Colour @ Sankeys Review

Colour is pretty special. Less than one year after hosting the likes of Speedy J, Chris Liebing, and Jeff Mills, Colour returned once again with a line-up to shake off all the excess weight you put on over Christmas. To begin with they asked Frank Lorber to get the grooves going which worked a treat. Then they invited Techno pioneer Robert Hood to play around (who would be enough to watch in itself) and finally James Ruskin got involved who was easily the man of the night.

Within about 20 minutes of being in Sankeys the room upstairs known as Spektrum opened. We investigated as we were told James Ruskin would be playing a warm up set. The whole floor was covered with cargo and literally hundreds of people were jumping, moshing and screaming to the bombardment of kicks from Ruskin. Spektrum was always a nice place to chill out to when the pounding of downstairs took its toll. Not tonight. This was easily the most amount of fun I’ve ever had in Sankeys. After what seemed like an entire night Ruskin moved downstairs and so did everyone else up there, leaving the place feeling used but for all the right reasons.

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When we got downstairs we danced to what we (or us who were upstairs) think was Frank Lorber. After a quick cig stop we returned to find the big LED sign introducing Robert Hood and weird vocal samples galore. Whenever I’ve witnessed something like this I always expect heavy, heavy music and sure as hell Hood did not disappoint.

Hood made his Techno shaped mark during the rise of Detroit in the early 90’s. He gave us only a taster of what was going on back then and yet it still sounded just as fresh today, a rare gift that even some of the more mainstream DJ’s of the genre don’t possess. The visuals, the sounds, the people, Hood’s set will be the talk of urban legend for some time that’s for sure.

After his set the sounds of Plastikman filled our ears. Whoever was on then had us hooked until the very, very small hours of Saturday morning. Colour has easily become my favourite night. 5 star!

Tim Cook

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