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GRAND LAUNCH OF NEW TRANCE NIGHT 'EPIC' WITH JOHN KELLY,GOLDENSCAN.........

GRAND LAUNCH NIGHT
FRIDAY 28th APRIL 2006

Epic will represent a new chapter in quality trance nights in the UK. We have secured one of the UK's leading dance music venues, HQ, which is quite simply awesome. We will complement this with the best national and international DJ's playing alongside our residents Paul Kershaw and Caroline Banx.

Room1
John Kelly
John Kelly is certainly no stranger to the world of trance music, he�s ranked as one of the top 30 djs in the world, has played every major uk club, has an extensive tour schedule having played New York to Las Vegas, South Africa, New Zealand and as far east as Hong Kong. His indefinable maverick blend of tough, driving underground trance has led him to have mixed 5 compilations selling half a million copies worldwide.
Headlining our event John is set to bring us a killer performance!

Goldenscan
This UK trance trio who recently signed with Armada music, are responsible for such anthems as Sunrise, Only With You and Halcyon which has secured them worldwide support from the industries key players. With Tom Goldenscan at the helm they have set the stage alight, playing at UK events from Gatecrasher, The Gallery, Passion and Slinky to name a few, and clocking up air-miles everywhere from Lapland to Ibiza

Nick Rafferty
2006 sees Nick go full steam ahead with the projects he and Paul Kershaw have been working on for last few years. Their brand new label � �Future Beats� will be seeing the release of there biggest track to date �We are Connected�. This was supported by Paul Van Dyk for a whole year and has two new mixes from Nick, The Coalition and Scott Mac. In addition to this Nick has been asked to showcase their new material on VONYC Radio, another PVD production!
Epic gives Nick the chance to take you on a more Euphoric journey


Residents
Paul Kershaw
Resident Paul Kershaw has made a huge impact on the trance scene, not only has he secured his own national trance show every Saturday night on Galaxy 105 his incredibly hectic djing schedule has him working 6 days a week playing at the worlds most prestigious events week in week out as well as finding the time to produce and make chart topping success.
Paul never fails to perform with an active style and interprets a crowd in a way that is rarely equaled, knowing exactly where and how to take the night through the roof!!


Caroline Banx
Caroline�s passion lies within the sounds of dance music and psy trance has been at the forefront of her influences. The past year has seen her develop her own unique style; a compelling blend of tough melodic grooves, techno, trance and hard dance making a clubby approach to any dance-floor. This fresh approach has already secured weekly gigs across the UK, but our girl is also set to rack up those air miles with a schedule that includes an ever increasing number of international destinations.

We will also be playing fresh up and coming talent monthly.

Room 2 is host to brand new label Toxik World which has already seen huge success this year and the boys behind the label will be bringing to you a night of dirty underground house music!
Gaz James
Leeroy Burrel

Room 3 Beautiful blissed out beats and balearic chill from Stig.

The grand launch takes place on Friday 28th April - join the revolution!

Entrance
�5.00 before 11.00, �6.00 after.
Times
10 till 4.00am
Club HQ, Hampton street, Birmingham B193LR.
Email
[email protected]ll Enquiries: 0121 693 6960

Our new addition to the Toxic World House room at Epic is Dirty Discos very own MATT COOPER!!

Standing out from the crowd in this day and age is easier said than done, Matt cooper is one of a new breed of DJ that is revolutionising the scene through technical wizardry and pulverising beats. This is the future - Brace yourselves!......
Attempting to define Matt�s sound is like staying dry at Glastonbury � tricky! The music is a combination of tough beats, sublime melodies and throbbing bass all delivered in a tight mix. When everything comes together the music feels alive, like its leaping out of the speakers and tearing straight at you!

Recently saw Caroline Banx, she's a very good DJ but not much of an entertainer, she played for 3 hours and all she did was clap
But then there wern't many ppl at all, 50 at the most.

where was that mate?

its getting closer! hooray!!!

I'd come if Birmingham was easier to get to!!

where do u live?

I live in Durham or Leeds during term time

Good Luck

A new trance night in Brum.. excellent news.

The very best of luck. I've noticed a lot of the people on the godskitchen board moaning about wanting Fri nights back, perhaps you have the opportunity to get some of these people to your night.

It's interesting that a lot of new smaller trance nights seem to be springing up in the UK. Hopefully this means the scene is on the way up!

Cheers Mike

Thanks alot Will u be coming on Friday? Hope to see you there!

Heres the set times!

Cassette Jam (Baby cream dj comp winners) 10-11
Goldenscan 11-12
Paul Kersahw 12-1
John Kelly 1-2
Nick Rafferty 2-3
Caroline Banx 3-4

How did it go? Wanted to come, but had to go to the boss's wedding
reception on the Sunday, and it takes me longer than 2 days to recover
these days... Didn't think he'd appreciate me turning up looking like
a sack of shit!

As knight54 said, since GK moved to a Saturday, lots of people have
been looking for somewhere else to go on a Friday (me included).
There doesn't appear to be anywhere local. Is Epic likely to be
weekly or monthly?

J11dge.

Unfortunately we didnt get the numbers through we were hoping for so we wont be doing another epic there

I'm really sorry to hear that. Was looking forward to trying it out. Why do you think it was such a poor turnout? Was it advertised well enough? To be honest, I only heard about it off Paul Kershaw's show on Galaxy FM. I didn't see any fliers or promotional stuff anywhere. The entry price seemed reasonable. The club's certainly a good one (from what I can remember anyway...!). Maybe you needed a couple of big named headlining DJs (no disrespect meant to the DJs who played that night). But I know that's easier said than done these days.

Or maybe the trance club scene really is dead after all. I really don't understand what people have got against trance. You never hear anything bad being said about house. That seems to just keep going and going, same old, same old. It hasn't had to go away and reinvent itself. And house clubs/DJs seem to be doing as well as ever.

I will admit, I don't know much about recent trance, but that's only because I haven't been clubbing for ages, and the only radio show I listen to is Paul Kershaw's (it used to be Judge Jules, but he lost the plot a long time ago...) but I love the stuff he plays on there. I don't keep comparing it to what was around back in '99 (and why should we anyway?). I just enjoy it for what it is. Am I the only one...?

I know I only play classics in my mixes, but this isn't because recent trance is crap, it's because they're what I know and what I'm good at. And if 7 year old tunes can send shivers up and down my spine every time I listen to them, the genre can't be that bad.

As a comparison, when I was at Stafford College in 1992, I used to love happy hardcore, drum and bass, jungle, etc. And yet, 7 years on in '99, I thought it was crap and couldn't understand what I ever saw in it. I guess other people are looking at trance in the same way. I just can't see why!

There's a venue in Wolverhampton called the Civic. Every Friday and Saturday it plays host to Cheeky Monkey and Blast Off. It's been going for years, and it's packed, both nights, every week. The "DJs" (I use the term loosely) play the same shit every bloody week. 80's, 90's, indie, rock, bits of dance, etc. And everyone in there gets totally pissed and "dances" (I use that term loosely as well) but to be honest, they're usually all so drunk they'd dance to anything the DJ played.

Maybe that's where trance club promoters are going wrong. Maybe the price of alcohol should be substantially reduced, promoted even. Maybe this is why lovers of dance music are so picky. They don't drink enough alcohol...! But then the pill heads are more interested in how cold the bottled water is, and the piss heads wouldn't be interested, even if they liked the music, because the price of alcohol is way too high. I think the last time I went to God's Kitchen, bottled beer was over �3.00. Who in their right mind is gonna pay that willingly? Entrance fees of between �10 and �15 don't help either.

Oh well, that's my rant over with. Maybe I'm getting too old for it all now anyway. I enjoyed the 4 years or so I had in clubland. I guess I should be grateful for that.

I hope you have better luck at your next venue.

J11dge.

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