IlfordRecorder
25 October 2006
THE Club Warehouse success story continues after the Edmonton venue celebrated its 15th birthday.
Always hugely popular with the east London and Essex funky house fraternity, its party was understandably a massive night at the club - see pictures here - and featured a special live PA of Joey Negro's Make A Move On Me, performed by Katherine Ellis.
In the late '90s, with many clubs and promoters sticking to a UK garage music policy, the Warehouse - through its long-running resident, musical director and promoter Paul Gardner - kept things funky.
Former Puscha resident and Woodford-based Gardner, enjoying a massive club hit on Positiva with Javine Hilton and the track Don't Let The Morning Come, made his name promoting house parties all over London, like Just Can't Get Enough.
So he was the perfect man for the job.
But fast forward to the turn of the century and it wasn't so easy pushing house around east London. Now with the area, and indeed the rest of London, awash with funky house and club classics, the Warehouse has never been busier.
Bosses have now rolled their long-running Saturday-nighter, Housonic, out into a record label and touring club brand.
This summer the guys enjoyed a weekly residency at Kanya in Ibiza.
There's even a Housonic management agency, with DJs The Hoxton Whores, Jason Herd, Joey Mustaphia, Hugh Gunnell, Rob Marmot, Kid Massive, Pete Doyle and Steve Facey all on the books.
New for 2007 is
Lawless - a collaboration between
Big Brother star-turned-DJ Kate Lawler and that old campaigner Steve Harvey, one of the original promoters of Club UK in Wandsworth back in the day.
