Its like the old boys network type thing, Bicknell is just booking old friends to play for him and some times not really thinking about it to much.
Colin Dale and Bicknell go way back, Colin use to play lost back in the day when he was good, may be it was just a lazy booking. I think booking Mark for this Friday is a great move and shows he is thinking about some of his bookings, but Mark and Bicknell have been good friends for years, so once again he's not thinking about booking people who are to far a field from him. -----Original Message----- From: Stewart Caig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 April 2006 09:46 To: 313 Subject: Re: (313) The roving London report (because someone on this list must pretend like they go out somewhere) pt. 1 I'll never understand why Colin Dale took the direction he did. His Outer Limits show went from being one of the highlights of my week, forming the basis of the list of records I wanted to pick up to being one long 2 hour tech house crapfest seemingly overnight. No wonder it got canned! His compilations took the same direction as well, so I'm actually surprised he gets booked to play anywhere these days except Wiggle! Stu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Kendrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 9:33 AM Subject: RE: (313) The roving London report (because someone on this list must pretend like they go out somewhere) pt. 1 Tristan, that's sounds like a bit of a disappointing Space base, glad I couldn't go. Mark has one of the best funk collections around, he'll nail it on Plastic People sound system. Bring it on. -----Original Message----- From: Tristan Watkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 April 2006 05:09 To: [email protected] Subject: (313) The roving London report (because someone on this list must pretend like they go out somewhere) pt. 1 So... Steve Bicknell was good as usual. Nothing flashy mixing-wise, as usual. He played the same two Ame tracks as last week, back-to-back again, and the same Donna Summer 'I Feel Love' version (maybe he plays this in every set???), but the rest was pretty dope. Never thought I'd hear him play 'Loose Lips', or any broken beat stuff for that matter, but he played two joints. He'll prolly play them both next week in the same order as well. I'm not crapping on him. I just can't see why someone with so many good records can mail in parts of his selection so often. Anyway... Colin Dale. Tough to sum up neatly. Ultimately incredibly disappointing, but he mixed Miura with Deep Burnt, which would have been genius if he didn't mix out of Deep Burnt half-way through. Would have been less disappointing if he'd played bland tech house all night, but he tantalised us with anout 5-10 gems along the way, and filled the gaps with turd. That was probably the most confused seamless set I've ever heard. He seemed to have no clue where he wanted to take things, and meandered along where he thought the crowd might take him. Such a crap effort. Worst Spacebase I've witnessed by far. Next week should be outstanding though. My friend Mark from the Outlet Collective will be starting things out with a jazz/funk/soul set which promises to be stunning. He's a funk collector extraordinaire. Tristan ======= http://www.phonopsia.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.4/299 - Release Date: 31/03/2006
