it was a good night, not the best dubstep or grime experience this year - jme's birthday bash was way better, but there were some good moments. I just remembered the smile on everyones face when wiley breezed through quickly to the pulpit, his set was quite good, he was certainly in the mood to mc but he was better than karnage, who drew for some good dubs but wasnt all that lively and kept the pace of the set fairly slow.
spyro b2b vectra was sick (the last tune spyro played anyone???), shame the sound system in the bar wasnt all that - just not enough detail like blackdown says. and slimzee played a sick selection
i thought appleblim's set was good, distance was ok, kode 9 and flowdan was good when flowdan went on a rampage and just slewed. its a shame he has almost no diversity in bars though. he just has to cycle through them every so often. the sound system wasnt really geared for playing any of kode9 stuff, just mid bass and treble domination.
i really didnt think the newham generals with tubby b2b geeneus killed it. for some reason the mic levels were effed, and you could barely heard d double for about half an hour, i saw him get visibly frustrated while footsie was shouting so loud it hurt - i think dee had been lacking a bit of confidence or something, footsie was the one telling him to get on the mic, telling him which bars to spit - and it was only when he'd got into a sustained flow that he really came into his own and started getting all angular. he wasnt getting that much crowd appreciation either, whereas footsie was. it also didnt help that geeneus and tubby did not draw for a single grime riddim for the 50mins of their set that i saw. just pure wobble - yeah it was fun but bring back the grime please.
all in all it was quite good, the end isnt the best place - the whole dj thing in the middle is a bit shit, but there was a nice variety on show
bouncers at the end arent pleasant either, fucking searching through wallets and everything, and the queue was ridiculous, got there at 9.20 and it was already about 100 long.