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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.
This is a blog, obviously. A blog where people of the Truskool* persuasion** share their thoughts on music, gear, gigs, running labels and well... life, really.
In a time where religion has little or no place in peoples lives, other walks of life take the role of religion, be it golf, gardening or music. Sometimes there are fanatics, but I've always thought a more relaxed approached to be desirable. We are no purits. That said, nothing gets on my nerves more than bad music, whether it is hearing it or even reading about it. But in the end bad music is all subjective. The things I react badly to are often aimed at people of the non musical persuasion. People to whom music does not matter in the way it does to me, or to the lovely people I have invited to contribute to this blog.
We will be blogging our hearts out about music (obviously) with some pretty decent focus areas: production, DJ-ing, gear, industry insights and last but not least, rants. That pretty much sums up what we will be doing here. All in good spirits, of course. And yes, there will be free music.
Let me just quickly introduce you to the first line up of contributors, hand picked for their special skills:
Johan Soh (international man of good taste), Myagi (builds his own synths, for crying out loud), High Eight (all around nice guy), Dan F (the best rants on the interweb) and General Midi (breakbeat superhero). More contributors will be added as we go along.
*Truskool (noun): A mock genre that has yet to catch on, due to marketing funds being spent elsewhere. No clear definition, although "breakbeat for grownups", "breaks, bass and beyond" and "breakbeat with a beard" have been used frequently. Broadly used to describe genre defying music of the bleepier kind.
**Persuasion (noun): An effective attention-getting device, a strong appeal to self-interest, a stimulation of desire for a product or service, and a powerful call-to-action response. (Dictionary of Business Terms, 3rd edition, Barron's Educational Series)
