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This was my first outing to the home of Ram Records having been a firm regular at its famous neighbour down the road. And at one point it looked as though we were gonna end up there anyway - I place all the blame on my friend and raving compadre who had on him two spliffs and an amount of MD. What happened? we got turfed at the door cuz he got anally probbed by the bouncers, and so we trooped off to fabric disconsolate, but come on a night at fabric as a consolation? quality i hear you say! indeed but with a line up of subfocus, andy c , fresh and mampi being left behind it was hard not to have a sour taste in the mouth.

So we thought, have a spliff and take in goldie grooverider and andy c who was also playing. But no! the bouncer had our spliffs more gloom. and as we turn the corner to fabric, what do we see, well we all know about the queue at 11:30 on a friday. fuck that, back to the end to try again...

So back in the queue, jackets and hats swapped we were in disguise and determined to get in this time.

12:05 we're in!! yeah, subfocus we see is on at 12, so we run down the stairs dump our jackets somewhere and get to it. luckily he's late and we catch the whole set. quality, sound mixing from the man that has brought to us the slice of heaven that is x-ray. however this was always gonna be an intro set, and lacked the energy that i'm sure he has at his fingertips.

Next up Dj die all the way from Bristol, a bangin set from this man, who dropped, among other things, the In the Grind remix which is too much for me. offered him thirty quid for it but he was havin none of it.

towards the end of the set, we see andy c hanging about in the background with cries from the MC that "the president is in the building". 5 minutes later, bedlam. what do you do when andy is dropping things left right and centre? basslines and drums coming at you from all angles. As normal most of the tunes i had never heard which is the way it should be, but there were welcome drops of dubplate killa and bacteria remix, as well as an ask not remix. Roni size's Trust me was also caned throughout the night, but what a tune.

Fresh up next, his intro was a self styled duplate of clips from his tunes past and present. really necessary?maybe, it was still sick. but its all about the mixing really. by this time it was nearly half four and so the memory is a bit hazy. what i remember are thumping drums throughout and a remix of living daylights.

Last and most certainly not least we have mampi. one of my favourites. all i can remeber really here is that he wouldn't let me leave. when we said "we'll go after this one", how wrong were we...raving half an hour later!

some time between half five and six we decide to get our coats, which we had at some point put in the cloak room. a blissful 5 minute wait (unlike the upwards of an hour times one can contend with at fabric) and as we leave we hear the melodies of x-ray filtering up from below and then we are out into dawn over central london.cant hear a thing buts thats cool, theres no music out there......