DJs line up a loud option

By Chris Daniels

If world leaders tire of quaffing chardonnay and listening to the National Youth Orchestra next week, they will have a fine alternative just 100m up the road - DJs Epsilon Blue, Hueman and Jizz.

However, the organisers of Fuse - a performance/dance party "exploring positive community-focused alternatives to Apec" - are concerned that police will not take kindly to a dance party deep within the security cordon and look for an opportunity to close it.

Their party starts at 7 pm at the Classic Comedy Club in Queen St, just metres from the Auckland Town Hall, where the leaders and more than 400 others will be having dinner on Sunday, September 12.

One of the organisers, Sarah Martin, said that while the police had given permission for the dance party to proceed, there were still concerns about the tight security.

"But it is part of the political thing about reclaiming the city and having the right to dance.

"We don't imagine there will be trouble. We are promoting it as a peaceful and creative alternative.

"We are not aiming to have protests or direct action."

Apec police spokeswoman Robyn Orchard said people attending the dance party would have trouble finding a carpark and would not be able to go "wandering on the road."

However, they would not be searched before walking down the footpath to the venue.