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Review: Sean Tyas & Simon Patterson @ Guv (Aug.7.2010)

*!!!!!!!!!!!!!Warning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This review is probably going to be a complete buzzkill for anyone who had the time of their lives last night so remember that this is just my opinion and it's not personal. I'm happy as can be that you saw Jesus in person last night and that you still have 'trance' in your pants.

As predicted, the snoop dogg concert clean up went on until about 12:30. Not surprising as there was no way the whole doors at 10 thing was going to mean that the club would be ready. I really give it to Guvernments staff; they really work their ass off for what they do. That clean up was horribly prepared and the people who organized it should be ashamed, f*cking ashamed to have the security people do the job of roadies.

Anyways, when the night finally started, the room packed up instantly (do these people wait in the walls until they hear the cue?) and Mark Oliver was playing the same dull commercial progressive house that he always spins when he opens. It gave time to see some old faces on the patio before the supposed mayhem was about to begin.

I forget what time Tyas came on but it couldn't have been much past 1:30 which is very reasonable considering the circumstances. He opened with some stuff that sounded like the first hour of a Carl Cox set from 2001 expect a lot more bland, boring and directionless. Still, the lack of elements gave me some hope that he had been saving the big guns. I have to admit that at this point, the room was so overheated that I simply could not take it so I headed for the patio. I can't remember much between his opening 10 minutes and lift but my god, this guy played easily the worst set I've heard in that room since A&B in 2007 (I've also seen Sander K three times in that room since 2007 so now you really know what I mean). Really, really bad. Some stuff was borderline Euro and some of those vocals do not even belong on Z103's compilations. I usually don't have a problem with DJ's drinking or getting completely f*cked up on whatever their drug of choice is but this time, I really believe this guy needs to chill out. Banging your head that hard and throwing your arms around to that kind of cheese, yelling like that on the mic... not impressive at all.

Everyone I talked to throughout the night had told me they came for Simon Patterson. Having not been impressed with anything he's done except Panic Attack, I was skeptical but also realised that Guv was the best way to see him. Wow, what a fail. If this is the best that armada/big name beatport chart toppers have to offer, than this is really sad. This guy has absolutely no idea how to DJ. Every track had at least 4 minutes of breakdowns with overly hard intro's/outro's that made no sense with the rest of the song. I have zero clue what the hype is about this guy, he's basically like every other discover/spinnin' artist. This is exactly why the trance scene is being degraded more and more everyday. Big intro, huge breakdown *energy to do anything else is lost here*, then big outro. Not impressed. I ended up leaving around 3:30 because I simply could not take any more of it. I'm sure someone will predictably reply "oh, you left when it just was getting good". Frankly, I don't give a shit. They had atleast 2 and a half hours to do something for me and they didn't. Not 1 song I remember even being respectable; not good, respectable.

This has been my first time back to Guv in about a year. I had not realized the crowd has gotten this bad. We aren't talking Skasian bad, we are talking Jersey Shore bad. It was extremely busy as well which isn't anything out of the norm, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that there was no air conditioning in there and a mighty pathetic way to try and enjoy a set. I had at least 3 drinks spilled on me, some make up spilled on my pants (ask shaya about this story lol) but this is just the normal guv stuff.

4/10 for me.

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Originally posted by SPANIARD some make up spilled on my pants (ask shaya about this story lol)

shaya really needs to stop spilling his makeup on people.

I want some Portugese chicken...

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Originally posted by SPANIARD ...Some stuff was borderline Euro and some of those vocals do not even belong on Z103's compilations. I usually don't have a problem with DJ's drinking or getting completely f*cked up on whatever their drug of choice is but this time, I really believe this guy needs to chill out. Banging your head that hard and throwing your arms around to that kind of cheese, yelling like that on the mic... not impressive at all. ... Every track had at least 4 minutes of breakdowns with overly hard intro's/outro's that made no sense with the rest of the song....Big intro, huge breakdown *energy to do anything else is lost here*, then big outro.

best review i've read in awhile.

Re: Review: Sean Tyas & Simon Patterson @ Guv (Aug.7.2010)

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Originally posted by SPANIARD *!!!!!!!!!!!!!Warning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This review is probably going to be a complete buzzkill for anyone who had the time of their lives last night so remember that this is just my opinion and it's not personal. I'm happy as can be that you saw Jesus in person last night and that you still have 'trance' in your pants. As predicted, the snoop dogg concert clean up went on until about 12:30. Not surprising as there was no way the whole doors at 10 thing was going to mean that the club would be ready. I really give it to Guvernments staff; they really work their ass off for what they do. That clean up was horribly prepared and the people who organized it should be ashamed, f*cking ashamed to have the security people do the job of roadies.

actually it opened late because snoop decided to take longer to get on stage. Doors were at 7:30 btw. We did the load out (clean up) in record time. Disorganized? Really? We did 2 hours work in less than an hour thanks to great organization and the generous help from security who did not have to help at all. If you felt that strongly about it an extra hand would have been welcome It was hilarious having a live audience watch the tear down i must say LOL

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Anyways, when the night finally started, the room packed up instantly (do these people wait in the walls until they hear the cue?) and Mark Oliver was playing the same dull commercial progressive house that he always spins when he opens. It gave time to see some old faces on the patio before the supposed mayhem was about to begin.

from my point of view (overlooking the whole club) the crowd was rockin within 20 mins of opening. I didnt see any dullness there at all! And it continued after the headliners came on.

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This has been my first time back to Guv in about a year. I had not realized the crowd has gotten this bad. We aren't talking Skasian bad, we are talking Jersey Shore bad. It was extremely busy as well which isn't anything out of the norm, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that there was no air conditioning in there and a mighty pathetic way to try and enjoy a set. I had at least 3 drinks spilled on me, some make up spilled on my pants (ask shaya about this story lol) but this is just the normal guv stuff. 4/10 for me.

yeah big crowds have a tendency to produce run ins of some sort. Thats at ANY club though. So you dont like skasians or jersey shore, so who exactly do you like?

Wow....

Re: Re: Review: Sean Tyas & Simon Patterson @ Guv (Aug.7.2010)

lol Jay, of course you gonna come in and defend the club...

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Originally posted by SPANIARD As predicted, the snoop dogg concert clean up went on until about 12:30. Not surprising as there was no way the whole doors at 10 thing was going to mean that the club would be ready. I really give it to Guvernments staff; they really work their ass off for what they do. That clean up was horribly prepared and the people who organized it should be ashamed, f*cking ashamed to have the security people do the job of roadies.

What I think made it even worseee was that there was hip hop playing in the drink and on skybar, if I wanted to hear hip hop I could go to the other 500 or however many clubs around Toronto

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Originally posted by FunkyCrew lol Jay, of course you gonna come in and defend the club...

Well what do u think? Im the first to admit when a night sucks. But come on!

I had a great time last time i danced and stayed that long at the Guv was at The Gift with Mark Oliver last year ....HOLY smoke show!!!!!!!


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Fantastic review . I was there and I can agree with every point you made. Guv is just a disaster and possibly the worst crowd I've ever seen in ages. 18 yr old bimbos high on cocaine pushing and shoving everyone on the patio..wow. last night sealed the deal for me for a long long time.

Organization: 4/10
music: 3.5/10 ( just bass bass bass and 10 min breakdowns at every song, sorry thats not music)

sounds quality: 2.5/10

Crowd: 0.5/10

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Originally posted by hardcore trancer 18 yr old bimbos high on cocaine pushing and shoving everyone on the patio.

i wish somebody had told me cuz i would've gone out there with my camera. i <3 18 year old bimbos

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Originally posted by chinamon i wish somebody had told me cuz i would've gone out there with my camera. i <3 18 year old bimbos

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Originally posted by hardcore trancer Fantastic review . I was there and I can agree with every point you made. Guv is just a disaster and possibly the worst crowd I've ever seen in ages. 18 yr old bimbos high on cocaine pushing and shoving everyone on the patio..wow. last night sealed the deal for me for a long long time.

from the last few times I've been to guv I can honestly the guv now makes the CZ ten years ago look like a christian bible camp.

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Originally posted by chinamon i wish somebody had told me cuz i would've gone out there with my camera. i <3 18 year old bimbos

Hahaha.

I was going to come to this but was super exhausted and had a few pitchers uptown and saw Silva eek out a win against Sonner. :P


As for the reviews, I hear what you guys are saying, it's prob why I'm a bit disenfranchised w most trance djs lately.


Honestly though, the BEST trance set I've heard all year was Max Graham at FW...fucking pure genius!

No cheese, no crappy annoying vocals, no filler just amazing tuneage. Melodies were nuts, vocals were kept to a minimum, driving basslines, so awesome. Trance, AT FW. Woooooooooooooooooooo.

Why is it that djs that play techno or housier/proggy stuff can do better than flat out cream of the crop trance djs?? Booooooooooo.

Well, I had a ton of fun and I also heard Vincent de Moor - Fly Away so nothing else really matters (lol)

Oh..and yea, it was fucking hot.

I walked in RIGHT when Patterson went on, just as I wanted it. Don't care much for Tyas tbh. Boring, somewhat predictable and cheesy. Guess that's just my personal taste as I'm more of the SVD lover
Walked in to a sauna, I knew right then it would be a struggle for me to stay and enjoy it. But once I said my hello's I found a good spot at the back of the dancefloor with room to move and good sound quality (which makes or breaks a night imo) things got better. After making my way on stage is when I felt the party really get to that next level. Simon was definitely on fire dropping big bombs while Tyas would mellow it out/cheese it up lol. I totally agree with the crowd situation. Horrible! Thank God for friends! Met lots of nice people last night, made coming there even more worth while, you lurkers know who you are

Amen. I wasn't there, but I agree on the SvD part His set on 5/1 was great. I hope he comes back soon.

I thought the transition process was extremely quick. The amount of things needed to be packed and moved was substantial. Apparently it takes 5 bouncers to move the right stack of speakers

Took awhile to get acid lounge going cuz Tim was ready to lose his mind lol. Got on the decks at 1245, played some b2b with Gow then closed it so he could get some rest for cz then the boat Good crowd in there

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Originally posted by Swamper Oh..and yea, it was fucking hot.

Re: Re: Review: Sean Tyas & Simon Patterson @ Guv (Aug.7.2010)

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Originally posted by Jayx1

I'm not going to get into a big debate with you because as mentioned, you work for the club and I can respect that you have duties. To be fair, I don't think you're opinion should be taken seriously by anyone if you have that sort of approach (especially since people know you work for the club as opposed to being a regular clubber that goes there weekly) so its better you just don't post in these threads. Sorry, nothing personal, just what I think would be fair.

does anyone know if they gave out the labour of love flyer?.....

sound system was way off last night

ears were still ringing this morning when i got up....

boo to that!

still a great time though

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Originally posted by ItalianPoiSon does anyone know if they gave out the labour of love flyer?.....

i was looking for the poster, didn't see it. no flyers outside either. i left just before patterson came on apparently, glad to hear i didnt miss much. tyas didnt really do anything for me, and i was pretty hammered so it really wouldn't have been hard to impress me. wish i heard him on the mic, lol. couldn't have been worse than chuckie at freedom, although at least he played a solid set

Tyas is just terrible and should never be allowed in the main room again. Patterson wasn't that far behind. The sound system was awful because neither of those guys know how to dj let alone control their levels.

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