Music : Disco
Love Fever
a night of disco fueled debauchery with Nicky Siano
10pm till 5am
Saturday November 7th
@ Corsica Studios
4 Elephant Road
London, SE17 1LB
Room 1
Nicky Siano
All Night Long
Room 2
Mark Seven
Love Fever DJs
We hope you can join us this time round for a night of elegant Love Fever debauchery and disco tomfoolery. We are chuffed to be joined on the night by New York disco legend Nicky Siano playing all night long in room one, whilst in room two with a nod to the future of disco we welcome Mark Seven over from Sweden alongside our (fool)hardy Love Fever DJs.
So onto our main room guest, Nicky Siano. Having helped Nicky with his Galleria party at the Key club 5 years ago we can cheerfully report that he's still 'got it' and that night he rocked the (illuminated) dancefloor from 9pm till 5am closing and we're looking forward to a repeat performance at Love Fever.
For a potted history, as a pioneer of the dance music scene in early 70s NYC he opened his own club at a precocious age of 17, The Gallery. Alongside The Loft and the Paradise Garage, the Gallery was one of New York's most famous underground disco clubs, with Nicky regularly delighting large crowds with his highly regarded DJing. He inspired and launched the careers of, Larry Levan and Frankie Knuckles with Grace Jones and Loleatta Holloway both making their debut appearances at his legendary nightspot. New York Daily News named him 'The City's Best DJ' and New York Magazine called his club, The Gallery, 'one of the five most visually breathtaking nightspots of our time'.
"Larry and I would blow up balloons, set up the food bar, prepare the punch, and give out acid, but we also spent a lot of time in the DJ booth, watching Nicky's every move. He pretty much taught us what he was doing". says Frankie Knuckles
Certainly an inspiration to us at Love Fever with the attention to detail he put into his Gallery club in terms of sound, decor and quite simply, drama. Not content with running his own club Nicky also guested at several others, including the infamous Studio 54, and was actually the DJ as Bianca Jagger rode naked across the dance floor on her white horse! Nicky, as well as introducing the concept of pitch control to mixing, was also the first DJ to truly realise the power of dropping out certain channels of music, eg. slamming the bass in and out of a track, to heighten the ecstasy on his dance floor.
For this event we're going to take over the Corsica Studios space just south of the river (gasp). It's a great space that's recently housed parties with Dixon, Henrik Schwarz and Prins Thomas amongst others as well as the near legendary Low Life parties, and a space ripe for a Love Fever style makeover. A fantastic 2 roomed venue (plus garden) with a slamming Funktion One system which will be subject to the full Love Fever makeover, think disco balls, balloons, projections, artworks and sound system fine tuning - for the geeks our first party featured a 1973 Bozak mixer and for our last we had a Urei 1620, white shure cartridges & a 5k F1 rig.
In one of several stories recounted in Tim Lawrence's fantastic book (link below), one night when Nicky's Gallery club was shut down on fire regulation grounds by New York Police he grabbed a box of acid laced strawberries on his way out, put it on a police car in the street and his Gallery regulars, who had been turfed out, helped themselves. At a suitable time later Nicky sneaked back upstairs into the venue, opened all the windows, and blasted out his favourite track!! We'll we didn't quite have the foresight (or balls, or acid) to do that when Hackney police and licensing came knocking to shut down our last Love Fever party, but wish we had!
With Nicky Siano in full swing for his Gallery session, in room two we'll be doing our Love Fever thing with Mark Seven from Sweden. Fresh from guest appearances at All Ends Up, Bad Passion and the inimitable Horse Meat Disco, this Berkshire raised, Sweden residing DJ, promoter, record shop owner and crate digging disco connisouer. Consistently blown away by Mark's mixes, he's an artist who's right down our street. We hope you can join us on the dance floor..... Andy & Alex.
