Sat 11 Apr 2009: MANCHESTER'S seedy warehouses have been precipitating cultural revolutions and inspiring generations of ravers for years. Right from the early '90s revolution of acid house culture, Mancunia - the gritty belly of England that it is - has been honing the warehouse party. As such, WHP won our award for best 'big club' year in our '08 Best Of British Awards so you'd be a fool not to get down and check it out.
Returning in 2009 with four very special nights at Store Street over the Easter Weekend, these will be the only dates at the venue for now. There's recent coverstar David Guetta on Thursday 9th April, Paul van Dyk and Jon o' Bir supplying slices of trance for Goodgreef on Friday 10th April, whilst things get more interesting come Sunday 12th APRIL when rock/electro producers and DJs extraordinaire Erol Alkan, Digitalism and Simian Mobile Disco bring their noises to the darkened, dusty corners of the Warehouse.
But what is really getting us excited is the return of the Cocoon event which rocked so hard here back in November. Sadly, the techno über brand is minus the big chief of Sven Väth but when you clock the sheer depth of the line-up that's fast forgotten. Offering a full cross-section of cutting-edge techno, we instead get a resurgent Timo Maas, Tiefschwarz, DC10's Romanian darling Raresh, Andrew Galuzzi and deeper stuff from Jamie Jones. Seth Troxler and Greg Lord complete the bill. We'll see you down the front.
