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Revolution: Anarchy is OK! Reported by bunny / Submitted 12-01-03 19:47 So that’s it then, done and dusted, finished, finito, over... thanks for the memories! 2002 is now so last year, darling. ‘Cause you’ve all sang Auld Lang Syne (well, what you can remember of it), drained the bubbly, kissed everyone within a 10-mile radius and rang/texted your entire mobile address book up to and including the dentist’s surgery to wish them a HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Now it’s January 1st 2003 and unfolding out ahead of you are 365 days of possibilities; this is going to be the year when it all happens, when it all falls into place, a dramatic and wide-reaching change... a Revolution... When I step into Camden Palace on New Year’s Day at just gone quarter to 1 I haven’t slept for almost 2 days and I’ve been dancing non-stop for 13 hours. In short, I’m knackered and looking forward to taking it easy for a couple of hours in the chill-out lounge. You know, just sit back and enjoy the music, have a chat, recharge the batteries a bit so I can really go mental later on. New year, new start: introducing the minty-fresh new Relaxed Bunny, a calmer clubber for 2003. Unfortunately, though, I failed at the first hurdle on this one; as I softly stroll into the main room the seminal Tony De Vit’s The Dawn is bursting out the speakers and that stroll turns into a stomp quicker than you can shout TUNE!!!! It’s amazing what music can do to you; several hours of gentle energising squeezed into a few short, sharp minutes. A big thank you to Daniel Bailey, and what a way to welcome in a brand-spanking new year of clubbing... it might be cloudy and overcast outside but somewhere inside my beaten burnt-out body the sun is beginning to shine A lot of people would say that going to a 12-hour rave after an all-night New Year’s Eve extravaganza is utterly ridiculous and completely insane but then a lot of people bought the Cheeky Girls single, so draw your own conclusions on that one. Personally, one look at the line up was enough to motivate me into making the journey deep into the post-apocalyptic (more so than usual, anyway) streets of Camden for what I just knew was going to be magnificently messy one. And boy, was I gonna be right on this one... 1pm and to the blissful beats of Chemical Love K90 takes to the stage looking so fresh and full of life that even I feel bloody old. Like almost everyone else my feet are killing me, my legs have given up the ghost, and I’m having trouble remembering my own name but I’m still giving it everything I’ve got, because when you’re faced with this much enthusiasm it’s just plain rude not to Mark Doggett doesn’t ever seem to have an off-day and even though it’s early and the Palace is pretty quiet he’s still as fired-up as ever and churning out the hits without hesitation; I Get a Rush, All Your Bass, Breathe and Red Snapper are just some of his arsenal against the New Year blues. Getting us going might have seemed like Mission Impossible but his set has the stimulating effect of a hand grenade in your cup of coffee so when 2 O’clock comes around he can Exit Stage Left confident in the knowledge of a job well done. When Lee Haslam’s set begins I’m seriously shattered, and that’s probably why I just couldn’t get into it first off and had to head up to the back bar on the balcony for a breather – but not before I’ve given it my best shot to Music Is The Drug and Times Like These, tunes that just demand to be danced to, no matter how tired you are By now the club’s getting close to heaving and there are bodies sprawled everywhere as people meet up, hang out and swap stories on what they got up to last night. The vibe is very mellow and calm but there’s a faint tingling in the background somewhere that tells you all this tranquillity isn’t going to last that long... but for now it feels great just to soak it up and feel a little life begin to flow through you again. Half an hour later and the batteries are back up to 100% so it’s once more into the fray, friends, just in time to experience The Dawn for the second time (the sun rising twice over this event? Must be a sign ), bursting straight into Energise. What can you say? It’s just perfect, and if those 2 tracks b2b don’t get you going, nothing will. In under 10 minutes we’ve taken the express elevator straight back up to cloud 9 and we’re ready for whatever the rest of the day can throw at us ‘Start the year as you mean to go on!’ – Nik + Caz Too true, guys! If today is any reflection on what this year’s clubbing is gonna be like then I’d better clear a lot of headspace now to make room for all the memories. Rob Tissera obviously shares the same view, opening his set with a stream of euphoric Hard Dance delicacies that leave such long-standing smiles on everyone’s faces you’d think the wind had changed forever. Rob’s one of those DJs who’s just permanently upbeat, something that comes shining through in his sets. Bad Ass, We Come One, a superlatively hard mix of You’re Not Alone, Phil Reynolds and James Lawson’s No Escape... the music in his sets radiate positivity like a force-field and we’re all locked in like tractor beams Speaking of which... all this Sci-Fi talk kinda reminds me of something... I’m guessing you’ll agree with me that there’s nothing like a good light show when you’re in a club; it just seems to set the music off perfectly and sends you tripping sweetly on the light fantastic. With Frantic you know the lighting is always guaranteed to be good but what they laid on for us at Revolution was something else! Now I’ve seen some impressive laser action before (Chemistry last weekend for instance) but what was exploding through the Palace tonight out-did every Hollywood silver-screen space showdown in history . 4 lasers (with the help of some shiny disco balls) were having the mother-of-all shoot-outs and the end result was anything but carnage. I’ve lost track of the amount of times people turned to me and said; ‘Hey, check that out! Awesome!’ (sober version) or ‘Oh wow, maaan! Look at all the colouuuuuurs!!’ (other version). Along with the much-loved waves, geometric shapes and squiggly whirly things (as they’re technically known) tonight the lasers were shattering splinters of light across the room like crushed emeralds. Just when you dared to think it couldn’t get any better, Pete the laser man proves you wrong again Back downstairs the circus has come to town. Beneath Camden Palace’s big top the dance floor is a messy melee of glowstick jugglers, tightrope walkers (on the stage’s end barriers) and a crowd of stompers just generally clowning around. Tara Reynolds is the ringmaster (or should that be mistress??) up on the decks, encouraging the madness with a nice’n’naughty set of up-tempo tracks –Ignite, Hallucination, the Exit EEE tune with the ‘5 seconds’ sample that I’m always forgetting the name of – that bring out the playfulness in all of us It’s as wicked a set as ever and sounds all the better now that Tara’s been given the opportunity to play in the main room and we’ve got the space to really go for it! Around about now I get the serious munchies but the only thing the restaurant has left to offer are quarter-pounders of moo, so I guess I’ll have to go without. Perhaps it’s just as well though, cause you know what they say; please don’t feed the animals Maybe it’s down to this that things begin to go a little fuzzy too. I can remember heading on up to the Black and White room around 5.30 with Bianca and Bottle Of Water for a session of fine stomping by the DJ booth, where we bounced along as HarderFaster’s own Tom Allen hammered out a thumping set of pure, uplifting Hard Trance to a very busy bar It’s testament to how good the set was that, despite sleep deprivation kicking in with a vengeance, I still lasted over half an hour before I had to admit defeat and chill out on the top balcony (where 30 seconds later roughly 10 more New Year’s Days were taken off my life when an enormous glitter bomb exploded all over the dance floor). Then it all goes a little strange and in a weird Quantum Leap-like moment next thing I know I’m standing in front of the DJ box halfway through Spencer Freelands set going radio rental along with everyone else to Jonah’s Sssh...Listen (it was another hits-the-spot set, keeping up the upbeat tone of the day and went down beautifully with the crowd but I just wish I could remember more about it...). Ok, so I can probably guess why that happened but when your mind starts playing tricks like this on you it’s definitely time to take it easy, no matter how badly your body wants to keep going, so this time I really did have a proper R+R session upstairs before heading back down to catch the last 2 sets of the night, from Andy Farley first off and then Phil Reynolds. And all I can say is thank fuck I did! These 2 sets, combined, were to Hard House clubbing what a nuclear reactor is to energy. Less than 15 minutes into Andy’s set and by now the New Year’s Eve’s goodies have long worn off, although I haven’t noticed and wouldn’t care even if I had; there’s something in this music that makes everything inside me sizzle. It just does something that nothing else in the world can do. How can I explain it...? It makes you feel like your standing on the edge of time and everything’s before you, just waiting; like you’re hotwiring the universe with your mind, just cause you want to see what happens next. It’s simply the best feeling that could possibly exist and you don’t ever, ever want it to end. Kicking in with the sheer bliss-on-vinyl of System F’s Out Of The Blue (words just can’t do this tune justice), it’s uninhibited euphoria from here on in as all the meteoric anthems rain down from the speakers and drown the already-soaking dance floor. I Don’t Care, the Glazby remix of Dreams, Red Snapper... this set kicked so much ass I’m surprised the nearest donkey sanctuary didn’t set up a demonstration outside (Ok, lame joke, I admit it.) By the time it comes round to Phil Reynolds’ turn we’re so completely lost in the moment that we’d have trouble seeing reality through the Hubble telescope... even though there’s a far from maximum-capacity crowd the pure energy that’s pulsing through everybody fills the place so entirely that it almost feels like the room itself is alive. There’s absolutely no respite in the pace at all as track after track keeps banging out like demented jackhammers. Our response? Stomp so hard the neighbours must think they’re in the middle of an earthquake I’ve never known anything like it, and I’ve been to a lot of damn good parties here! It’s simply unbroken, undiluted joy and even though we want it to last forever, as the clock closes in on 11pm we very reluctantly agree that it’s time to head home. There may still be 15 minutes left of the party but there’s only 5 minutes left in us, so after one long last look at this Mardi Gras for the munted we grab our coats and collapse into a cab. This was one hell of an event and one I’m very glad I made the effort to turn up to! Frantic had quite a mission trying to get us wasted wrecks into anything resembling decent clubbers after the delirious devastation of everyone’s New Year’s Eve but they certainly rose to the challenge and pulled it all off with style. The one disappointment though, and it was a big disappointment, was that they had to shut the upstairs bar early, which meant that we missed out on James Lawson’s closing set I know a lot of people felt gutted about this but apparently the crowd number’s just weren’t high enough at the end to keep it open. It’s a great shame but there’s always Timeless – the top bar WILL stay open for that, even if we have to set up a picket line at the door! Can’t end the review on a downer though because that just wouldn’t do the night justice, so a massive THANK YOU to each and every DJ for giving us some excellent and unforgettable sets, to Robyn, Will and all at Frantic for organising a New Years Day to remember and launching a fresh year in a blaze of positivity, to the all the HarderFasters that were there and partied hard and, ok, it might be a bit late but one last time to everyone out there... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Share this :: : : : Follow HarderFaster :: Other Features By bunny: It's about music - interview with Alex Parsons Monkey business as usual: interview with Shaf De Bass Twistathon – Twist’s 12 Hour 1st Birthday Bonanza Zoology's 2nd Birthday - Review! becomeone: Unified in Sound - Review The views and opinions expressed in this review are strictly those of the author only for which HarderFaster will not be held responsible or liable. Comments: From: Richard Launch on 13th Jan 2003 00:35.08 Bunny: "the ‘5 seconds’ sample that I’m always forgetting the name of..." That would be Stimulant DJ's - Blow Da Roof....... From: Luckyfuka on 13th Jan 2003 09:13.02 Sums up a perfect day wonderfully From: Absolutely Fabulous on 13th Jan 2003 23:33.35 So finally somebody's come up with a small but effective use for that somewhat antagonising Cheeky Girls song.... GOOD POINT BUNNY- well made... And thank you, for ANOTHER reason to party HARD!!!!!!!!! - see you at the edge of time, girl! From: Red5 on 14th Jan 2003 13:13.23 bunny, one of your best reviews yet. shame i missed it, but i've lived the day through you. top one chicky! From: Summer Time John on 15th Jan 2003 22:44.03 Is that the kind of Anarchy which you have to pay £20 for? From: LOZ on 21st Jan 2003 13:52.47 After a 4 hour sleep after Heat (as my feet & legs needed to recover). I couldn't stop stomping all nite, what a fantastic end to new years. (I'm glad i had my sleep as my legg's would have colapsed of bouncing too much.) From: heat seeker on 22nd Jan 2003 10:35.57 after the stompiness that woz heat nye, then supposedly chillin in hotel room(NOT)revolution made the new year start wiv a bang. well done robyn and co. truely wiked

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