So it’s 1.30am on a Monday night & I find myself one of only a dozen or so people in the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. They’re doing some filming here tonight & the enormous opulence & grandeur of the venue literally dwarfs us all. It’s eerily quiet, I can hear the fan from an arc light, the occasional squeak of a plimsole as a rigger walks across the vast stage but apart from that, almost total silence. I’ve been on quite a few film sets but never one as quiet as this. The crew, when they occasionally do speak, converse in hushed, reverential tones like naughty schoolkids who can’t quite believe they’ve been given free reign in a cathedral. It’s all rather beautiful & rather peculiar…

It’s a very far cry from the other prestigious London landmark we found ourselves in a few weeks ago. The lovely boys from E.T.A. parties asked us to come along & DJ at The Paramount, the amazing new members bar at the top of Centre Point. The place offers spectacular, 360′ views out over Central London from 40 storeys up, & even better, for some strange reason the proprietors have been granted an astonishingly late license so we literally got to rave until the Sun came up, illuminating the capitol’s iconic skyline all around us.

I’d definitely put it squarely in the Top Five messiest gigs we’ve done this year though; there were never fewer than 10 people packed in behind us at any one time in the extremely cramped, makeshift DJ booth the whole way through the set, all of them having long since taken leave of their senses…

Naming no names, *somebody* even managed to spill an entire drink into a CDJ1000 ten minutes before we were due to go on, precipitating a mad cab dash across London in search of a replacement & causing us to go on a full hour late as a consequence! Major props to A.Skillz who kept the party rocking for that extra hour on his Serato.

I managed to lose my jacket in the mellé, spotted (amongst others) a Stanton Warrior & a couple of Scissor Sisters getting their step on & generally got stuck in to all those things you do the night before that we all regret the morning after.

Huge party though, in an insane venue & I tell you what, if I have my way I’ll see to it that the powers that be here at Maxcast let us throw a couple more up there before the end of the year – you guys need to get yourselves involved…

Right, now a bit of hush please – I think they’re about to go for another take in the Opera House. Until the next time my friends.

Sauce x

Check out some more pics of the party on the Maxcast Tumblr