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| Coloursfest
Dance Festival |
Date:
Sunday 2nd June 2002
Address: Braehead Boardwalk and International
Arena, Glasgow
Occurrence:
Yearly
Hours:
2pm - 4am
Ticket Price:
£38.50 + booking fee
Dress
Code: TBC
Genre:
Many
Capacity: TBC |
| Line-Up:
40 DJ's from around the globe |
A shopping centre and
a curling rink may seam like an unlikely venue for
a dance festival but having a festival without the
mud and with indoor toilets certainly did make sense.
Being the only dance festival in Scotland this year,
the promoters tell you to "expect the best"
and they certainly didn't disappoint. After the
last three years of having Homelands in Scotland
I was starting to wonder what I would do with myself
for my yearly festival hit when they decided not
to have one this year. I delighted to hear about
the infamous Colours club organising the festival
and having Scottish promoters doing it for themselves.
About 40 DJ's and six live acts turned up to the
14-hour extravaganza and every single one looked
happy to be there. It was almost possible to feel
the electricity from the crowd in the main hall,
which I don't think had as much to do with drugs
as you would have thought, everybody was individually
sniffed by police dogs on the way in.
Despite a little drizzle early on (it is Scotland
remember) the sun soon came out and the crowd happily
danced outside on the concrete boardwalk beside
the Clyde river and the waltzers and gladiator fairground
also added to the atmosphere. Not that it mattered
if it was raining when you went into the arenas,
not only were they dry but absolutely roasting as
well. I guess when there's a few thousand people
bouncing around like mad it tends to get a bit toastie.
There are so many good things that I could say about
the amazing nature of the line up, Seb Fontaine,
Sister Bliss, Tiesto, Tall Paul, the list really
does go on like that for a while. However, a definite
weird feature was that of Dannii Minogue. I actually
felt a bit sorry for her, not that I should, she
got an amazing response, particularly from the guys
in the audience. It seamed that each of her songs
were pretty good, but it was just something about
the way she talked between the tracks and the dancers
that made you think she would be more suited to
a radio roadshow than a dance festival. It was also
pretty funny how in the papers on the day of the
event she told that she would not be wearing a kilt
because it was cliché but it still somehow
miraculously appeared on her body as she came back
to sing the last song. Still, she was much better
than I had expected and I wish her luck with her
new dancier sound.
Over five arenas there was a massive amount of talent
but the line-up in the main arena was so fantastic
that it was hard to venture outside. The main arena
is actually a curling rink so there were also plenty
of seats with amazing views of the crowd and indoor
toilets! Thank goodness that the traditional festival
portaloo could be bypassed for once!
My personal favourite moment of the event was 808
State playing live. It is absolutely amazing to
see guys with electric guitars and drums playing
live dance music, it makes you realise that even
though there are loads of top DJ's who are brilliant
at their jobs, they could be where they are if guys
like this didn't make the music in the first place.
I really cant praise them enough, I think it will
go down as my favourite festival moment of all time.
The night in the main hall ended with a Scotsman,
Trevor Reilly, who will go down as a legend as one
of the most enthusiastic DJ's I've ever seen. I
guess being live on the radio helped and he had
the crowd going wild, getting them to scream and
asking them "who's the daddy?" he also
kept shouting how glad he was to be a Scotsman playing
at a festival in Scotland. "I'm just the lucky
bastard who gets to play my favourite songs",
and he sure showed us all how much he loves his
job. |
Venue: 9
Music: 10
Crowd: 9
Sound System: 10
Total: 38 / 40
Rating:
Gold Award |
Review written by: Lindsay M. Strachan |
lindsay@uk-cl.co.uk |
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