// Supperclub London Review //
Adding to what is fast becoming an international empire, Supperclub London has landed in what was formally known as Neighbourhood. So, whats it like? Well as expected, the uber cool white minimal lounge feel and Bed dining of la Salle Neige is as expected. Le Bar Rouge was however very small, dark and in our opinion, not as good as it should be.
Primarily Supperclub for us has always been about high end music and atmospherics and DJ's Jurr and Rolove have always successfully pioneered the musical side of the brand by consistently mixing and compiling some of the best deep house and down tempo cd's to date, so expectations were high on this front. The music throughout the first half of the evening (la Salles Neige) was a pretty much on form mix of smooth chillout including a beautifully worked remix of Marvin Gaye/Shirley Bassey, through to some nice mid-tempo house and disco from the likes of The Rurals and Metro area which was reassuring to hear.
The food was four set courses of absolutely fantastic tucker from broccoli and stilton soup to sea bream with curried coulis. . . haaandsome. Several £11 cocktails and £78 bottles of Verve Champagne later and we find ourselves dancing to what can only be described as a sterile blend of borderline commercial through to obvious 'techy' house which didn't seem to want to settle and did not really reflect on what you would typically hear on a Bar Rouge CD. This said, from around 1am things did seem to toughen up some what and it all became a little more consistent, with music being dropped from the likes of Jimpster, Inland Knights and Chris Lake.
We are not convinced the UK arm has entirely captured the sheer quality, depth and caliber of the music featured on their CD's and also sense more effort and emphasis has been placed on wowing you with high prices and random acts, such as a masked semi clad Phantom of the Opera lady pouring wax all over herself and then proceeding to 'jack up' in front of you. . . hmmmm.
Words by soundcanvasmusic