… with classical music.
When Cookies eventually opens for business, the crowd surge forward like teenagers at a boy-band concert. Within half an hour, the club is full: more than 100 would-be revellers have to go home disappointed. “We always have to turn people away,” says 38-year-old Canisius, after finishing his first DJ set, which starts with the second movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 4 and includes a smidgeon of the Schindler’s List soundtrack, plus a choice slice of Shostakovich.