From: Staffan Söderman (staffan.soderman_at_home.se)
Date: 2003-06-17 12:53:08
I had really been looking forward to hearing Gilles Peterson's set, but what a disappointment that turned out to be! He lost a lot of people on the dancefloor by starting off with fairly generic and dull brazil beats. Halfway through the set, he suddenly must have realized that people started heading off to the other dancefloors, because he started playing some horrible-sounding euro-dance stuff. We had to look really closely to make sure somebody else hadn't taken over the decks, but it was Mr Peterson alright. He did, however, recover somewhat by playing the original version of Rhythim is Rhythim's "Strings of life", which was amazing to hear in a PA of that size!! Luckily, Darshan Jesrani (Metro Area) played a great set right afterwards...
-Staffan