Intro
For those unfamiliar with the hard dance scene, Goodgreef and Sundissential are the north of England’s largest hard dance clubs. These clubs don’t stick to one venue, they host events at lucky locations across the north of England. The south of England has a similar thing with Storm and Frantic being the main clubs, amongst others. Each club has famous DJ’s signed to there label to increase publicity and this event has the best of both batting out, along with some special guests from Continental Europe.
Location
The event was located at the Mission nightclub in Leeds. It is one of the first time Mission has hosted such an event as normally if Goodgreef or Sundissential come to Leeds they have gone with Evolution or Gatecrasher as the venue due to the size, after Missions refurbishment to include Mission Annexe the capacity has increased. Even after the refit, it was still very very full, at the max capacity at least, very packed out!! Phew! The staff did a good job at the bar I must say as even with thousands of people I got served relatively fast. The one thing that Mission let us down on was drinks prices, seriously WTF, a bottle of water was cheaper @ creamfields than here! £3.50 a bottle!
The event had three rooms playing three distinct different styles of hard dance.
Room 1, the main room: Extra Hard Hardstyle.
Room 2: Trance/ Tech Trance
Room 3: House / Funky
Atmosphere
The atmosphere was amazing as everyone came to enjoy the music and dance like crazy, I have to say this event was the most energetic (and Ive been to a fair few now) and ‘hard’ event I have ever been to, seriously! The crowd went mental when DJs were coming off and on, and went even mentaler at classic hard dance toons. The middle of the dancefloor there was an elevated podium thing, people were dancing so hard some wires dropped from the roof! BOOM BOOM BOOM! F**ckin awesome! When the hardcore techno came in signs were ripped down and danced with haha (pic). I don’t think Missions bouncers are used to this hardcoreness lol, as they did nothing.
Music
Now to my review of the music, which of course is the whole point of going lol. I cant write a review of everything as I would have to be everywhere at once to do so, so i will give comments about what I did see:
Started off in the Tech Trance room for a bit and saw Kane Nelson (pic), I haven’t seen him before, not surprised really as the opening acts are usually relatively new to the clubs. Kane nelson opened with some good trance tunes mixing in electro and techno beats, I enjoyed that, was entertaining to watch!
I then went onto the main room to see the tidy DJs who I recognise from the Tidy Weekender I went to a few months back. They played classic tunes from Tidy as well as some new stuff, reliving the memories of the weekender i was here. Good tunes, did a good job boyz!
Spenner my mate wanted to see Matt Pickup playing B2B with Steve NRG as hes a fan so i stopped in the main room for this, I was at the Bar a lot when they were playing chatting to randoms. Cally Cage was on next, i previously heard uncool comments about here DJing abilities on the web but was very surprised. She got the crowd going indeed, blummin heck – played some right belters!
The big guns were on next and you can tell this because the main room got extremely packed, i was going crazy to “Andy Whitby between two bikini clad woman so I wasn’t complaining d: Andy Whitby won the best DJ of 2007 in the hard dance awards and rightfully so too in my opinion, he plays very technically indeed, very impressive, he started at 10:30 i looked at my watch 15 mins l8r and he had to have played up to 10 tracks mixed up in that space of time! The crowd went mental for Whitby as always – hard style. Nearly everyone in the crowd was singing along to his classics too, and I was shoutin’ my head off, i like it when I’m in a club with like minded ppl lol.
11:30 saw Alex Kidd (pic)come onto the stage, i have seen him before and was very impressed, he really gets the crowd going with rather than playing just his tracks and mixing them, but making a song out of turning the turntable on the song – you will know what i mean if you hear it. Absolutely awesome. DJ Alex Kidd’s visual effects were a good touch as well. Link to his website: “How Dare they try to test DJ Alex Kidd!”
The worlds number one hardstyle DJ come over all the way from Holland for this event, my first time seeing her live – DJ Lady Dana (pic). She played some ace toons, and some really hard stuff which i enjoyed loads but i think she could could have been more entertaining to the crowd IMO.
I slipped off to the tech trance room to see Adam Sheridan for half an hour for a relative rest before my favourite DJ came on in the main room. He played some gorgeous trance tunes, the ones where you lift your arms into the air to the highs and the wonderful lyrics *sigh*, and then bust into some crazy hard techno stuff after building up the crowd with the gorgeousness – I am very impressed with Sheridan, you can definitely tell he has played with the best of the best in the trance room in the past (Tiesto, Armin Van Burren etc…).
I went to the main room to see Lady Danas’ last track and the crowd was chanting “Mark EG, Mark EG” over and over haha, I can see she wasn’t mega happy @ that lol! The man (pic) came onto the stage and stopped the music WTF, played some famous quotes from some film he loved, did some crazy dancing – and pounded the F*CK out of the soundsystem all of a sudden getting the crowd to go mental with his chanting about ‘only living once’. Mark EG is a legend – his music was good, very hard, repetitive, underground cybergoth techno style, but not as technically proficient as the others. He really made a great performance though, living true to his name. I managed to get a great pic of him going mental up close too!
Last to the stage in the main room was Radio 1’s Kutski (Pic) vs Greece’s number one hard dance DJ Ilogik. I am a huge fan of Ilogik and have seen him twice before (once where i shook his hand woot!), he’s a technical genius when it comes to the decks, he concentrates a lot when playing so hardly looks at the crowd at all. I havent seen kutski before tonight, i have been told about his abilities though but was skeptical before tonight, my my he is bloody awesome at mixing. His set i have to say was the best of the night, Mark EG and Alex Kidd even joined him on the stage at one point looking at him DJing (pic). Wow – well impressed!
Overall
Overall i definitely had an awesome time, listened to, raved my heart out at and seen some great performances who were technically amazing. The crowd was the best ever i have experienced at an event of this size too. great stuff.
Some links to random pics i took on my phone are below, apologies for the quality but I think i did okay as the night was mental.
Attractive raving female
Random crowd 1
Random crowd 2
Random crowd 3
Army girl!
Funky / House room
Very Sexy!
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