Clubbing Magazine

Heineken Green Room Sessions

For the second time Heineken Green Room Sessions returned to Denmark. After the success last year where Infusion, Lexicon Avenue and Pete Gooding delivered a breathtaking progressive night in Copenhagen and in Aarhus, the surroundings and music were very different for this year Green Room Sessions. The venue was the renowned and classic dance place NIMB in the centre of Copenhagen and the musical focus was the Danish group Blue Foundation, the English DJ Luke Solomon and a long string of Danish House DJs, including Thomas Madvig, Morten Trøst, Asle, Dexta, Delicious, Jesper Fryd, Tom Collins and Nicka.

At 20.00 the doors were opened for a special invited pre-party celebrating Blue Foundation, that had won gold for their “Sweep Of Days” album. The 200 - 250 people had a nice time with a Heineken and Thomas Madvig on the decks playing nice catchy tunes. At 21.30 people began queuing up, to secure their seat at this free event. At 22.00 the doors were opened and people entered the venue and at that time the queue had reached the corner of Hard Rock Café.

The rest of the venue was slowly filling up and the upstairs was now opened for the audience, and many people went to the room to secure a nice spot for the Blue Foundation concert while Nicka was trying to get them to dance. The doors had been opened an extra ½ hour than what was stated on the invitation and at midnight the doors were closed, regardless of people still queuing up. Upstairs a smaller room was opened where Asle, Jesper Fryd and Morten Trøst delivered some very nice house tunes throughout the night and in the hallway Sony showed their new portable PlayStation the PSP.

At 01.00 Blue Foundation went on stage and they had the audience in their hands from the start. Many people had just come for this exclusive concert and sadly had forgotten to party before and after. Blue Foundation played until 03.00 and gave us amongst other tracks their hits “Save This Town” and “End Of The Day” – the audience had a ball and it looked like Blue Foundation also enjoyed themselves, playing a 20 minutes longer set than normal.
Around 03.00 Luke Solomon went up behind the decks in the main room. Later in the night the audience began quietly to leave the venue and have had a lovely evening in a nice atmosphere.
Text and photos by Christian Almind