By Denny on Thu 2 Jan 2003 at 14:55
This year I spent New Year's Eve at Mass in Brixton, shouting in the new year with 1200 other fetishists from the UK and beyond. I had fun
The party was the usual TG success... it was sold out, and all the areas of the club were busy right through until the end of the event at 6am.
The music on the main dancefloor was a bit hit and miss (although mostly danceable) up until 1:30am when Allen's set started, but both that and *ting*'s set were brilliant and had the dancefloor packed edge to edge and beyond with people bouncing around like lunatics. Hooray!
That said, the finest musical moment of the night had to be midnight. On the main dancefloor (home of the hard house anthem), we counted down the last ten seconds to midnight in unison, and then we were regaled with... 'Anarchy in the UK' by the Sex Pistols. This went down very well, and in some ways defines what I like about TG - it's not a single-minded kind of club, it attempts (and usually succeeds) to be all things to all people... or all perverts anyway
The eclectic lounge was suitably eclectic, and I spent some time dancing in there too. TG is probably the only place that the dancefloor crowd during 'Danger, Danger, High Voltage' could be weirder than the video!
The dungeon area at Mass had got very popular before TG had to move on from the venue, and people were pleased to be back there on this night... it was crowded all evening, but not unpleasantly so, and there were a lot of scenes going on every time I wandered through.
A lot of people seemed pleased to be back at Mass in general. I personally prefer the Colosseum, but Mass was TG's venue for a long time, and it will have a soft spot in the hearts of TG regulars for a while yet. The only complaint I heard was about the lack of convenient places for random sex - there was one small room set aside for chill-out and general shagging upstairs, and one area set aside for couples down in the dungeon (which I suspect some people may not have noticed).
Overall: this party was definitely worth the money (£25 members, £30 non-members), and I'm already planning on spending the New Year in the company of TG and friends next year too.
Finally I'd like to thank D from the TG crew for being lovely, and I'll throw in a gratuitous plug for the TG fetish bazaar which she organises...
Happy New Year everyone!
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