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Date: 23rd
November 2002
Address: 9 Grosvenor Place, Belgravia, London
SW1
Occurrence: Bi-Monthly
/ Saturday
Hours: 9pm - 2am
Ticket Price: Free B4
10pm - Ladies £5 Gents £10 After
Dress Code: Super Glamorous
Genre: Funky House
Capacity:
TBC
Pictures: Click
Here |
Grand Gallery:
DJ Dominic, Sarah P, Fred le Sweet
Club Gallery: Nicky P
& Special Guests |
After being invited to the last
Quite party of the year we descended on an exquisite
Belgravia Mansion over looking the gardens of Buckingham
Palace.
Reading up on this event before hand as to avoid
disappointment we were lead to believe that we would
enter an indulgence of beautiful people and some
of the smoothest sounds from around the more glamorous
side of the house world. And to be sure we were
not to be disappointed, with a setting that most
promoters would die for and a line-up of dj's producing
an array of fine US house beats and R 'n' B across
the two dance floors.
The layout of the venue is as follows, with downstairs
featuring the Club Gallery and bar with a surrounding
not to dissimilar to a lounge style wine bar, and
a small chill out room lit in a wash of red with
complementary beanbags. Upstairs slightly larger
than the former offers two bar areas one of which
is VIP which in it self offers comfortable seating
and surroundings. The Grand Gallery can be found
upstairs offering a larger area for those beautiful
people to strut their fantastic stuff.
Quite has two main rooms in which to offer up their
sounds with the Grand Gallery offering Sexy US House
accompanied by excellent live percussion and the
Club Gallery offering Funk, Rare Groove, & R'n'B.
I must admit my own roaming was fairly limited to
around the upstairs segment of the venue and thus
I can't speak much about the quality of the music
downstairs. However the appearances that I did make
in this area were rewarded with a healthy quality
of sounds.
The Grand Gallery upstairs offered up some fine
funky, US House beats with the wonderful compliment
of the live percussion, however at times this slightly
over powered. In all top marks for the music on
offer.
The venue itself not being a purpose built takes
some time to travel around and one thing I would
suggest to anyone attending this venue is to take
a trusty compass and brush up on your orienteering
skills. I say this, as a walk to the toilets is
not as simple as one would first believe.
With plenty of seating on offer throughout the venue
the whole event is played out to offer total comfort
and ease with your surroundings. The only shame
was the fact that the night ended so soon, with
the event closing at 2am. However with a diverse
attendance this probably suited most in appearance
with a 50/50 split between people wishing to continue
their night else where at the close and those wishing
to take the party back to their own dwellings.
If
your looking for a change of scenery from the purpose
built, 'get as many in as we can' type of venue
then this should be quite a healthily choice. |
Venue: 8
Music: 7
Crowd: 8
Sound System: 7
Total: 30 / 40
Rating: Silver Award |
Review written by: Oli Pavitt oli@uk-cl.co.uk |
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