How terrible the WHP at store street is!

Life of Rye

Life of Rye

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So 12 of us had all booked for the NYE event at the warehouse project....admittedly before the lineup was announced but we assumed it should be decent considering it is NYE after all

Anyhow the lineup was announced and the only person I was interested in was Danny Howard....I was a little disappointed but I thought we will just make the most of it and no doubt enjoy the night anyhow

So arrived at 2030 in a queue of about 30 and waited patiently until 2100 for entry to begin and spot on 2100 we all started to bombard through with our tickets

Now first impressions was the door staff who were all so aggressive and arrogant. Many of us took along masks with us and some went through no bother where as some of us was stopped and had the masks taken away. When politely asked why the LED mask was taken the guy started randomly shouting "You have drugs!" and started shoving my mate through the door??... Any way we didn't let that put a downer on the night and carried on

Inside the venue it was pitch black and we found our self trying to get to grips with the layout

At about 21:30 we made our way to the dance floor of what we discovered was room 2 and this is where it just continued to go down hill

Far too many people!! Literally couldn't dance and people were just bouncing off you or trying to squeeze past. This got annoying after a while as I couldn't connect with the DJ or get into a nice flow so we decided to re-group and move away

At about 2300 we moved into the main room and KIWI was on....anyhow the music was dreadful and literally sounded the same for the complete hour of him being on. Again far to busy you had people standing on your feet, spilling drinks on you, squeezing past or doing that annoying thing where they literally stick to you.
I took my hands and forced a couple off of me yet they ended up stuck to me again and I found myself holding their body weight to prevent me moving forward into the person in front of me

Then came midnight and the countdown and I wasn't excited one bit...didn't even cheer

Then KIWI dropped two George Michael tracks to enter the new year...Now I know it was a tribute but that is the last thing you want to hear to get you dancing!!

By this point everyone was losing each other and being so dark in there you couldn't find anyone and neither contact them due to their being no signal

At this point I just wanted to go home and eventually did half way through Danny Howards set as I just couldn't get into it

To summarise

The sound system is terrible (Stand further than half way back and you hear the music from the other room)
The dance floor is littered with bottles and cans
You clothes will get soaked with beer and water and you will spend your night bumping and holding people
The toilets are disgusting and I feel sorry for the females
It is dark and miserable inside
Majority of people there are just there to take a lot of drugs and not dance. I seen many many people stood like zombies
 
Life of Rye said:
The toilets are disgusting and I feel sorry for the females
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Don't feel sorry for 'em, mate. I worked in nightclubs for 8-years, and they're animals. Far, far worse than the gents. Shitty knickers stuffed into their sanitary bins, make-up EVERYWHERE, hair clogging sinks, tissue paper EVERYWHERE. Okay, so the gents stinks of piss. But otherwise, stroll in the park.

Sorry ladies, it's true.
 
While I think you are right about a lot of the points and criticism, at the end of the day it is called Warehouse Project and a 'rave' in a functioning car park. I agree it has gone downhill a bit now with a very young crowd which can be a bit unfriendly, but it is nice to go to a 'raw' venue like they have. You do have to pick / choose your nights though
 
I love that venue and I've seen the work that goes into transforming it from a working carpark which shuts at 6pm into a club that opens a few hours later.

And I agree about womens toilets in clubs. I've never seen the back wall pebbledashed with shit in a mens
 
Not sure you can moan about a nightclub being dark and it being busy on NYE.

For future reference NYD generally a much better day/night out. Do your own thing NYE and hit the rave NYD.
 
Springal said:
While I think you are right about a lot of the points and criticism, at the end of the day it is called Warehouse Project and a 'rave' in a functioning car park. I agree it has gone downhill a bit now with a very young crowd which can be a bit unfriendly, but it is nice to go to a 'raw' venue like they have. You do have to pick / choose your nights though
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The crowd were young yes and all about taking as much drugs as possible.
I watched a group of 5/6 guys just stood on the dance floor all waffling and snorting coke together. There were so many people just stood with no facial expression like they were lost. The atmosphere was dreadful to be honest

I couldn't imagine any night there being decent because the sound system is dreadful. It just doesn't work at that venue. Wheeling a couple of speakers into that sort of space with various coves and open spaces needs a lot of technical work and a lot of money thrown into it and it is obvious that isn't being done.
 
Life of Rye said:
The crowd were young yes and all about taking as much drugs as possible.
I watched a group of 5/6 guys just stood on the dance floor all waffling and snorting coke together. There were so many people just stood with no facial expression like they were lost. The atmosphere was dreadful to be honest

I couldn't imagine any night there being decent because the sound system is dreadful. It just doesn't work at that venue. Wheeling a couple of speakers into that sort of space with various coves and open spaces needs a lot of technical work and a lot of money thrown into it and it is obvious that isn't being done.
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Not sure I agree about the sound. I was there for the opening with Beyer & Capriati and thought it was fine. I agree if you go more than half way back it can be a bit weak. But I thought Room 2 sound was very good.

Could be a number of things to blame about sound
 
We had the in-laws over for dinner. After having what was a superb supper (I cooked) we sat down for a film waiting for the 'countdown'. I then proceeded to fall asleep and at 11:30 my snoring had annoyed the mother-in-law sufficiently enough that she called it a night.
 
One experience of the WHP in Manchester. For a Diynamic night. Two things I'd agree with. Door staff were not particularly nice to experience. The atmosphere was very lacking despite being a full room. Maybe there was more Ketamine about than anything else?

On a plus note. Hosh smashed it
 
diver said:
Going out NYE has been a no no for a long time for us.

House party at best.

Boxing night used to be my flavour, die hard clubbers mainly so made for a good crowd.

You live and learn dude
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Pure case of live and learn for sure
Won't be doing store street again and won't be booking tickets before line-up is released

Anyhow put together a 6 min vid for anyone that happens to give a fo0k

 
for sometime now, I've tried to avoid any branded / car park / warehouse / multi-lineup events or anything that reeks of cash-in by greedy promoters. you know you'll get ripped off with terrible sound, tourists, security fences everywhere, nightmare staff, radioactive toilets. the best events are always and will always be small specialist clubs with loyal crowds who are about the music first, first and first.
 
Amp and Deck said:
for sometime now, I've tried to avoid any branded / car park / warehouse / multi-lineup events or anything that reeks of cash-in by greedy promoters. you know you'll get ripped off with terrible sound, tourists, security fences everywhere, nightmare staff, radioactive toilets. the best events are always and will always be small specialist clubs with loyal crowds who are about the music first, first and first.
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That is exactly what warehouse felt to me. How much money could they make and I agree with the small specialist clubs with loyal crowds

There is an organiser called 'Taste the punch' and honestly they are amazing little parties...They had Claptone at one event and I reckon there was max 200 people there. Everyone was there to dance, plenty of space, really friendly crowd and staff and tickets were like £12 iirc.

In the past they have had Annie Mac, Pete Tong and Mark Knight as headliners

I question if they actually make any money to be honest
To me it feels like a party you would hold if you won the lottery for you and all your mates

Highly recommended for those in the Bedfordshire/Hertfordshire area
 
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