{{THE CHERRY MOON, IN BELGIUM}}
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       {{{THE HOUSE OF HOUSE}}}
          {{{CHERRY MOON}}}
  Gentsesteeweg 144 - Lokeren 
            Belgium

I think everybody will know this
club  by  now  since the home dj
'Yves  Deruyter'  scored a major
hit  with  'The House Of House -
Cherry  Moon  Tracks  Volume  I'
(Out  on Bonzai Records) and now
with  his  new one 'Let There Be
House'.   The  club  is  already
quite  old.   I used to go their
almost   every  week  ages  ago.
Before   Bonzai   Records   even
existed,    the   beginning   of
house/acid  music,  the  end  of
New-Beat.  In that time the home
dj  was 'The Fly' (Wellknow from
Bonzai   Records   and  lots  of
mega-raves    like   MAYDAY   6,
Mystery  Land...).   The  reason
why I was going there every week
was  because one of my favourite
places  'The Boccaccio Life' was
closed.   The  Boccaccio  was  a
really   famous  place  in  that
time,  the  place where New Beat
was  born  and  since the Cherry
Moon   was   not  far  from  the
Boccaccio I started going there.
But from the first time I was in
the Cherry Moon I knew that this
place would be 'the' place to be
in  a  few  months,  and  I  was
right.   After  some  weeks more
and  more  people came to there,
people  who I've seen every week
in  the  Boccaccio  and  so  on.
After  1,  2  months  Bonzai was
born   and  since  the  boss  of
Bonzai  'The  Fly' was dj in the
Cherry  Moon it was the place to
be,  kinda like the Warehouse in
Germany.   Every  week  more and
more  people came to there, even
from abroad Belgium, France, The
Netherlands...   But  like every
good  club  who  atract  lots of
people from everywhere and stays
open till 10.00 or later, it has
to  close his doors.  The people
knew that they would close it in
a  few  weeks and the last weeks
before  the  closing were really
insane,  to  many people.  There
were lots of times that you have
to  wait more then 30mins to get
in  and  once  in  it was almost
impossible  to  stay  there  for
more then 2 houres without fresh
air.   It  has been closed for 6
months.   Since the home Dj 'The
Fly'  had  no local club anymore
he   started   playing  in  'The
Extreme'  a  new club in Belgium
who has been the new party place
for  6 months.  After the Cherry
Moon  was  back  open (first day
had  more  then  5.000  ravers!)
they  started  with  some really
great  parties,  with  dj's  and
live   act's  like  Dave  Angel,
Robert  Armani,  Leo  Annibaldi,
Jeff Mills, Laurent Garnier, Daz
Saund, Marusha, Dick, Hardfloor,
PCP, Union Jack, Oliver Bondzio,
Roland  Casper, Franky Jones and
the list continues.  It was even
better    then    before,   more
proffesional  if you ask me, not
the  normal  club nights anymore
with  every  week the same dj's,
but  more  variation like it use
to  be.   The Fly stayed playing
in  The  Extreme  and they had a
new  local  Dj,  Yves  Deruyter.
Sound  System:   Good,  maybe  a
little bit to loud, but i think 
it's everywhere a bit to loud :)

Light System:  Also very good
- {Multi Color Lasers}
- {Strobos (sometimes blue ones)}
- {Multi Color Spots}
- {Normal Spots}
- {Smoke Cannons}
- {Flashing Black Lights}
- {And some other stuff}

{{The  Place:}}  The Cherry Moon can
handle  around  the  2.000  ppl.
It's  pretty big and it has only
1    floor   where   they   play
Hardcore/Hardtrance,   I  really
miss  a  Trance floor here.  The
entrance is 200Bf, that's around
6 Dollars.  It's open on Fridays
and   Saturdays   (sometimes  on
sunday to) from 22.00Pm and they
must   close   their   doors  at
05.00Am.

{{{Resident Dj's:}}} 
Yves De Ruyte The House Of House
Stefaan (Kaos)
Franky (Cherry Moon)


{{The UnderTaker - Gent, Belgium}}
12th Nov. 94