I don't know if it's a lack of crowd support, a lack of viable venues, or the promoters fault, but yes, it seems the only way they bring anyone here who isn't a top top name (corsten, van buuren, tiesto, pvd) is through a rave, and some TAers refuse to go to raves for various reasons, one of them being the crowd that shows up for raves.

Yeah, we miss Union and their ability to not only bring in talent on their own and fill it with decent locals but to actually promote the event as well.

Andy Moor at those two club events was awesome. Never saw him at the rave, never wanted to.

There have been a few djs on my contact list that have expressed an interest in coming here, some even at a reduced rate to get their first shot or a return shot at playing here. Whatever your feelings on today's edm event crowds, they geniunely like coming here. Some of them would actually get some support too. But the promo groups I've tried contacting haven't bothered to respond to the opportunity. I don't pretend to understand the politics or reasoning behind this, or whether they are flat out too busy or just not interested, but it's just another thing to be frustrated over from a fan stand point. (And yes, I realize I am one of the poorest TAs in terms of supporting events, so take my bitching with some grain and salt).

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greg corbett | schedule | party107.com tracklists
slyxster | johnson & corbett | deepwav3 |
Progressive Transmission on Party107.com every Wed @ 5pm PST (8pm EST / 1am GMT)
Pacific Coast Frequencies on Danceradioglobal.com - trance every 1st Tues @ 4pm PST (7pm EST / 12midnight GMT)
Upcoming Gigs: none scheduled
Past gigs:
Phoenix Echo Aug 8th, 2009,
Believe @ Redroom, Feb and May 2009
Gareth Emery Boat Party - Aug 8th, 2008
Phoenix Outdoor Party - Aug 16th, 2008

*pokes my post in the "Who would you like to see in '08?" thread*:

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Originally posted by trance__dreamer it would be REALLY "entrancing" to see some producers from Intuition: such as Menno De Jong as someone else has already mentioned, Euphonic, (...although it seems to me that Solid has some sort of deal w/ 'em; *cough* Ronski Speed & Kyau and Albert *cough*,) & of course Anjunabeats: such as Daniel Kandi as someone else has already mentioned.)

hmm...this thread is pretty cool.

how come forever2day's name isn't on that poll options?

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greg corbett | schedule | party107.com tracklists
slyxster | johnson & corbett | deepwav3 |
Progressive Transmission on Party107.com every Wed @ 5pm PST (8pm EST / 1am GMT)
Pacific Coast Frequencies on Danceradioglobal.com - trance every 1st Tues @ 4pm PST (7pm EST / 12midnight GMT)
Upcoming Gigs: none scheduled
Past gigs:
Phoenix Echo Aug 8th, 2009,
Believe @ Redroom, Feb and May 2009
Gareth Emery Boat Party - Aug 8th, 2008
Phoenix Outdoor Party - Aug 16th, 2008

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Originally posted by DjCommisad I don't know if it's a lack of crowd support, a lack of viable venues

Its both of these reasons, actually. I just had to pass on an offer for a very good artist because of these two factors. If someone here disagrees, then let me know. I don't know how many TAs there are on this board but if there are another 200 I don't know about who want to buy tickets and make this gig feasable then let's have 'em!

Also, somebody mentioned the Rocky Mountaineer Station. As of Jan 1st 2008, it is no longer available for club type events. More great news for finding proper venues!

-Alje

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Menno was a surprise for me last year, or at least his Intuition Sessions was. Been a long, long, long time since I heard an epic melodic trance set that I actually reasonably enjoyed throughout. Plus he provided quite possibly THE best DJ pic of 2007!

If he were to play at The Plaza, I just might be coaxed out to checking him out, and considering I haven't gone to a trance event in Vancouver since... um, forever, that's saying a lot.

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Menno's been at the top of my must see list for a long time, I would be super stoked to see him play here.

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greg corbett | schedule | party107.com tracklists
slyxster | johnson & corbett | deepwav3 |
Progressive Transmission on Party107.com every Wed @ 5pm PST (8pm EST / 1am GMT)
Pacific Coast Frequencies on Danceradioglobal.com - trance every 1st Tues @ 4pm PST (7pm EST / 12midnight GMT)
Upcoming Gigs: none scheduled
Past gigs:
Phoenix Echo Aug 8th, 2009,
Believe @ Redroom, Feb and May 2009
Gareth Emery Boat Party - Aug 8th, 2008
Phoenix Outdoor Party - Aug 16th, 2008

^ wow that must be old .. pre-me, that's for sure.

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Schossow is not going to Calgary, it's a istake on wherever you saw that, jsut goignt o New York and here for our show to open for Marcel Woods, plus Marcus is headling the Marcel Woods Preparty the day before too....staying at my place heh

anyways,, if ther is a Vancouver promoter that wants to work with us, please message me as we work with Calgary now regulariy for a lot of acts (Fehrenheit Productions).

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Originally posted by krysx25 ^ wow that must be old .. pre-me, that's for sure.

that was several years ago, it was still when danny's night was in viva
i miss union and danny shows
it's kind of why i stoped going out to these parties, who wants to pay $100 to go to a rave with a shitty sound system and a shitty crowd

menno was fun, and stupendeously tall

gotta agree with alje, TAs just can't support trance club nights, even together with trance FNKers, there just isn't enough people who'd attend those shows

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Originally posted by apri_peel gotta agree with alje, TAs just can't support trance club nights, even together with trance FNKers, there just isn't enough people who'd attend those shows

it's all compounded problems. not enough people so you raise the price to cover the event, then even less people go. so you open it up through promotion to bring in fresh people just to cover the event, and then you bring in some poor attitude people with bucks, that pushes out even more people.

I mean even the viva nights that were awesome to begin with, the last couple of months had some poor times. I don't know the full details, one story I heard was someone was pissed off and called in a gun threat and the cops showed up. There were 10 cops inside slowly kicking everyone out, or at the very least killing the vibe. There was another time someone hit on an international dj's gf who he had brought with him to the event, and taking offense the dj stood up for his gf and got punched by some drunk idiot. Again I don't know the full details, and everything I just portrayed may be inaccurate, but it's things like those that are reasons why I don't go to normal clubs, and I stick to EDM events, and even now I'm not liking some of the crowds. The Steve Porter one, was mostly great, but I had brought a girl friend (not a gf) along, and she spent the night miserable because some guy twice her age kept stalking her all night. My efforts to give him the clue to leave her alone finally paid off, but still.

I don't know what the solution is, or even what the root of the problem is, but for all those that argue that Vancouver sucks because clubs close at 2am, imagine the drunken losers this town has at 2, twice as drunk at 4.

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greg corbett | schedule | party107.com tracklists
slyxster | johnson & corbett | deepwav3 |
Progressive Transmission on Party107.com every Wed @ 5pm PST (8pm EST / 1am GMT)
Pacific Coast Frequencies on Danceradioglobal.com - trance every 1st Tues @ 4pm PST (7pm EST / 12midnight GMT)
Upcoming Gigs: none scheduled
Past gigs:
Phoenix Echo Aug 8th, 2009,
Believe @ Redroom, Feb and May 2009
Gareth Emery Boat Party - Aug 8th, 2008
Phoenix Outdoor Party - Aug 16th, 2008