who actually likes the prog?

ditto....sundiss doesnt have a warm up either and is bangin from start to finish no waitin around for the good stuff to come on!

Prog is great so yas can all shuddup now. And Lee Burridge is fucking great - i had one of my best ever Promise nights when he played last August.

Shindig hardly ever book proggy djs. The vast majority of their djs fall into the funky house/ vocal house /soulful house/ us house type of categories and i dont like that sort of thing. They only book a true prog dj about once every 7 or 8 weeks, and even then i dont usually go cos the crowd is shit and i get really annoyed with it all and have a crap time.

So i need these proggy warm ups at Promise to get my fix. Fair enough if the club was hardly ever full when prog djs were on all night, then i cant expect that sort of night to be put on. Promise is a business after all. But there is nowhere else in Newcastle for me to go and hear the likes of Burridge/ Richards/ Pappa/ Fortier/ Klienenberg/ Seaman/ Warren/ Graham. So i am happy to accept the compromise of having them on early as a warm-up.

I do like trance and hard trance but i wouldnt want Promise to become an exclusively trance club at all. There arent a huge number of us but i dont think i would go as much if we cut out the proggy warm-ups. Promise is doing very well as it is and i think the balance is right, so why change it?

I think progressive is the warmup music for any night, but I think more than 2 hours pisses most people off, wherever you are. Only die hard prog fans can go mad to a whole night of progressive. I think I speak for a lot of people when I say it gets bloody boring after a while.

Trance is all about buildups and breakdowns. Breakdowns for a breather and then bam, you're hit with the buildup and the melody. All that hands in the air sorta stuff.

Techno, Hard House and Hard Trance try to keep a thumping volume pretty much relentlessly. Those that want breathers can stop, but you needn't wait for a thumping bassline, it's always there.

But progressive is neither thumping nor 'trancey' in the classic sense. As it's name suggests, it's the type of music which anticipates an eventual buildup, a big bang, something to look forward to. When you have to wait four bloody hours for that to happen, all but the hardcore prog fans start to get annoyed.

I love hearing progressive at the start of the night, in a way it holds me in a suspense for big things to come. It gradually picks up pace, and gets me in the mood. But come midnight, I seriously want to move on.

hit the nail on the head there

Pete Gooding is the doggs!!! Lucian Foort is the doggs!!!!


NUFF SAID!!!!

lucien foort was absolutely class last time i saw him, i rate him up there with corvin dalek.

i rate lucian foort up there wif sander k and lee burridge in my opinion

there shud be a place 4 both prog and trance at promise.
i wud be absolutely gutted if promise becomes a solely hard house club, i never wanna c the tidy boys or lisa lashes, cos i dont like hh at all.
the club needs the variety each week, cos it wud be boring otherwise.there is defo a place 4 prog, i mean how gud was dave seaman on fri?everytime ive ive seen him at promise hes headlined, and id love to c him do it again

i agree thye still is a place for prog in promise. i would'nt like the whole nite to be prog but for warming up its good.

theres quite alot of us who dont like the prog at all though but i do agree there is a place for it....just not for four hours like last friday

promise isnt a hard house club at all anyways...its just getting harder in a trancey manner...that is

yeah the 4hrs of it on friday was a but much i was starting to get very bored with by 1.30am. luckily yves saved the nite for me!

i reckon trance is wickd but so is prog - i love it when you get dj's who do both in the same go (prog trance?)... the trance takes the edge off the prog and gives it a kinda.... release...

if you dont get my babble check out sasha's 014 GU cd esp bedrocks "heaven scent" (piu' -techno harmony ) very prog then rips into a wave of first class trance... amazin even in yer kitchen!

nick warren has a habit of makin prog more appealing2, intensify was pure quality...

slam are arsespankingly ace too!

heaven scent is a classic...not wot i would call prog but still a corkin tune

i hope it aint prog till 1 tomorow.... i dont mind rich tulip playin till one but i dont wanna be bored to fuck. spesh after the last hour at vuzz fairly hard

nah, the bit before is proggy, then heaven scent comes on, thats me point

must admit prog is boring

i was pleased with mr T las nite, his warm up was fairly banging.. i think even he was expecting taucher to be banging.. then he brought it down with that 12 minute breakdown thing at the start of his set...GRRRRRRR