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  • DIDI
    Aussie Pest
    • Nov 2004
    • 16845

    SOS Brown Alley 7th August

    In the spirit of rabbiting on !! Review I posted in local forum.

    Well, last night definitely belonged to the locals.

    SOS were always going to have their work cut out for them living up to last years effort. Theirs and Danny Howells were my top gigs of the year!! But I would have liked them to try. Last year they came on and they were "on" from the first beats. It was a totally amazing set. This year I think they had a few technical problems to start, but it never really got off the ground as a structured set. There were some amazing moments as against an amazing set.

    It was a little like a bit of a play around. They were fun , Omid was in fine form, but while last year, I had people bringing me water so I didn't have to leave the floor, this year I had no problems wandering off !! Sadly neither did a lot of other people They had lost half their dance floor by the time they finished. There was no sign of that incredible energy they seemed to have last year. And it may have been cool that Desyn was tweeting while playing if you weren't there but personally I would rather he put that energy into giving us a better set.

    The locals Sean Quinn , it was like he never left. A great warmup set, and people saying how good it was that we are seeing and hearing him out more often

    Danny Bonnici while looking a little more serious than I'm used to seeing , but totally put SOS to shame, he played the way I expected them to play. I loved it!!

    Muska's style of music isn't quite what I would consider my cup of tea , but at that hour of the morning it worked for me. Great fun. !!!

    The overall night I still rate pretty highly . We did get heaps of wonderful music. Great sound . The crowd was truly amazing !! So many friendly lovely people.

    The thing I absolutely hated was the lighting on the dance floor There was just way too much of it!! Seems to be happening a lot at Brown Alley lately . Dan, there is no way I will accept that that lighting was bringing people onto the dance floor. Nightclubs should be dark !!

    A real shame about the morning sets though . They apparently went to the casino instead.


    If you think I was a bit hard look what a friend of mine wrote !!
    SOS were absolute rubbish. Never have I been more dissapointed with a set. No groove, no bassline, no flow, no melody. Maybe if Desyn didnt spend so much time on fucking Twitter and actually did something? If you thought last night was empty wait till next time they tour because most of the punters that were there last night wont put up with that tripe again. They played about 5 decent tunes in a 4 hour set. The amount of times I thought, 'Shit their just taking the piss now'. Nothing wrong with the warm up, the club, or the crowd, SOS just sucked balls.

    And before you ask, no I didnt have bad pillz.

    Originally posted by TheVrk
    it IS incredible isn't it??
    STILL pumpin out great set after great set...never cheesed out, never sold out, never lost his touch..
    Simply does not get any better than Hernan
    The 'club spirit' is in the soul. It Never Dies
  • chuckc
    DUDERZ get a life!!!
    • Jun 2004
    • 5458

    #2
    Re: SOS Brown Alley 7th August

    wow. sounds like they have lost some of the passion that got them to the level that they were at.
    Last edited by chuckc; August 9, 2009, 02:12:45 PM.

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    • Steve Graham
      DJ Jelly
      • Jun 2004
      • 12887

      #3
      Re: SOS Brown Alley 7th August

      OR it was an off night

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      • simonr
        Transitionator
        • Jun 2004
        • 8796

        #4
        Re: SOS Brown Alley 7th August

        Dj's tweeting while playing should be banned !
        sigpicSimonR

        This release was mastered direct from vinyl at the request of the DJ and as such features natural sound characteristics of this medium such as record surface noise.

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        • chuckc
          DUDERZ get a life!!!
          • Jun 2004
          • 5458

          #5
          Re: SOS Brown Alley 7th August

          Originally posted by Steve Graham
          OR it was an off night

          i dont know. i would put money on they have more off then good nites.

          all the sets i have downloaded from sos have been average at best. i am not sure what the facination is with them.

          take a listen to the netherlands mix its a perfect example of what i am gettin at.

          i am not trying to be neg here as i am a big desyn fan i just nver liked much of what he plays as a threesome.

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          • DIDI
            Aussie Pest
            • Nov 2004
            • 16845

            #6
            Re: SOS Brown Alley 7th August

            It was a very off night!! Actually apparently they played really well in Sydney last night. And did an after party. But Desyn did bugger all there as well!

            What really pisses me off is that they let down probably Desyn's biggest fan . A female Dj here . They were supposed to be doing a morning set and she was doing the warmup set for them. For her it was the set of her lifetime. And it didn't happen
            It could have been the promoters that pulled the plug, but if they did it was it because SOS couldn't hold the people there for their own floor !!

            I can't believe how good they were last yar or how bad they were this year. Everyone of our locals was better. Danny Bonnici outstandingly better!!

            One way or the other there was a serious lack of respect.
            Originally posted by TheVrk
            it IS incredible isn't it??
            STILL pumpin out great set after great set...never cheesed out, never sold out, never lost his touch..
            Simply does not get any better than Hernan
            The 'club spirit' is in the soul. It Never Dies

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            • feather
              Shanghai ooompa loompa
              • Jul 2004
              • 20895

              #7
              Re: SOS Brown Alley 7th August

              And before you ask, no I didnt have bad pillz.
              No but SOS probably did

              i_want_to_have_sex_with_electronic_music

              Originally posted by Hoff
              a powerful and insane mothership that occasionally comes commanded by the real ones .. then suck us and makes us appear in the most magical of all lands
              Originally posted by m1sT3rL
              Oh. My. God. James absolutely obliterated the island tonight. The last time there was so much destruction, Obi Wan Kenobi had to take a seat on the Falcon after the Death Star said "hi and bye" to Leia's homeworld.

              I got pics and video. But I will upload them in the morning. I need to smoke this nice phat joint and just close my eyes and replay the amazingness in my head.

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              • Steve Graham
                DJ Jelly
                • Jun 2004
                • 12887

                #8
                Re: SOS Brown Alley 7th August

                Originally posted by chuckc
                i dont know. i would put money on they have more off then good nites.

                all the sets i have downloaded from sos have been average at best. i am not sure what the facination is with them.

                take a listen to the netherlands mix its a perfect example of what i am gettin at.

                i am not trying to be neg here as i am a big desyn fan i just nver liked much of what he plays as a threesome.
                i would have to say the 3 dj thing should be more of a one off here and there rather than the norm.. maybe these 3 need to go out on their own again and get back to what made them who they are. i would imagine its quite easy to lose your dj identity when performing as a threesome constantly

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                • chanty
                  John, John, where art thou!
                  • Jun 2004
                  • 4622

                  #9
                  Re: SOS Brown Alley 7th August

                  I'm sorry you didn't have the great time you were anticipating DIDI.
                  Unfortunately those kind of nights happen once in a blue moon.
                  I feel for your dj friend too! I can't imagine being let down in such a manner.
                  Awww...I didn't mean A holes, as in "A holes"...I meant it like, as in, my friends....

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                  • coliver1980
                    Platinum Poster
                    • Aug 2008
                    • 1862

                    #10
                    Re: SOS Brown Alley 7th August

                    SOS have been a let down of late. That recent Netherland set was piss poor. I seen them at Ministry Of Sound NYE 07/08 and they were bang on form. But that was a long while ago. Steve Graham is right, maybe they should go solo for a while.

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                    • pipey
                      Gold Gabber
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 855

                      #11
                      Re: SOS Brown Alley 7th August

                      I havent had internet access, but i had a fucking great time. banging tunes, great sound... all in all a fucking wicked evening!

                      I got a few pics and vids, ill link them once uploaded.

                      Great to meet you Didi!
                      Originally posted by Kamal
                      Thank you Dr. Needle for attending the balloon Party

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                      • DIDI
                        Aussie Pest
                        • Nov 2004
                        • 16845

                        #12
                        Re: SOS Brown Alley 7th August

                        Great to meat you as well !! Glad you had such a good time!!

                        Originally posted by chanty
                        I'm sorry you didn't have the great time you were anticipating DIDI.
                        Unfortunately those kind of nights happen once in a blue moon.
                        I feel for your dj friend too! I can't imagine being let down in such a manner.
                        I still had a great time. But not from the source I expected As I said my expectations were very high. If they hadn't done such an amazing set last time I would have been far more forgiving
                        Originally posted by TheVrk
                        it IS incredible isn't it??
                        STILL pumpin out great set after great set...never cheesed out, never sold out, never lost his touch..
                        Simply does not get any better than Hernan
                        The 'club spirit' is in the soul. It Never Dies

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