Trashed
Last night was the last Trash. Ever.
And it was well worth the aftershock of being out till 4 in the morning on a Monday night. All sorts of special guests were rumoured, but instead we got, as it should have been, 3 hours of Erol. Although despite the celebratory atmostphere, until that point the main thought of the evening was how bloody busy it was. Fortunately we were near the front of the queue, so didn't have TOO much of a nightmare outside - but apparently plenty of people waited 3 hours & didn't get in. Leading unsurprisingly to a few tempers getting frayed. The queue at the bar inside was bad enough for it to start getting rowdy though... seven deep the whole way along with seemingly no-one serving. Swigging from a bottle of vino was the only option...
There were Mexican Wrestlers
and celebrities
who like most of us, were waiting for Erol to take to the decks (when not queuing at the bar!)
And when he did the place went nuts! From the off there was stage diving from the dj booth; crowd surfing; furious moshing; and hit after hit after hit.
Erol planned to play a kind of 'Greatest Hits of Trash' set - so every tune was greeted with increasing levels of whooping and hollering and leaping about. 'Comfortably Numb'; 'Music' by Madonna; Justice; Klaxons; 'Take me Out' in original and Erol remix forms; Erol's DFA 1979 remix; The Strokes; White Stripes; Missy Eliott; 'Sunglasses at Night'; 'Rocker'... well you get the idea. Here's some I hadn't heard for a while: the Violent Femmes in particular took me back to my days in student Indie clubs in Leeds! And what a tune that Radio Slave mix of Paul McCartney is...
SOULWAX - I WISH (SKEE-LO vs FOREIGNER)
PAUL McCARTNEY - TEMPORARY SECRETARY (RADIO SLAVE REMIX)
VIOLENT FEMMES - ADD IT UP
And it was well worth the aftershock of being out till 4 in the morning on a Monday night. All sorts of special guests were rumoured, but instead we got, as it should have been, 3 hours of Erol. Although despite the celebratory atmostphere, until that point the main thought of the evening was how bloody busy it was. Fortunately we were near the front of the queue, so didn't have TOO much of a nightmare outside - but apparently plenty of people waited 3 hours & didn't get in. Leading unsurprisingly to a few tempers getting frayed. The queue at the bar inside was bad enough for it to start getting rowdy though... seven deep the whole way along with seemingly no-one serving. Swigging from a bottle of vino was the only option...
There were Mexican Wrestlers
and celebrities
who like most of us, were waiting for Erol to take to the decks (when not queuing at the bar!)
And when he did the place went nuts! From the off there was stage diving from the dj booth; crowd surfing; furious moshing; and hit after hit after hit.
Erol planned to play a kind of 'Greatest Hits of Trash' set - so every tune was greeted with increasing levels of whooping and hollering and leaping about. 'Comfortably Numb'; 'Music' by Madonna; Justice; Klaxons; 'Take me Out' in original and Erol remix forms; Erol's DFA 1979 remix; The Strokes; White Stripes; Missy Eliott; 'Sunglasses at Night'; 'Rocker'... well you get the idea. Here's some I hadn't heard for a while: the Violent Femmes in particular took me back to my days in student Indie clubs in Leeds! And what a tune that Radio Slave mix of Paul McCartney is...
SOULWAX - I WISH (SKEE-LO vs FOREIGNER)
PAUL McCARTNEY - TEMPORARY SECRETARY (RADIO SLAVE REMIX)
VIOLENT FEMMES - ADD IT UP
posted by headphonesex @ 11:56 PM
