It’s the end of another summer everybody! The nights are drawing in and people have started to wear hoodys for reasons other than to be unceremoniously ejected from Bluewater shopping centre. Party people up and down the land sit around and reminisce with each other about yet another lost fortnight on the White Isle, tell stories about how they had a really interesting conversation with some mildly entertaining crusty, as the sun came up on the second day of GLADE. Madcapped anecdotes of wicked moments during GG and of course loads of moaning about how unfair it is that Shrooms aren’t legal anymore! However, in a tiny corner of Gloucestershire last Friday about 200+ people packed into The Hub in Cheltenham for another helping of *relish*. I think its safe to say that nobody was worried about the demise of hot balmy nights on terraces, as it was time to have a party to celebrate the onset of Autumn……….Well that wasn’t really the theme of the party but as always at *relish* the theme was no attitude! Have fun! Make friends! Have a damn good stomp and enjoy some different sounds through the course of the night!

So to kick things off in the main room we had Alex Evans making a truly superb first appearance at *relish*, pleasing my ears with some lovely chuggy melodic progressive house. This was only the 3rd time this night has run and already I noticed that there were some now familiar faces on the dance floor early doors……….dare I now call them *relish* regulars? So we had a party on our hands right from the off and I overheard lots of positive comments about Alex’s set. His biggest tunes of the night had to be Spector-Narcotic Fuel (Stel remix) and Santiago Nino-Big Risk. I for one was also very impressed, well done mate!
By now the place was pretty packed and there was a real good vibe going around everybody I think was looking to get down and dirty. But who could possibly give us just what we needed? As I was pondering this question a knowing smile spread across my face because Lizzie Curious was skipping towards the DJ box!..................”.Hehehe here we go!” I thought. Boy she did not disappoint, moving us swiftly into some wicked dirty electro house. I know I have said it a few times I admit but hell, I will say it again the energy and vibe this girl creates when she is behind the decks is just fantastic! Dance floor was loving every minute and numbers started to swell on it during the course of her set, the highlight of which had to be the King Roc remix of S-Express……………Great stuff!
Next up was Si Tizzard who jilted all our drunken asses up a gear by belting out some pumping tough uplifting trance! I could tell from the looks on people’s faces that this was turning out to be a really top night, unfortunately, I was having too good a night by this point and I can’t quite remember the exact tracks that Si played although I do have a fuzzy memory of lots of tasty new Anjuna Beats numbers………….perhaps Mr Tizzard will remind me later? I do remember that his set rocked though and I got well and truly stuck into the madness!....................hats off to da man!
Everybody was so busy having fun by this point that no one noticed that Lizzie Curious had slipped off to a nearby phone box and after much twirling and spinning inside………….re-appeared behind the decks as Starlet! She then proceeded to create a forest of hands in the air on the dance floor playing tunes such as OceanLab Satellite……….Lovely trance classic! I could go on again about how good this gal is but I have a rule that I only heap lots of praise on one alter-ego per review ha ha!
To finish things off Ludo (from Cheltenham’s longstanding Bangers & Mash night) and Karma played a storming B2B set, including a superb new hard remix of Pearl River and nice to hear Glazby's Free Your Mind getting another airing, that hoovertastic riff is a dancefloor destroyer!!

During all the mischief in the main room, upstairs the Breaks room really came into its own! With people packed in just as much as downstairs Evil Twin created a funky start to things as people chilled on the multitude of comfy seating and also indulged in some truly evil shots that were on offer at the bar up there………….Ive never had a Tit Flash and 2 Quick Shags in 1 night before! Jase stepped things up a notch with absolutely fantastic scratching tricks (have him back please!!!!! It was wicked!!!) and then local legend Just-in also indulged in some scratching trickery! It was all so damn good!

Yet again I take my hat, shirt, socks and undies off to the *relish* crew for stepping up and putting on yet another fantastic party! I can’t wait until the next one on 28th Oct. apparently it is a certain bouncy energetic female DJ’s birthday celebration so should be extra special! A little bird also tells me that its gonna be fancy dress……………So I am off to dust down my Gimp costume now!

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Ahhhhh.. yes, I remember it well.

Superb night that was so fantastically organised.
Well done *Relish*.

A fantastic write-up young master Jedi - your words are very condusive to bringing a smile to the face of a very, very hungover lady on this chilly October morning!!

What a nice thing to say!

Glad I am helping to ease the pain of the morning after!

Great review mate... could you be so creative in writing a sick note for me for work please... I feel the king of ming today!

really enjoyed it pplz thanks 4 the review!!
looking forward to the next one as always, will be bringing some m8s from brum nxt time!

don't forget the next one is fancy dress Alex!! 28th Oct!!

Yes your Brummie friends will need to get some costume action sorted out!

Is it true that your coming as an Ewok?

An Ewok!?
Are you takin the mick out my hair???
LOL
I really dunno wat ill come as, ill have to have a think *rubs chin*

Alex if you could see my barnet at the moment you would know that I am in no position to take the mick out of anyones hair!

I actualy can really picture you as an Ewok though.............ah go on!

Still undecided on my costume though.............leaning towards Jedi though!

hah mildly entertaing crusty ......mmmmmm that was probaly me .....not that i would remmember..........lol.....seems to be my vocation in life talkin bollox and wacthing the sun come up....great review though will have to venture out of the forest and into nam for the nxt one!

Come to think of it, it could of been you mark.

Convo about Wombles on Ketamine ring any bells?

I dont believe this...

I'm working ont he 28th, 29th AND 30th of October... So im going to miss ANOTHER Relish AND Tribe of Frog in Bristol AND a house party the next night... Looks like I'm going to have a lame Haloween this year.

That's like 3 times on the trot I've been working on that weekend :o(

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? :-(

wonky wombles .......!!! sounds familiar may have been describin meself..???? ......consider myself a womble of the highest order .... amazing what u can womble at glasto on the tues .......after 4 days of caning it people seem to become enlightened, shun materialism and leave all their possesions behind ..... in 07 im gonna fit a towbar to my campervan and womble meself a caravan, must have been a hundred abandoned this year easy, done alright out of tents..... (sing) makin good use of the things that we find...........!!!!! could turn pro get sponsored by biffa.....

UNCLE BULGARIA!!!!!!...................He can remember the days that he wasnt behind the times!

Oh the memories!

JONNO!!!!!!!!!!!! I am not impressed! I think it might be time for me to write you a sick note.

How about you tell them that you live on a houseboat and have limited access to fresh fruit and veggies and have therfore come down with a nasty bout of Scurvie!

We will compose it together when I come down this weekend...........I am not taking no for a answer!

Hi

being the oppurtunistic womble that i am does anyone use soulseek...??? (file sharin prog) it would be good to womble some music off each other i think...