ROAD BLOCK, GOIN' TO BLOCK THIS CITY, OH OH OH OH OH YEAH, ROAD BLOCK, GOIN' TO BLOCK THIS CITY... AND BLOCK THE CITY WE DID, FROM BARKING TO BRENTFORD, CROYDEN TO COCKFOSTERS, THE WORD WAS OUT, THE BOYS WERE BACK IN TOWN. THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT JUST GO TOGETHER, EGGS AND BACON, MORCOMBE AND WISE, ROY KEANE AND RED CARDS AND OF COARSE PAUL VAN DYK AND GATECRASHER...THIS IS A MATCH MADE IN, WELL, HEAVEN. 9.00PM, AS DUSK FELL OVER CENTRAL LONDON, THE FIRST FEW EAGER CLUBBERS STARTED TO QUEUE AT THE DOORS OF HEAVEN AS THIS REVIEWER ARRIVED FOR THE NIGHT, "WHAT TIME IS PAUL ON" IS THE FIRST QUESTION I HEAR AND IT IS ONE THAT I HEAR AGAIN AND AGAIN AS THE NIGHT PROGRESSES, (BY THIS TIME THE DECISION HAS ALREADY BEEN TAKEN TO MOVE PAUL’S SET BACK TO ALLOW EVERYBODY THE TIME TO GET INTO THE CLUB TO SEE HIM) "1.00AM" I REPLY "WICKED"... CUT TO CLUB OPENING AND THERE IS A DEFINITE BUZZ IN THE AIR AS PEOPLE START TO ARRIVE AT THE CLUB, 9.45PM AND THE DOORS ARE OPEN, BUT, WHERE IS ASHLEY CASSELLE? STUCK IN THE TRAFFIC AT PICCADILLY CIRCUS, IS THE REPLY I GET FROM MY PHONE CALL I MAKE, NO MATTER, THE QUEUE IS MOVED SLOWLY, BEARING IN MIND THAT THE CLUB IS OPEN 15 MINUTES EARLY...9.55PM AND ASHLEY SPRINTS DOWN THE ARCHES, GUEST LIST BEING WAVED IN FRONT OF HIM, NO TIME FOR THAT NOW THOUGH, WE CAN DEAL WITH IT LATER, ON STAGE, PLAYING RECORDS IS WHERE WE NEED HIM!!! BY 10.00PM HE IS OFF AND RUNNING BUILDING NICELY WITH SOME SLOWER, CHUNKY STUFF.

MR CASSELLE, AS HE IS KNOWN TO VARIOUS GOVERNMENTS AGENCIES AROUND THE WORLD, IS LOOKING HAPPY, HE HAS A CROWD WHO ARE VERY APPRECIATIVE OR WHAT HE IS DOING EATING OUT OF THE PROVERBIAL AND HE IS ANIMATED, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAW THIS RICHARD E GRANT LOOKYLIKEY JUMPING AROUND QUITE SO MUCH BEHIND THE DECKS???? AND ON HE GOES, GRINDING IT OUT, GETTING PROGRESSIVELY TOUGHER AND SURPRISINGLY, TRANCIER, AND THE SEA OF FACES THAT ARE NOW CROWDING THE MAIN FLOOR ARE AS ONE IN THERE RESPECT FOR ASH!!! BUT ALL THINGS MUST COME TO AND END AND SO ASHLEY’S SET STARTED TO COME TO IT'S CLIMAX, BUT THERE WAS NOT A HINT OF DISAPPOINTMENT ANYWHERE AS ASHLEY HAD JUST DELIVERED ONE HIS FINEST SETS, AND, THOSE SHARP EYED YOUNG THINGS IN THE CROWD HAD SPOTTED WHO THEY HAD BEEN WAITING FOR...IT WAS 1.00AM, ASHLEY HAD TAKEN HIS LAST RECORD OFF THE DECKS AND THERE WAS A COMPLETE LIGHT BLACKOUT ACROSS THE MAIN ROOM...PAUL VAN DYK WAS HERE AND ON. FOR ONE USED TO HEARING THE "OAKEY" CHANTS, I HAVE TO ADMIT I WAS TAKEN ABACK BY THE CHANTS I HEARD ON FRIDAY "PAUL VAN DYK, PAUL VAN DYK" SO LOUD IT WAS DROWNING OUT THE SOUND SYSTEM, WHAT CAN WE SAY TO DESCRIBE THE NEXT THREE AND A HALF HOURS? ALL THE SUPERLATIVES IN THE WORLD WILL NOT SUM UP WHAT EACH PERSON, INDIVIDUALLY WAS FEELING, BUT THERE WAS A FEELING ON THAT FLOOR ON THAT NIGHT, THAT IS VERY SELDOM FELT, THERE WAS A TOGETHERNESS THAT FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY EVERYBODY WAS LOCKED ON TO THE SAME GROVE AND INSTINCTIVELY MR VAN DYK GOT IT! NOT ONLY DID HE GET IT, HE LED THE DANCE, HE SET WAS A JOURNEY THAT EACH AND EVERYONE BOUGHT THE TICKET FOR AND STAYED ON UNTIL IT REACHED THE LAST STOP. HIS SET WAS PURE PVD, IT WAS UNIQUELY HIM, IT MOVED EFFORTLESSLY FROM SOME REALLY DIRTY BEATS AT THE START TO A FINISH WHICH INCLUDED "FOR AN ANGEL" WHICH BROUGHT THE HOUSE DOWN. PAUL VAN DYK - WE SALUTE YOU... ONCE HIS LAST RECORD WAS PLAYED. THERE WAS SCENE PLAYED OUT THAT WOULD NOT HAVE LOOKED OUT OF PLACE IN SOME HIGH BUDGET HOLLYWOOD FILM ABOUT THE FBI AS PAUL WAS RUSHED FROM THE STAGE TO A WAITING CAR PARKED OUTSIDE THE BACK EXIT AND HE WAS GONE, BUT IN THE WORDS OF TOP 90'S ACID HOUSE BODS LEFTFIELD, "NOT FORGOTTEN"

SO WHO WAS GOING TO PICK UP THE PIECES LEFT BY PAUL'S DEPARTURE, A LOCAL OF FANCY LONDON, WHO HAS NOW MADE A NAME FOR HIMSELF IN SHEFFIELD, THE ONE, THE ONLY "NERVOUS" NICK RILEY!!! NICK'S BIGGEST TEST WAS UPON HIM AND HAD THIS BEEN A CROSS CHANNEL FERRY THE QUEASY STOMACH HE HAD WOULD NOT OF BEEN OUT OF PLACE. NEVER BEFORE HAD HE HAD TO FOLLOW GREATNESS AS HE DID ON FRIDAY, BUT, HE STEPPED UP TO THE PLATE, STOPPED HIS HAND FROM SHAKING, GOT HIS FIRST MIX IN AND IT WAS ALL FORGOTTEN AS NICK SAID "I COULD NOT GET THE NEEDLE ON THE RECORD FOR THE FIRST TRACK AS PAUL WATCHED ME, BUT, ONCE I HAD GOT THE FIRST TWO MIXES IN, THE CROWD MADE ME FEEL WELCOME AND I WAS AWAY, CHEERS LONDON". EXACTLY 1 HOUR 30MINS LATER, IT WAS ALL OVER...THE CROWD WANDERED HOME HAPPY, THE CLEANERS CAME IN TO CLEAN THE MESS LEFT BY ONE PACKED CLUB AND NICK, WELL NICK WENT AND SAT ON HIS OWN, WITH A WELL DESERVED DRINK AND THAT FEELING OF DOING A GOOD THING CAME OVER HIM...NICK RILEY, A STAR IS BORN...YOU WILL BE HEARING A LOT MORE OF THIS MAN... SO WHAT OF THE REST OF THE CLUB? WELL DEFECTED, AS EVER ROCKED THE PARTY, CAPTAIN OF THE DEFECTED SHIP SIMON DUNMORE CAME AND SAW AND SMILED THE BIGGEST SMILE I HAVE SEEN FROM HIM IN A LONG TIME, DJ CHUS, WOULD NOT STOP PLAYING RECORDS WHEN WE ASKED HIM, SO WE LET HIM GET ON WITH IT, AND IT WAS GONE FIVE WHEN WE EVENTUALLY MANAGED TO GET HIM TO STOP, HE FOR ONE IS COMING BACK THAT MUCH WE ARE SURE AS HE TOLD US IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS HOW MUCH HE HAD ENJOYED THE NIGHT. ENTER MUSIC WAS ONCE AGAIN SOLID WITH A FINE SET FROM LISA GERMAN, KEEPING THE DAKOTA BAR PACKED UNTIL THE END. AND SO TO NEXT MONTH, THE MAN LIKE MAURO PICOTTO WILL BE BACK IN THE CONTROL OF HEAVEN, SO BE PREPARED FOR ANOTHER BIG ONE...