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Review: Liebing, Parisio, & Picotto (pg. 4)
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| tatgirl |
| Myway- nice to have met you. Glad you made it home ok. See u soon! |
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| tatgirl |
| quote: | Originally posted by geroin
hmmm
what a dissapointment...people kept telling me that picotto is the worst live and since i never saw him live before i decided to go check it out...wow..that was honestly one of the worst nites i been to in a while
picotto's set was pure , at one time i thought there was somethign wrong with me or i was really tired so i went and bought an energy drink. After not getting hit at all cuz the music was so bad i went and got another energy drink and you know what, nothing happened again. |
For the 1st timers seeing Picotto, you probably got the worst display of his career to make your 1st impression of him. Having seen him 16 times, and knowing that he can be hit or miss, or have sloppy mixing due to being wasted, but u could always count on some high energy blow the roof off tunes, and there wasn't a single one from him. His last time at the KH made up for any past discrepancies, but last night was a tragedy.
Wish we coulda had more Liebing. Montreal had him for 4 hrs the night b4, and it went down as the 'best night ever'. :( |
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| Nemireck |
| At least now we all know who to see if it's a choice between Liebing and Picotto again... saves much stress trying to choose next time! |
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| DigiNut |
Ok, first thing I must say, for everybody who left early and was pissed that Liebing and Gaetek spun such short sets...
THEY CAME BACK ON AROUND 5:30!
So, I reaped my reward from enduring Picotto's mind-numbingly boring set. Chris and Gaetano were ON the mark last night and I was freakin' out to every second of their sets (well maybe not the first 20 minutes of Gaetek, but whatever, still kicked serious ass ;)).
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I am very, very pissed off that the Guv management decided it would be OK to lump both events into one due to pre-sales being bad (never mind the excuses about technical difficulties, we all know that someone said "hey, our ticket sales put us under capacity for the main room, why waste money on the Kool Haus?"). Simply put, I am now rethinking my plans to see JZ and Sasha. I have no choice but to take the Guvernment's blatant lack of respect for its customers as a personal insult.
I was NOT intending to have to spend the night packed into a ing sardine can and also getting no discount from the reduced list (I can only imagine how the KH ticket holders felt). I was NOT intending to spend my night with 80% sketched-out old Asians just ing standing around doing butt- nothing on the dance floor or crashing into anyone and everyone. I am very glad for the trifling amount of room we found on the stage, because otherwise I would have been out of there within an hour. And this was when the party was supposed to be well-organized! Paying good money to attend this club when I KNOW it's going to be an overpacked sketch-hole is something I can no longer rationalize, no matter how good the headliners are or how many of them there are.
Chris was awesome. Gaetano was awesome. Picotto was sub-par but I forgot all about that when they made the decision to "reinstate" the other guys. And it was great to have all my friends from TA there - you guys made it worth staying.
I personally had pretty good fun yesterday, but from a reviewer's perspective I cannot possibly give this night even one thumb up. For some reason I don't think it's a coincidence that the 2 bad reviews I've given since the beginning of the summer both involved events at the GUV. Whoever came up with the brilliant idea of shutting down the Koolhaus should be deeply ashamed - I fully understand that you've got your bottom line to worry about, but you also have a responsibility toward your patrons and your ticket holders, and if you absolutely HAD to close down the rest of the complex then you should have notified everyone through the promoters WELL IN ADVANCE.
You want to say Toronto partygoers are spoiled? I say any business that pulls this kind of stunt with its customers on a regular basis is spoiled. I rationalized the GUV up 'til yesterday by saying that events at the Koolhaus were less sketchy and a lot more fun, but now I can't even trust those. The ONLY REASON Guv continues to pull in a crowd this size and make money is that 5000 lame, pushy, rude, non-English-speaking 40-year-old Asian crack addicts have no other place to go on a Saturday night to deal/get high. That can't last forever though because eventually they're all going to either OD or die of old age. Your glory days are numbered, Charles, sooner or later you're going to find out that there's a limit on how much you can rake in from these sketchpads and after that you're going to wish you treated your GOOD customers with a little more respect.
Somebody give me a shout when the GUV is under new management. |
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| Chinaman |
As Sly_Guy and I always laugh about: what's funnier than a bunch of Asians in a circle, holding hands, seated on the ground and all wearing sunglasses? :toothless
Next time I see this, I'm taking a damn picture! :haha: |
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| dEsidEL |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
Ok, first thing I must say, for everybody who left early and was pissed that Liebing and Gaetek spun such short sets...
THEY CAME BACK ON AROUND 5:30!
So, I reaped my reward from enduring Picotto's mind-numbingly boring set. Chris and Gaetano were ON the mark last night and I was freakin' out to every second of their sets (well maybe not the first 20 minutes of Gaetek, but whatever, still kicked serious ass ;)).
BUT...
I am very, very pissed off that the Guv management decided it would be OK to lump both events into one due to pre-sales being bad (never mind the excuses about technical difficulties, we all know that someone said "hey, our ticket sales put us under capacity for the main room, why waste money on the Kool Haus?"). Simply put, I am now rethinking my plans to see JZ and Sasha. I have no choice but to take the Guvernment's blatant lack of respect for its customers as a personal insult.
I was NOT intending to have to spend the night packed into a ing sardine can and also getting no discount from the reduced list (I can only imagine how the KH ticket holders felt). I was NOT intending to spend my night with 80% sketched-out old Asians just ing standing around doing butt- nothing on the dance floor or crashing into anyone and everyone. I am very glad for the trifling amount of room we found on the stage, because otherwise I would have been out of there within an hour. And this was when the party was supposed to be well-organized! Paying good money to attend this club when I KNOW it's going to be an overpacked sketch-hole is something I can no longer rationalize, no matter how good the headliners are or how many of them there are.
Chris was awesome. Gaetano was awesome. Picotto was sub-par but I forgot all about that when they made the decision to "reinstate" the other guys. And it was great to have all my friends from TA there - you guys made it worth staying.
I personally had pretty good fun yesterday, but from a reviewer's perspective I cannot possibly give this night even one thumb up. For some reason I don't think it's a coincidence that the 2 bad reviews I've given since the beginning of the summer both involved events at the GUV. Whoever came up with the brilliant idea of shutting down the Koolhaus should be deeply ashamed - I fully understand that you've got your bottom line to worry about, but you also have a responsibility toward your patrons and your ticket holders, and if you absolutely HAD to close down the rest of the complex then you should have notified everyone through the promoters WELL IN ADVANCE.
You want to say Toronto partygoers are spoiled? I say any business that pulls this kind of stunt with its customers on a regular basis is spoiled. I rationalized the GUV up 'til yesterday by saying that events at the Koolhaus were less sketchy and a lot more fun, but now I can't even trust those. The ONLY REASON Guv continues to pull in a crowd this size and make money is that 5000 lame, pushy, rude, non-English-speaking 40-year-old Asian crack addicts have no other place to go on a Saturday night to deal/get high. That can't last forever though because eventually they're all going to either OD or die of old age. Your glory days are numbered, Charles, sooner or later you're going to find out that there's a limit on how much you can rake in from these sketchpads and after that you're going to wish you treated your GOOD customers with a little more respect.
Somebody give me a shout when the GUV is under new management. |
so much anger ..
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by dEsidEL
so much anger ..
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Damn right I am. They screwed their customers, plain and simple.
I try to make the best of it during the party, but now the party's over and there's no buzz to kill so I'm not going to hold back. Sasha was the last straw for the Guvernment main room - this is the last straw for the Guvernment complex. |
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| hardcore trancer |
| quote: | Originally posted by dEsidEL
so much anger ..
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Digi? anger? :eek: |
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| The Highroller |
Mauro played Flashdance? Hahahhaha. What a ing joke. This guy should just stop deejaying while the EDM community still has SOME respect for him.
I'm pissed I missed Gaetek and Liebing, but I was really busy this weekend. Glad you guys got to experience the wonderful world of techno. |
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| Skipper |
| word Aaron...I left b/c I couldn't take the monotonous bassline rumble on the stage and I couldn't bear the dancefloor. That place was retarded busy. I woulda been hella pissed if I had bought a ticket for KH. |
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| dEsidEL |
plz. TO city council....... bring back tha massive !
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| rabbitjoker |
huh? wha? :crazy: huh?
just got home... uber weekend. UBER! :eyespop:
i have no energy to do a proper review - so here are just a few quickies to whet your tastebuds until I have a chance to do a complete commentary...
- Super TA massif stage party which made the night brilliant (but who invited the buggered people!?!, not allowed next time, k?)
- Learning the "how much is that doggie in the window" song in 10 different languages
- F'ing mint elite TA Zone crew who rocked it out from dusk 'till dawn (thanks to entertainment provided by kenny & dekoze)
- Tune of the night: Eric Prydz feat. Steve Winwood - Call on Me (what remix was that?). Played both @ Guv and by Dekoze
- Frank "business in front, pleasure in back" Cuzo!
- My new found love of tribal & tech haus muzik |
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