Special guests for the night will be Red D feat Lady Linn, the dj + singer collective that has been causing quite the storm over the last years. This summer Red D and his singing angel Lady Linn were all over the place, taking one festival after beach party by storm with their selection of live vocal house classics known and unknown. As far as pure house music fun goes you cannot get any better than that... or can you?

About half a year ago proof was delivered that house things could indeed get even better. For that you would need the extraordinary talents of someone like, let’s say Kerri Chandler? Well, that’s exactly what happened at the 10 days Off festival and the last edition of The Sunday Matinee at Charlatan, the unique Sunday concept set up by Red D and Jan 'Jack' Deruyck. Kerri joined Red D and Lady Linn for a live performance filled with improvisation, fun and most of all fabulous house music.

And so What’s Cookin’? is pretty damn proud to announce the VERY special guest for New Year’s Eve: The Godfather of Soulful House, a living legend, Mister Kerri Chandler!! This NYC home-based dj/producer/singer will once again take the stage together with Red D and Lady Linn to bring you what could very well be the best quality New Year’s Eve performance ever.

This line-up alone should have your house glands salivating like never before, but just to make sure that happens What's Cookin'? has also ensured that you will be warmed up perfectly by young Belgian prodigy San Soda, main member of Red D’s We Play House Recordings collective.
Dessert as always will be hot and swe(a)et(y)! The What's Cookin'? Residents Jensen, Bugsy and Jack will make those belts burst and leave you with a few extra pounds to carry home! Live visuals and special effects by JokJok!

So there you have it. A New Year’s Eve night for quality seekers, a New Year’s Eve night to look forward to, a New Year’s Eve night Ghent has rarely ever witnessed before.

Win win win

We are giving away several prizes including Vinyl, Mix CD’s, Free-Tickets but this is New Year’s Eve and it ought to be a special night! On December 31 2009 Kerri Chandler will join us at Music Mania Record store for an afternoon of crate digging and soul searching and you can be there too! Win a meet and greet with the grandmaster of house! Go to our website www.whatscookin.be or check out the facebook event page www.whatscookin.be/nye for more info!

The Story behind What’s Cookin’?

What’s Cookin’? is a collective of three friends, dj’s and house lovers alike aiming to set up a fresh and lasting house night that makes a serious dent in the Belgian dance music scene.
House heads Joeri Van Steen, Jan Deruyck and Danny Huwé want to keep on bringing new ideas and music and promote the night with care. They have the energy and creativity to do so and have enlisted the help of a whole group of select people to make What’s Cookin'? the success it has fast become.

The roots of What’s Cookin’? lie in the legendary home parties in their ‘mansion’. The success and growing popularity of those parties allowed them to invade a number of different venues – including the legendary Vooruit - and invite a whole slew of dj’s and artists that form a veritable who’s who of the house music world: John Larner, Inland Knights, Big Hair, Diz, Kink, Joe Claussell and many, many more.

Well over three years after the very first What’s Cookin'? party the crew has found a perfect home in the ICC building, where the different rooms have proven to be the perfect spot for the seriously crowded house party What’s Cookin’? has become.