Originally Posted by daviec
Only at these types of events. Don't think for a second that this was some respectable hardcore or techno night. It was the kind of pish you hear blaring out of clapped out novas with dodgy paint jobs, and alloys worth more than the rest of the car. Up there with the "Clubland" CD's.
They tried to make some cash out of what was once a massive event up here, but the majority of the crowd didn't have a clue. It's not like many folk went coz they used to go to the original rezerections. They went coz their big brother/sister used to go and they'd heard all the dodgy mix tapes when they were about 10.
I for one wasn't surprised when I heard what had happened, and I can't say I'm particularly bothered. I hope it ****ed them financially and they don't do any more events.
If Jon Campbell simply wanted to run a new night and build it up to cater for that sort of market (old skool happy hardcore and commercial "dance"), then he could have put some work into it, but he clearly thought he'd just do it the quick way. Buy the rights to a famous brand and use that to pull everyone in, knowing exactly what kind of crowd he'd pull in. He's done it before when he tried to relaunch his TTF band, at the same venue.
I laughed when I saw some of the features he managed to get in the papers. One in particular stood out, as apparently this "rez" would have for the first time ever, female dj's (Amber D? and some other hard house bird). This convieniently forgets to mention Mrs Woods, Miss Djax, the lass from GTO/Technohead, Tasha and the killer pussies, and various other female dj's who all played rez in the past. But it looks good for their promotion and seeing as no-one who was going to it had ever likely been to a rez before it wouldn't matter that it was a blatant lie.
So that's how thye went about it, and they got their just deserts.