What a mad rush this one was.. saw an advert for the event the night before and thought right.. I'm going.. in 4 hours I grabbed a mate and we did one to the train station.. ahhhh.. its 4pm!! The coach leaves in half and hour and we're 17 miles away in another town and ain't even got tickets yet.. got to Preston at 16.20, did one to Willy Banjo's and made it at the coach pickup point with 1 minute to spare.. phew! Got to Northgate arena at 19.45 and went to cue up.. I was buzzing my tits off now and I could hear the choons from inside and watched as 10yr old after 10yr old was getting told to get lost (hey.. its looking up).. suddenly this 30 year old woman carrying a bottle leaned over the railings shouting at this ginger haired lad for aparently hitting her four year old son, what a mad cow! She was trying to get in the crowd to glass this lad and threatening who, what and everyone.. even the big 'ard boucers... Anyway.. after she was made to leaving, saying she was gonna wait till the event finished and 'break that faggots face' I had got to the front.. music was getting me trippy now.. nice quick search and I made my way in... Now for anyone who doesn't know, the Northgate arena is a bloody sports complex.. its just like a few big basketball courts, one of which was the main arena.. I went straight over to the little stall in the main arena and bought a whistle and glow stick.. corrrr.. Vinylgroover playing the end of his set.. bouncy hardcore.. couldn't really hear what the song was (loud init).. yeah.. that was it.. VGT #1.. the stomping tune on that... As soon as he had finished MC Connie started hyping up the crowd and introduced Mr. Vibes, ahhhh no... the Titanic rip-off... Girls where screaming, boy's booing... hehehe.. well you either like it or not... Next came Sy.. and I buzzed my tits to piece's hearing him scratchin.. what a great set.. a mixture of vocal and instrumental happy.. 'd..d,d,d,dj sy..' Charlie B kept shouting... Decided to go exploring after a while.. earlier I had promised Babylee when I bought the tickets I'd listen to him.. (never of heard him like) went upstairs, the third arena was only accessable from going through the Bar.. but cause it sounded shite I decided to head along with my mate into the techno trance room... where I saw this metal guy with hair all over the place jumping around like a mad ass... MARK E-G of course.. he was so fucked off speed he was running and diving onto the decks.. his mixing admitidly was really crap.. the records kept jumping.. but no one carried we where all to busy stomping... next thing we knew.. the music stopped and Mark E-G got told to leave.. and boy did that piss everyone off.. 'Bring him back.. Bring him back' where the cries in that arena for the next 10 minutes... So I headed back downstairs.. Sy was still on.. that seemed odd.. 1hr 20mins and he's still going.. ahhh.. I see.. Slipmatt hadn't turned up.. that explains it... Next up.. Clarkee... yeahhhh Acid Techno, dur-dur-dur-dur.. I don't usually listen to techno but at this moment in time cause it was so loud I couldn't hear anything but the beat.. so I decided to stay and get stomping to him... wicked set MC Kurdy (I think) introduces the next geeza.. 'BabyLee'.. who? heh.. well the odd thing bout this set was he put on the first record fair enough.. but then straight after up can Dougal (who you couldn't miss cause of the yellow mop hair) and took over the rest of his set.. while the MC, who must of been blind, continued saying 'Babylee.. Babylee', never mind I got a shoutout on his set *grin* Straight after his or should I say Dougal's set came.. drum roll please.. Dougal!?!! Arghhh.. hes playing again... but this time a mixture of Bonkers 2/3 and 4... Nothing really new here then.. heh... towards the end of his set I headed off to meet the mop-head.. who, dressed with a fuck off gold medalian, sun glasses and a shiny blue shirt instantly took me for some sort of Autograph merchant... first getting his pay then with a big cheesy grin signing me his name and shortly after a small chat, headed off outside to his BMW giving me the thumbs up... I headed then backstage.. which had to be said was easy.. climb over the gates and wander over.. haha.. I got talking with one of Sarge's mates while he was playing.. nice bit of choonage Sarge.. sounding no different to all the last DJs on but never mind.. heh.. I liked it... Seeing as the gezza was still going I went back into the crowd to eye-up this blonde stage dancer.. hmmmmmm hmmmm.. very tasty.. no luck in pullin her.. shame! Did get a kiss on the cheak from her tho... not what I wanted.. hahaha Stomping to some tune (can't remember which) I remember seeing a few people from the crowd dropping to the ground holding their faces.. glowstick liquid was flying aound the crowd and getting in peoples eyes.. then this girl ran up to me pouring glow stick all over my t-shirt.. (bitch.. that better come out!! heh) I decided to open my glowstick then and join in the fun.. but as I bit it open I kinda swallowed half of the chemicals.. Ehhhhh.. my mouth begain to burn.. so I quickly bought a few 'Mister Slushy's' to try and rid the taste.. by which time it was time to leave.. booooo! boooo!.. Overall - a top night and a good laugh, no 10 year olds in there.. and so really top lads.. great atmosphere.. as Dougal wrote... 'Hysteria' tops!! See you at Hysteria 22 in October... byeeeee!
