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FRIDAY 22nd
AUGUST - GALLERY @ MINISTRY of SOUND with PAUL OAKENFOLD
Bank Holiday madness has arrived. Time does indeed fly by
when you are having fun and fun a plenty is the order of the
day at The Gallery on Friday 22nd August as we
get the August Bank Holiday weekend off to a massive start
with a line-up worthy of any festival arena!! Leading the
charge is a man who helped set us on our way earlier this
year at our new home here at Ministry of Sound by not only
rocking the Box to its very foundations with a trademark
killer of a set, but gave it the thumbs up and vowed to
continue his long and very important love affair with The
Gallery by returning as often as possible. This Friday
welcomes back Mr Paul Oakenfold of course! The original
man of trance and a very long term friend of The Gallery;
Paul has recently seen a return to his original and first
love that of DJing on a larger scale than in recent time.
The result has been an inevitable move back up the Top 100
rankings and the mass appreciation that this legend of the
scene has deservedly held for so long. With the re-launch of
his Perfecto label – which gave us so many seminal
anthems in its time – and a bevy of new artists and
producers in its ranks; Paul will be leading The Gallery’s
mammoth trance line-up providing headline action and a
watchful eye over the young whipper snappers lucky enough to
share the booth with him.
Menno de Jong has risen through the ranks as the boy
wonder of the trance scene debuting at 72 in 2006 before
rising 10 places to 62 a year later in the DJ Mag top 100,
he is also ranked at No. 10 in Trance Addict’s annual top
100 Trance DJs poll. One of the first to embrace the
internet radio and podcasting phenomenon, Menno launched his
Intuition Radio show in 2005. The weekly episodes rapidly
became required listening for the internet’s trance-hungry
hoards. A regular at clubs and events such as Godskitchen,
Gatecrasher, Creamfields, Trance Energy, Sensation White,
Mysteryland, Amnesia Ibiza, Love Parade, Berlin, The Gaudi
Arena in Moscow and WMC in Miami; he is truly one DJ to be
heard sooner rather than later as the demand for his
faultless productions and epic sets grows. Matt Hardwick
and his full on trance sound is an ever welcome and popular
visitor to us and he joins this killer trance line-up of the
back of a typically mammoth summer not only launching his
brand new record label but having toured worldwide and even
found time to get in on the action at a bevy of leading
festivals. It’s only a hunch but last year’s position of 48
in the DJmag poll may well change this year as he continues
to march onwards and upwards proving at the end of the day
good music is what rocks! The Gallery’s own residents
Gavyn Mytchel, who will be providing the perfect warm up
as ever and The Viceroy, providing the full on trance
finale, round off the Box in style.
Over in The Bar The Gallery takes a step back in time to a
real moment in dance music history and is not to be missed
as Oakie reassembles his Spectrum night for a very
special reunion. Spectrum was the product of Oakenfold’s
infamous trip to Ibiza back in 1987 when he, Danny Rampling
and Nicky Holloway all came back to London to spread the
Balearic gospel and so Spectrum was born. Tonight’s backroom
party showcases some of the sounds that made Spectrum such
an influential event and in Lisa Loud, Trevor Fung
and Steve Lee – Oakie welcomes back some of the big
jocks of that era who’re still busy on dancefloors around
the globe today.
Meanwhile, one of the nations fastest growing club brands
Classique host the Baby Box, with their sound and choice
of DJs getting to showcase their stuff. Founder and head
resident Paul Morrell brings with him an arsenal of
rising talent for their debut appearance in the capitol
city. With remixes and productions of his own set for
release very soon, Paul feels there has never been a better
time to take on the challenge and much appreciated offer of
being involved in this very special event.
For further information and ticket sales
visit
www.iloveclassique.com
www.djpaulmorrell.com
www.myspace.com/classiqueuk
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