Blood everywhere.
I have always thought that a rave would make an amazing setting for a zombie flick. Your protagonist would be running here and there, petrified, disturbed, and all around her are the jacking bodies of zombies. The mutilated faces of the undead. They moan and bleed from the eyes, they stagger unseeingly around the seething dancefloor. If you brush past too closely they leave sheets of their skin on you as it comes off in flakes. They come jerkingly alive at night. They love techno.
A Shoreditch warehouse, queues round the block, the thudding doof doof which characterises an east London rave. Blood everywhere. I see a kid with his eye hanging out, looking unperturbed.
This is OneMore with Timo Maas. I'll keep it brief. There are a few gripes I have with 'warehouse' clubbing. The underground vibe that promoters want to emulate and punters universally seem to crave usually transpires as an echoey venue with bad acoustics, a distinct paucity of the (generally) unspeakably awful toilets, astronomical door tax and overpriced drinks from an understocked bar.
I love an underground party as much as the next London raver but when it means a reduction in the quality of the things you generally expect to shine on a night out (bar, soundsystem, decent facilities), for the same price as entry to a custom-built club it leaves a bitter taste in your mouth and coating of grime on your shoes.
While I'm at it, I'm going to have to have a whinge about 'superstar DJ' headliners. Undoubtedly Timo Maas provided value to the promoters of OneMore – he sold out the venue. But the German DJ just did not deliver. His set was pretty dull, unadventurous house and techno. He seemed more interested in the girl in the DJ booth who he kanoodled with between mixes. The dancefloor didn't sparkle, the roof was not raised, nothing 'went off'.
It's depressing to see a big name DJ not pulling his weight. My friends and I were all excited to see what he was going to do and left distinctly underwhelmed. That said, the party was fun, people looked great in a Halloween-style dead and dying way and the face-painting company Katinka were doing an excellent line in decorating the faces of zombies with jewels, make up, lashes and so on from their big gold caravan. They unintentionally provided the room two chill-out space.
OneMore do throw reliably good parties with some excellent headliners – it's just unfortunate that this time Mr Maas – the so-called 'Maaster' – was such a let down.
Photo by Bartek Szadura make-up by Katinka
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