The Presets, The Whip, Busy P & Sebastian / The Warehouse Project, Manchester
Punters whipped out of shape at eye-poppingly fun Warehouse Project
Words Jim Ottewill
Going deep beneath the streets of Manchester to the Warehouse Project is like tuning your being into a parallel rave dimension. Underneath Piccadilly train station, the only thing that matters is being boggled of eye and wafting liquid gold in your face.
The venue for the venture is amazing - towering railway arches, huge speaker stacks and masses of hands in the air. This is how raves must have been back in the day when I was more concerned about ice cream than making my nostrils bleed.
Of the four nights crushing the city’s long weekend into a mindless, brainless pulp, we plumped for the Ed Banger, Modular and Kitsuné love-in. We arrived to witness The Presets biting down extra hard, armed with a drummer, vocoder and some crushing synth action. The whole place was chomping its face off.
Turns out The Whip are unsurprisingly massively popular in their hometown. For moi, they’re the aural equivalent of an electronic dollop of Gregg’s - stodgy, yet enjoyable all the same. ‘Divebomb’ and ‘Trash’ suggested a guitar band with electronics clunkily bolted on, while The Presets’ eyes have seemingly always been on the disco lights.
The exotically bequiffed Busy P & SebastiAn delivered a set full of pleasantly hard Ed Banger bombs. The quality of their dance (Switch, Herve cuts et al) almost made up for dropping the Kaiser Chiefs and Rage Against the Machine.
By the time we leave, the sniffer dogs had gone and the gurners were falling over each other. One guy I offered poppers to missed his nose and stuck it in his eye.
Three days to get over this will not be enough…
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