After their last successful versus event with Future Dance at the start of May, Revolution had decided to hold another one, this time with the Manchester super rave Compulsion. Compulsion of course been holding big raves for a few years at Bowlers now, and are currently holding joint events with the one and only Helter Skelter. I’m a Revolution regular anyway as this is my local event and so I wasn’t going to miss this one. I got there at about 9.40pm to find a decent sized queue outside the Adelphi. At the last Revolution I had to queue for ages to get in and this time it took about half an hour. Once I got to the search point I could see why though because the bloke gave me a really thorough search, even making me take my trainers off. As I got inside I dropped off coat off and headed into the club. First on the decks was CJ Glover and I just caught his last few tunes. He played ‘Passion’ and ‘Waves of Desire’, but these are the same tunes he usually plays. CJ Glover was accompanied by MC Storm, this being the first time I’ve ever seen him in Sheffield. I was curious beforehand to see how he went down with the crowd because at Revolution they have their own set of MCs who are idolised by many of the crowd. On the night he did well though and seemed to well appreciated by the ravers. Next up on the decks was the Welsh dragons, Dodgee and Wotsee. I’ve seen them play once before but that was almost a year ago now. I have to say that they played the set of the night and I was well impressed by them both. Dodgee played a banging set of freeform with absolutely no cheese or vocals at all. His mixing was good and his scratching was extremely good. Wotsee has loads of good lyrics and he actually speaks clearly, which you can’t say about a lot of MCs. Overall I’d say they’re definitely the best up and coming act I’ve seen this year, and watching them makes me wonder why Vibes, Force + Styles and their ilk ever get booked at all now. After Dodgee and Wotsee, came Demand and Scott Brown playing back to back. Scott Brown started off with his new ‘Now is the time’ remix and played Jip’s ‘The weekend had landed’ speech from Human Traffic over the top of it. The played tunes like the new ‘Here’s Johnny’ remix, ‘Break of Dawn’ remix and some Nu Style gabba towards the end. It was a good set except for when one of them dropped in a rip off of ‘The journey’ by Citizen Caned, a big commercial trance tune at the moment. Hardcore has its own identity and can generate its own tunes, so please fellas can we have original tunes and not rip offs ? :) Following these two came Revolution resident and main promoter, Topgroove with a set of hard trance. I’ve always thought in the past that Topgroove constantly plays the same tunes and he was still doing the same here. They were all good hard trance tunes, but if you hear any tune often enough you start to tire of it. Last set of the night was Stu Allen, formerly a big Uprising favourite. It seemed that this was the set that the crowd were really looking forward to. He played all older tunes like ‘Now is the time’, ‘Jiiiiieeehhhaaaa’, ‘Hold me now’ and ‘Love you more’, but there were a few in there which were really cheesy. To sum up, this was a pretty impressive event at the Adelphi. It was definitely the busiest that I’ve ever seen the club and there were loads of new faces there on the night. The night was well friendly as usual and they’ve got a new outdoor chill out with benches, which are a really cool addition to the club. Revolution seems to be making real progress at the moment. They had a slow start to the year when they experimented with bringing in some hard house, but now their events are really improving. The Future Dance club tour was a very good night and this was maybe even better then that. I’d say this was the best Revolution that I’ve been to at the Adelphi and is getting back to how good it was last year when it was at Area 51. The next Revolution is on July 6th and they had old favourites Paul-O and Kenny Sharp, along with special guest DJ Dair from Australia and Sheffield’s own DJ UHF. The one after this is on July 20th and is a joint event with Vibealite. Shouts go to Lee UHF, Martin Space, Jubei, Mick Moss, Riddler, Alarm, Kerry, Ell, Dodgee, Wotsee, Rich B, Lang-E, Part-E, Invader, MC Storm.
