It was typically ‘Channel 4’ in it’s approach. The lead programme “How Clubbing Changed The World” was OK. It covered some interesting ground about clubbing history, but jumped all over the timeline in order to squeeze it into a generic countdown style programme which I felt was a shame. I think it would have been better served as a quality documentary (think Doug Pray’s “Scratch”) by dropping the chart aspect.
The following 6hour programme was equally odd. A selection of DJs playing live in a studio sounds good, but when you realise there’s no studio audience and the DJ is flanked by bored looking girls checking the facebook & twitter feedback it becomes a bit bizarre. It may work better if you had organised a house party yourself and had the TV fed through your hi-fi, but the lack of audience killed it. Grandmaster Flash (a DJ who I’ve seen on several occasions, large venues and small) certainly has skills and is also not afraid of using the mic…however it did come across odd as he shouted “stay with me” in an empty studio for the fourth time in the first five minutes of the programme. Annie Mac and Soul II Soul were good though…
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