400

The opening night of 400 was a complete and utter success!
The day started out with the three of us going shop to shop picking up all the stuff you need for a night. Monitors, strobes-on-a-string, pez, breakfast (quite a feat, bearing in mind it was lunchtime), a cake and the mother of all smoke machines. Then it was off down to the venue to set everything up, building the bar and sorting out the lighting. Then testing the lighting and our cunning strobe-and-smoke-under-the-stairs effect. After a brief laugh attack, brought on by the onslaught of smoke coming out of the stairs, shooting 15 metres straight ahead and with cunning precision hitting the exact spot where the dj's head is supposed to be, the fire alarm goes off and the firemen arrive within minutes. Turns out we managed to fill three floors of a massive theatre building with smoke in one brief go... The building then goes into complete shut down for about an hour to air the smoke out. Right. So we scrap the, hillarious smoke-and-strobe-under-the-stairs death trap and count our blessing that 1) we tried it at 6 in the afternoon and not at midnight, and 2) that no show was going on on the main stage, thus having to evacuate some 1500 people.
The night went on to blow expectations out of the water! The venue only holds some 200 people, wicked, intimate. We had almost 400 there over the course of the night. Here are some of our own pics plus a link to some 3rd party nightlife pics pics.


Massive thanks first of all to our amazing VJ and then of course everyone who turned up. Biweekly from now on... I will keep you posted.