So I was dancing away on Saturday night, thinking about this article and I went up to the boss with an idea. “How about I just write one word, amazing, with a full stop. Will that be OK?” She didn’t think so. “What about REALLY amazing, full stop. How’s that?” Better, but maybe needs a bit more. “How about very very fun and really really amazing??” OK I think you’ll need to work on it a just a little bit longer… I walked away slightly disappointed and saw Ben Evans walking around giving out champagne, and I suddenly remembered something, and I was transported back in time…

So I was dancing away on Saturday night, and this guy Ben comes up to me. ‘Man, I gotta tell you something!’ ‘What is it dude??’ ‘I’ve got this vision man!’ ‘Cool, what is it??’ ‘It’s about this night I wanna start, I’m gonna call it Interview!’ ‘Sounds good, what’s it gonna be like?’ ‘It’s not gonna be like normal clubbing, it’s gonna be like in a bar in the city, something small, with a bit of everything. Here, look at the flyer!’ He gives me a flyer, looking quite similar in style to a candy for your head. ‘Hmm I dunno man, not sure that would work! But good luck with it!’ Luckily for me and every other clubber in Melbourne, three years later, I was wrong!

Over the last three years Interview have put on a whole heap of events ranging in scale with local and international talent and on the weekend it was time to celebrate with some birthday shenanigans. With local headliners Jaytech and Matt Radovich and Danny K out of Israel playing alongside Interview regulars such as Blinky and Virginia Le, a good aureal experience was assured for the night. It started off great with Jaysep in the front room and Julian Reynolds in the main room both playing some tasty prog. It was a fine background for drinking and chatting.

As the crowd built up the tunes did too. Jaytech, following on from Blinky, played a smashing set of melodic progressive trance. The crowd was loving every minute of it and Jaytech was having a ball himself, for many I suspect it was the set of the night. Mojo had a hard act to follow but did a great job of continuing the vibe with some outstanding tech.

As Interview’s following and reputation for fun grew over the years, so did the decor stock. Instead of some print outs sticky taped to the walls we now have lasers, lights, posters and even ze tapestrie, which all ensured the venue was decked out nicely. Splitting my time between dancing, drinking and chatting to friends made the night fly by and Matt Radovich came on at 2:30am. I don’t really know what happened then, I’m not sure I could really explain it. A friend however summed it up thusly: he took our minds and raped them violently. Unfortunately most of the crowd didn’t take it too nicely and moved along. I couldn’t handle it either and had to retreat to the front room, where Denham Jay was playing some nice groovy progressive psytrance.

It was up to Scott Bateman to bring it back in the main room at 4am, and he did exactly that with some blistering tech trance. It was a great set, albeit shortened, and managed to push out Jaytech as my personal favourite of the night. By the time Ben Evans graced the decks, a combination of beer, champagne and Matt Radovich had conspired to make my brains begin pounding against my skull in a bid for freedom to the outside and I was nearing the end of my tether. I managed to hold out long enough to hear him bang out the psytrance before making my exit.

I was thoroughly satisfied with my Interview experience, as I knew I would be. I’ve never had a bad time there and as soon as I walked in, my bad mood from earlier in the day was erased and I had a great time catching up with clubbers I hadn’t seen for years, such is the pull of Interview. The tunes in the main room were awesome nearly all night long and if you wanted something else Virginia, Danny K and the others had it going on out front. Great tunes, great people, there is hardly anything to fault about the night. In fact, you could probably sum it up in one word: amazing.