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I thought the sound quality was rather good. Or perhaps it was just that it wasn't so ear bleedingly loud that after a while all I can hear is pain and distortion.
I thought it was good to have a back section there where the music wasn't as loud, gave the opportunity to actually have a conversation with people, without having to yell in their ear and use a complicated array of hand signals to get your misinterpreted message across and really if you wanted a dance, it wasn't too packed to find a nice space down the front. Granted it was a little under utilized, I've never been before the renovations, but the idea of some booths back there sounds good, but the lack of lighting on the steps almost caught me out, twice, buildings inspector might have something to say about those.
Lighting was good, but it seemed to me that all the action was happening up in the roof space, and the floor itself was left quite dark. Might have been what they were going for, but I'd have preferred some more light on the floor.
Spent a fair amount of time upstairs over the bar, just watching how that particular bar operates, and I tell you if I was manager (I'm a manager or another bar) some people would be put in training, or fired. Sloppiest operating I've seen in a bar, I don't know where to start abusing.
Turnout wasn't great, but what can you do, it was boxing day, not the greatest of nights to go out I'd have thought, I myself wasn't going to go until a spare ticket popped up at the last minute. But there were enough in attendance so that it didn't feel dead at least and a good crowd too, after this years two tribes, which would have had to have been my worst event being sandwiched in between a thousand drug fucked idiots I haven't been out to any medium to large events, but it the crowd was taking it easy and those that were on whatever (face it there's always some) weren't irresponsible and problematic.
Finally, what matters most, the music, I thought was very up and down. Patches of real quality followed by patches of rubbish. Was difficult to get into it for any longer than 10 minutes. Dave lee was doing a great job when I rocked up, good starting music. GTR is mainly where I'm getting this from, thought it was a bit all over the place. Joof was playing some great stuff, but by that time I wasn't in the mood for it and left about an hour in.
All in all, the venue has great potential, the lineup also had great potential, but it didn't come together in my mind which is a shame. Still, I look forward to seeing some photos that were taken.
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awesome then he banged it up for a bit in prep for Smurf. I would have loved to see ben play for longer then an hour... ben tracklist please. i remember hearing should have known and yahel - behind silence in there somewhere. 
Dryspell was my find of 2006...
started with jules trying to break the flanger and papa breaking the channel fader lol
