At Sensu HQ today we were reflecting on some memorable moments from the past 9 years.
Here’s how this all came about…
Kicking things off back in the Q club in 2004 we moved onwards and upwards to the long winding steps of the Liquid Lounge. However, our aspiration was always to host Sensu in our favourite place in the world, Sub Club. Luckily we were given that chance! For the first one in the Sub we booked Lawrence & Mr C, everything went better than we could of imagined and since then we have tried to bring a sound to Glasgow that excites us and hopefully everyone who has supported us in the past 9 years.
As well as the Sub Club we’ve always enjoyed taking our music & parties out of the club environment. This has led to Summer boat parties on the River Clyde, Secret Parties in Restaurants, Swimming Baths, Town Halls and afterparties all over Glasgow. Further afield on beaches, boats and rooftops at our favourite places, Barcelona and Croatia. As well as closer to home joining the Sub Club SoundSystem at RockNess and T in the Park.
This year we start our own record label…have a listen and hope you enjoy!
Here’s some moments and music from everyone involved.
JUNIOR:
“My fondest memory from over the past nine years was probably our first ever night at Sub Club. My mum had said to me jokingly at dinner the night before that she was planning on popping down to make sure everything was running smoothly. I laughed it off. Obviously at 56 and being a Rod Stewart fan she was on the wind up. I had totally forgotten about her comment until I saw a crowd beginning to gather round the dance floor, not unlike a circle you would see form in a school yard as two people were about to come ahead. Seeing as I’m a 23 year old responsible club promoter now obviously I had to see what dafuk what happening. Low and behold ALL my friends were round my mum and her friends having a wee boogie.
In short she was well looked after, door staff welcomed her with open arms when she told them she was down to “surprise her boys” and she caught more of my brothers warm up that I did. We Didn’t really appreciate at the time that she was down to support her boys and see why she had been listening to a continuous beat in the house for the last 10 years, I now look back with a fond smile.
Iggie played this for the warm up. Perfection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS0yS2102gM
She left the club an hour later happy as Larry and just before things got a little bit lively.
Your mum, techno and sub club. The three things that make life wonderful! ”
Favourite Tune: Afrilounge – Lux Dementia
It really never gets old. It’s probably the track I’ve played most over the years and people always ask what it is. The first time I played it was with Barry at NYE in the Classic Grand before Matthew Jonson and most recently just last month as my last track before Tale Of Us. I really need to stop playing it. But can’t.
BARRY PRICE:
There have been loads of moments, parties & amazing music but to break it down I think one of my favourite parties outside of Sub Club was when we took over Govan Town Hall with good pals Sunday Circus for Halloween in 2010. Actors were hired in, we built 4 poster beds etc, raided the BBC prop departments, brought in visual artists and tried to transform the town hall into a full on experience.
Hopefully it worked and people can still piece together some happy memories of it through the mental-ness of the night.
Bear in mind this video is when the lights came on before everyone got back to Sub Club :-)
A better quality version of that belter of a tune can be heard below. I think it was Junior playing it but you can’t see him as he’s wearing a Balaclava.
And for another moment..
When Seth Troxler played for us at Sub Club for the first and only time so far and was absolutely brilliant.
The cleaning lights were on and we all thought the night was done…Then a flick of the lights by Ross the doorman, back to darkness and then Troxler played this one last tune. It just worked!
For one last moment here is Tale Of Us last tune at Sensu in 2012. The atmosphere was really special as they played their weird, Trancey kind of sound, Everyone seemed in the same frame of mind and then then they played this…
IGGIE:
“First time Loco Dice played – The most energy that I’ve ever seen in the Subbie, it was crazy…”
Favourite Tune: Precession – Sandcastles (Mike Huckaby Remix)
“This is probably the track that I’ve played the most at Sensu, stretching back to 2004, its slow and tough and perfect for a warm up set.”
Los Hermanos – Questzal
“One of the best tracks I’ve ever heard, never get tired of it and the more I listen to it the more I love it. It sounds immense on the Subbie sound system too.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWbC0HR21GE
CRAIG:
One of my favourite and fondest memories of Sensu from the past 9 years is from the party we did in Nanakusa. The party itself was a complete secret. The line up, the venue, everything. We took a Japanese restaurant and transformed it into a space for 200 discerning Glaswegian party goers on a Wednesday night. The buzz about the party in the lead up to it was incredible. People were going crazy to try and get tickets because of the mystery.
When the line up was somehow magically leaked in the couple of days before , and people found out it was in fact Magda and Marc Houle playing alongside our very own maestro Junior, the buzz intensified ten fold and the news spread like wildfire. The Sub Club’s phone started ringing. Nanakusa’s phone started ringing. Barry, Junior and I’s phone kept ringing as people tried like mad to get tickets. To say we were nervous in the hours immediately before this is an understatement. A mixture of nerves and blind excitement I would say. There was a lot on the line. So much could go wrong but more importantly, so much could go so very right.
It could not have gone better. Everyone was unbelievable. The crowd – 200 of Sensu’s very good friends. The Djs – Leigh Myles, Junior, Marc Houle and Magda really outdone themselves. Nanakusa’s staff – bearing in mind they are ordinarily a restaurant and in this instance they had 200 lunatics in their place.
Getting to the point, the best moment of this for me was in fact when my favourite Dj played one of my favourite songs ever.
Junior hit everyone with Hall and Oates – I Can’t Go For That…
The place went bananas, and I seem to remember a hands in the air moment from me and my very good friend Brendon Hislop.
“People will still ask when we are doing a party there again. But things like that are best left untouched. Still brings a smile to the face when you go there for dinner and get flashbacks of the night as you order your food. “
“This is my essential Sensu tune of the last 9 years”
CESCO:
“It’s a toughie but I’d probably have to pick the first Sensu in the Sub Club. The christmas party with Mr. C and Lawrence. That move to the Subbie felt special. Taking the night to the next level and putting it in a club that it truly belonged in. The work Junior, Barry and others have put in since then to keep it fresh has been a credit to everyone involved!”
A track to accompany it? Lawrence – Place To Be.
“I think this is a pretty good representation of what Sensu is all about.”
ALAN BELSHAW:
” First time Villalobos played and he dropped Talk Talk – Its My Life was a special memorable moment. His set that night was already top drawer but when he played that the place went nuts! It was a nice surprise! Good ol Ricardo!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXQYyKzyDaE
“If your looking for any memorable tunes from the last 9 years then Luciano’s mix of Argy’s Love Dose is always one that goes down well.”
SOBHAN:
HAHAHAHAHA…I didn’t stop laughing for days. You know when you are sitting on a train or something and you think about something that happened at the weekend and you burst out laughing, then you get funny looks from commuters as if “what you laughing at ya weirdo”…well that!
Anyway, one of my favourite Sensu memories is one of those. It was Christmas time and Sensu had both Matt Tolfrey and Guy Gerber playing at the Sub Club. The club was cracking. Both Matt and Guy were amazing. There was an after party just south of the river in a cocktail training academy. The warehouse is class. It’s a favourite with the Sensu regulars.
The after party was brilliant. It’s always good because it usually ends up being with a lot of people you know. Which is also a bad thing as those are the type of folk who are the ones which get you wasted. So aye we basically ended up getting smashed. After some mind warping moments the party was coming to an end and the lights came on. Everyone takes a wee moment to drop back down to some sort of acceptable reality. Just enough to face the world. It was baltic outside. The thing I remember is everyone trying to navigate the ice rink outside. There was like an inch thick layer of ice over the road. Walking at 8am is hard enough at the best of times, but navigating the ice was just a bam up. Honestly watching everyone trying to make their way up the road was hilarious.
Advance tickets for the 9th birthday party with Subb – An & Dj Tennis are available here , or in store at Ticket Scotland.
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