I'm not sure how, or why, but somehow, what I thought was going to be the longest 2 weeks of my life turned out to be one of the most amazing fortnights ever.
It all kicked off with the usual Thursday and Friday night residencies, but then I had to rush down to Oxford to meet Jig and head out to Get Loaded on Clapham Common. When we were wandering in Jig recognised the muffled noise coming from the back of the tent nearest to us as being that of Marina & The Diamonds so we went to check her out, and were one of like 100 (max?) people there watching her, but she was amazing! On a festival line up that hosted some huge acts I'm glad we caught her, and I'd pick her as the 'festival surprise'. There seemed to be loads of drum 'n' bass heads there as Blame + Chase and Status rammed out their tent, but when Magnetic Man (who I had been looking forward to for months) were set to come on the tent emptied, allowing us to get right on the barrier! They were amazing, glad they are talking to people about signing, their stuff is set to be amazing. Other festival highlights, without boring you with every act, were; MSTRKRFT, Steve Aoki, BBS, Crookers and Peaches.
So after that incredible day it was back to Bristol on Wednesday to play at the Props Festival. The line up was amzing, Mystery Jets, Jaguar Skills, Pendulum, Futureheads, Killa Kella, Dave Remix, Jinx, Jon Weldon, Gash DJs and Matt Horne. Played my set, to a half full/empty room, just before Gash DJs went on, then slowly got drunk and watched them empty the room for about half an hour, although I don't know why, they played a tidy set. Went over and caught Jon, Jinx and Rich killing it at Syndicate, before trekking back over to Panache to watch Jaguar Skills in the electro room. Tom Maddicott was on before, and I recognise him from killing it at Simple and Slide in Oxford, and he killed Panache as well, dropped two originals, 'Ravor' and 'Boomstick', I think they are both available now on Juno, and definetely worth buying, they are huge! Jaguar Skills was really good, but by all accounts, he played hip hop? Which meant the room quickly emptied, and he lost my attention too. So I went over to the Mystery Jets, and after lending them my headphones, I became the first person they had in their room! So after a while of appreciating their amazing set, we ended up taking it in turns putting a song on and dancing on the dancefloor while getting through their Rum rider ha
So yeahh, even though people complained about relatively low numbers in some rooms, I can honestly say I had the best night of my life!
Since then I seem to just get increasingly more tired and rough looking, but Thursday nights just seem to get better and better ♥
Next Thursday is going to be huge make sure your there, special guest DJ set from the Pigeon Detectives, and extra long dub set from me to send Harry off to university in style!
Tomm Maddicroft Myspace
It all kicked off with the usual Thursday and Friday night residencies, but then I had to rush down to Oxford to meet Jig and head out to Get Loaded on Clapham Common. When we were wandering in Jig recognised the muffled noise coming from the back of the tent nearest to us as being that of Marina & The Diamonds so we went to check her out, and were one of like 100 (max?) people there watching her, but she was amazing! On a festival line up that hosted some huge acts I'm glad we caught her, and I'd pick her as the 'festival surprise'. There seemed to be loads of drum 'n' bass heads there as Blame + Chase and Status rammed out their tent, but when Magnetic Man (who I had been looking forward to for months) were set to come on the tent emptied, allowing us to get right on the barrier! They were amazing, glad they are talking to people about signing, their stuff is set to be amazing. Other festival highlights, without boring you with every act, were; MSTRKRFT, Steve Aoki, BBS, Crookers and Peaches.
So after that incredible day it was back to Bristol on Wednesday to play at the Props Festival. The line up was amzing, Mystery Jets, Jaguar Skills, Pendulum, Futureheads, Killa Kella, Dave Remix, Jinx, Jon Weldon, Gash DJs and Matt Horne. Played my set, to a half full/empty room, just before Gash DJs went on, then slowly got drunk and watched them empty the room for about half an hour, although I don't know why, they played a tidy set. Went over and caught Jon, Jinx and Rich killing it at Syndicate, before trekking back over to Panache to watch Jaguar Skills in the electro room. Tom Maddicott was on before, and I recognise him from killing it at Simple and Slide in Oxford, and he killed Panache as well, dropped two originals, 'Ravor' and 'Boomstick', I think they are both available now on Juno, and definetely worth buying, they are huge! Jaguar Skills was really good, but by all accounts, he played hip hop? Which meant the room quickly emptied, and he lost my attention too. So I went over to the Mystery Jets, and after lending them my headphones, I became the first person they had in their room! So after a while of appreciating their amazing set, we ended up taking it in turns putting a song on and dancing on the dancefloor while getting through their Rum rider ha
So yeahh, even though people complained about relatively low numbers in some rooms, I can honestly say I had the best night of my life!
Since then I seem to just get increasingly more tired and rough looking, but Thursday nights just seem to get better and better ♥
Next Thursday is going to be huge make sure your there, special guest DJ set from the Pigeon Detectives, and extra long dub set from me to send Harry off to university in style!
Tomm Maddicroft Myspace