Not a huge recap

It was a pretty slow Monday, not terrible, but not great. (Which is weird, I thought it would be busy because of the warmness – I just can’t figure out when we will have good nights and when we will have slow ones.) The good part was the people there were very dancy. I’d say at least 30-50% of the people in the room were dancing most of the time.

Matthews remix of Heliophere kicked ass, the Helio boys really liked it too. They are going to put it on the single, that’s awesome.

I/we didn’t play as much new music as we did last week. I did play a really cool (I think it’s cool anyway) version of smack my bitch up, and people seemed to like it. I also got in my favorite mix of Beloved, the one problem with the mix is nobody knows what it is for the first 2 minutes or so.

The end of the night was much more rocky then I had planned. It’s weird how these things just kind of happen sometimes.

I don’t know if anybody noticed the big swing on the stage. I guess that is where the new DJ booth is going to be. I really like that idea – as long as it’s not that swinging contraption. (Which I don’t think it will be.)

I’m really sleepy, so I can’t think of more about the night. Oh I know, if anyone ever has questions about a song, you can ask me here on LJ. I’m usually pretty good at figuring out what song was played when.

You ever google yourself just for fun?

I did, I didn’t find anything interesting except for an old City Pages article about Industrial Strength Sundays at Gators. That is where my darksider DJ roots stem from. They list me and Ryanna as the DJ’s, which is kinda funny since she was never one of the DJ’s. But she was my assistant in the booth for quite some time, so I don’t mind that they listed her.

Another sucky Monday Day.

Monday nights are good though.

Tonight is the season finale of Carnivàle (Actually it was last night, but they are replaying it tonight.) I can’t wait… Don’t say anything about it if you have seen it already! Then I have the late shift at HM. So tonight should be very good.

I did have a good weekend. Friday was a better turnout then expected. Our room stayed pretty full almost all night (Once we opened that is, I have to see if there is a way we can open earlier.) We have come to the conclusion that we are the room for all the women, and the main room is where all the men go (except for the smart men.) I have no problems at all with this situation.

Saturday I went to Wild Party, that was great fun. Except for the fact that I was sitting behind some massive jockboy who you could tell had no interest in being there. His girlfriend or their mutual friend must have dragged him down to the show, so he was constantly leaning over to talk to his girlfriend, and moving around etc… UGGG. Luckily I think he fell asleep after the intermission. The show itself was very entertaining.

Yesterday I had to do the family thing up in St Cloud for Easter.. those things always suck, but they are a necessity of life so what are you going to do.

In other news I applied for a new job, which I think I would be perfect for. But I am not going to say another word about it, for fear of the Jinx.

It’s going to be a slow night at the old watering hole tonight.

I havn’t read any recaps of the Rubber Ball last night. (If someone has seen a good one let me know.)

I have a feeling it was packed, which means not many people will be coming out tonight. We are just not having good luck with our timing, last week it was the snowstorm this week rubber ball.

One of these weeks the stars will align.

The good thing is Noise and I can have fun just DJing to a blank wall. We will have lights tonight, so the room should look pretty cool.

You have to love the Cox

Carl Cox was the shit tonight. I want to type a lot more and tell every one about the night but I can barley see the screen in front of me.

All I can say is it’s been a very fun birthday!

*edited for my own safety*

My biggest entry yet

Another good HM, we have been on quite a roll lately. We played a ton of new music last night, and it all seemed to work pretty well. (Except the new VNV which didn’t work very well at all this week.) Someone brought in the new Faint album. I really like that band, that is one CD I will definitely have to pick up. I tried to get the new NIN song for last night, unfortunately I wasn’t able to get it. Hopefully I will have it by next week.

Sounds like not many people I know are going to the rubber ball. This will be the first one I’ve missed in 4 or 5 years, I am not bummed out about that at all. The only thing I really liked about the RB was the people watching, and I’m pretty much over that.

I think I’m going to have to go back on drugs for my ADD. I find that I just can not sit in front of a computer for 8 hours unless I have tons of stimuli. One or two hours into the day and I am already crawling up the walls. *Sigh* I don’t much like the side effects, but I don’t see how I can keep this job at my current pace. Heck even my writing here seems to be jumping all over the place.

Last Saturday I got my first taste of the new club Spin. (I was with someone who was celebrating his birthday, so he got to pick the place.) I will say the place is very pretty, lots of flat screen TV’s everywhere, great sound and lights. But there are not many places to sit, and actually the place is fairly small. Of course there is a huge section that is only for VIP’s, so that cuts down on the size quite a bit.

We arrived very early (9:15 ish – again, birthday boys call) The music was actually pretty good when we got there. I was very surprised, and many of the good electronica songs were accompanied by the videos. That was cool, as I don’t get to see many electronica videos. There were not many people there yet, so we got some cocktails and stood around talking. I ended up knowing one of the bartenders from back in my Gators days, so at least my drinks were good, until the bastard had to go up and work the VIP room. From then on it was $ 7 a piece for shitty Mandarin 7’s.

Then people starting showing up and I knew I was in trouble. I swear there was some huge cloning machine right outside the doors creating everyone right before the walked in. Every fucking guy in the place looked identical. They all had those jeans that look like they are old and beat up, but actually cost $ 70 at Dayton’s, and vertical striped button up long sleeve shirts. Every fucking one of them… The women weren’t as bad clothes wise, but they still all looked pretty similar. And it was really not that good looking of a crowd, they all thought they were the shit, but in reality I would say most people there rated about a 4 or 5.

By this time it was around 11 – 11:30, the place was pretty full. The music was still good, but nobody was dancing yet. Then they turn off the lights and the DJ makes a big announcement “Welcome to Spin Nightclub” strobe lights go off everywhere (Oh shit this is going to be bad.) He goes into 50 cent In Da Club (Yup, here is the nightmare I expected.) Sure enough it’s a mad dash for the dancefloor, it was like someone was giving away gap gift certificates to the first 200 people on the dancefloor.

We were standing at a table right next to the dancefloor so we had a very good view of all the rubes. For a while K and I entertained ourselves by pointing out idiots to each other. You can only do that for so long, before you really want to take a baseball bat to everyone in the place. At this point the place is packed. And by packed I mean it was so full I must have burned 20 people with a cigarette and nobody had a clue who it was who burned them; By the time their liquor clouded brain realized they stumbled into a lit smoke the crowd had washed them past one hundred more people.

Finally I just couldn’t take it anymore. I was about to go Falling Down on the place and break out an Uzi. I tell the birthday boy and his posse we must leave now or blood will start coming out of my various facial orifices. They were ambivalent until I broke out enough free passes for everyone to get into First Ave (I planned ahead.)

We finally get out of there and see that there is a line of at least 100 more people waiting to get into that smegma stain. I knew we had a lot of fucked up people in this town, but I didn’t know there were that many.

We finally get to first ave and I had never been so happy to see so many beautiful, tattooed, pierced, people in my life. People who had ratty old jeans, really did have ratty old jeans. Some people wore t-shirts, some wore something it looked like they found outside in the gutter and some were dressed nicely. There were ravers and punks (employees) and a few darksiders and your standard number of first ave hipsters. There was a DJ from Detroit who was fantastic, my favorite bartender was working… life was good.

There you have it… don’t you want to go.

Well I just wasted a good hour of my companies time, I suposse I should do something they pay me for.

E27 Recap

Looks like we have a winner. The night exceeded out expectations by a mile. Considering the weather and the fact that we haven’t promoted it at all I figured there would be myself and maybe 5 others. We were off by a bit. I don’t know how busy Fridays normally are, and I think over all the club was fairly slow. (The main room seemed pretty empty for most of the night) But our room was very full.

We didn’t get to open until well after 11 because we didn’t have a bar tender, that was the only bummer of the night. Once we opened everyone just flooded right in. Our dancefloor was kind of hit or miss, but the room had a great vibe all night. I think being in a smaller room helps us. The room gets full right away and it seems more intimate.

I forgot how much fun I have doing E27. (Sounds like a drug) I had an absolute blast.

We will definitely be back this week and every week in the foreseeable future. Next week we will bring lights, that will look really cool in that small dark space.

This night could turn into something big.

Ground Zero Tonight

I went down and met with DV8 and Chuck last night, we talked about the night and I looked over the room. All the right thing were said. It looks like we will have full control over the room musically and decor wise. Hopefully this will work out, I’m starting to get excited about the night. went downt there later in the night and I haven’t talked to him. I need to find out what he thought of the room.

I’m not exactly sure when the room will open tonight, 10:00, 10:30 or 11:00… I was told it could be any of the three. (Nobody gets there until 11:00 anyway so it shouldn’t really matter.) Now that the Electropunk show has been cancelled maybe we will get a crowd out. Of course the storm that all the idiotic weathermen were yelling was going to hit yesterday is hitting today, so that could cut down on some of the crowd.

If we like the room, which looks more likely now, we will really start promoting it starting next week.

New Friday Nights

Happy Irish day… or whatever. I’m mostly Scottish, does that count?

Darkwatch announced on Gothling that and I are spinning on Fridays at GZ. This is kind of true. We agreed to do a test night tomorrow, and we weren’t going to announce anything unless we decide we like the potential of the night.

On one hand it could be a really cool night. DV8 plays much harder, crunchier, boot-stompier music then we do. So people could get some of that in the main room and come into the sanctuary for everything we do.

But there are a few thing that worry us. We don’t know yet how much control we will have over the room. The cool thing about First Ave and E27 was we could do whatever we wanted. If we wanted a guest(s) we could have them, if we wanted to put a band in there, we could. They let us decorate the room however we wanted (Anyone who was at the last night of Kobalt knows how far this was taken.) We also could bring in however many lights we wanted too. Which was a bitch to set up and tear down, but it made to room pretty cool. I have been told we can bring lights, but they don’t have anywhere to hang them. I don’t really know what we are going to do about that.

Neither or myself have ever met Mark, who is the owner. I’ve heard a few scary things about him (about control issues and money issues.) I guess we will find everything out in the next day or two what’s up with the night. We might go down there for a bit tonight and check out the room. (Although has an event tonight, so I don’t know if this will be possible.)

Bottom line is we will be there tomorrow. Beyond that I can’t promise anything.

Hard Monday

Kick ass night last night. It started off with [spacebar] doing a very nice set to warm up the crowd. (Did he get his spankings?) After he was done people were ready to go. The first song I played was brand new Daft Punk, and it got people out on the floor I couldn’t believe it.

Actually all the new music we played worked. Both of the new DP songs worked and the new VNV song got a huge reaction. I had never heard the VNV until last night, I thought it was very good. They seem to have evolved enough so that they don’t sound like “every other VNV song” but didn’t stray so far away that you wonder what the hell it is. I think it’s going to be a big song. Of course the danger is it will be way over played between Mondays and all of the GZ nights. We will probably play it every week until it’s released and then when everyone starts playing it we will have to lay off for a while so that it doesn’t get burned out. (I’m sure it will anyway.)

The crowd was super dancey last night, those nights are the most fun. It seemed like we could go in almost any direction and people still danced. What is pretty cool about Mondays is how they can be so different from week to week. I was talking to at the end of the night about this. One week we can have a crowd that really wants hard crunchy and guitar/metalish songs, the next week we will have tons of slow gothy/mystical requests, followed by a week of 80’s music fans, followed by two weeks of electronica nuts. This may piss off some people who only want to hear one kind of music, but I think it keeps the night fresh. Of course you will hear some of the same types of music each week, but there can be big differences from week to week. Personally I think that’s pretty darn cool. (Even on weeks where I don’t really like the music all that much.)

There was a group who came out from South Dakota, I don’t know how they found out about the night, but they made a trip to the Twin Cities just to check out Mondays. They had a blast, which is great. They said they are going to plan on making it a monthly occurrence. Actually there seemed to be a bunch of newbie’s there last night. Maybe it was me, but I didn’t recognize a lot of the people there. People also seemed to be drinking quite a bit, or everyone was a light weight. Drunks everywhere, not obnoxious drunks, just happy drunks.

Thanks to everyone who came out, our next big event will be Goth Prom. Now time to stop typing and get to work.