Hospitality moves to Brixton Academy, 24 September 2010

Hospital Records has just announced that its most excellent flagship night, Hospitality, is moving to Brixton Academy. This is the London leg's second move this year, having shifted to Fabric last Friday following the closure of Matter.

We've got a while to wait until the next one - Friday 24 September - but this isn't surprising as most promoters take a break over the summer, when everyone's busy with weddings, barbecues and holidays.

Brixton Academy is an awesome venue for live gigs. Lots of promoters use it for club nights too, but I find these don't work so well. I remember being at a rave there years ago and one of the arenas was actually in the entrance hall, which was a bit weird.

On the plus side, Brixton Academy has a capacity of nearly 5,000 - almost three times the size of Fabric. Hospitality has always been a sell-out in the past, so at least this time you won't have such a scramble for tickets.

For details, visit the newly relaunched Hospital Records website: www.hospitalitydnb.com/2010/09/hospitality-at-the-brixton-academy

I heart Hospitality

I do bang on about how good Hospitality is, but it's totally justified. What an amazing night!

I went to the last couple of Hospitalitys at Digital in Brighton. Great crowd, great fun. The sound system in room two could do with a tweak, as could the opening hours (who wants to go home at 4am anyway?) but other than that, it's a brilliant event - and possibly the best drum n bass party in the world.

Last Friday, Hospitality returned to London on one of the coldest nights of the year. We trekked through the snow to Matter, determined to make our rave mission happen despite the fact that my raving compadre was already puking (his fun started early) and I didn't have my moonboots on (I resent going anywhere in snow without them).

Unfortunately Matter has taken a leaf out of Fabric's book and the queues are hefty, which meant we caught only the last track of Rusko's main-room set. But Friction totally smashed it afterwards, playing the best set of the night. London Elektricity kept the pace up nicely, which was sadly lost when Shy FX came on the decks and decided to rewind almost every tune. It's. Really. Annoying. To. Stop. Start. All. The. Time. 

I'd love to tell you how good Cyantific was, but I was too busy teaching everyone at the front how to gravity skank by that point. It was a bummer that High Contrast couldn't make it - he may have a microphone for a head, but his sets are always awesome.