its sad for me really up here in sunny scouseland.....we used to be brimming with techno......we had the voodoo which was THE best techno night in the country at one stage in my opinion....The Dj Rush and bone night,the umek night,ben sims,billy nasty.....the last one where dave clarke got on the mic!!! green velvet live.....it really was a piss take of a night in an absolutely incredibly small and intimate venue....
then we had syndicate in the same venue....who started getting more diverse guests like oliver ho,glenn wilson,mike humphries,slobodan,julian liberator.....it really was a techno haven at one point up these ways....youd have voodoo one friday....then syndicate the next....then voodoo the week after that...and then a drum and bass night the week after.....i swear i lived in le bateau on friday nights for nearly 2 years....i dont know how i went anywhere else......
things have changed a lot now though...both nights are well gone...have been for over a year....voodoo closed to concentrate on the label...which has now gone strangely quiet......syndicate just dissapeared.....
in january a lad i know booked a really sweet venue....got charles seigling to come and play and got 150 people in.....a far cry from the voodoos 400 - 500.....
now all liverpool has left is bugged out....which is basically full of students who have went just because its in cream and is seen as trendy...not because they love their techno.......
im startin a night in december and hope to fire things up again but it will be a hard struggle......
best place at the mo for me techno wise is brum.....its got aj!! nuff said!!