It’s a balmy evening in early May as the sun bleeds into the hazy horizon behind the West Pier, printing its stencilled wreckage on the crimson sky. There’s a spring wind biting our necks but not enough to threaten this late evening club night.

Dirty Sunset Disco brings Ibiza to Brighton’s seafront for clubbers who can’t afford a holiday to the dance music mecca. With its heated outside terrace, massive disco balls and a re-edit of Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’ emanating from OHSO Social’s speakers everyone is in high spirits. Funky disco blends into edgy house and, just like the flyer promised, “a mixed metrosexual good-time crowd with attitude” get down and boogie in the fresh dusk air. Think about it, where else in Brighton can you smoke and dance at the same time?

Dirty Sunset Disco definitely achieves the Ibiza vibes and discards naysayers’ sentiments that our summer will be short-lived. That is, of course, until it starts raining.

FYI
NEXT EVENTS: Every Friday from 8pm, OHSO Social
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RESIDENTS: Queen Josephine (Together), Mister Barker (Coco Latte)
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TOP TEN
Dr Kucho! ‘Lies To Yourself’
Mary J Blige ‘I Feel Good (Luis Radio & Spellband Mix)’
Una Mas ‘I Will Follow 2011 (Dulcie Danger Remix)’
Tony Braxton ‘Make My Heart (Muthafunkaz Dub Of Love)’
Klub Family Feat Sybil ‘When I Fall In Love (Knee Deep Mix)’
Todd Terje ‘Eurodans’
The Shapeshifters & Shermanology ‘Waiting For You’
Imaani ‘Found My Light (Layabout Vocal Mix)’
Nathan G & Giom ‘World Go Round’
ATFC ‘Dazzle’

WORDS BY ZAC COLBERT, PHOTOS BY JAMES KENDALL