Hearn Street Car Park

Wow… what a random place!
When I heard my favourite belgians, 2ManyDJs, would be playing a last minute show in London I immediately bought 4 tickets knowing full well they’d go like hot cakes. The morning of the show came around and I realised I hadn’t checked where it actually was! Hearn St… wait… Car Park?! Riiiiiight.
After a few drinks we go seaching for Hearn St and being a little unsure if we were walking down the right dark and blind street, we asked a cabbie where we were. «You looking for the rave? Round the corner and follow the bass mate» Right you are then.
It’s definitely a car park! Covered by a shanty roof and with steel beams and dividing sections filling the space, we see the stage at the back and clock a couple of bars set up in one corner, just next to the portaloos! It felt like we were at a concrete music festival, only with coats on. Everyone was having fun, feeling like we were all on to something secret and personal, given the capacity was only 450 people. 2ManyDJs were of course brilliant, and they had the whole crowd crammed into the stage section — all dancing and occasionally jumping around like lunatics.
We were drinking Red Stripe purchased out of big buckets of ice and the loos weren’t exactly posh, but it all felt so temporary and spontaneous that no one cared. I don’t remember getting home and my shoes that were once white are now feeling sorry for themselves in the garden. Good times.