Ever heard of a Breakfast Buffet being served at an after party? The Breakfast Club in Amsterdam serves fresh fruit, smoothies, yoghurt, muesli and organic, home made cakes to clubbers in need of a recharge after a big night out, and to early risers just starting their Sunday morning with a coffee and a dance. Their juicy line ups in the past included local and international DJs, such as Fred P, Levon Vincent, Tama Sumo, LB Dub Corp, Anthony Parasole, Italojohnson and Petre Inspirescu. Their ADE special party brings some tasty talent to the table, as Mathew Jonson & Minilogue (live), Prosumer & Murat Tepeli (3h set), Paranoid London live, Levon Vincent, The Persuader live, and Jay Daniel make up a third of the line up.
Their ADE Special will take place on Saturday, 18th of October, with breakfast served of course. Clubbers can expect to enter the club before the sun comes up and continue throughout the day until it comes down again as doors open from 07:00 - 18:00. Their ADE venue will take place in Amsterdam's beloved Melkweg, a 3 room building, spanning across multiple floors with a 2000+ capacity venue. A bigger event compared to their usual parties hosting only a few hundred people, The Breakfast Club promises to keep its normal intimacy feel with their choice of venue, top quality line up that brings like minded people together, and a healthy breakfast buffet. Praised last year by ADE itself as the best after hour party of the weekend, this year’s edition sounds promising indeed. Listen to Rahaan's exclusive ADE Breakfast Club podcast here.
The Breakfast Club's unique, early morning event started like most cool initiatives do: A group of friends who share a common interest of dance music meet at a party and start discussing ideas and plans. A few months later and voila! Another great project comes to life. Tom Liem, a DJ in the Amsterdam dance music scene who recently released music on Field Records and ESHU Records, met with his good friend, Brent Roozendaal, the organiser for parties and festivals like DRIFT and Have a Nice Day, at Lowlands Festival in 2010. Tom mentioned how tired he was of Amsterdam’s standard club times, the city’s lack of after parties, and the many parties that seemed to look and sound the same. Brent proposed The Breakfast Club idea, which he had been keeping for several years, but was missing a good team to help conceive it. From there they secured a team with the inclusion of local DJs Jaime Frias and Tommy Kornuijt. Let's not forget graphic designer, Emillie, who hand drawns every flyer exclusively for The Breakfast Club.
After a run of successful events, the team evolved the Breakfast Club into more than just an after party. Tom mentioned, "after parties can be really dark and moody” so he wanted to make an after party with a positive twist, where friendly and open minded people can meet in nice venues and listen to deep house and techno from resident and guest DJs and of course, eat breakfast, “because your breakfast is the most important meal of the day ;)”. We caught up with Tom to ask him more about this innovative project…
Photo taken by Marjan Schönenberg
How successful have your breakfasts been? do clubbers really eat breakfast while raving?
Yes, always. Once we lay out the breakfast in a buffet style, people always start eating.
Aside from serving a healthy breakfast, what other reasons make The Breakfast Club stand out as a positive after party?
It’s all about the music. We give DJs the freedom to do what they want with extended sets lasting 3-5 hours. We have a nice 50/50 mix of people that are still awake and that just woke up. That's the perfect balance for a good party mood. Party people also get to choose which time of day they want to party.
What were some of your highlights?
I think for us the most memorable sets were definitely Convextion LIVE during our ADE 2013. He really set the whole club on fire. Of course also Mathew Jonson & Minilogue during the same party! Levon vincent as well.
Tama Sumo at Canvas (now called Volkshotel), a nice intimate club. Abdulla Rashim, Noah Gibson, Henrik Bergqfist and Johan Brolund at the ADE 2012 was also really good. Nobody knew who those DJs were at the time, and they all played such nice music. People were losing it.
Being a DJ yourself, do you like playing at The Breakfast Club?
Yes I have to say, playing at breakfast club is by far the most special gig for me! The people really welcome you with open arms and really react to what you are doing. this makes it so much easier for me to play!
What type of feedback do you get from the big name DJs you have on your line ups? I see Levon Vincent is also playing for this year's ADE. Must mean that he liked playing last year.
Well Levon Vincent is in my opinion a true artist. He is such a good man and he's always respectful and with a great knowledge and understanding of music. After his ADE 2013 gig he e-mailed us personally to thank us for the great party and hospitality. So yes he really liked it a lot :)
Your ADE event venue is a 3 room venue, and you are expecting more than 2,000 guests. Can you keep your party’s intimacy with such a big venue?
Well yes, because there are 3 areas which are not so big and It's on different levels, so really It’s more like an indoor festival with many rooms to explore.
It seems like you have everything very well organised. Is it a dutch thing?
Haha well It's kinda weird. We are a really small country but we host the most festivals globally during the summer. I hope we are well organized, we always try our best.
The Breakfast Club have kindly offered 2 TICKETS to their ADE Special event. To stand a chance of winning, send an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with "Breakfast Club ADE" in the subject title, and tell us your favourite breakfast dish. Good luck :)
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Saturday
07:00 - 18:00
€25,99
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