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Alright everyone, you missed out big time. It was a fucking brilliant night. 
I rocked up at about 11.15 or so (took a while to find the place  ) and they were still selling tickets at the door, so you could've rocked up and gotten in without any problems Astroboy. :-/
Ah well.
Sean Quinn was doing his warm up set when we got in, but we went into the side-room first (where Andy Van/John Course etc were playing to a nearly empty dance-floor) for a drink to get in the mood then ventured back into the main room. And let me tell you, Sean Quinn blew my socks off. I've never heard him live before (despite occasional attempts to get into Room 608) so this was a real treat. There was this one point were he played one of the tracks with the gladiator sample (dunno if it was the cass & slide or paris and sharp one - either way it was a remix I'd never heard before) and he slowly down-pitched it until it stopped, and then wham. This bloody drum sample came out of nowhere, the lasers went crazy and this track - that I must find out the name of - just exploded onto the system. One of those truly spine-tingling moments that happened frequently during the night.
I think Dave Seaman came on somewhere between 12.30 and 1.00 and played for about 4 hours or so. If the set was recorded live for the CD's, the audio-technicians have some work to do cos he was doing some pretty funky things with the decks all all night. Not really scratching or anything like that, but he was pitching up and down a lot, and was doing some impressively long, smooth mixing. Don't think I spotted a single dodgy moment in the entire set, so from a technical point of view it was very impressive.
As for the set itself? Started off kinda deep and groovy, flowed gradually into this music that was kinda caught in the rift between prog and uplifting - deep, surging beats, head-in-the-clouds type synths. Very spacey prog-trance music. Erm, that's the best description I can do I'm afraid.
And if you want a preview of the tracklist, well, sorry, but I'm going to have to disappoint you: I couldn't trainspot shit (and that's as a prog addict).
Tracks I could pick on the spot:
Green Velvet - La La Land
Tinnitus - Shape Shifter (insane  )
X-Press 2 - Smoke Machine
Slide vs Healy - Wicked Behavior (third track or so - illicited some strange glances from the crowd due to the nature of the sample  )
Plus there was a track that used the same vocal sample as BK - Let the Rhythm Move You and a few others that sounded familiar. I'll add to this list as they come to me.
So what did I think? Well yeah, it was bloody brilliant, don't get me wrong, but I've gotta say that I was more impressed with Sean Quinn (and later on KC Taylor - whose hand I shook before I even realised who he was ) and his set - which was relentlessly pumping for the entire hour and a bit I heard of it (plus the encore he gave at the end, after Seaman's set). I mean, taking nothing away from Dave Seaman: I was very impressed given that I was going into the night with fairly low expections of him after the slatings he got for his X-Mas eve set at Room 608 (check thescene.com.au forum for more details). It's more a compliment to the local talent more than anything else: proof that they can compare to the biggest in the world.
But yeah it was a top night. Great crowd (everyone was up fer it), great DJ's, great music, reasonable venue (would have preffered it - from an accoustics point of view - to be in a more clubby environment than in a hastily converted warehouse.... but it was still more than good enough) and everything about the night was - erm - good.
We should do it again sometime.
Now just to get my hands on the CD's and DVD to make the experience complete......
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. Hvae fun and make sure you tell us how it went 
Dave Seaman is gonna rock ur aussie asses! lol gonna drop some progressive/funky/deep house tunes and some trancey tunes as well 
oh ya Sander Kleinenberg 
