Live Review: Tomas Ford's Crap Music Rave Party

Tomas Ford has been hosting his 'Crap Music Rave Parties' around the globe — predominantly at Fringe World — for a few years now, and if there's anything to take away from the experience shared by the full room of punters at the Rosie on Saturday night, it is that nobody makes a night of singing and dancing to crap music more fun than he does.

It wasn't simply Ford behind the decks spinning shockers all night, it was a proper spectacle — glowsticks and balloons littered the room, the stage backdrop served as a rave projection screen and the interactive nature of the show meant anyone could request a song by writing it down on the paper draped over the front of the stage. Ford himself (who was joined for the night on stage by Ayden Doherty) was in impeccable form as well, thrashing about and regularly making his way down into the crowd to get in on the action (a friend of this reviewer claimed she'd "never seen a sweatier man in her life").

And the music, phew. There's always going to be the universally acclaimed songs that immediately spring to mind when you think of 'crap' music, and of course everyone secretly loves hearing them, but the best parts of the night was the nostalgia hit you got when the opening bars of a track played that you forgot existed. We were treated for four hours to the likes of Smash Mouth, Scooter, Linkin Park, Ricky Martin, 3 Doors Down, A-ha, S-Club 7, Vengaboys, Alex Lloyd, Shannon Noll, Savage Garden and so much more. There was never a dull moment, and nobody seemed ready to leave after the last track was played.