Mark Holliday

23/11/2024

Event News: As it's now a week away, or less if you're reading this after Saturday, here's an updated re-post of our preview for the 5 O'Clock Club that's taking place on Nov 30th.

We had the pleasure of attending the second 5 O'Clock Club to hear Seamus Haji play within the glamourous Victoria Casino, and the event has made a great guest booking for their third party, scheduled for November 30th.
CJ Mackintosh returns to West Yorks and it'll be our fourth time seeing him play in the region in recent years. His sound leans towards bass-rich US vocal house classics and nineties NY garage, featuring tracks by the likes of Urban Blues Project, Sounds of Blackness and Lil' Mo' Ying Yang.

Most recently we saw him play during summer 2023 for Shine at The Warehouse, and prior to that we were at The Get Up (Stod Fold bar in Halifax) in Oct 2022 when he dropped the likes of The Vision 'Mountains'.

Our brother social media page Manchester AfterDark confirms that CJ never gets to play on that side of the M62, so West Yorks has been lucky in that respect.

Clubbing during these hours of the day (5pm until 11pm) works well if you're on the mature side and value a good night's sleep, or still have duties on a Sunday that need your attention. No doubt some of the crowd also used The 5 O'Clock Club as their first event and went to a 'regular hours' bar or club to treat it like an after-party.

The event gets its own dedicated (away from the gambling floor) dancefloor space, bar and lounge area, with the latter having a TV if you need to also catch a late kick-off match. We also clocked that some of the crowd were cross-generational, with young adult offspring alongside a parent or two.

It makes a pleasant change to be in a venue that's not a simple brick basement or a converted warehouse, and we're all for having a variety of interiors in our nightlife experiences.

If you're travelling, we found the Victoria mall's car park on the pricey side. Our tip was to go around the Edward Street car park and its surrounding street bays, just to the north of the venue.
Tickets for November are now in the final release stage: https://www.skiddle.com/e/40082036

CJ Mackintosh
Curtis Zack
Christian Appleby
Mark Holliday

5pm - 11pm
Saturday 30th Nov
Victoria G*te Casino
Victoria G*te
Leeds
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06/08/2024

Just over a couple of weeks to go…

🎉 Steve Luigi’s ‘Gallery Reunion’ at Victoria G*te Casino! 🎉

IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN! Join us on Saturday, August 24th from 9pm to 2am for a proper rave with the original ‘Leeds Gallery’ DJs, playing the classic ‘Leeds Gallery’ tunes in the most plush venue in the City of Leeds. 🌟

Victoria G*te Casino is fast becoming one of the most prominent event venues in the city, hosting a variety of events in beautiful surroundings. This event celebrates the legendary ‘Leeds Gallery’, voted the 2nd best rave venue in Europe by Mixmag in 1992, second only to the ‘Hacienda’ in Manchester. 🏆

Get ready to dance to the beats of Steve Luigi, Rob Tissera, Carl Whitehead, Mark Holliday, and Russ Richardson, spinning all the Old Skool Rave Anthems and more! 🎶

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23/06/2024

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14/06/2024

Just over a week to go!! With 4 oldskool Leeds DJs playing together, along with the mighty Deejay Nipper, this event is not to be missed!!!So get down early to avoid getting a bollocking… From ME!! 😁
See you on the dance floor 🕺❤️

31/05/2024

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11/04/2024

22/03/2024

Tomorrow night 😎

Revisited return for a special night of 90’s/00’s progressive and trance classics! An era when dance music was at the echelons of its success! Revisited bring with them some of the finest artists to set the tone for the evening!

We all so excited to be bringing the party to our humble abode!

Opening the night is DJ Lightfinger, another veteran who played back in the 90s and these days works on his own tunes which you might hear a few of in his set from 7pm!

Lee will be joined by Leeds Legend, Mark Holliday who is a connoisseur of Progressive House so if you haven’t heard Mark play, you’re in for a real treat.

Last but not least.. Blue Amazon requires little introduction whilst mustering many accolades in music production that dates back from 1993 to the present day.

Tickets are still available: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/progressive-house-trance-revisited-mark-holliday-blue-amazon-tickets-856301319297?aff=efbevent

12/03/2024

Looking to this a week on Saturday!! Who’s coming for the ride? ❤️

05/03/2024

Fantastic review of Back to House on Saturday night… ❤️

Leeds AfterDark Attended: Always keen to be there for a new promotion, and to check out a venue for the first time, we made the trip to Pontefract for Back To House at The Northern Social.

Time to confess. We've never been to Pontefract before. And we aren't new to this. We've decades of nightlife experience and knowledge to draw from.
With one party, that sold out months in advance, the launch of Back To House has suggested that it will be a catalyst for putting Pontefract on the house music clubland map, in a similar vein to how Out In The Sticks made the world aware of Todmorden.

Booking Hacienda resident and all-round-legend Graeme Park was always going to be a smart move. He can guarantee ticket sales right across the North (and beyond) without any need for another big name guest DJ, such is his status and reputation.

We arrived around 9:40 and caught Curtis Zack's set, with both he and Mark flanking Graeme's set with complimenting funky/classic/90s house sets of their own.
Tracks that raised the roof for the next 2.5 hours included the reliable likes of Ministers De La Funk, Nicole, Soul Central, the G*t Decor v Degrees of Motion mashup, Layo & Bushwacka, plus remixes of A Guy Called Gerald and The Shapeshifters.

But it was when Mark Holliday began his set at midnight that a few surprises dropped. Mark opened with the fabulous Roger Sanchez mix of Basia 'Drunk On Love', and it's a track that we last heard 30 years ago, being played by Parky, in the Hacienda. Clubland needs more spinners that remember and appreciate the sterling mid-90s production work of Roger S.

Mark also played the Foundation mix of Sounds of Blackness 'Everything's Gonna Be Alright', their strong gospel house track, and another record from 1994, that often gets overlooked in favour of 'The Pressure' or 'I Believe'.
In fact throughout his too-brief one hour set, if you had closed your eyes, you could have been forgiven for thinking that you were listening to Parky and Allister Whitehead playing B2B back in '94.

Thanks to the confidence granted by selling out the launch so quickly, the promoters secured second and third dates at The Northern Social for later in the year, before Saturday's launch party even took place. Those dates are July 13th and November 9th, with the aforementioned Allister Whitehead announced for the July date, and a live PA vocalist hopefully announced soon. The rumour is that it's Kym Sims, who charted with 'Too Blind To See It'.

Parking outside the venue was easy enough, but be aware that even at the end of winter, it's warm inside a packed out Northern Social and we ditched our jackets straight away.

Tickets for the July date of Back To House are available now: https://www.skiddle.com/e/37265548