Who were you pogoing to in Yates’s Wine Lodge on a Friday night? OK, maybe not that mainstream, but Update covered some of that territory in 2008. Sam Sparro’s ‘Black And Gold’ was one of the year’s calling cards, the Australian rightly tipped for hitsville by Dean Thatcher in March. The following week Wiley’s ‘Wearing My Rolex’ blew up, served to the clubs in March and the convertibles all summer long. Wiley being well and truly overground, of course. Freemasons had another big hit with ‘When You Touch Me’ reaching Update towers in June.
Early 2008 singing sensation Adele got a makeover for the dancefloor courtesy of Axwell, with ‘Hometown Glory’ remixed for the summer. ‘A seductive package’, purred Lewis Dene. Wiley again returned near the end of the year with ‘Ca$h In My Pocket’, a late club bid for the Christmas charts.
Ben Hogwood
