Complaints about the sound at Glade 2008

[joe_techno]

No MC's EVER... FULLSTOP. fuckign especially when bong ra is playing... mc cunt!!!

[Beatmonkey]

No MC's EVER... FULLSTOP. fuckign especially when bong ra is playing... mc cunt!!!

[shakyjane]

I like some MC's

[Sperge]

I like some MC's

Well, you can't have everything.

[shakyjane]

I like some MC's

Well, you can't have everything.

No, you're very right, thats why one weekend a year its nice to have a good chunk of what i want.

I just dont jump on MC slating bandwagons. Nor any other bandwagon. Fact is MC's enhance some people's nights. Some piss all over it. I still think we should be allowed loud volumes, including MC's, at 4am in the morning, one weekend a year. I have had many a night where the MC has said something and I have agreed with the simplest thing they've said because they can highlight a united feeling. The ones that keep reminding me where I am can get fucked.

[dannybee]

if the ticket prices are gonna rise for any sort of reason next year it shud be to increase the sound volumes, its cheating people out of their money, going to bloc weekend made glade volume wise seem incredibly pathetic, il be going there and travelling next summer, hope the sound improves

I have to agree with this. While it is blatently unfair to compare an indoor festival that caters for 2500 people to Glade it really is dissapointing how much better the sound was at Bloc.

The sound from the F1 rig in Bass Bloc and the tech bloc rig (HK-audio R-series) were the best sound systems I have heard at a festival and made a huge impact from the moment you walked into one of the arenas.

I had a word with myself at Glade this year and promised to not get annoyed about the sound as it kind of spoilt it for me in 2007. Yes it was better than last year but they still have a bit of work to do...

I still can't wait for the next Glade I just have a hope that the noise can be a little higher!

[baldmosher]

The ones that keep reminding me where I am can get fucked.

And the ones who:
- MC out of time
- skibbydibbydibby too much
- MC over tunes with lyrics (or worse, "sing" along)
- don't know when to shut up for two or three minutes and let everyone dance
- rap badly or inaudibly
- name check themselves or the DJ or the club after every other tune

I quite like MCs who:
- say "oh my god" with genuine feeling after a fucking ace breakdown
- spit humour not vitriol
- use the off beat for a bit of variety
- don't swear
- rap properly with audible lyrics
- can actually sing (the Aussie dude in the vest on Saturday afternoon at G06 was one of these)
- obviously know the tunes that are coming in and can even tell you the names occasionally
- beatbox

Dynamite is still one of the best I've heard.

No, you're very right, thats why one weekend a year its nice to have a good chunk of what i want.... I still think we should be allowed loud volumes, including MC's, at 4am in the morning, one weekend a year.

You need to get out more! You can get that every weekend in Manchester. Come

[joe_techno]

The ones that keep reminding me where I am can get fucked.

And the ones who:
- MC out of time
- skibbydibbydibby too much
- MC over tunes with lyrics (or worse, "sing" along)
- don't know when to shut up for two or three minutes and let everyone dance
- rap badly or inaudibly
- name check themselves or the DJ or the club after every other tune

I quite like MCs who:
- say "oh my god" with genuine feeling after a fucking ace breakdown
- spit humour not vitriol
- use the off beat for a bit of variety
- don't swear
- rap properly with audible lyrics
- can actually sing (the Aussie dude in the vest on Saturday afternoon at G06 was one of these)
- obviously know the tunes that are coming in and can even tell you the names occasionally
- beatbox

Dynamite is still one of the best I've heard.

No, you're very right, thats why one weekend a year its nice to have a good chunk of what i want.... I still think we should be allowed loud volumes, including MC's, at 4am in the morning, one weekend a year.

You need to get out more! You can get that every weekend in Manchester. Come

MC's that rewind a track about 5 times!?!? infact any rewind at all is completely ineffective IMHO. But 4 or 5 times?!?!? this should actually be a prisonable offence.

[baldmosher]

MC's that rewind a track about 5 times!?!? infact any rewind at all is completely ineffective IMHO. But 4 or 5 times?!?!? this should actually be a prisonable offence.

I thought the DJ did the rewind?

[joe_techno]

The MC usually calls for the rewind

[joe_techno]

unless i'm being a complete idiot

[joe_techno]

infact come to think about it that probly does make more sense.... well i hate rewinds anyway, regardless of who's fault it is.

[Sperge]

infact come to think about it that probly does make more sense.... well i hate rewinds anyway, regardless of who's fault it is.

But that's proper drum n bass, that is.

[Beatmonkey]

Theres so many more MC's who do it wrong then do it right that a blanket ban at glade would be brilliant. I'm in full agreement with your lists tho baldmosher

[joe_techno]

infact come to think about it that probly does make more sense.... well i hate rewinds anyway, regardless of who's fault it is.

But that's proper drum n bass, that is.

oi

[ThE99THReDBallooN]

No MC's EVER... FULLSTOP. fuckign especially when bong ra is playing... mc cunt!!!

YES
shoot the mc

[shakyjane]

The ones that keep reminding me where I am can get fucked.

And the ones who:
- MC out of time
- skibbydibbydibby too much
- MC over tunes with lyrics (or worse, "sing" along)
- don't know when to shut up for two or three minutes and let everyone dance
- rap badly or inaudibly
- name check themselves or the DJ or the club after every other tune

I quite like MCs who:
- say "oh my god" with genuine feeling after a fucking ace breakdown
- spit humour not vitriol
- use the off beat for a bit of variety
- don't swear
- rap properly with audible lyrics
- can actually sing (the Aussie dude in the vest on Saturday afternoon at G06 was one of these)
- obviously know the tunes that are coming in and can even tell you the names occasionally
- beatbox

Dynamite is still one of the best I've heard.

No, you're very right, thats why one weekend a year its nice to have a good chunk of what i want.... I still think we should be allowed loud volumes, including MC's, at 4am in the morning, one weekend a year.

You need to get out more! You can get that every weekend in Manchester. Come

I totally agree with all of the above. Especially the oh my god bit - thats kind of what I meant by them saying something and u just kind of go 'yeah thats what i was just thinking!!'.

I do need to get out more. But unfortunately I don't have everything I want right on my doorstep.

[Ab$olut]

who was the mc on with friction? didn't half like rewinds

[leah]

Loud enough to notice they were talking gibberish 90% of the time

innit. why spoil a perfectly acceptable tune by getting some buffoon to chat shit over it?

[joe_techno]

Loud enough to notice they were talking gibberish 90% of the time

innit. why spoil a perfectly acceptable tune by getting some buffoon to chat shit over it?

thankyou! ... i swere uv nicked that sentence straight out of the bible.

[leah]

what is arguably worse is some twat on the bus chatting shit over a tune that no-one else can hear (possibly because it's only playing in his head)

[WaveyRaveyDavey]

I lurve MCing. But where I come from it's was called toasting, later DJing, and it's usually accompanied by Pulmonary Oedema inducing bass. Any complaints from anybody about Aba Shanti-I at the Weekender? I thought not. (Could have done with them at Glade in my opinion but I'm just a shit stirrer) PROPER MCing was originally your news at ten, sports report and social commentry all in one. With a bit of self promotion true but done in an entertaining way.

There is NOBODY today who can provide a commentary like Rankin' Joe, Josie Wales and the greatest of them all, Brigadier Jerry etc. and if you can point me to anyone today I'll be surprised. It's all down to the speed of the music. Random phrases are now chucked in like jumping on a spinning merry go round coz it's impossible to keep pace. You can't continuously speak and be understood at 160bpm+ so why bother?

[leah]

Any complaints from anybody about Aba Shanti-I at the Weekender? I thought not. (Could have done with them at Glade in my opinion but I'm just a shit stirrer)

no, no complaints and i agree about glade maybe next year?

Pulmonary Oedema inducing bass

i was reading about things bass on wikipedia the other day (sub-bass, infrasound and the (urban)legendary brown note):

"Loud concert levels of subwoofer arrays have been cited as causing lung collapse in individuals who are very close to the subwoofer, especially for smokers who are particularly tall and thin"

i always quite enjoyed that breathy feeling...

[shakyjane]

Stop smoking, cut your legs off and eat a load of pies! Problem solved.

[baldmosher]

You can't continuously speak and be understood at 160bpm+ so why bother?

DnB (or hard dance) MCing is more about the sounds you make and when you make them, not the lyrics. DJ Rubbish was the best MC at Glade, by far.