#EasterMadness: A Bank Holiday Round Up

This weekend it seemed as if most of the worlds DJ’s had descended upon the UK for a good old rave. We might all be #BackToWork now, but, if you’re keen to know what you missed whilst nursing your respective hangovers, we’ve got you covered!

London seemed rammed with selectors this weekend. With a deep house masterclass from Prosumer and Potion available at Dance Tunnel, a star-studded line up at Fabric, NTS radio’s 4th birthday party, the close of south London’s Crucifix Lane club, a Dummy mag collab with Goon Club Allstars, an Eglo Records special with Sound Signature’s Andrew Ashong and an unlikely success with Skrillex and Four Tet coming together at Underworld to channeling early rave spontenaeity, nobody in the capital had an excuse not to party this weekend!

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DJ Qu, Mosca and Virginia trekked to the ex-industrial Laundry basement for the annual Secretsundaze Easter special, whilst The Hydra put together a weekend bash at regular haunt Studio Spaces, Wapping with Innervisions and Blueprint Records bringing down the likes of Omar-S, Eats Everything b2b Catz’N Dogz and more, plus an appearance from Luke Slater: whipping out his Planetary Assault Systems alias with an extra-special live set.

Down south of the city Swamp81 label boss Loefah joined up with NYC’s FaltyDL (seen below outside the NTS studios prior to their appearance this weekend), Paleman and Josey Rebelle for a dub-heavy night at Corsica studios, whiilst in Shoreditch Brainfeeder’s UK rep Lapalux launched his new album Lustmore with a live audio visual show at Rich Mix.

Manchester this weekend was split between house, techno and bass – nothing out of the ordinary there we suppose! On a house and techno tip ex-chapel The Albert Hall played host to Carl Cox and Eats Everything whilst Jackmaster, John Digweed and Jemmy rocked Trof venue Gorilla over the course of the bank holiday.

On the grimier side of things, long-running city event Hit&Run brought Bristolian bass producer Joker to NQ venue the Mint Lounge with support from Sh?m, Chimpo, Jonny Opo and promoter Rich Reason and local label Grand Theft Audio celebrated their first birthday at ramshackle local rave hub Antwerp Mansion.

Hope you are all shouldering those hangovers with pride! Until the next time… (which we make the 4th May) …rave on!

Words @geena_pellant