper warehouse feel to it (err, because it WAS one , lol)
every tune was good, toilets were even ok! and I cant fault the crowd either, very up for it, and not an ounce of attitude anywhere grungy types dancing next to bling gangster types dancing next to old fogies dancing next to glammed up trendies..... was mint Some memorable tunes played were such stuff as : Brand New Heavies 'back to love', Charles B 'lack of love' , Fast Eddie 'Can you dance' (which obviously made uas buzz even more at the thought of seeing the man himself play it only the week before)
, Roberta Flack, Kid n Play, Papau New Guinea... the list just goes on and on :banana: Oh and the sound sytem was incredible
~ Funktion 1 ~ sounds fantastic Surprised myself by pretty much going there because of the wobble room, but then ending up only poking my head in there a few times.
The main room was just too good though!Was great to catch up with loads of my old lot, plenty turned out so I was really pleased
Shout to the mini OSA contingent that turned out : Duke (quick pint in the Crown), Youngy, Simmzz and his lot (nice to meet you at last mate)
and my Road Trip accomplices Saysay and Mr Radish and Woody Amazing venue, great company, great music, great crowd, what else do ya need?
9.5/10 with points only docked because they should've painted the pillars in the warehouse yellow and black striped...
Bostin'!
proper cool haha! We then took a walk around and into the Hac room and was greeted by 'Electric Dance' by the Jungle Crew and i was like 
