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Get Loaded In The Park Launch Party Reported by Adam Symbiosis / Submitted 19-04-06 16:52 A bank holiday weekend always means having it large and extra parties but when it’s a four day weekend all bets are off. With the weekend now starting on Thursday it’s a lean, mean raver that’s still going strong by Sunday night. This raver was going somewhat slower on Easter Sunday but still managed to make it down to the launch party for this year’s Get Loaded In The Park, held at London’s Turnmills. Under the banner of The Metro Weekender (that ubiquitous free paper that takes over the tube in the morning) Get Loaded In The Park this year joins forces with South West Four for a two day extravaganza, again on Clapham Common. The launch party for SW4 was held the night before at Brixton Academy and featured luminaries like Carl Cox, Mr C and Meat Katie and by most accounts was a success. Rolling up to Turnmills for the second part of the party I was pleasantly surprised to find the queue or the lack of one to be precise. We were a little bit later than we wanted to arrive (mostly due to the inviting warmness of the sofa) but maybe everyone was inside already? In fact no. There was a smattering of people in each of the rooms. They crowded together around the edge of the dance floors, seemingly egging each other on to be the first to dance. The place looked bare, a constant reminder that it was Sunday, that I should have been in bed. At least the brave souls were putting up a good show in their corners, slowly rocking to the laid back grooves in the main room like ‘Lady Marmalade’. We took a stroll around the club to get our bearings in the expanse. The Broken Hooker DJs were playing breaks to a bouncer, who was sitting in the corner of T2. We sat down too and I tried to work out if it was their music that cleared the room. Having a groove I decided it wasn’t, it was just unfortunate for these guys that there was just not enough people. They certainly had an interesting style of mixing, more sharp cuts, stops and drops then the blends most HFers would be used to. Still there was some bopping to be done and we stuck there until the next duo came on — CHOR. The crowd quadrupled in size, though the throng melted off almost as quickly as it appeared, though some remained to hear a quirky mix of breaks, broken beat and rock. I still wasn’t sure if I could get my head round the lack of mixing and I had images run through my head of being at a slightly awkward high school disco — glammed up boys and girls rocking and waving at the periphery to unmixed (sometimes unrelated) music. Next we moseyed on upstairs to the top floor bar and The Comedy Store. I for one am a great fan of The Comedy Store catching it when I can on Paramount TV and was excited to see what they had in store. We missed the first act, though the second chap was very impressive. Hailing from Brixton, he proceeded to use his Italian background to great effect and interlaced jokes on gangsters, with rudeboys, his mother and some fantastic beatboxing. Top stuff! The next chap, Jim Jefferies, came on with the type of jokes you don’t know whether to cry, cringe or laugh to. The disabled, women, even the adventures of a vibrating egg and his arse, they all came under his harsh spotlight. I let you use your imagination for some of the jokes he cracked. Earlier than billed at 12:45 and the highlight of the night for me, Howard Marks came next. Many of you will know of Mr Nice, many more will not. This unassuming Welsh born, Oxford taught man was one of the biggest hashish smugglers in the world during his heyday with links to dozens of cannabis producing countries, not to mention links with the IRA, MI6, the CIA and many, many other organisations. He talked about cannabis (of course), his attempt to become an MP and applying for a job as a Drugs Czar, or more precisely the Home Office Anti Drugs Co-ordinator. Throughout the monologue he displayed his sharp wit and intelligence, especially when he read out his application letter for the job. A question and answer session followed with random, sometimes silly questions thrown up by the audience and he posed for pictures for a short while after. Back downstairs and a bottle of Magners had gone up by 50p since the last bottle I had bought. Not that the barman seemed to care and even then the bottle was warm! The Stereo MCs were on in the main room and it had filled up respectably. Playing an eclectic mix, seemingly from an iBook, there was some Happy Mondays, some (history making) Gnarls Barkley, then some ragga. If anything I was getting a lesson in music that I would never have got in a hard dance club. Deaf Stereo was rocking it in T3. Then he did a shout out to the crowd, “Now it’s time for some karaoke!” Interesting, I thought though I wasn’t first in the queue to sing. No one was. It was just the DJing doing some MCing, still it sounded quite good, but then he stopped and dropped ‘Poison’ by Britney Spears. The men in the room scrambled for an exit as if there was a fire. I had to laugh. 2am saw us back in T2 for some funky, bassy house, just right for dancing and the now packed dancefloor bounced to the groove. We were surrounded by cowboy hats and knee length boots, mods, rockers and suits. A proper festival mix of people, certainly interesting to watch. It was quickly getting to my bed time though and we decided to leave to get some chow on the way home. All credit to the club though as they did have food available up in Annexo for the party monsters. I think The Comedy Store and An Audience With Howard Marks was spot on. On reflection it would be fantastic if every major club enlisted the services of a few comedians or entertainers or something of their ilk to provide some diversion from the main acts, certainly not everyone wants to listen to music all night long — though please don’t say don’t bother going to nightclubs then! I checked out the poster for the main event on the way out as well. Babyshambles, Buzzcocks and De La Soul are confirmed to feature on the main stage amongst other acts over the four arenas and to be honest I was expecting more live acts playing real musical instruments at this party. To be fair there was a set up in T3 for a band though maybe I left too early to hear anyone actually play a guitar or some drums. Instead the majority of acts were a few chaps cueing up random tracks on their laptops. A bit hit and miss I think. Adam Symbiosis Photos courtesy of Symbiosis. 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