wicked night, however turned out completly different to how I intended. My plan, if you like, was to see sasha & digweed and fritting between Bedrock and global tent.

However on ariving we spent about an hour and a half of drinking a few beers and speaking to the car next to us (i mean the people in it of course) in the car park before venturing in.

On entering, headed straight for the strongbow rooms, got a seat on those yellow chairs and listented to a pretty good set by someone called Arthur Baker, heard Spektrum - Kinda New (tierschwartz dub) followed by rocketman or something along those lines and a really funky remake of the "girl I want to be with you" tune.

Next port of call was the beach to see Roger Sanchez, liked the arena, liked the music, he used loops to good effects and it was quite a spectacle with the planes and the dancers, one of which was a transvestite im sure of it.
After a while of roger sanchez I moved straight to the gods tent, firstly to have a look, secondly i was lucky enough to catch the end of Gabriel and Dreseden and more importantly picotto.

I dont have much knowledge about the genre but loved hjis remix of New Order - Blue Monday, at least thats what i remember it as, (going "how do you feel, to love me like you do") and mixed into another favourite of mine New Time, New Place.

By which time Sasha and John Digweed were underway so I left Picotto, picked up another drink and headed for bedrock. I had been waiting specifically to see these two and had been the main reason for purchasing my ticket, allough Unfortunatly i just couldnt enjoy them in the arena, it was far too hot and the sound was wierd. I think the speakers near the centre of the arena were slightly behind the main frount speakers and from certain points in the room it sounded like a constant trainwreck. Im not sure if this were true, but the tent didnt quite sound right. It really runined my enjoyment so after about 40 mins i was too hot and bothered and left.

I'm very glad i did leave too, went to see Oakenfold for a bit, enjoying that with quite a significant crowd building untill i was mobbeb byu two women desperate to direct them to the next tent. pointing to the tipis (sp) i thiought i'd got rid of them only to find out 20 mins later as these two idiots stumbled back to me saying we cant hear any music in there.

We left (not the girls, me and mates) to go see Morillo, who i'd seen not long ago at gods in brum and thought he was awsome, allough he outdid himself with an incredible set which was by far the best iof the night and nmakes him my number one dj. The highlights being Nirvana - Smells Like teen spirit, coldplay - god put a smile upon my face and ending with eurithmics - sweet dreams.

Then some chips then straight to tiesto. I found it all a bit bland, but it soon picked up and i was just a sucker for hearing his adagio for stings, awsome atmosphere really enjoyed it. Paul van Dyk bored me a bit and left to sit outside and relax after about 40mins of pvd.

Went to go watch Freeland who blew me away, highlight being The Cult - She sells sanctuary, and i enjoyed the deep bass on his We want your soul track, allough the only annoying thing was how he kept teasing us by cutting in snippets of DJ Shadow - Orgon Donor and i really hoped he might end with it, but he never actually dropped the record, damn shame.

Quite weary now after no stimulation since a pint of strongbow, what seems like a lifetime ago. Which is why i was glad to enjoy an energetic set from ferry, with system F - Out of the Blue being good fun as was art of trance - madagascar. Even though Tiesto had played his remix only an hour ago, i still appreciated ferrys remix of William orbit - barbers Adagio for strings. allough why he played only a bit of ferry corsten - punk which was axed in favour of that rock your body rock tune i'll never know. tit.

Fergie was a contender for set of the night, really enjoyed it, hearing new time, new place for the second time in the night as well as a remix of tim delux - it just wont do and that song of which I've forgotten the name going "come on - dance with me, move your body right next to me (otr something along those lines) its a really old track anyhow coz i heard it out when i first started clubbing. Then i kinda took a back seat for the last ten mins i cannot remeber what was on,a ll i could remeber is hearing fergie really overdo the flanger effect. Nearly as much as he overdid all as his actign behind the decks as he took over from ferry, allough it was kinda funny and after a bit of hesitiation the crowd really went for it.

I poped my head in on Umek as i went to fill up my water arriving back just as fergie was finishing allough we decided to call it a day after that, there were only 2 of us left standing now and my mate wanted out, as did I really. So just after 6 i left and that was that.

I cannot sleep, best if i just sit the day out. hence the rarther long winded review. gonna watch my bro play cricket this afternoon i think and then an early night. Shame i couldnt meet any TA's allough i did text dj_mdma but with the delay in sending and recieving messages it was to no avail.

Hope you all had as much fun as me, awsome night despite not being able to enjoy sasha and digweed. Highlight of the night had to be morillo though, world class set from a world clas dj.

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Originally posted by CraSHer[UK] ... and that song of which I've forgotten the name going "come on - dance with me, move your body right next to me (otr something along those lines) its a really old track anyhow coz i heard it out when i first started clubbing...

age of love - age of love ..

far too much house for u crasher

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fergie playing age of love 6am ish was amazing.

Top marks to armin van buuren for what i saw of his set.

Caught maruo Picotto playing pulsar and blue monday

walked in on Anne savage playing johan?? - listen stayed there for a bit caught a bit of lisa lashes which was also just as banging!

lab4 was mental got a bit to fast toward the end.

I wasnt on PVD wavelength for some reason after lisa lashes and left to go else where but i forget now, but somehow i totally missed tiesto!!! opppppps!!!
Ferry corsten played a good set but was so knacked after lab4 i chilled outside and listened in, found the energy again for fergie and jules somehow!

The gurn.net bus was the best imho wicked dj playing some classics and that drummer on one of the tunes had some skills, it was pulling a fairly big crowd at some points with tunes like dj missiah - access, ayla, liquid child, diving faces and prodigy - no good


Music was top notch lots of classics mixed with new stuff from what i heard only probems being the mentioned sound problems in a few tents and the cost of the food/drinks/rides

£4 a can beer and one of the bars with a sign saying NO WATER- you goto be joking Godskitchen!!!

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Originally posted by CraSHer[UK] Paul van Dyk bored me a bit system F - Out of the Blue being good fun as was art of trance - madagascar. Ev why he played only a bit of ferry corsten - punk which was axed in favour of that rock your body rock tune i'll never know. tit.

Agreed!! what a tit lol - i thought oh no dave pearce is on its dance anthems

tim delux remix Cohen vs Deluxe - Just Kick! (Carl Cox Mix) i think

I was meant to go with my mate Fredrik from Sweden (mjz on here), but he never showed, so I was left to rave on my lil ownsome (you may have seen me wandering around open shirted graced with more glowsticks than strictly necessary).

Anyway, started as I meant to go on.. GK Arena! I bought a programme thingy in Stratford, on which the times were printed. Anyone else notice that not a single one was correct? Ahaha.

So I got there 7pm, pissed off for missing J00F... and expecting Gabriel and Dresden. Cue M.I.K.E! Really good set to start of the evening, upbeat and energetic.. and the cool difference of having the beats done manually on leccy drum kit!
G&D came up next so I stayed for them and all, cue the annoying point that all the DJs from then on took to the higher stage so you couldnt see them at my vantage point of the front.. oh well!
Was a good set, but nothing exceptional shone through.

Was expecting Fergie up next with my incorrect list, but turned out to M.A.U.R.O P.I.C.O.T.T.O! Nice surprise all round, result: still not budging for a while. Food got the better of me, and as i'm not a HUGE fan of hardstyle, as it got a bit more frantic i went off to buy the most expensive burger on the planet (and get refused cos they'd already run out of change, twunts).
Ended up watching a bit of Oakenfold on the Beach, who seems to have donned a Bowie style long blonde hairdo.. He was pretty good!
Spent most of the time leading up to AVB wandering around aimlessly listening to other stuff, and trying to find places that hadnt run out of cold drinks.
AVB was awesome, as was expected... "Yet Another Day" mashed with "Suburban Train".. ohhhh baby, I don't think I need to say much more. A well sorted set, unliiiiiike

PVD! The white shirted ghostly boring sod! Although in his defence he played a couple of decent tunes, but most of the time he just stood there, playing his repetitive little tunes with his irritating little smirk. Kudos to the stage dancers though, not my thing given I'm gay, but the lesbian S&M duos stripping i'm sure livened things up a bit, haha.

Tiesto was absolutely wonderful, as would be expected.. can someone just verify i wasnt in some form of awe-struck hallucination.. he DID kick off with Magik Journey didnt he? I didn't imagine that?
Regardless, his set was enough to keep me firmly standing my ground near the front.. glowsticks in hand, thoroughly enjoying myself.

My star of the whole thing was Ferry though, jesus christ almighty I enjoyed that set! Yeah, he played a load of classics, yeah they were mostly his.. but you can't argue with a shitload of people in a tent going mental to Gouryella or Carte Blanche can you? Truly spectacular. Firebreather people did an excellent show n all, and the young guy was really cute.. *cough* anyway.. rounded it off with Rock Your Body, Rock.. not really one of my fave tunes, but I still went mad to it regardless, as did a few hundred others!

I didn't stick around for Fergie really, saw first bit but blah.. twas a bit crap! Not a Judge Jules fan, so I went walkabout. Not having a correct program meant I hadnt a clue about much going on, but i DID catch a bit of Carl Cox... and dayumn he was good, also came across Umek, not really my thing, but I didn't care by then.

Finished off with a right nugget of gold, the Air tent, 5:30am onwards.. Hyper. DAMN he was GOOD! Seriously nice tunage, didn't know any of it mind.. but damnit, great beats.. a hidden gem well worth looking into in the future!

Final point, was it Tiesto who played that Coldplay remix? I guess I should just mosy on over to the IDing section.. heh. Got a Ferry track and a few others to ID.

In all, even though I was (mostly) alone, I seriously enjoyed that.

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Originally posted by MC Quirkafleeg can someone just verify i wasnt in some form of awe-struck hallucination.. he DID kick off with Magik Journey didnt he? I didn't imagine that?

Tiësto – Forever Today (Intro Mix)

i was stood in that middle ground where i could only hear bass at that point, trying to get to middle but it was rather packed.. hahaha

i heard strings, and just guessed the rest. thanks d00d.

meh!!! it was alright. Was feeling pretty shitty for most of it, dont know why, but it kind of killed the night for me.

Highlight of the night was finding a bog roll whilst on a walkabouts mission with adam, and then proceeding to carry it everywhere for about two hours , oh yeah, and also hearing some classics and 'in silence' twice, fack, i love that tune

Oh yeah, sorry if i pissed everyone off by whining about going for a walk every five minutes (Lam, Toni, and whoever else i pestered, I'm sowwy )

spose i should go to bed now, dont really wanna screw my bodyclock up though.

Actually, I'm going to richmond green to watch people play footy

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Just for the record, it was the Original of Blue Monday which Picotto spun!

I’ll write a fuller review when I’ve managed to piece together my fragmented memories and hear stories.

Suffice to say though, awesome night!

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Originally posted by MC Quirkafleeg My star of the whole thing was Ferry though, jesus christ almighty I enjoyed that set! Yeah, he played a load of classics

that all he ever plays every set he does