SATURDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2007: 'O, the times they are a changing,' Dylan once sang, and it couldn't have been proved better than at tonight's Chibuku Shake Shake. Allegedly once a place where Charles Dickens would read to a learned crowd, the theatre of the now Liverpool Barfly is one of the best places in the North to get your rave on. Now, decades later, it’s a little more than literary lines that the student strong crowd are interested in.

The renowned loyal crowd that Chibuku captures appeared to have flocked southwards on this occasion with their hard-earned towards London’s Herbal - where yet another party was going on in association with Leeds’ Back2Basics. This made way for a new breed of clubber to infiltrate the Liverpool constitution. Nu Rave Klaxon-ites were out in full glory, armed with glow sticks and big scarves, weaned on a diet of Ibiza Rocks style tunes. The traditional crowd that has been with the club since its birth might sniff at this, but it can only be a good sign for the venue. New kids are now taking note of its eclectic teachings.

Coming at us more frequently than 'London Lite' distributors, Chibuku's parties continue to thrust stellar line-ups upon us. Just as we were recovering from their traditional January residential mash up, tonight’s offering of breaks, electro and drum n bass proved too much to resist. Anyone in attendance that had wondered what Leo Sayer was up to following his sharp exit from the Big Brother house, need not have looked beyond tonight’s headliners Simian Mobile Disco. Not really. One of them just looks like him. Anyway, after the consistently good Justin Robertson, a good dose of electro house was welcomed with open - albeit slightly sweaty - arms.