Parlez Vous - 1st February 2002 Posted by FleX on Feb 10, 2003 - 1:54:00 PM

This was the first time I had visited Parlez Vous and I was expecting a truly awesome night from what I had heard from friends and other clubbers I had met. There was a lot of hassle sorting out going as Parlez Vous is for people who are members or have invitations to go, so do not just turn up and assume you will be able to enter. Another thing you need to know about Parlez Vous is that you have to take your own drink as there is not a bar, well there is a little place selling water and cups of tea!!!! Because of this you will see people swigging down bottles of straight vodka and alike.

There was the main room down stairs which plays the hardest of the hard when it comes to hard house, it was seriously banging!!!! Upstairs there was funky house which seemed to be mainly there just for people who needed to chill out a bit from the bangingness of downstairs. Downstairs there was Shan, Cheeky Boys, Stan, Jon, iD, Butch D and Karim. For me personally and the people I was with Shan rocked the place most out of all of them followed by Karim and Cheeky Boys. Shan seemed to have an ora of up coming greatness and when he started monkeying around with the classic TDV-Are You All Ready? he showed how much potential he has and how big he will be given a year. Karim and Cheeky Boys showed off with some shit hot trickery but did not seem to be so willing to entertain as Shan.

Upstairs there was Dan Tait, Hatty Lovehearts,  Lucy Locket and Tintin playing. I can not really comment on the Djing upstairs but from friends who were up there quite a lot apparently Tintin ruled the night but everyone who played did a more than good job.

One of the most startling things about Parlez Vous is the rawness of the club, it is basically a warehouse that has been changed into a club, there has not been tons of money thrown at the décor, it is simply UV paint splashed around on the walls, this may not sound to be your cup of tea but it adds to the deep down dirty, hard, genuine vibe you get from the club. Sundissential is a light and bouncy atmosphere but Parlez Vous is dark and underground. The crowd was spot on, there did not seem to be a bad un amongst them all, everyone seems to be there for the same reason, to get away from commercial clubs and get down to some proper hardcore clubbing.

FleX