Tickets now on sale: Freeze at the Tavern

Freeze's continuing fascination with the weird and the wonderful in their venues now journeys to the Wirral, and specifically the Tavern Club in Wallasey.

Jimmy Coultas

Last updated: 21st Feb 2014

Image: Graeme Park

Freeze's fascination with unlikely venues has been a recurring theme of their close to nine year stewardship within the North West clubbing scene. Focusing on a wide remit of environs for their club and live music showcases, they've delivered in unthinkable locations of grandiose genius whilst finding time to prove existing venues can be taken to new heights, with churches, cathedrals, warehouses, superclubs and even roofless monuments all getting the Freeze treatment. 

They’re now taking that mandate to a newer extreme by going off the chart again and  picking an unfashionable venue as proof of it's undeniable charm. Skipping across the Mersey to the Wirral, they will be putting on top quality electronic music in Wallasey's The Old Tavern Club in Wallasey.

The Tav, as it is (sometimes) affectionately known to residents of the Cheshire peninsula, is the epitome of the ‘local club’. Small in size and a focal point for the region in itself, it seems at first a bizarre choice to house a night of electronic music excellence.The idea though is to give something back to the hundreds of Wirral clubbers who have frequented Freeze over the years in a venue they will know only too well but in a completely different light, for a ticket only extravaganza on Easter Thursday 17th April.

And who to soundtrack this most unlikely of rave choices? They've gone for two guests who can showcase the length and breadth of electronic club sounds from the past years, doffing their cap to the music which shaped the birth of the scene from which they sprang. Graeme Park sits at the summit (listen to his 15th February radio broadcast above), a DJ who celebrates thirty years of dancefloor dominating in 2014 with a career that genuinely deserves a flurry of superlatives in the mould of pioneer, legend and icon.

His ground-breaking residency at the Hacienda's first acid house party Nude in the eighties was pivotal in the proliferation of the music in this country, with Park then becoming familair to millions through his radio shows at guest slots at Cream, renaissance and Sankeys. He'll be joined by Derek Kaye, one of the most respected DJs in the North West of the past forty years, and Freeze resident Jemmy.