Music : Electro House, Dirty House, Tech House and Tribal House
Tribal Sessions 6th Birthday Party
Since the re-opening five years ago the club has seen huge success, and both the Friday and Saturday nights stand up as the best nights in the country. Sankeys Soap, as it was known, closed in 2006 to undergo a refit. The result has been a new slick club that offers a third room and some interesting new concepts.
Tribal Sessions plays the harder edged music ranging from deep house to breaks to the trademark tribal house sound that resident Greg Vickers plays. The infamous Phazon sound system holds it all together in a dark and confusing venue. Sankeys is 'proper clubbing' and the Friday night line-ups hail that - Zabelia pops up regularly, as do Slam, Manchester based Metropolis provide the Drum'n'Bass sounds and resident Iain Taylor provides the breaks.
Headliner Booka Shade Live
The studio partnership of producers, remixers and live act Booka Shade aka Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier has come a very long way since its incarnation in the early 90s. Back then, Arno and Walter were a synth pop act signed to a major label. They released two albums and did a number of tours, but at the same time they were being seduced by the emerging trance and techno sounds they heard in Frankfurt clubs like The Omen.
By the end of the 90s, Booka Shade had tired of the trance-techno scene and again needed a new direction to focus on. At this stage, they decided to found their own label.
By 2002, the Get Physical label was launched, with Booka Shade responsible for all of the productions and remixes by M.A.N.D.Y., DJ T., Sunsetpeople and Chelonis R. Jones. In 2004, with Get Physical established as one of Europe’s most respected new electronic music labels,
The label was also the outlet for their huge 2005 club hit, ‘Mandarine Girl’ and ‘Body Language’ - both firm favourites in their live show - with the latter track, a collaboration with M.A.N.D.Y, winning the DJ award ‘Ibiza Track of the Season 2005’ and gaining support from big league DJs as well as underground house and techno names.
Last year also saw Booka Shade hit the road, and their rocking live show earned them a reputation as one of Europe’s most exciting live electronic music acts. This status was confirmed by their electric performance at the 2005 Sónar festival in Barcelona, and dates supporting Royksopp on tour and Mylo in London
They also remixed Moby (Mute), The Juan McLean (DFA) and Yello’s electro pop classic ‘Oh Yeah’. The culmination of a fantastic year was the honour of Get Physical being voted as ‘label of the year’ in DJ Magazine.
However, Booka Shade didn’t rest on their laurels: in between gigs to promote ‘Memento’, the duo worked on material for the 2006 follow up album, ‘Movements’. Released in April, it maintained Arno and Walter’s love of soaring basslines, epic melodies and club-friendly arrangements, but it also showed that they were not afraid to experiment with other styles, like slow motion hip-hop, electro and chilled Balearic house music.
Movements’ is a more varied and possibly more mature work than ‘Memento’, but the two singles to date from the album, ‘Night Falls’ and ‘In White Rooms’, show that Booka Shade still know how to write emotive, powerful dance tracks. It’s not just club DJs who have picked on their material: Booka Shade’s music features regularly in the top 5 genre charts on iTunes all over the world.
Since the album’s release, Walter and Arno have been touring continuously around Europe - most recently, they had the somewhat nerve-wrecking pleasure of doing the warm up slot for synthpop legends Depeche Mode on the Berlin date of their world tour – with performances at festival and club goers alike won over by their powerful live act, including the audience at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
"I first seen them do a Live set at TDK in London this summer and they were awesome"
Other residents on this evening are:
Greg Vickers
Dan Genacia
Damian Lazarus
Sankeys Soap
Beehive Mill
Radium Street
Manchester M4 6JG
More Information
0161 950 4201 / www.sankeys.info
Advance NUS Tickects only
available at Revolution Fallowfield
£8nus £10 others 11pm - 5am