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Date:
Saturday 28th January 2005
Address: Temple Bar Music Centre, Dublin
Occurrence: TBC
Hours: 11pm - 3am
Ticket Price: €15
Genre: Trance
Dress Code: Anything goes
Capacity: 600 |
| Line-Up:
Main Room: Matt Hardwick, Al Redmond, Luksta |
Trance has been enjoying
somewhat of a renaissance in Dublin city over the
last year, with some of 2004's top trance tunes
being produced in Ireland's capital. With 2005 expectd
to be even bigger, it was inevitable that Dublin
would, at last, start getting some quality trance
nights to go with the quality tunage coming out
of the city. The first big night of 2005 arrived
last Friday night in the Temple Bar Music Centre,
were Matt Hardwick made his first apperance in Ireland
of 2005, with support coming from Luksta and Dublin
stalwart Al Redmond.
We arrived at around midnight to find the Temple
Bar Music Centre filling up nicely. After a quick
drink in the side bar, we made our way in to the
main room to find Al Redmond warming up the half
full, but enthusiastic crowd. It was noticable from
when we entered the main room that the sound system
wasn't going to do the night justice, as we found
ourselves able to speak without having to shout,
always a bad sign. The crowd didn't seem to mind
though, and things started picking up with Emass
- Seek You going down a storm. He continued to build
it after that, and Tiesto's latest offering, Ancient
History really started building up some momentum
to the night, even prompting an impromptu playing
of an air-trumpet from Mr Redmond. He finished off
with Marcos - Just For A Day, the latest offering
on Vandit, which set things up nicely for Matt Hardwick
to take over.
Matt Hardwick was introduced just after 1, but another
noticeable aspect of the night, which unfortunately
carried on right throughout the night, was the fiercely
over the top MC, who probably should never have
been there in the first place. He constantly heckled
over the tunes, and seemed intent on harrassing
Matt Hardwick as he mixed. But he got on with it
as best he could, starting off with John O'Callaghan
- Mercury, a monster on A State Of Trance, and typical
of the quality Trance coming out of Ireland at the
moment. He mixed Ark In The Sky on Discover Records
into that, and the night was starting to live up
to the potential that it had promised, as we were
really now starting to get into our stride. Things
continued to go well with Restricted Motion, a collaboration
between John O'Callaghan and Brian Kearney, really
getting things going.
But the Temple Bar Music Centre was only around
three quarter's full and with the sound system being
nowhere near loud enough, any dip in the tunes could
have proved fatal. This nearly happened when Matt
Hardwick went through a spell of playing some slow
vocal tunes and the atmosphere started to dwindle.
Thankfully though this didn't last long, and things
soon got going again with Signum's excellent remake
of their own First Strike getting things back in
order. It continued on the up from then and Tiesto's
mammoth mix of Adagio for Strings soon had the crowd
on their toes again. An inspired final tune from
Matt Hardwick, the classic Everyday from Agnelli
& Nelson, finally brought us to the peak we
had craved all night, and ensured the night ended
on the highest possible note. |
Venue: 6
Music: 8
Crowd: 7
Sound System: 4
Total: 25 / 40
Rating: ??? |
| Review written by:
Wayne Spelman |
wayne@uk-cl.co.uk |
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