Mark, the promoter you spoke about wasn't from the Dance Academy by any chance? Kinda spoils any hope I have about gettting through to the next round if it was :cry:
To be perfectly honest, it kinda winds me up when things like that happen - i've been playing solid hard trance for about 2 and a half years now, and I used to be one of the only ones I knew who did. Record shopping was difficult, as there used to be about 2 new hard trance records a week (I used to buy them all), everybody else was still into hard house.
It's steadily got more and more popular, and now lots of people play it, but a lot of them play it badly. Hard trance can get very boring, especially if you don't know how to vary a set, and if someone is on before you doing this, it fcuks up your set.
Doesn't that thing in HMV wind you up either? It's using your name to sell stuff that you'd probably never play. I used to do that job (vinyl seller in HMV), and I know they tried to get me to do things like that also.