Capitol Soul Club - Dome - Nov 99 Afterwords

Capitol Soul club - Dome - Second One Nov 99

Well another Saturday trying to pull my head together after a soul night out, the cause of this repair session was the second dome event in london. After the success of the first one back in October was wondering how this one would go, well after the trip up from chatham and the tube journey, found me self in the pub next to it talking to matt j (who along with capitol soul club , puts it alltogether) after hitting me with the "can you get the drinks in, I've gotta do some promoting stuff" trick at bar, told me that he's had hell of a lot of phonecalls about tonight, and has sussed out the next dates, jan mar and may 2000, as now going for the bi-monthly approach.

Onto the event, apart from not being let into till 9. 45, queuing outside in the rain, then on the stairs, reckon someone was trying to throw in a "no pushing at the back" scenario, but it didn't work as only about 10 of us in queue. As last time a bit quiet till 10 ish and then people poured in, reckon round about 400 in at a guess. What I would like promoters to do is stick all the big names on before 1000, cause after 11 the alcohol kicks in and, looking back sound and play details are a bit blurred, so apologies for that will do next one alcohol free just for you! honest.

DJs first on were the resident capitol soul players alan and then irish greg, alan again , greg again, then shifty then andy rix, with final 15 min spot irish greg finishing the night. Sounds, well some great stuff was thrown at us by all of them and the crowded dance floor lapped them up, standouts ( or could be called ones I remember) were instrumental version of "she's wanted" this was first hear for me and well impressive a "powerhouse" of a record, also jimmy radcliffe acetate- the thrill of loving you, man o man, jimmy burns, leslie tipton, cashmeres, j d bryant, brand new faces, and stacks more quality stuff

Crowd wise again a fairly mixed bunch of young and old, met up with a quite a few people, talking to martin and paul who do the old shoes event and they were telling me about their forthcoming xmas event, on before the suffer no fools niter, so could be a overdoes of soul that weekend, as always met a few online people for first time, always good to put a face to that email address.

So that's what happened last nite ( won't bother telling you about the adventure getting back to victoria, or the wondefull time waiting for first train at that time of morning) according to my worn out brain, may not be 100% like, my view on night, yeah it was another great event, good quality sounds and great venue, obviously it was going to be a hard task following the first one which had such a solid dj line up, but the sounds were up to it and the good atmosphere made it 2 out of 2

Roll on the next one...

other views on last nite, if you were there throw yours up via email