Went to see Erick Morillo at the spanking new Gatecrasher in Nottingham on Friday night. A lot’s changed since the straight up media days. Everything is orangy-pink and there are disco balls all over the place, I thought it looked ace. Really good crowd in to see Morillo and everyone was well up for it, some really interesting characters.
Before Morillo came on at about 1am there was some duo from Sheffield in the lounge area at the top of the club. One guy on the decks and another guy singing over some funky house tunes, can’t remember there names but they were quality. The mc/singer type guy just sang freestyle and did a spot on job.
Sorry to say in the main room there was the token fat motionless DJ “warming up” the crowd. I often think that big name DJs must choose who goes on before them and how they’d like them to act. Maybe a bit cynical of me, but this guy on in the main room was hardly high quality in comparison to what must be out there. It would make sense if Morillo’s team phoned ahead and said that they wanted someone a bit fat and pants on because after all you can’t have anyone upstaging the main act can you?! Still though I’d have liked a quality night throughout considering the £18 on the door entry fee! It was cheaper at Fabric London!! Morillo reportedly got paid around the 20 grand mark for Fridays work… he did a spot on job though. He never disappoints.
His style is like no other, it’s build up after build up with the heavy use of vocals and it always sounds mint. When you see the best you realise how much time and effort they put into what they do from the organisation of their tunes to the way they control their equipment. Check the pictures, he must have had around 500 cds. When he came on there was no reaction like it. Check the video - the place went crazy.
I said to some bloke wearing a pacha t-shirt standing in the DJ booth with him, “who are you?”
“Who are you?” he asked back.
“I asked you first” I said… a legitimate call I thought.
“I’m Erick’s manager, why? Who are you?”
“I’m Jon, Erick’s very good”
“Thank-you”
I made a friend on Friday, Erick’s playing at my next birthday party.
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