Despite fierce competition from the UK’s top
superclubs, COLOURS proved that they have got what it takes to stage the
biggest and boldest club events and the millennium has allowed them to
demonstrate their partying prowess in style.

With cancellation rumours running rife and many clubs falling by the wayside as millennium madness reached a fever pitch, COLOURS stood their ground and stayed true to their roots, staging a fourteen hour millennium marathon that left other events wilting in the shade by comparison.

< Who let Jamiroquai in ? >

Over 10,000 raving revellers packed the former Cummins factory in Shotts,
Lanarkshire, which was divided into three distinct arenas hosted by DANCE
ANTHEMS, MINISTRY OF SOUND and an amalgamated force of INSIDE OUT and NEW YORK CITY. VIP guests were treated to laid back grooves fused with jazz tinged breakbeats from the CAFÉ FUNK phenomenon in a fourth private arena.

Organisers had originally planned to split the venue into five arenas in
order to reflect the musical diversity COLOURS events are famous for. They
had been awarded a licence for 15,000 to fill the sprawling site but when
ticket sales did not reach their targets, they made a conscious decision to
downsize so that their legendary atmosphere was not lost in space!

< Happy New Year ! >

Headlining the event alongside 40 of the worlds foremost deck masters, was
top RADIO 1 FM DJ DAVE PEARCE who hot-footed it over to Shotts from his global broadcast in Glasgow where he played to a 35,000 strong clan. At one point in the evening PEARCE attracted a crowd of 7,000 to his DANCE ANTHEMS ARENA with his inimitable mix of up-for-it house classics and chart-topping tunes. PEARCE said of the event “It was a truly magnificent sight, you can always rely on COLOURS to draw a totally crazy crowd and the millennium gave us all an excuse to really go for it and create a moment in time that will never be forgotten.”

< Scots largin' it >

PEARCE was not the only big name to have it right off at COLOURS. US
housemaster MARSHALL JEFFERSON was quoted as saying “It was the best night of my life” and JON PLEASED WIMMIN could hardly contain himself as he rocked his arena at midnight with Moloko’s summer sensation ‘Bring It Back’.

Meanwhile, top jock DARREN STOKES put on a fine show in the Inside Out/New York City arena alongside fellow countrymen MICHAEL KILKIE, SIMON FOY, KRIS KEEGAN and ZAMMO.


 
< John Mansini on the decks >

Party king JEREMY HEALY made his entrance in ultimate style, arriving in a private Lear jet, on loan for the evening from Harrods boss Mohommad Al
Fayed. HEALY went on to hold his own party at his hotel room with some new friends in the form of two Radio 1 FM competition winners who had flown up to Scotland with him as part of a COLOURS prize. GRAEME PARK reckoned he had the best time since the good ol’ days at Manchester’s Hacienda nightclub and the K-KLASS boys played a sterling set of disco fuelled funk and block rockin’ beats in the immensely successful Dance Anthems Arena.

Not everything went without a hitch as ISDN links from Australia, Cape Town
and New York went down due to a technical fault at the suppliers end,
leaving COLOURS with no option but to pursue legal action in the New Year in order to get some answers for an understandably disgruntled crowd. JOHN DIGWEED missed his flight to Scotland and ultimately his set in the New York City arena (there had to be one cross country casualty) however this was the only no-show out of 40 DJ bookings for the evening.

< Fun @ the Fairground >

The night wouldn’t be complete without a performance from infamous COLOURS promoter RICKY MAGOWAN who entertained the VIP room with his own rendition of Auld Lang Syne - albeit naked from the waist down. Unluckily for Ricky, his makeshift stage (a speaker) did not agree with its new use and collapsed, bringing the Scot housemaster crashing down to raucous applause and a particularly sore head (in more ways than one).