This is a night now run by DJ Alan Yeates, resident at Twisted Hard at The Fridge, (amongst others), in London. Since the summer of 2002 Alan has been managing Hard House & Nu NRG for Chemical Records in Cheltenham and Bristol.

This club has some of the top-most DJ names in hard dance playing yet is held at a small, intimate club in a town not exactly renowned as a locale for dance music.

The source in some sense is Bristol, and its surroundings, an area of the country which is home to some quality dance music DJs, producers and promoters: John the Dentist, Sol Ray and Dave Randall come to mind immediately. Different parts of the country seem to have different dance music heritages, and different networks of people active within them, and in my mind there's a confluence of people and influences around the South West, which is different from that prevailing in say Birmingham or Manchester.

I haven't been yet but mates I know, (who were the ones to tell me about it initially), say that the atmosphere is great. I'll write more once I've been, but if you get there first, or have already been, write and let me know what you think of it:

Jonathan