Crasher Meets Fire it Up!

great night - i was on another planet (or ten) for most of it (apologies to anyone who tried to speak to me between 12 and 3am and got nothing but mumbles) but had a right laugh .... afters was an 'experience' thats for sure - Someone will be waking up today wondering what happened to all the hair on their head ... First time hearing live 'new monkey' MC'ing in a hotel room aswell

..... im surprised that after 20 odd years dj'ing, paul oakenfold cant manage to take two tunes and match the tempo's on them - some great tunes selected but he must have been taking cues from network rail and their engineers with all the trainwrecks that seemed to happen for 45 bloody minutes!

Roll on the next one.

some total random asked one of the lads in our group to shave his mates head (who was out cold in his room)

naturally he agree'd and the whole thing was video'ed ..... unfortunately it wasnt exactly a nicky clarke level cut - more a hack job, given it was about 5am at the time

There was still about a half hour of Eddie left after you went.

Crasher was totally fucking mint. Can anyone here confirm for Stephen that the sound system is most deffinitely not shit?

Greg Downey was alright, was hardly playing his usual style on the warmup though. Cut off Paulo Mojo - 1983 before the good bit straight into some breakdown on another track - what happened there!

I'll usually defend Oakenfold but he was really quite shit. He started all right, middled out pretty crap then ended on a good one. Southern Sun and Universal Nation. Completely trainwrecked over half his mixes. Me and miller went into the VIP area and saw him standing there with his mates, he just did not want to speak to us at all.

Told miller he won't do anything like lotherton hall because he isn't really bothered about DJ'ing just now and lives in LA and suprisingly wouldn't do me a retro goa trance mix. Wouldn't play any tracks either.



Also didn't seem very up for this photo. I don't think he liked us. At the end my mate from sheffield was showing me how the fuck to get back to the travel lodge and oakenfold was coming out the back with two head kandi looking blonde girls, he looked up and saw me, his face dropped and he spun round hoping I wouldn't see him and they were like "what are you doing". My mate went "that's paul oakenfold isn't it" to which I replied "nah, just some kid with a mullet". Take that oakenfold you shit cunt.

Halliwell came on and rinsed the place. Proper driving trance, sounded absolutely class. Insigma - Open Your Eyes (Tyas Mix) and Kay Cee - Love Stimulation.

Fred Baker was alright, far too hard and no consideration at all for the next DJ. Thankfully didn't play any of that "electro trance" shit, just very hard and techy. Played what sounded like a hardstyle mix of For An Angel. Think any fans would have been mortified.

Fleming came on and did all he could following from that, bang out the most driving tough Psy Trance I've ever heard. People were loving it and the place/me was in bits. Binary Finary - 1998 (Protoculture Mix), Violent Vision - Cellophane (Sub6 Mix), John 00 Fleming Vs. Wizzy - Cydonia and Astrix - Incoming. Played two one more tunes.

Afters was mint aswell, ended up well weird. Watching Jeremy Kyle with loads of disfigured people, we weren't sure if it was us or them.

Mint night and good to see everyone. Can't believe everyone had left by the time Fred Baker was on ¬

Here is what everyone missed from Fleming:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5-q3gySFKrU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZYtx4o-5q9o
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gbYFY_YvpcU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VRAkyYt_dGY

Aye they say they'll get back to you in the next few days.

he griefed poor mick as well.

i cant believe he tells his fans that - especially when they turn up and pay the prices to see him. Granted the club is full off people off their nut, but theres nothing wrong with a handshake and a smile. Or even just a 'maybe one day' if someone asks him if he'd do x,y,z.

he's got no excuse to turn up and knack every tune up, especially when the other dj's can use the same equipment and rinse the place.