Theo Parrish at Mad Racket
Had a great night at Mad Racket with Theo Parrish playing the “platters that matter” to my taste this long weekend. We picked up Joanne and Dave and headed down to good ol Marrickville Bowlo. It wasn’t as cold as many previous June Long Weekends that I remember - there’s something wrong with the ozone I believe. Apparantly, Mad Racket were paying for our Marrickville Bowlo memberships, so we filled out application forms instead of the usual visitor’s passes. I guess it will make entry faster in the future and I hope there are many more Mad Rackets in the future. Ken Cloud was playing when we entered. His music was quite “bouncy” - housey/electroey/cheesy? and got the dancefloor started. It was great to see lots of familiar faces there ready for a night of Theo and whatever. Simon Caldwell played a ripper set of his usual stuff which got everyone in the mood for Theo at 2:30am. Simon even included an old hip-house track in his set! So Theo came on & dropped lots of awesome disco-ey, funky, housey stuff. I think a lot of gurners were hoping for more upbeat music and Theo’s penchant for cutting down the volume a lot didn’t help. I really loved what he played and if Dave & I weren’t so darn tired we would have stayed for his whole set. We left at about 4am, and I’m sure that he probably played until they kicked him out at about 6 or 7am.