How was BLOC Weekender?

[teknofilth]

from reading posts on here and squatjuice my impression seems to be that people say Bloc is good if they went there for the music, and they say that it's bad if they went there to take drugs ;-)

[wrong]

from reading posts on here and squatjuice my impression seems to be that people say Bloc is good if they went there for the music, and they say that it's bad if they went there to take drugs ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjKjBk9urUs


Thats pretty much the size of it ! Can't be arsed to type it out again so i've copy and pasted my 2 pence from no future:

Kind of fragmented compared to last year in that i didn't know where any of my mates were for most of the time... missed a few sets i'd wanted to catch..Black E (Cristian Vogel and Ben Pest) slammed it.. was definately a highlight for me, with an impromptu number at the end with cristian's wife singing/toasting that just rocked.. really positive set, crowd loving it and a VERY lively and smiley performance from the musicians.. could really see they were all enjoying themselves..
Karl Bartos was excellent.. a real gent and amazing to see and hear him and his right hand man (who WAS meatloaf).
The weather was abysmal which added to the bosnian estate vibe of it all..
Luke ('s anger) totally smashed it on friday/sat morning giving some much needed welly to the music, saw a bit of juan atkins.. didn't think it was anything too amazing, Simon Dexorcist's acid house/oldies set was excellent..i thought in general the sunday had the most relaxed vibe, being a kind of 'bonus' day.. criminally, i missed jason leach's set which i heard dropped jaws amongst the 'rum-diddy-oom-diddy' straight techno heads. lots of casualties, people being carried away by bouncers who i thought apart from a couple were pretty cool..As with the last bloc, it was great to see the 'uk scene' coming together with promoters and crews from absolutely everywhere in attendance and having a right good knees up.. 400 strong irish massive in the house keeping the vibe alive .. hmm, i might be rambling now but all in all.. bloody good show .

Have to say there was a bit of a 'ketamine presence' this year that i didn't notice last year so much... What i found a bit bad was the extent to which lots of people were getting themselves reaaally ****ed up and not leaving their chalets.. to me it kind of heralded the onset of the interest in doing drugs overtaking the interest in getting out and about and hearing/seeing the performances... :(

oh, and i thought sleeparchive was bizarrely boring,

Other things that rocked (according to others) were Jackmaster from glasgow, Red Snapper, Apparently Amon Tobin was amazing too... And i really enjoyed my set which luckily was just after they'd closed the other 2 rooms on sunday morning so had a full house - horaay :)

[maily]

Black E (Cristian Vogel and Ben Pest) slammed it.. was definately a highlight for me

likewise man, best thing all weekend i think. they were programming like mothafokkahs. jacking fun music =]

Phuture were wicked too, the bug was great particularly warrior queen. ed chamberlain was great, luke vibert was fantastic [half hour banging aphex twin segment in his set =] ton's of good music to be heard.
loads of nice people, and some bizzare sights were seen too.
can't fault it will deffo be back next year with more mates.

[Sunil]

from reading posts on here and squatjuice my impression seems to be that people say Bloc is good if they went there for the music, and they say that it's bad if they went there to take drugs ;-)

Not quite. For me personally, I found many of the security really rude when they didn't need to be - and that had nothing to do with drug searches etc. The random drug searches though, really were excessive and for me took away a lot of the good spirit and vibe that was there last year. I'm sure they got lots of drugs alright, but I think the openess of the (relentless) searches, rather than doing it in a private, offside place... was a bit off; especially when quite a few people they were searching had nothing on them.

[Sunil]

Re: Black E... They were great, probably my favourite set as well. Got some of Vogel on the Friday which was good, but him and Ben Pest together were dynamite. They were really buzzing off each other and the vibe in the room; would love to catch them again.

[maily]

Re: Black E... They were great, probably my favourite set as well. Got some of Vogel on the Friday which was good, but him and Ben Pest together were dynamite. They were really buzzing off each other and the vibe in the room; would love to catch them again.

yeah, i was saying to our lass "let's book em for PT" then i found out who they actually were and thought again!!

cost+travel=stupid cost [probably]

hey sunil, sorry i never actually got to meet u, your pal dion tried to introdue us a couple o times but we never managed to track u down!

easy now.

[Sunil]

hey sunil, sorry i never actually got to meet u, your pal dion tried to introdue us a couple o times but we never managed to track u down!

Shit yeah, I met Dion at some stage and he said that to me - I guess I figured I'd bump into you before the end, although I never saw Dion after that I don't think, so it was always going to be difficult!

[massplanck]

hey sunil, sorry i never actually got to meet u, your pal dion tried to introdue us a couple o times but we never managed to track u down!
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lol. You met Dion? How is he. Havent seen him in a couple of months.

[wrong]

yeah, i was saying to our lass "let's book em for PT" then i found out who they actually were and thought again!!

cost+travel=stupid cost [probably]

I think you might be surprised.. Ben lives in london and is a very nice guy who's all about the music, and cristian rarely plays these shores anymore so might be well up for it especially after the obvious fun he had during their set at bloc.. If you are thinking about it, lemme know and we can maybe arrange some flight sharing from barcelona as we'd put em on in london too.. -)

[mattboyslim]

I think you might be surprised.. Ben lives in london and is a very nice guy who's all about the music, and cristian rarely plays these shores anymore so might be well up for it especially after the obvious fun he had during their set at bloc.. If you are thinking about it, lemme know and we can maybe arrange some flight sharing from barcelona as we'd put em on in london too.. -)

could be game for this too!

[maily]

could be game for this too!

once i've got dates for a bit later in the year i'll be intouch you too =]