I took some video clips with my camera
http://www.mars3d.com/Global/

Overall I enjoyed it but a few things pissed me off.

The 5 hour journey from London in an un air conditioned coach. I was dripping with sweat when i got off the coach.

No mobile phone signal made it almost impossible to meet up with people.

Buying anything was a rip off, £6 for a programme, £5 for a burger, £4 for a can of beer.

A lot of stalls had run out of cold drinks 1 hour into the event.

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Originally posted by RGB £5 for a burger,

Some pics - more to follow

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I took some random ones on my phone
http://www.zen22874.zen.co.uk/global04/

Can someone id the tune in the gk01.avi vid that was posted in a link in a previous message

tia

On a whole I was rather disspointed with the music that I saw at the night.
Push played alright, didn't like Tiesto at all, Armin dropped a few decent tracks, PvD was boring as hell (I really dislike his choise in music, it is all the same).

Left during PvD's set to catch the end of Zabiela (which was different to say the least) then went to catch the end of Adam Freeland (which was really good) and the beginning of Hybrid (alright).

Gutted I missed ferry, I thought he was gonna play electro-shyte so didnt bother

Also caught the end of BK's set, proper hard house classics, Are Y'all Ready, Eternal and some others and the beginning of Scot's (not really my style, but one track was amazing, I took a clip of it, hope it gets ID'd)

To be fair tho, I did spend the first 3 hours in there trying to sort my head out from having the strongest acid I hace ever had

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I think the festival was sold out or nearly so (capacity: 35,000) as people who had bought tickets a week ago got tickets numbered 29 thousand and something. Thought the atmosphere was great, people I chatted to were pretty cool and into their music. It was also nice that quite a lot of people made an effort to dress up - spcially the young ladies in hotpants! and there wa even a couple of guys wandering round in Batman and Robin costumes.

Anyway, in very quick summary, after a horrible coach journey finally got in about 5pm (an hour after the official start of the festival) and met up with the first of my mates. The next 14 hours are a little blurry in parts, but the sets I heard either whole or in part plus purely arbitrary "all-in scores" ie set + crowd vibe + own state of mind/sobriety:

Hed Kandi featuring Pav (from Pacha) live on drums & percussion (6/10)
Tim Deluxe (6/10)
Harry 'Choo-choo' Romero (7.5/10)
Gabriel & Dresden (7.5/10)
Trevor Rockliffe (7.5/10)
Mauro Picotto (7.5-8/10)
Adam Beyer (8-8.5/10)
Dave Clarke (8/10)
Carl Cox (8.5/10)
James Zabiela 7.5/10
Umek (8.5/10)
Fergie (7.5-8/10)
Misstress Barbara (who knows, i was fuctup at this stage. Just kidding! 7.5/10)

There was a certain amount of tough decision-making to be made, however I think we made some reasonable choices (at least for us). The worst was that Carl Cox and PvD were playing at the same time. Cox had the earlier-starting (and longer) set (12.30am-3am vs PvD's 1.30am-3.30am).

Never having seen Cox live before (the 1st time I'd been scheduled to see him spin was at Sonar in Barcelona a couple of months ago when he'd had to cancel, to huge disappointment from me and my mate), and since i was hugely enjoying his set come the critical peel-off time of 1.30am, and since as a rule i prefer longer sets to shorter ones (which is not the way festivals are built, i know), I elected just this once to give PvD a miss. If his set was anything like the N1 set, I'm glad i did! The energy at Cox's set was fantastic.

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I'm am soooooo fucking gutted i missed ferry. Once again, i miss another fantastic producers set that would have had me on my knees

anyhow, the weather was absolutely brilliant compared to last year, it was so nice at night, altho it got quite cold in the morning time (1-3am)

Good to meet everyone again, it was a miracle we managed it since the mobile phone coverage at the event was shite, with texts taking a couple of hours to be send and received. Sorry Joe, we had no idea where you were as we moved around every now and then, and tbh, we had no idea who to look for, apart from a tall person and the only tall person we could find was Gibbo

Rick and I waited for Toni to come, as we had her ticket, we got in to see J00F which was nice and banging, like last year. MIKE's PA was fucking funny, althou the tunes were good to listen to. Wasn't MIKE saying "yeah, yeah" over the speakers every now and then? i found that hilarious. And the drummer guy

G&D didn't fail to impress as usual It was nice to hear there remix of Above and Beyond - No One on Earth. And to hear that DJ Remy bootleg thingy...Tim would have wee'd his pants in excitement. The Smells like teen spirit and Murder was the Bass was a touch of genius!

Stayed for Mauro and Riccardo, Mauro played some stonking tunes, omfg the Verdi remix of Pulsar, what a fucking tune. and all the others too, it was nice and pumping. Riccardo played differntly, but it was good all the same. You know he was playing live when he played a sample at the wrong time

I didn't stay for all of Armin, but i wish i had caught Communication. I'm glad i caught White Room, Shattered and Yet another Surburban Train...I like it

Went to Polysexual for Scot Project, he was fucking banging it!!! What a set, nothing but tune after tune. R- Rock, FM - Feeling Me, loads of his productions, and he finished off on Arome - Hands Up (Scot Project Remix) OMFG quality set, i need to see him again!

Think i saw end of Tiesto next, i can't remember much, all i remember is Adagio for Strings, but don't remember Miss a DAy

PvD dissapointed, he didn't play anything like he did in Berlin, i guess i was expecting too much, he didn't play Alter Ego - Rocker to my dismay, and then Fergie played, it the bastard.

So i left to see Zabiela/End of Freeland. Freeland was good, Zabiela was boring, altho we did catch some scartching...he wasn't playing that many breaks tho and i was falling asleep to it, so we went to catch Hybrid, since we thought that Ferry would play another Electro ish set. Hybrid dissapointed me, and we were tired, so we started to make our way to the car. i can't believe i didn't want to drop into ferry. ARghhhhhhh!

went and sat in the car, and were watching scallies assault unsuspecting clubbers and stealing stuff from people...wasn't nice

but was a good night out, and of course will be there again next year!

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