United States of Hardcore
Well wow what a night this is to be my last rave at the Que club this year and well what can I say!!! Met the lads at the bust stop and of we headin' up to town met the rugby crew inside the square peg and off we headed got to the Que club for half eight. Met Rob "windmill" learner you might remember me? Anyway the flyer and ticket said 9:30 start was it? No it was about 10 to 10 by this time the queue to get inside was enormous it went all the way down the road and apparently split into 2. Must be another sell out of many this year people were buyin tickets for silly money off people in the street that s my I say to people by your ticket early!! After a being searched it was to the cloakroom and to by the ravin essential gloves and glow sticks off to the main room. Production the lighting was amazing there were some mad lights at the front of the stage that nearly blinded me and ed, but they were amazing. The strobes were wicked and this time smoke machine wasn't as low as it used to be so didn't choke this time round, as always the U.V was amazing. They may not have had the massive video screens out but the had three small mobiles which I didn't realize until half way through mistress Mo's set was that one was a small video screen wicked! Mistress mo up first she played a blinder a lot of the old underground old skool classics to get the people goin'. Her style is wicked the set was mainly round about 88-to early '90's I wasn't old enough to remember these first time around but the selection was wicked. The room was getting fuller by the minute, up was Easygroove mistress mo got up on mic for about 2 mins MC MO!! Easygroove played the acid technoy style about bit scary for me sometimes I really love the Joey Beltram energy flash but I didn't hear it. Easygroove was just little slow sometimes but dark. I thought I'll have a wander about, every flashback they don't have a mc in the DnB room but tonite was special coz it was the reinforcement records crew inside. I admit it I'm probably the cheesiest bastard inside and love my happy hardcore to the bone. But the DnB was wicked inside DJ Virus and mc Mg were wicked it was jump up select jungle and I was goin crazy I front of that speaker I tell ya! Back to the main room and guess who was on Randall as I said before yes I'm happy but recently I've been getting into the old skool side of DnB the jungle side of things may be dark but I make it cheesy Randall was wicked I didn't spot GQ inside but Lenny was up and every time he is bloody amazing respect the Birmingham Oldskool mc Lenny. Randall's selection was wicked the champion sound and the long dark tunnel every time the tunes were just amazing the crowd were going crazy to this man. Reason really why I was here was for the Vibes and storm vibes turned up but were was storm???? Vibes played a blinder he was cheesy at all played the anthems, which were quality, half of his set didn't have a mc but didn't really matter coz I was lovin' it. He played one of the Oldskool classics the ganja man which doesn't get played enough I feel and I don't mean the krome and time tune but the slammin vinyl one respect to grant and slammin vinyl boyz! After vibes we went and had natter with him signed one of my fave pics of him and me from dreamscape this year and had a pic of him and rugby crew! Quality geezer every time! Pilgrem was up not a very big fan of pilgrem to be honest so don't really matter what I say but the crowd were liking his selection. Time to go to the chill out room to rest before the big one RATPACK!!! Now the rat pack may play the same tunes every time but they are quality old skool anthems "ANTHEMS" that is why they are played every time! They started off with number on classic "Searchin for my rizla " karaoke time that's all I've got to say! They also played a really bassy version of PVD for an angel which I reckon is better that the original. To finish of the nite it was lord of the dance aka captain of the ship this one I had to get on stage for every flashback last 5mins on the stage has to be done cheers Mo!!! Well respects must go out to Mistress Mo and Jimmy for putting on a quality nite cheers. Probably my fave flashback this year!! Shouts to Asha and Ed Rugby crew shouts to Keith, 4-D, Asha the Hall green crew and everyone else I met on the nite. Respect to Vibes and the Rat pack for making my nite a memorable nite (my early xmas present) And to the person with massive gloves who didn't believe me that helter-skelter back check the upcoming events HA!