After a long wait for the PAs to get their sound checks sorted out (mainly due to them not being let into the club early enough) we were finally allowed in. Jockey started his unfortunately short set, mixing well, but he was all too soon kicked off by one of the only female DJs in the scene, Chique. She Played a good set, a little fast for me, but that's the scottish way I spose. During this time I started talking to the one and only Smurf, who is quite blatantly 3 legs short of a chair. Grade A nutter, but what'd you expect from anyone who plays sets like he does. Moving on I wondered around a bit and missed most of Cheddars set, spent most of my time chatting to people, when at 12 everyone wondered upstairs for what was one of the highlights of the night, SScape's PA. The dancefloor was as full as I'd seen it all evening and the crowd reaction displayed the quality of the music being played. Using a massive combination of styles, the SScape way is unique, I hope to hear a lot from them in the future. Following this I lumbered off downstairs to catch Pioneer and MC Enn. What can I say, Nicky is great mixer, and MC Enn started off very well, complementing the music and rhyming for ages, all off the top of his head. However, after a few other MCs had a go he lost his flow and gave up, letting the locals strut their stuff on the mic. I spent the next few hours dancing everywhere and chatting to people, and I must mention DJ Happy's and Sarky Jim's set, cos they played some wikked Olde Skoole, and their own choons were wikked. Having been speaking to DJ Renn at various points during the night, he was becoming gradually more and more nervous as his set loomed. He stepped up, cut off Pioneers 'Keep Dancing' before the end and started his thing. With a few slip-ups he did well considering how nervous he was just before hand. Then came my set. Renn finished with Heart of Gold, and as this was playing Happy set up his computer to play one of my own tracks off CD, but we realised this was jumping due to the bass. In the panic, I qued up my first choon on vinyl, but couldn't get the mixer sorted out and unfortunatly faded out HoG a few times, and let the bass kicks come in over the top. Sorry to all the peeps on the dance floor for all that. Anywho, I never did get the mixer sorted out and ended up playing the whole set without cross fader. D'oh. What more could go wrong? Oh yeah, no one told my MC that the choon on the CD wasn't gonna be played, so when I stopped the set in the middle giving Enn a chance to get a shout for Marcus from the crowd, the result was quite amusing. Following me, was a good PA from the local SOL lot, and then the final set from Rampant was upon us, who rounded off the evening with a good set, very cheesy, but it was well mixed and although my legs were dead by then, the crowd was well up for it. All in all, I had a wikked night. I loved meeting all the lot from the list, and loved playing out. It truely was one of the best saturday nights I've had in ages. Big up Marcus is all I can say!
