The Honey Club - Benny Benassi @ Sevensins
by matt @ 1:45 pm. Blogged under Music
With the clubbing bug still with us post-Ibiza, Suzie_Q and I decided to pop down to Brighton on Saturday night to see Italy’s DJ Benny Benassi at the Honey Club. The official promotional night was called ’sevensins’ and Benny Benassi (real name Marco Benassi) played a great set - he really seemed to be enjoying himself. Sometimes DJs can be far to sour faced but this guy was really smiling, at one point he was doing a lot of smiling at Suzie_Q - probably the Italian look that caught his eye so we moved… His final track of the night, a hard house remix of The Automatic’s ‘what’s that coming over the hill is it a monster?’, was fabulous. Unfortunately the Honey Club itself seemed to have gone down hill for anybody who wants to dance in a great atmosphere.
The Honey Club now has seven bars in five rooms, they’re all over the place and this is the fundamental issue because it means there isn’t anywhere to dance uninterrupted. There is of course the small stage crammed with people, but even around there we spent the whole time getting barged around by people all trying to go here there and everywhere every thirty seconds. It was absolutely impossible to find somewhere to dance without being barged, either because of the layout or because the club was over capacity. Personally we would both have payed double the entry fee to get a bit more space to move.
The clientele also didn’t help, there were a lot of hen and stag parties who, let’s face it, are not serious clubbers. Additionally a lot of very drunk homophobic lads saying things in the queue like ‘it’s alright in here but watch out for the battys’. As it happens Suzie_Q and I have always loved the honeyclub precisely because gay clubs do have a better atmosphere. Seems like the Honey Club is now turning itself over to the moronic commercial hordes in exchange for more cash at their extra bars. Not sure we’ll go again for a while on a Saturday. Benny Benassi was great though so we’ll make the effort to see him mix again elsewhere!
> Benny Benassi’s Website
> Benny Benassi on Wikipedia
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November 23rd, 2006 at 5:20 pm
The reasons above are all the reasons I do not bother going to the Honey Club.
Brighton used to be my favourite place for clubbing - The Pussycat Club at Zap ‘99-’01 was phenomenally good. It’s return there is good and refreshing. You do not get the beer boys that the honey club attracts.
Reality is, though, London Clubs are much better.