Sasha, Fat Boy Slim and Carl Cox - Manchester 7/7/07

grego said:
it went like this

layo 10-11
frankie knuckles 11-12 (played tech house and techno!!8O:D8))
morales 12-1
fatboy 1- 1.30
carl cox 1.30-2.30
cox and fatboy b2b 2.30-3
erol alkan 3-4
sasha 4-5
laurent garnier 5-6


some pics maybe soon
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That line up makes me fume. Almost, no, yes, I am actually angry at the (unts that have organised this. :spank: :roll: and :evil:. I'm glad it bombed, I hope the promoters have had their fingers sufficiently burnt so that they will never even consider organising another house do in the world ever again!

Urgh! Where do these people come from. :lol:
 
Dan x said:
That line up makes me fume. Almost, no, yes, I am actually angry at the (unts that have organised this. :spank: :roll: and :evil:. I'm glad it bombed, I hope the promoters have had their fingers sufficiently burnt so that they will never even consider organising another house do in the world ever again!

Urgh! Where do these people come from. :lol:
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why the anger dear boy!! :) i thought it was the line up from heaven - if anythign to much to choose from.

I think by the sounds of it, it was Friday night that was a bit poop:

Unabombers
Erol Alkan
DJ Shadow
Bushwacka
2 Many DJS
 
Menef said:
erm, it didn't bomb
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I'd assume the promoters (or their bank managers) wouldn't agree with you

In fairness, that reply was a touch brief, and I suppose I should elaborate.

(Warning, rant coming up :lol:)

One of my bug bears with nightclubs, or more realistically promoters, is the propensity to try and squeeze in as many names onto a bill, clearly in the assumption that it will appeal to more clubbers that go pretty much because dj x, y and z are playing.

A very cheap, and short sighted methodolgy. Not only from the obligatory musical point of view, and when you're dealing with paying for guys like David Morales to do the cloakroom shift, well I can't believe it can last/work financially.

All well and good 'just look at who they've got down to play' I hear you cry, though, well, it's not all well and good, is it? Who wants to hear DJ x play for an hour, before DJ y comes on, potentially of a competely different genre. It'll take DJ y half an hour to bring in his type of music, and then before you know it, he's kicked off for DJ z. Repeat to fade.

It would be a little understandable with multiple rooms, but with one room?! It's baffling!

Not only this, but then the promoter ends up paying for more DJ's, and guess who picks up the tab via enlarged ticket prices?

And not to mention, well there's no way of saying this without sounding like an arse, but what happened to DJ's taking you on a journey? Fair enough, I don't expect it from DJ 7Haircuts Electro, but if you've got genuinely decent DJ's (and there are some of them on the bill), then it's pretty criminal squeezing them in these tiny windows. They won't be bothered (you think Sasha gives a f*ck about a 90 minute set? Will it ever go down in History?), and essentially it's a waste of everyones time.

Look at the line up for this event, and it is the exact pinnacle of everything I'm against with this in mind.

Each of those DJ's could and should, fill a venue (with maybe a second tier warm up) on their own, and treat the crowd to a full start middle and end.

:spank:

Rant over!:lol:
 
i thought the night was quite good actually without being funking amazing.

it was like a stadium rock gig, festival and club night rolled into one. the screen was amazing, had to be seen to be believed. the soundsystem was top notch too, really crisp and clear, miles better than the warehouse project.

layo and frankie knuckles were quality.........really deep techy stuff, morales was ok but i lost interest a bit when fatboy slim came on, his style is too stop/start for me. interestingly though, this was perhaps the busiest time of the night, which says a lot about the crowd i suppose. in the wider public consciousness, fatboy is prob most well known. so i reckon there

couldn't get into erol alkan really and i thought the man like was ok albeit an hour is just not long enough, again loved the radiohead eraser track.8)

laurent garnier was v. melodic and deep but an hour is not long enough for him either. the place had thinned out considerably by then anyway. he ended with knights of the jaguar:D8)
 
Dan x said:
I'd assume the promoters (or their bank managers) wouldn't agree with you

In fairness, that reply was a touch brief, and I suppose I should elaborate.

(Warning, rant coming up :lol:)

One of my bug bears with nightclubs, or more realistically promoters, is the propensity to try and squeeze in as many names onto a bill, clearly in the assumption that it will appeal to more clubbers that go pretty much because dj x, y and z are playing.

A very cheap, and short sighted methodolgy. Not only from the obligatory musical point of view, and when you're dealing with paying for guys like David Morales to do the cloakroom shift, well I can't believe it can last/work financially.

All well and good 'just look at who they've got down to play' I hear you cry, though, well, it's not all well and good, is it? Who wants to hear DJ x play for an hour, before DJ y comes on, potentially of a competely different genre. It'll take DJ y half an hour to bring in his type of music, and then before you know it, he's kicked off for DJ z. Repeat to fade.

It would be a little understandable with multiple rooms, but with one room?! It's baffling!

Not only this, but then the promoter ends up paying for more DJ's, and guess who picks up the tab via enlarged ticket prices?

And not to mention, well there's no way of saying this without sounding like an arse, but what happened to DJ's taking you on a journey? Fair enough, I don't expect it from DJ 7Haircuts Electro, but if you've got genuinely decent DJ's (and there are some of them on the bill), then it's pretty criminal squeezing them in these tiny windows. They won't be bothered (you think Sasha gives a f*ck about a 90 minute set? Will it ever go down in History?), and essentially it's a waste of everyones time.

Look at the line up for this event, and it is the exact pinnacle of everything I'm against with this in mind.

Each of those DJ's could and should, fill a venue (with maybe a second tier warm up) on their own, and treat the crowd to a full start middle and end.

:spank:

Rant over!:lol:
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I actually agree with you 100% on this one - its the equivalent of a "Stars on 45" mix single from back in the olden days but with DJ's

A person just get grooving into the tune being played and before you know it - its moved on to the next track :lol::lol::lol::lol:
 
grego said:
i thought the night was quite good actually without being funking amazing.

it was like a stadium rock gig, festival and club night rolled into one. the screen was amazing, had to be seen to be believed. the soundsystem was top notch too, really crisp and clear, miles better than the warehouse project.

layo and frankie knuckles were quality.........really deep techy stuff, morales was ok but i lost interest a bit when fatboy slim came on, his style is too stop/start for me. interestingly though, this was perhaps the busiest time of the night, which says a lot about the crowd i suppose. in the wider public consciousness, fatboy is prob most well known. so i reckon there

couldn't get into erol alkan really and i thought the man like was ok albeit an hour is just not long enough, again loved the radiohead eraser track.8)

laurent garnier was v. melodic and deep but an hour is not long enough for him either. the place had thinned out considerably by then anyway. he ended with knights of the jaguar:D8)
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oh yeah, i thought carl cox was quite good on his own too.............the B2B thing with fatboy was toilet tho.
 
Buckley said:
Can you elaborate for us post-war kids Pups?:lol:
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eeeeeeeeh yer cheeky whippersnapper - you will feel the back of my hand should I get anymore backchat from the likes of you,

.......back in my day you wouldnt have spoken to your elders like that... grumble, grumble, grumble.....
 
puppylover said:
eeeeeeeeh yer cheeky whippersnapper - you will feel the back of my hand should I get anymore backchat from the likes of you,

.......back in my day you wouldnt have spoken to your elders like that... grumble, grumble, grumble.....
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:lol:

An' when we got home our Dad would cut us in two with a breadknife an' it never did me no harm.....but you tell kids today that....
 
Buckley said:
:lol:

An' when we got home our Dad would cut us in two with a breadknife an' it never did me no harm.....but you tell kids today that....
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a bread knife?

you dont know your born son!

We begged for the bread knife when father were grinding us upon with t' blunt & rusty tin opener.

and we said thankyou, cause we was grateful in them days, grateful.
 
agentundercover said:
a bread knife?

you dont know your born son!

We begged for the bread knife when father were grinding us upon with t' blunt & rusty tin opener.

and we said thankyou, cause we was grateful in them days, grateful.
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You lucky bugger! We used to dream of a tin opener....

We used to live in a rolled newspaper in a septic tank in a hole in the road!
 
the promoters were the manchester international festival.
the event was always designed to run at a loss even if they sold every ticket as its a flagship promotional thing for the festival.

I totally agree regarding the one hour, one hour, one hour thing.

alkan
cox
garnier

would have been easily enough for me, in fact

garnier

would have been enough for me.
 
Menef said:
the promoters were the manchester international festival.
the event was always designed to run at a loss even if they sold every ticket as its a flagship promotional thing for the festival.

I totally agree regarding the one hour, one hour, one hour thing.

alkan
cox
garnier

would have been easily enough for me, in fact

garnier

would have been enough for me.
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I agree on this.

imagine 6 stunning models, one of each race if you like.

You have one night - how are you going to satisy them all?
 
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