apologies for focusing in on London, but i do under the auspices of an 'outlet for detroit techno' - i think the idea of a London 313 party is gr8. London needs more techno. (I've already posted my intention to try and restart a London techno night)
I have strongly advocated that one of the reasons techno is so lame and low key in London is that there is no radio outlet, and London desperately needs a techno-focused pirate radio. In a few years time everything will be ADSL and that wont be the problem, but for now it has to be airwaves. I have been speaking with some guys who are trying to set this up. I understand at the moment they are carring out test transmissions on 96.4 fm some Saturday afternoons. I'll certainly let London based 313-list djs who've posted their 'About the Members' know when this is happening. I cant help but feeling that djs/promoters have a lot to do with the death of techno in London. You need to look at what is actually happening here at the moment. I had wanted to hit bugged out at Heaven on Friday night. It was sold out but there were tickets on the door. I opted not to go, for the very same reason I'm none to keen on Fabric. You cannot move in the place and it gets so hot. I went to a few bedrock nights about 18 months ago and lost any interest because of the heat of the place. Now I know Heaven is essential a gay club and maybe it suits that environment for everyone to be topped off and right tight and close but these are str8 nights. And like it or not xtc doesn't kill - it is the body overheating which causes this. Around the early 90s I had been at many clubs where people had died and the tabloid press had field days. Always, always the key point about these nights had been the heat of the place. I remember coming out of a Lost night at the Vox and realising the whole night had been a total blackout. I never remembered a thing. It had been like an oven (I think someone soul did die there). Why is this overcrowding being allowed to happen? Going back to heaven, I know they were forced to do something in the past few years for noise control/6am licence and maybe thats where the heat has come from. It's extreme and can be dangerous. But its happening all the time at Fabric as well. On another board someone said that on Friday night John Peel (don't ask) took 40 minutes to lug his record case across the dancefloor. I want to quote 2 e-mails i received this morning from a guy and girl who both had tickets for bugged out on Friday and which prompted my rantings and ravings in this post. (sorry - for the verbal diarroeah). (1) boy Bugged out was good. Very busy. Very hot. Slam were bangin 'ard techno - v good. Justin Robertson was my personal fave. Chemical brothers were very funky, not what I expected - whole room to themselves all night. Q'd for an hour to put coats in. Music was very good all round. Fat boy slim a bit cheesy in places but otherwise good (lock n loads "blow your mind" Noooooo! and Camisra "Let me show you"........get yer coat Norm) (2) girl I thought the music at Bugged Out was excellent but I am never going back to Heaven again - no way am I lining those theiving bastards' pockets with more money.. it was crap the way they piled in as many people as poss just to make more money - there was hardly any room to dance until Fat Boy Slim finished and the club emptied a bit - and the cheekie bastards made you sweat your bollox off because of the heat and then sent round girls selling ice poles to cool you off - what a rip off.. It is Fish this Friday - at Heaven, which I was meant to be going too, but after my experience with Heaven being SHITE again, I'm not going... (excuse her language, but the girl can't help it......) well, Lisa, is voting with her feet, with Bugged Out at Heaven and Fabric often a key venue for Techno in London there is a big problem here. If DJs/promoters know the problem, should they be using these clubs? As a promoter two of my key requirements for a venue are (1) is it safe (could people get out in an emergency - i have to say i was highly unimpressed with the underground resistance 2000 NYE venue Gainsborough Studios (If there had been a fire in there people would have died big time). (2) will my 'punters' be respected by the bouncers/management - ie behaviour/attitude towards chemical transgressions, u don't want bouncers kicking the shite out people which im afraid has happened all too often in places in the past (and still people promote in those clubs). Its also about the prices of drinks/cloakrooms. And I think for many young clubbers its about the price of the night: £15 is steep. You've still got to get there/home/cloakroom thats before you even buy a drink, let alone think of a pack of fags/skins/whatever///// ----- Original Message ----- From: "rob webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 01:46 Subject: RE: [313] list party/gathering in the UK > Nic: > > >yeah, I'm in too.. > > > >of course the easy option is to just organise everyone to turn up at one > >gig, but if we need a place for approx. 100 people then I know a bar in > >central London we can have for free. > > cool, i was thinking it'd be best to throw our own party, rather than all > meet-up for a club night. aside from anything else it'd be great to hear > sets and pa's from list members, for me that's one of the primary reasons to > do this, and we wouldn't have that opportunity at a night put on by someone > else. > > once we've got an idea of the level of interest we can then start looking > into venues, but somewhere around 100 capacity (with it's own pa!) might > well be perfect. > > cheers > > > > rob > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
