Bangin is one of these nights with a new definition of 'Old Skool', not the common definition that most of us will be used to of 90-94 Hardcore but instead 94-00 happy Hardcore. So to celebrate their 2nd birthday Bangin came to pretty much the only Hardcore venue in Hull Silhouette Club. The club as ever very easy to find and brilliantly laid out, with the 2nd/chillout room just to the left on entering, the excellently organised cloak room just to the left and the main room straight ahead. I arrived just before 10 with no queue, no search and friendly security to greet me and headed straight for the main room where I spent most of my night. At this time the dancefloor was about half full and remained this way for the majority of the night with seemingly most people standing round the edges or near the bar. As far as the decor goes, glow sticks had been laid around the room and a couple of banners were hung from the DJ booth, there was a big strobe in the middle of the room, which was used for at least half of the night without a single casualty(!) and a class laser above the DJ booth. After catching the last 10 minutes of a happy set next up was the brilliant DJ G with a classic Freeform set accompanied by Jutt on the mic. I'm sure she threw a glow stick at me :( The next set was a mixture of lesser known Bouncy Techno tunes and a few happy anthems such as Love U More, Listen Carefully, Eyeopener, 6 Days and Cold As Ice, with the club filling up nicely at about half 11. Taking the midnight set was the headliner DJ Sy, with the combined vocal talents of Jutt and E Man on the mic. Starting off with some older happy kinetic style tunes Sy went on to play probably the cheesiest set I've ever seen! Love U More (again!), Happy Vibes, Fuck My Best Friend, a remix of Enola Gay, a remix of DJ Quicksilver - Belissima, Rainbow In The Skies, Shooting Star, the Brisk remix of Set You Free, Kick It, a tune with the 'I Need Your Lovin' vocals in, Dreadland, Hold Me Now and Like A Dream to top it all off! With the penultimate set DJ Mixman was going to have to go some way to out cheese Sy but he gave it a go :lol: , Love And Devotion, Toytown, Now Is The Time, Take Me Away, Steam Train, Party Time, Time and finishing off with Shelter! Unfortunately about half way through this set the MCs were getting a bit loud and there was quite a bit of feedback, and about the same time I was surprised to hear what I thought was a shout to 'the Birkenhead crew' and heard a few scouse accents. Pretty strange as we're all the way over in Hull and its not exactly a massive rave! Then I realised, Vibealite's DJ Benson was next up so they were probably over with him. Although I never saw anything something was obviously going on towards the end of the night, big crowds of people were running about and one of my friends got some attitude when he tried to goto the toilet. Later on the way home the taxi driver told us he'd taken someone home who'd been chucked out. Despite this the atmosphere was pretty much fine. As mentioned, finishing the night off was DJ Benson with yet another happy set, although they had all been sufficiently different that the night never got boring. As the MCs were still too loud and getting quite a bit of feedback I had to admire Benson's impressive mixing and scratching from afar as he played a wicked selection with Don't Leave Me Alone, Wanting To Get High, Jiee Ha, All Systems Go, Here I Am, Heart Of Gold and Shining Down last tune. Overall another brilliant night at Silhouette, I'm looking forward to Bangin's 3rd birthday bash in Hull ;) Shouts to Jutt, Steven, Rob, DJ G, Geoffers and every other cunt who I've forgotten ;)
