Originally posted by Whip_lash
I thought Nic Fanciulli's set was amazing, now thats what a perfect warm up set should be, wicked flow and amazing tunes. For some reason I wasnt that impressed with lawlers set in the main room, i thought his last years was much much better... maybe cuz i heard some of those songs he played way too many times or i dunno. IMO he should've thrown in some tunes with longer bigger build ups.
I caught the first 30 min of Dubfire and wasnt that impressed with him, i dont why he brought the engery level down after he came on, he shouldve came out banging but i just ended up standing there not dancing anymore.
He hasn't played anything "bangin" in YEARS!!!!!
MissNick
I took the advice of you all.... because it was my choice too, and I grabbed a friend and we left at 5:30 and got to the Guv at about 2:30. Got there for Lawler's set inside, which I enjoyed immensely because of sitting in a car for 9 hours and finally shaking my butt.
Dubfire got boring for me and I headed up to the terrace, where Lawler went a very different direction for me than my experience last year. I didn't hear but maybe one "huge sound" track outside. I refrain from calling what he played minimal, because they were rich beats, but not what I think of when I think of Lawler.I am going to assume that, because he was tagging with Dubfire, Steve played more to Dubfire's style than his own. I also noticed that he played a lot of the tracks that are on the Viva Toronto CDs, whereas when I saw him Saturday in Chicago... he was banging it with only three tracks repeated last night from the Chicago show. He also did less acapella/ random noise making sound clips amongst the tracks than he did in Chicago.
I had a great time and just got home. We switched driving and made it home in under 9 hours :)
THANK YOU TORONTO for being a great city and clubbing community. If any of you on here ran into me, I was wearing a pink, grey and black assymetrical blocked t-shirt with silver triangle earrings, a ponytail, black (then red) sunglasses.... and I was passing out business cards for our record store www.lovevinylrecords.com
THANK YOU to the dude that gave me the copy of viva toronto that you caught.. very nice of you! I had something to listen to on the drive home that was new.
I plan on buying a plane ticket well ahead of time next year to avoid this last minute driving madness.
VERTiG0
Holy you drove 9 hours one way? Champion.
On a side note I had like 5 people ask me what the hell I was doing there last night, and if I'm a househead now... Hah.
kotsy
I don't know if I caught a bad part of Laidback Luke's set, but he wasn't doing it for me at all
I liked him more when he was dropping heavy bombs in the gallery
*prepares to be flamed*
DeleteFromUsers
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Originally posted by MissNick
I was passing out business cards for our record store www.lovevinylrecords.com
I think you borrowed my water. You kinda looked like you needed that sip more than I did - had I known you had driven 9hrs to see the show I would have gotten you a new bottle :p (And an early "Happy Independance Day" to you back!)
DigiNut
I unfortunately missed Fanciulli's set, because he came on late and I was tired of MO so I went to the Drink. Whoever was in there was good though.
Laidback Luke played a fantastic set, far better than his Essential Mix IMO. Lee Osborne then proceeded to suck the energy right out of the Skybar with some incredibly repetitive atonal tech junk. Therefore I missed the rest.
Caught a little bit of Lawler in the main room and he was decent, but sounded pretty much like every other set he's put together over the past year and a half. I agree with what some of the others have said - please find some new material Stevey. Or at the very least, if you're going to keep playing the same stuff, make it the unreleased promo stuff that we don't already hear as filler tracks in sets from other DJs, like you did in 2005.
It was a fun night on account of all the people. Musically, nothing to write home about, but said with the caveat that I didn't actually catch the Lawler/Dubfire Skybar set, which some people are saying was well worth the wait.
Abercrombie
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Originally posted by MissNick
I took the advice of you all.... because it was my choice too, and I grabbed a friend and we left at 5:30 and got to the Guv at about 2:30. Got there for Lawler's set inside, which I enjoyed immensely because of sitting in a car for 9 hours and finally shaking my butt.
Dubfire got boring for me and I headed up to the terrace, where Lawler went a very different direction for me than my experience last year. I didn't hear but maybe one "huge sound" track outside. I refrain from calling what he played minimal, because they were rich beats, but not what I think of when I think of Lawler.I am going to assume that, because he was tagging with Dubfire, Steve played more to Dubfire's style than his own. I also noticed that he played a lot of the tracks that are on the Viva Toronto CDs, whereas when I saw him Saturday in Chicago... he was banging it with only three tracks repeated last night from the Chicago show. He also did less acapella/ random noise making sound clips amongst the tracks than he did in Chicago.
I had a great time and just got home. We switched driving and made it home in under 9 hours :)
THANK YOU TORONTO for being a great city and clubbing community. If any of you on here ran into me, I was wearing a pink, grey and black assymetrical blocked t-shirt with silver triangle earrings, a ponytail, black (then red) sunglasses.... and I was passing out business cards for our record store www.lovevinylrecords.com
THANK YOU to the dude that gave me the copy of viva toronto that you caught.. very nice of you! I had something to listen to on the drive home that was new.
I plan on buying a plane ticket well ahead of time next year to avoid this last minute driving madness.
Respect.
axim
really enjoyed watching the sun come up and Lawler's beats... here are couple vids:
Nic Fanciulli
Steve Lawler
italarmo
Great night! Walked in @ 4-ish after Tiesto and met up with a few friends at Skybar. It was great meeting a few TA's... Yohan, Stereoprincss, english rachel and few more (i just don't remember, sorry!).
Lawler's set was good, but last year's was better.
Dubfire killed it for me!! I started dancing harder when he came on and didn't want to stop! By 8:30 by legs felt like jello... lol!
We couldn't have asked for better weather @ a sunrise party! The best Canada Day sunrise weather we've had in the past 3 years!
lol @ Tiesto walking up to Lawler on the decks after his show @ Ricoh! When Tiesto ran off the stage at Ricoh at exactly 3am, i figured he was going to catch a plane or something... ing guy had nowhere to go and didn't even deliver an encore...:rolleyes:
IMO i would have loooooved to have seen Tiesto play a few tracks off his "in search of sunrise" compilations... perfect venue.
plaxx
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Originally posted by italarmo
IMO i would have loooooved to have seen Tiesto play a few tracks off his "in search of sunrise" compilations... perfect venue.
I'm sure he wanted to, but they probably didn't let him :p
DaRoZa
laidback luke was awesome - didn't think skybar was the right place for his style BOOM-ba-chum-ba house but i was proven wrong :)
the small parts of fanciulli i saw were good
entertaining hipster tunes in the drink whenever i went through..
lawler mainroom was just as i expected, the dark twisted sound he's loved for.. sadly didnt catch enough of dubfire in there.
i wasn't into lawler at the start of his skybar set, but right when the sun started shining in our faces he dropped a track with a nice housey groove and from then on it was great. dubfire took awhile to show up, but it was worth the wait as he really picked things up. after 8 the crowd was understandably dead and was getting rid of their last ounces of energy.. i left at 8:30 after hearing grindhouse.
it was weird seeing tiesto.. one of my friends has an inside joke with me of finding tiesto lookalikes at guv.. it took telling her like 3 times to realize i wasn't joking this time and it was actually him. also thought it was kinda funny seeing him on the same stage as tiesto_sux LOL
overall the night was a lot better than last year's. everyone was friendly whereas last year i saw several fights break out right in front of me and dealt with people talking trash.. we lucked out on the weather too. didn't get a chance to talk to a lot of TAs surprisingly but my group of mac peoples (even my gf who's only into top40) all had a blast.
and wtf is up with the guv closing their coat check before the club is even emptied? they told me the coat check manager "just left to another party" so i have to go through a mission to get my favourite hoodie picked up later this week... very weak
MissK
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Originally posted by DaRoZa
and wtf is up with the guv closing their coat check before the club is even emptied? they told me the coat check manager "just left to another party" so i have to go through a mission to get my favourite hoodie picked up later this week... very weak
that is so sketchy.. lol.. noy like guv to do that
