Students have it made in Brighton – nights like Trash Mondays and Vice Social spoil the tax-dodging young guns, but what about the more mature clubbers? When the Tube opened in March with A Guy Called Gerald it marked itself as a venue for dance music lovers with a few more years behind them.
Sleazy house and funky electro doesn’t do this night’s music policy justice. Warming up by blending Ou Est Le Swimming Pool’s ‘Dance The Way I Feel’ into Boy Better Know’s ‘Too Many Men’ is brave, controversial and a total success. As the night progresses the resident DJ Charles Green comes into his own and by 3am the place is packed tighter than Jordan’s brassiere.
This late influx of bodies signifies why Motel’s moving into an after party role – it’s going to cater for the hardcore dancefloor molesters who will be cutting shapes until sunrise and beyond. And what better place to do it?
FYI
NEXT EVENTS: Every Friday night, 2.30am-6am, The Tube
WEB: tinyurl.com/MotelFace
RESIDENT: Charles Green
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TOP TEN
Oliver $ ‘Doin’ Ya Thang’
Zombie Disco Squad ‘Pinky’
Friendly Fires ‘Live Those Days Tonight (Tim Green Remix)’
Julio Bashmore ‘Battle For Middle You’
Nat Self ‘Madame Bazooka’
Enzo Siffredi ‘Grease’
Pleasurekraft ‘Carny (Heartik & Reiner Weichold Remix)’
Cajmere ‘Brighter Days (John Made Remix)’
Stlye Of Eye ‘Dry (Zombie Disco Squad Remix)’
Chris James ‘Habanera’
WORDS BY ZAC COLBERT
PHOTO BY SAM HISCOX
