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08/25/2003 Archived Entry: "My Weekend in Nottingham"
Friday 22nd August 2003
Met up at Rick's as us Londoners do at around 14:30 to make our way up to Psychout in Newark.
The journey was long, but plenty of good music and a pub quiz from Foxylady made it a fun one.
Got to Johny's just after 19:00, met up with a few ppl from mpfreescene, including Frase for the first time.
Short ride in a taxi saw us getting in middle of Yaz's set.
This man is nothing short of AMAZING, flawless mixing and a tune selection that I am sure left more than just my pants wet ;)
The beer's were flowing fast (A little too fast for my liking by the next morning, lol) and the night was good fun.
After getting the second room decks sorted (like duh, how could we not guess it was the cartridge?), Yaz and Graham went for a little back to back jobby with some quality choonage.
The place was really starting to pump when Laura stepped up to the decks, and can I just say that technically she is BRILLIANT!!! Not so into my hard stuff anymore, but I seriously couldn't fault her mixing, AVE A TOOT LUV!!!
JFK's set wasn't really to my liking (he played the pooey Jono Grant mix of Nocturnal Creatures) but his closing track made it all worthwhile. Silenced by Fear, if you havent heard it, find it... and buy it!!! RAWR!!!
Got to meet Horris as well that night which was a bonus (You do look like The Bear mate ;p), and I got my HardCorporation name... 'Urinal' :P
Back up to the 2nd dancefloor for Johny Fav for the last bit of the night. I worked up quite a sweat when he dropped Night Time and that hard mix of Satisfaction and had a right laff bounding around the place.
Most of headed back to Johny's afterwards, for a general lay around and chat session. Was nice to get to talk to some of you guys again.
Best thing had to be Neil's randomness, got an ickle video clip for those of us leet enough (will post a link guys, just not here ;)).
It got later and later, and I got sleepier and sleepier, eventually catching about an hours kip on the floor.
Ppl slowly started heading off, and I was allowed to hang around at Johny's til that evening when I was to head off to Notts to meet up with Vicky. Cheers again for that bud, was greatly appreciated and ur cd will be in the post soon as I have a fully functioning brain again and get paid.
Piccies n clips:
Saturday 23rd August 2003
Got another 2 hours snooze time during Sat before making my way off to Notts.
One and a half hour wait for a bus and a 45 minute bus ride later saw me in Nottingham town centre.
Some walking and phoning finally saw me meet up with my lovely hostess for the weekend, Vicky.
Met up with TimmyJo and TidyHayley at a bar in the area before heading of to Vix's place to drop my stuff off and get ready for Hotdog that night.
Vicky's mum made us a delicious dinner before we headed out (I swear I've eaten for heathily in the past 3 days than I have in the past 2 months!!) and then we were off.
En route we met up with Vicky's mate Glynn, and you my friend are the mutts nuts!!!
Random as fuck, funny as fuck, talkative as fuck and generally wikkid as fuck, great to meet you man :D
The 3 of us had a drink at a really scary goth bar (I forget it's name but I think it was the RIP Club??) and I learnt all about embroidary and printing stuff (told you Glynn was random :P)
Got to Hotdog 5 minutes before it opened so we arbed outside for a bit and chatted.
Went in and met Psycho Bull at the door (hope you enjoy the cd mate).
We were some of the first in, so that gave us the chance to explore the venue before it became to full to move about before getting our bosh on.
Also met Ashley inside, wikkid chem suit dude and enjoy ur cd too ;)
Only 3 hours sleep saw me a little reserved on the dancefloor, but that all changed once St John and Sarah G took up the decks. Loved the dress John (its visible in one of the clips) and hope you and Sarah like your cd's too. Musicwise, these two made the night for me blasting out choon after choon after choon (Must get Backbeat mix of Hydra Affinity, RAWR!!!) and I need to know the name of that one track that Sarah played near the end, the record just had a sticker on it saying "As played by Tom Harding at Dance Valley" it was a CHOOOOOOOOON!!!!!
Also met up with Shaggy and Katie inside, always fun meeting new ppl :D
I'm not sure of the name of the guy who was up after the Dress2Dress set, but he was technically brilliant, some of the best mixing I've heard in a long time, up until the man Daley stood up to the booth.
Dj of the night for me, harder than what I usually listen to, but some of the most interesting and class mixing in AGES!!! The scratching that he did on his second track totally popped my mind, I wish my batteries hadn't gone flat so I coulda recorded it :( Great set regardless matey!!
Rest of the night was rockin, but my sleep deprived state left me a tired man sitting on the railings by the end of the night. I did managed to jam to the last track of the night tho, as always ;D
Time for us to leave, so Vicky, Glynn, Shaggy, Katie and I all headed back to Vicky's place.
Random random random, and funny as anything, specially me handing over my phone to Glynn to chat to me very drunk mate in London, and us guys trying to convince the girls to.. well... LOL!!
Sleepity sleep sleep....
Sunday 24th August 2003
Only got up at 14:00!!!
Sat around chatting before heading off to see Pirates of the Caribbean with Vix.
Mmmm.. 2 boxes of popcorn.... :)
Movie was wikkid, really did enjoy it, and I know Vicky enjoyed all the eye candy (Depp and Orlando ;P)
Relaxed at her's that night again, watched some more swashbuckling in a series thingy (I wanna watch the rest of the tapes now Pigeon!!! :() and then off for another, much longer than anticipated sleep...
Monday 25th August 2003
Up at 12:00 today!! LOL, cutting it close as my train left at 13:30.
Yummy brekkie cooked by Vix before her mum gave me a lift to the station and I came back to London.
Big shout out to all I met this w/e and helped to make it the most enjoyable one I've had in ages.
Special thanks to Pigeon and her mum for putting me up for 3 days, I really appreciate it, thank you :)
Clips:
Hotdog 1
Hotdog 2 (Need ID)
Hotdog 3
Vix, you are the bomb, thanks again angel :)
