KeToLoCo is an underground afterparty for like-minded freaks on the Leeds and UK clubbing scene. In its first year it was held at the DC15 basement club - i.e somebody's house(!) - in Yorkshire. Formed in 2006, it was a place where every clubber in Leeds would descend to after a night's partying. They even nabbed Ralph Lawson for a quick mix-a-thon. Brings a whole new meaning to "afterparty at mine", eh?

The idea of KeToLoCo and DC15 arose from the minds of a group of friends, after a summer on the island of Ibiza. Spending time at DC10 and dancing till dawn at CiRcOlOcO inspired a passion in the group that needed fulfilling. Chris Halliday, Marcus Sumpner, Danny Raper, Sutty Sutcliff, Hedley Gisbourne, George Abbott, Tom Fisha, Eddy Osborne, Sean Cookson, and a mysterious figure known as Chief, had spent a day with the horses - when they decided that Leeds needed something different to shake things up a little....

Chief and the gang were sat outside Kanya. The conversation went something along the lines of: "Wouldn’t it be amazing if you had a DC10 in Leeds?”
“We'll f**kin’ make one at our house - terrace and everything!”
“What shall we call it?”
“Erm... what’s the number of our house, again?”
“15...?”
“That's sorted then... we'll call it DC15!”

KeToLoCo was born!

The plan was to host after-parties for the best club-nights in Leeds including; Technique & Asylum, Back To Basics and Dirty Disco. The boys were fed up with leaving clubs at 6am and heading home to sit in a living room until the crumble pie was served. They wanted the chance to carry on dancing until their heads and feet had fallen off, they wanted banter with other like-minded people and, most of all, they wanted the choice to do whatever they wanted to, in laid-back surroundings.

The next stage in the saga was to transform their student digs in Headingley, Leeds into a mini-club suitable for KeToLoCo. As DC15 took shape and the red of the DC10 terrace coated the walls, a feeling of anticipation pulsated through the house and it was obvious something special was happening. DC15 was finished and the dark and dirty basement club was perfect for KeToLoCo.

The first party was planned for mid-September 2006 and the timing couldn't have been better with friends returning from Ibiza and students flooding back to Leeds after the summer. KeToLoCo was to host an unofficial afterparty for Back To Basics. As word spread around Leeds and the Myspace page was alive with talk, it was evident that KeToLoco was going to be bigger than your average house party!

The party kicked off at 7am on Sunday morning straight after Back To Basics, which helped the boys avoid the Environmental Health noise legislation and also a knock on the door from the police. Being located in an area of Headingley densely populated by students – complaints from neighbours were next to none. All the more reason to install two specially-fitted Mackie Active soundsystems then, to keep the music pumpin’ all day long! The opening set was from Fisha, founding member and a resident (in more ways than one) of DC15, spinning dirty electro and techno. The basement was full and people were going crazy with a look of disbelief and pure pleasure strewn across their faces. However, no-one was prepared for a special guest slot from Ralph Lawson (Back To Basics resident) who dropped by, and subsequently cemented KeToLoCo’s now legendary status.

With the painted red walls, the two Mackie Active soundsystems for every event, together with lights, a bar, different rooms and credible line-ups – it’s no wonder you hear people muttering stuff like "do people actually live here?" and "is this really a club?".

The club moved to new premises in October 2007 – DC16 as it’s now called – but the 'messy' factor hasn’t changed one bit. The myriad of tales that have emerged from the club deserves its own book, with highlights including Dave Beer and Paul Woolford getting more than stuck in, a worse-for-wear Kate Lawler struggling to deal with gravity on a 2nd floor hallway, Audiojack refusing to leave the house and playing a 4-hour set to over 300 gored-up clubbers at their KetoWeen event, and the show going on despite the basement flooding with 2 inches of water.

Soon after their first party, Dave Beer invited them to host the second room at Back To Basics on a monthly basis, launching KetoLoco into the “proper” clubbing world. Sole Ketoloco parties also followed, then after 12 months of full-on Leeds parties including their 1st Birthday Party at Back To Basics, a hook-up with outdoor venue The Zoo Project in Ibiza came in to play – with KetoLoco running weekly parties there throughout the summer of 2007. Guest slots and joint parties at some of London’s best venues followed throughout the winter.

Roll on 2008 with events in London and Ibiza this Summer and now, arguably their BIGGEST event of their short (but uber-successful) life so far – Pacha London.

If they can achieve half the success in the capital that they’ve achieved up North, who knows where their afterparty antics could end up leading them....