19/04/14: East(er) Bloc stuffed a rocket in our pockets and boiled our eggs in a pretty pink basket with Handsome Saturday night at the East End’s favourite bunny hole.
The ‘Bloc’s Wayne and promoter Martyn Fitzgerald served us up a right proper treat with none other than legendary original Chicago house DJ Marshall Jefferson laying on sticky-chocolate funk house that had us bunny hoppin’ ‘til the sweat trickled down the walls.
“The theme is US house,” said Martyn. “We want to bring back that whole mixed crowd urban vibe that’s been missing from the gay club scene.”
Bring it they did. A night reminiscent of the good ol’ days back in my misspent Chi-town youth in the basement jams of Frankie Knuckles where all ages and races mixed it up on the dance floor. Highlights included the crystalline airy electro-deep trip mix of blond sugar Stuart Geddes, high-energy house by Dave Kendrick and Mark-Ashley Dupe’s slick urban grooves that had them vogue-ing in the back bar. Mistamaker spun some impressive hip-hop and Johnny Kalifornia had the third room club swirling to his own “shed party within a house party” featuring his new downloadable mix ‘Sprung’.
A hot mix of club kids, old-schoolers, hard hunks and funkmasters all gathered together like multi-coloured eggs in one helluva basket.
East Bloc, 217 City Road, Shoreditch, EC1V 1JN
Words by Tom Redkid
Photos by Dos Fotos
