Dear readers, today your dear blogger (me!Hooray!) woke up with a hangover yet again (surely not!). This time, it wasn't from drinking an awful amount. Nay, I think I have to face the truth....yes, I'm turning into a bit of a lightweight! How unfortunate, I hear you exclaim! Why, yes. How unfortunate indeed....anyhoo, to prevent this from turning this blog into an imaginary conversation between myself and all of you, I'll just give you a wee post-club analysis. Last night, I went to see Paul Oakenfold at long last. I'd been wanting to see him for the past 7 years so you can imagine how relieved I was to see the man in the flesh! Yes, he looks like an ape with a center parting! In terms of actual dj-ing, he's quite average although I must say that he certainly knows what sorts of tunes to play to get the crowd into it! The atmosphere was pretty electric...people of all shapes and sizes on all sorts of poison, jostling for space on the jam-packed dancefloor...the 2 malay boys who walked around the club, trying to garner support for the "Worker's Party (a local opposition political party)" were hilarious with their little WP flag! I gave them a handshake of approval.
As for the choonage, Oakie played loads of songs from my "trancey past"...waves of nostalgia rushed over me when he played "Children" by Robert Miles and the dozens of other trancey songs he played which escape my memory the now....but most importantly, it was the company I was with that made it such a brilliant night...having old mates like Daryl, Terence and Wong (yes, wongo dongo actually turned up!) reminded me of how I used to love going out and dancing to trance with my boys! And the added company of Val and Tania, my fave pseudo-________ (you girls know what I'm sayin!!hahaha) made the night one to remember (or rather, one I'm trying to remember)!! Now, if only Jeff, Sanjay, Shervin and Wiley (my trance-loving boys) had been there.....

Choonage: U.N.K.L.E. - In a State (Sasha remix)