What’s it all about..

It’s been twenty years since Stuart and Sarah first found each other under the lasers at Gatecrasher, and the back garden is about to prove the bassline never really stopped. With a marquee up, fairy lights strung through the apple tree, and the old crew gathering for the anniversary, what starts as a quiet family party quickly turns into something much louder — and much harder to keep upstairs.

Jules arrives nursing a fresh divorce and a determination not to talk about it. Gav’s got a sound system, a steady relationship he can’t stop mentioning, and one eye permanently on the gate. And somewhere over Thailand, Big Dave is “sorting flights” — which everyone knows could mean anything at all. Upstairs, two six-year-olds named after a pair of legendary DJs are refusing point-blank to go to sleep, certain they’re missing the best party of their lives. They might be right.

Between an accidental drop of the one track nobody saw coming, a blagged surprise guest with rather more name recognition than anyone expected, and Dave’s spectacularly unprepared arrival, the night turns into exactly the kind of chaos this lot used to live for — except now it comes with a mortgage, a twenty-quid IOU, and two kids who absolutely should be in bed. Twenty years on from a field with no shoes, the rhythm hasn’t faded. It’s just found a new room to move in.

A warm, funny, occasionally tear-jerking follow-up to Bassline Romance — for anyone who ever found forever on a dancefloor, and built a life around it.