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| Frantic Is 5 |
Date: Saturday
10th August 2002
Address: The Brixton Academy, 211 Stockwell
Road, London
Occurrence: One Off
Hours: 9pm - 6am
Ticket Price: £15
Advance Bookings
Dress
Code: TBC
Genre: Hard House / Funky
House
Capacity:
TBC |
| Line Up: Spencer
Freeland, Tidy Boys, Andy Farley, Phil Reynolds,
Paul Glazby, BK, Nick Sentience, Ed Real, K90(live),
and others (Including a side funky room) |
Frantic is a name quickly becoming
synonymous for well-organised events, great venues,
fantastic music, and top rank DJs. The much anticipated,
Frantic is 5-Hard House Academy event was no exception.
Saturday evening began with a mixture of big-named
DJs from a widely represented conglomeration of
the UK's top labels. Juxtaposed in an incredible
venue filled with lights, sound and encapsulating
video screens, this evening of hard house raving
was overflowing with excitement (and unfortunately
overflowing with a bit too many spangled-up people
wandering aimlessly or attempting to dance on a
very crowded dance floor).
The musical tone set by Frantic this evening was
much harder than usual. Each DJ fed upon each other
to progressively increase the mind-throbbing beat
of typical hard house music to what can only be
described as a positively militant sound that left
toes tapping in the taxi ride home.
I have personally never heard any of these DJs play
tunes of this hard nature in any club before. For,
Andy Farley this must have been a special treat,
as he got to return to the roots of his beginning
"Harder-Faster" DJ days. Many clubbers
appreciated this welcome change to the typical uplifting
hard house/hard trance sound that is most often
connected with the Frantic name. However, some clubbers
purchased their tickets in anticipation of the usual
Farley and Tidy Boys sound and were instead delivered
the contrary. The harder pulsating sound was a nice
break from the norm but by the end of the evening
I think many were left longing for an uplifting
sound to break the monotony. However, Farley dropped
in two classic Lab4 tunes showcasing his excellent
taste and left the crowd no doubt pining for the
Timeless Bank Holiday event that Frantic is holding
next.
One thing is for certain. Everyone in the crowd
could appreciate the great venue, chill out area,
well-selected music, eye pleasing visuals and quality
sound system that contributed to the evening. The
only real complaint out of the evening was the size
of the crowd, the length of the queues at the loo
and that the rooms were too brightly lit to fully
appreciate the visuals that were on offer.
While
I will certainly wait in anticipation of Frantic's
next event, I will also look forward to hopefully
hearing the more typical hard house sound that personifies
Tidy, Nucleuz, and fellow camaraderies. |
Venue: 8
Music: 8
Crowd: 6
Sound System: 9
Total: 31 / 40
Rating: Silver Award |
Review written by: Michelle Figg michelle@uk-cl.co.uk |
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