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allright, got some sleep and its time to show to the peeps here that didn't miss much!
This weekend was a disaster/nightmare on so many levels for this event! For some reason, as soon I got into my hotel room, everything went downhill that day. I was supposed to buy a router in brooklyn on the friday (to save on shipping and customs)...but when I called the store...they told me they were moving to New Jersey. I wish the guy I had talked to a few day earlier woulda told me. As a result, we decided to venture into manhattan.
Not knowing the subway system....we took a local train and it took forever to get to the island...and once we got out of the subway...it was raining out, bahhhh. At one point, we hopped back on the subway and went to a museum west of central park and got to see the dinosaur exposition....Cribby u missed that! And we got in for free for some reason!
After that, we went back to the hotel to get some sleep before the night event.....the sleeping didnt happen! 2am rolls and we venture back to the city. At the subway entrance....6 cops and 2 dogs
 lol. And again we get on a damn local train....
2:30-3am, we find the venue...and we are told its at capacity, then other bs, etc etc. Found the other TA's stuck at the door like us and found a lil bar to chill a bit, hoping that issues would clear up by the time we get back....nope it didnt. When we got back, everyone was being thrown out (4am ish), nobody talking about a replacement venue, nothing...so we ventured up to times square to enjoy the downtown at night a bit. So pissed off for missing Paco, Ritch AND Carola...was the main guy i wanted to see. Only later on saturday, I am told that it was moved to rebel...argggghhh
On day 2, weather is nice, not super hot, sunny. We decided to do our own thing by visiting china town and doing the city bus tour. I found china town (canal street) to be quite interesting. Everyone asking you if you want rolex's, bags and other stuff. You walk into stores and they open little doors to send you upstairs to show you more stuff. However, the asians selling that stuff are close to being the rudest pple ever!!! Ventured in SOHO for a bit, found those stores with ridiculous prices and pple were buying that shit!
The bus tour around the city was great. I recommend it to anyone visiting NYC. This was the highlight of my weekend! After that 2hr bus tour, we went back to the hotel to refresh and hit up coney island at around 9ish. Got there and saw a bit of hearthrob....to only find out that they shut it down at 10pm....when magda was supposed to play....great..only get to hear 1 hr of music that day...
At least i got to find about the new night venue...
As Jay as said, the ride to find that damn studio B place was a nightmare. literally 1hr cab ride spinning in circles with a few pple in the cab going nuts. I think at one point we were up in queens almost. A 5 miles ride turned into a 30miles ride...
Once at studio B, it was a zoo outside, the staff didn't have a fucking clue what to do with the 100s of people waiting to be let in. they were expecting people with bracelets (most pple never got to get it!). After some pushing and shoving, bitchin at the bouncer, they started to understand ...and a lady opened the door and had a few go in...luckily it was some of us...
The place wasnt bad and the sound was decent...but it was a sauna. By the time we were in...they were out of water...then a bit later...out of cups to put ice and water in.. Magda was meh overall. She had me going for the first hour...then lost many of us. We ended up leaving at 4 when Houle was coming on. Thankfully..the ride back home wasnt a disaster!
On sunday, I took the staten island ferry to see the statue of liberty and take pics of the financial district from the water. Then we checked out ground zero....which is a large hole the size of a block! By 4, we headed to coney island...the subway ride was the longest thing ever, delays after delays. At coney, we tried out the coney's dogs and fries....YUMMMYYYYYYY  Then the nightmare repeated itself at the door. Lineup of 100 pple waiting to get in. Bouncers not organized whatsoever. The worst of all, they were letting pple that wanted to buy tickets through...but not the pple who already had their tickets in, such as disgrace. Took an hour to get in...so I only had music from 6-10.
The sound at coney island was phenomenal, very crisp and loud. David Squillace was killing it at the first stage. After him, we saw Audion at the other stage. WOW! the guy was something A+! He didn't fuck around and had the crowd by the balls!
Richie came on at 8, overall, his set was OK. It really felt like a DJ set in comparison to his other sets. Only towards the end he started playing around. His set was quite banging. I dont know what happened in the last 30 mins, the sound went down and the music was pretty crappy, most pple were standing around....and the last track he played.....was pure crap (80s track)
As mentioned by others, the day venue had no lights setup...wtf
We didnt see any of the artistic stuff they were promoting so much.
If it wasn't for the city stuff I've done, the weekend would have been a total waste.
How can you fuck things up this bad? If they do make another minitek next year, I sure ain't going. I have no faith in them whatsoever. And even if they get their shit together, NYC is way too expensive for what its worth! Spent $800+ to see 5 DJ's in total
Here's a laundry list for Minitek:
-Get the proper permits or rent a large enough space
-Switching venues over and over is not acceptable as most people never get the details
-Get security staff that know whats going on....Inform them goddamit
-Dont make pple with tickets wait in line and let new people go right in front of them, its disgraceful.
-If you fuckup, at least have the decency to do something for your customers, few free drinks, something...
-Have enough water to sell!
-Have smaller plans, multiple venues is too much for you guys to manage
-Dont be over ambitious. The artistic stuff and RFID....you blew it
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On the postive, I am glad to have met Kelly and shelly. You guys were the friendliest New Yorkers out there (most of em were so rude and useless!)
We have it golden in toronto. Now I understand it when others say toronto people and others are friendly!!
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