Club Tip CMU Approved

Approved: Boogie Box at Bar Rumba (CMU Friday Tips)

By | Published on Friday 4 September 2009

VIGSY’S CLUB TIP: Boogie Box at Bar Rumba
W1’s Bar Rumba has always enjoyed a bit of a soft spot in my clubbing heart, it frequently providing quality dance music with a lively crowd. The solid drum and bass mash up that was ‘Movement’, and ‘Garage City’ with Bobby and Steve, not to mention ‘That’s How It Is’ from Gilles Peterson and James Lavelle and Kenny Hawkes and Luke Solomon’s seminal ‘Space’ have all been fine nights. Now coming up to its sixteenth birthday, the club doesn’t boast as much stand-out programming as it did, except the BBE Night on Sundays, but it’s still packing them in. Saturdays sees Boogie Box blending the lines between hip hop, house and old school with a touch of swing and house thrown in by Femi from Young Disciples. You also get sets from The Pioneer, Footloose, Lonyo and Manny Norte, and DJ279, who’s still mashing things up. If you’ve not been before it’s well worth checking – the sound system kicked ass before and has now been upgraded, and they now have a little back room taking overal capacity up to 450, and all in a super central location.

Saturday 5 Sep, Bar Rumba, London W1D 7EP, 8pm-3.30am, £8 before 9pm/£10 after, more info at www.barrumba.co.uk, press info from james@thebreakfastgroup.co.uk.



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