Ive made it home from the most woeful event i ever paid money for. The sydney leg of adventjah and the word dissapointment does not even begin to describe that night. I should have known at the door i was in for trouble when asked if i was there for the dance party or to play pool. So who played i hear you ask, well according to the flyers pete wardman, agnelli and nelson and dave lea. Who actually played? None of the above! They arrived to this shitfight and saw the 50 people in attendence and refused. Yes thats right they sat down and refused to play, drank a beer and left. The place was a bar and i wish i had known better. I don't totally hold it against the dj's if you came all the way from the uk to a pub named after a pissy shark in a tank surrounded by pool tables you could understandably be tense. Wow thats done the sydney clubbing scene great good in the uk. I hope people from sydney never want to see any of them again, we'd need a gun to get them back on a plane. On the other hand i payed money to see agnelli and nelson, did they have a responsibilty to play a few tracks after all i came to see them. I actually went down to say hello while they were enjoying the shark and a beer and was promptly told to fuck off! Nice! Angry dj's, not good for a chat. I somehow still have a soft spot for them but it tarnished them a bit for me. As for powerhouse now called shithouse productions take a bow! No lineup times for the rooms as they knew the internationals had refused to play. We tracked the owner down and he apologised to us but well that didn't quite cut it. For some reason he wasn't willing to pay us the $300 it cost to get in. Surprise. If they knew that fuck all tickets had been sold they should have just cancelled it rather than ruin, repeat ruin their professional reputation hopefully for ever. Since we payed $50 the 6 of us had a competiton to see who could stay the longest with the 6 other people there in the shark bar lounge room and dance up a storm on the carpet. We lasted till 5 but that was testament to a personal resolve i didn't know i possessed. The shithouse owner even lied to our face that agnelli had played for half an hour at 11 but we got there at 11 and unless they had reconstructive surgery and lost weight that was a fucking plain lie. They must have looked at the place when getting a replacement for sega world. The 2 rooms sound even merged as 1 bar split the two that was totally open and the sound of drum and bass over trance was quite remarkable, maybe we have a winner there, drum and trance! I'll get an email off to shithouse productions and see if they can market that to the world! I actually had a disposable camera with a panoramic feature and managed to take photo's on extra wide setting and get not one person except the dj in shot! Where can i post that photo! Well thanks for letting me air this disgrace, sorry if it didn't make you laugh. I tend to think no other ta's were at this event or i may seen something about it by now. I purposely didn't write this yesterday as ever second word out of my mouth was a rude word that doesn't appeal to everyone.
Love to all
Simon
P.s im in negoitiations to get agnelli and nelson back out to play in my loungeroom. I've promised to turn on both lava lamps and shine my torch with red sticky tape on it around at random intervals. That would equal shithouse productions decoration efforts. Im close to getting agnelli's to agree. Maybe free lemonade will do it!
Pps I read sydneys three d world when i got home and agnelli and nelson were asked what to expect when they played at adventjah. Their reply was- expect the unexpected. They got me!
REPORT CLOSED
Apr-02-2002 03:33
Renegade
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Registered: May 2001
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Fucking hell, that is seriously rank man. :-/
If I were you I'd track down the people responsible for the night and report them to a consumer watch-dog for false advertising: if they advertised those dj's and they didn't play, then they broke the contract created when you bought your ticket by not delivering what they promised, and so owe you at least your cash back. Probably won't make up for the painful memories, or the damage it's done to the Sydney club scene, but it's a start.
So yeah, sounds like a bad experience dude. Might be time to move down to Melbourne eh.
Apr-02-2002 04:54
stipsy
TA OG
Registered: May 2001
Location: Melbourne
surely robbie nelson didnt tell you to fuck off!!
ive met pete wardman and robbie and they were both top notch guys...i dont like wardmans style but he was still good to talk too and we got the chance to talk to robbie nelson last year at gods kitchen and he was an awesome bloke..he even played el nino as i was screaming for him to play it!..even managed to have a dance at the after party.
what a dissapointment!..come to melbourne mate
p.s cds are nearly done
Apr-02-2002 06:33
ascension
sAtoShiAddicT
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Australia - Perth
bad organisation and BAD DJS...
they did have a fucking obligation to play - thats what they were payed for and if they were professionals they bloody well would have got up there and spun - crowd or no crowd
sean quinn came to perth not so long ago - one of the best prog djs in aust at the moment... they stuck him on at 9pm and there was NO ONE on the dance floor and barely 30 ppl in the whole venue, but he was still up there spinning and he laid a BLOODY GOOD SET down too -
thats PROFFESIONALISM... something the above mentioned djs obviously lack... get over yourselfs... egotistic pricks...
and the organisers should cop a walloping for their efforts too - if ANY of the dj's didnt spin then they should have offered you some form of compensation... when mario piu didnt show for slinky last year, everyone present was given tickets to the warp brothers the next week aswell as free drinks... thats how an event should be run and thats what should happen if something fucks up
i dont feel so bad living in Perth now
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nothing to see here... move along please
Apr-02-2002 07:10
Simon00
Nasa 3rdEmpire Tel Aviv
Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Melbourne
he did
Hey stipsy
Sadly he did. Pity all i was going to do was say how much i liked his cd. That must be an indication of how shat off he was. He then made jokes with his his circle of blow poney dj friends such as mark dynamix and fenix that he often got mistaken for robbie williams. We had the last laugh on fenix though when he played half an hour of what could best be described as chipmunks on heat. We asked where the chipmunks came from but there was no answer surprisingly. And yes if my job permitted id be in melbourne in a second! And then the hawks went and lost on me as well. Great weekend!
Apr-02-2002 23:24
stipsy
TA OG
Registered: May 2001
Location: Melbourne
well im a melbourne supporter
Apr-03-2002 00:25
Tweak
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2001
Location:
Sorry to hear about this mess...who actually bothered to get up and spin? Powerhouse are the guys who run Utopia n Godspeed right? What a fuckup!
PS - Go the Cats!!!
Apr-03-2002 01:55
Renegade
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Registered: May 2001
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
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Originally posted by stipsy
well im a melbourne supporter
You and me both buddy.
Went to the game on Saturday, which was the first time I've gone since the 2000 season I think. Got a bit hairy in the third quarter, but our class shone through. Mike Sheehan can kiss my arse - still think we're gonna finish 16 you silly little tit?
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Originally posted by Tweak
PS - Go the Cats!!!
Geelong supporter eh? My condolences.
Apr-03-2002 04:14
stipsy
TA OG
Registered: May 2001
Location: Melbourne
game was on monday renegade..lol..you must have had a big weekend
Apr-03-2002 06:42
Drifter
mmm boost
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Perth, Australia
thats fucked with the djs
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Apr-03-2002 07:18
Renegade
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Registered: May 2001
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
quote:
Originally posted by stipsy
game was on monday renegade..lol..you must have had a big weekend
Heh, yeah that's right.
There may or may not have been some hefty beer consumption both during and after the game to account for my memory fault.
Apr-03-2002 14:46
Simon00
Nasa 3rdEmpire Tel Aviv
Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Melbourne
melb supporters
Well im glad we woke up in the third qtr and at least made it a contest. Go the hawks!
As for who did spin at adventjah, dynamix and bexta played and at least bexta had the 20 people who were there up and dancing.
powerhouse prod=fuckfight
