Home News What's On Annual Poll Photos Forums DJs Features Music Venues Reviews Links

Features Mindbenderz talk ‘Lord of the Rings’ and fishing, as well as the creation of their new album ‘Celestial Gateway’! Iono-Music artists One Function, Eliyahu, Invisible Reality and Dual Vision talk Robert Miles, kids, dogs and vinyl, while we chat about their current releases! Luke&Flex talk influences, the Irish rave scene, why Flex wears a mask and Play Hard, their new EP out now on Onhcet Repbulik Xtreme! Lyktum expands on his new album ‘Home’ – talking about his love of storytelling, creating new harmonies and the concept behind his musical works. Pan talks getting caught short crossing the Sahara, acid eyeballs and tells us Trance is the Answer, plus shares his thoughts on his latest release 'Beyond the Horizon' - all from a beach in Spain! Miss C chats about living with the KLF, DJing in a huge cat’s mouth, training her brain and the upcoming super-duper Superfreq Grande party at LDN East this Saturday, 16th September! NEM3SI$ - I Live for the Night – talks superficiality, psychopaths, and bittersweet success, ahead of a plethora of evocative, emotional, and passionate upcoming melodic techno releases! Psy-Sisters Spring Blast Off! We talk to DJ competition winner ROEN along with other super talents on the lineup! Blasting towards summer festivals with Bahar Canca ahead of Psy-Sisters Spring Blast! Shyisma talks parties, UFO's, and Shotokan Karate ahead of his upcoming album 'Particles' on Iono-Music! SOME1 talks family, acid, stage fright and wolves - ahead of his upcoming album release ‘Voyager’ on Iono-Music in February 2023! The Transmission Crew tell all and talk about their first London event on 24th February 2023! NIXIRO talks body, mind and music production ahead of his release 'Planet Impulse' on Static Movement's label - Sol Music! Turning the world into a fairy tale with Ivy Orth ahead of Tribal Village’s 10th Birthday Anniversary Presents: The World Lounge Project The Psy-Sisters chat about music, achievements, aspirations and the 10-Year Anniversary Party - 18/12/22! A decade of dance music with Daniel Lesden Earth Needs a Rebirth! Discussions with Psy-Trance Artist Numayma Taking a Journey Through Time with Domino New Techno Rising Star DKLUB talks about his debut release White Rock on Onhcet Republik! PAN expands on many things including his new album 'Hyperbolic Oxymoron' due for release on the 14th April 2022 on PsyWorld Records! Psibindi talks all things music including her new collaborative EP 'Sentient Rays' on Aphid Records, her band Sentience Machine and 10 years of Psy-Sisters! N-Kore talks Jean-Michel Jarre, unfinished tracks and fatherhood! Celebrating International Women’s Day and Ten Years of Psy-Sisters with Amaluna A Catch Up with John Phantasm ahead of his upcoming set at the Tribal Village 4 Day Outdoor Event in Kent 6-9 May 2022! 'The Maestro that is Tristan talks barn owls, Shazamming and keeping it Psychedelic ahead of his upcoming performance at the Tribal Village 4 Day Event in Kent 6-9 May 2022! DJ talk with Psyrenzo ahead of his debut set at Tribal Village, the Steelyard this Friday 14th January 2022! TENZO aka Overdrive talks freely about launching his new act which will be showcased at Tribal Village, Steelyard on 14 January 2022! A long overdue catch up with JourneyOM ahead of his next Tribal Village party this Friday 14th January 2022 at the Steelyard, London!

Serious @ The Cross ... Reviewed Reported by josie / Submitted 05-01-05 09:13 ‘We’ll have December off clubbing’, I said airily a few weeks ago. Hmm, that went well then. At the last count, clubbing and its associated unhealthiness have occupied eleven out of the last thirteen weekends, not to mention six all-nighters in eight days in Ibiza this summer. I don't think I've seen a single episode of this series of Max & Paddy. So what tempted this clubber out into the rain this month? Paradise City 001 at The Alexandra Palace, Trance Generation at The Soundshaft, and Serious at The Cross… and all three have been cracking nights. It’s been an age since I last (and first) went to The Cross – Fiction about two years ago, way back in the day. One thing certainly hasn’t changed – it’s probably the best looking London venue that’s still a ‘real’ club. Cute arch after cute arch, arty plants and furniture, and interesting objets to look at. Best of all, the staff are decent, normal people, rather than the particularly bad-tempered results of a Mussolini - Jennifer Lopez love tryst. DJing when we arrived was John Askew – resident at Turnmills long-standing Friday night party The Gallery and label boss of both Discover and Kompressed Recordings. His style is a teeny tiny bit sparse and progressive for me, with quite a lot of ‘down time’ but he still played some blinding tracks – Sunblind’s ‘Believe’, and quality trance remixes of Eric Prydz’ ‘Call On Me’, and The Prodigy’s ‘Voodoo People’. Towards the end of his set things got a bit tougher and chunkier, with enthusiastic, positive response from the crowd. Next up was Eddie Halliwell, who is, incidentally, adorable. You want to wrap him in a duvet and take him home. He’s perhaps better known, however, for his technical expertise, and in fact is working alongside audio manufacturer Pioneer in developing the next generation of DJ technology... whatever that means. He kicked off with a very very hard sound that literally bordered on techno. He might be technically brilliant, but it didn’t go down all that well. After about an hour of everyone looking good-natured but a bit bemused at all the scratching and squeaking, he admitted defeat and starting belting out the trance. Still quite growly, badboy trance but uplifting all the same. Some classy tunes as well, including a Radiohead – ‘Street Spirit’ remix, Mauro Picotto’s ‘Lizard’, and absolute classics the ‘The Orange Theme’ by Cygnus-X, Nu Nrg’s fabulous track ‘Dreamland’ (simply one of my favourite ever) and ‘Synaesthesia’ from The Thrillseekers. A lot of the night in fact was not particularly trancey. In an ideal world of course this would attract some form of punishment but sadly it doesn’t. I say sadly as apart from anything else it would make Top Of The Pops a far more interesting viewing experience. There was also quite a lot of sound travel between the rooms, especially if due to the uber-crush you were squeezed out on the fringes. These are minor complaints though, as all in all the evening was a total winner. More up market than say, The Fridge, or Heaven, it was a generally smarter crowd, but still with sufficient properly messy people to make you feel better about yourself. The atmosphere was in fact fantastic, everyone solely there for the music and to have a good time. Following on from Eddie came Judge Jules. I really want to hate the Judge – basically just a petulant reaction to his nice fat job at Radio 1 and his calculatedly irritating appearance. Did you know he claims to wear those hideous swirly T-shirts so he can 'be seen' up in the DJ box? Well Jules, a friendly word of advice… a naked Roy Hattersley draped in fairy lights could 'be seen’ but it don’t mean you’d want to look at him. Anyway... I want to hate him and slate him, but I can’t. I reluctantly loved him in Ibiza and in fact Judgement Sunday won the 2004 Mixmag award for best trance night on the island. I guess – to repeat myself – the big names are the big names for a reason. He proved this again with an exciting, electro-esque set. The pace dropped off fractionally at times, but otherwise it was class all the way. Less melodic and euphoric than when I saw him at Judgement Sunday, and (a lot) less commercial and user-friendly than his radio 1 show, but no complaints from me. One very very dodgy bit of beat matching... but I guess no one's perfect. I bet Eddie Halliwell laughed himself sick. Judge Jules is also actually quite sweet. He was delighted to sign a flyer and spent quite a bit of time doing it very carefully with a nice feltpen. You can imagine him practising in his kitchen when everyone else is out (God I’m a bitch). Anyway, best track of the set was a brilliant hard remix of Delerium's 'Silence'. The Judge saved the best til last as well, the final half hour of his set was awesome - driving and intense. Serious resident Simon Patterson, aka Dogzilla, finished the night with a back-to-back set versus Adam Pryor, one of three twenty-somethings behind production outfit CERN, and their huge, PVD-hammered track 'The Message'. Simon's own monster track 'Your Eyes' and his new track 'Dark Side Of The Moon', which is easily as good as 'Your Eyes' if not better, provoked absolute bedlam among the crowd. By far these two were the most enthusiastic behind the decks, jumping up and down and really getting into it... too young to have got completely blase I suppose. All in all then, not quite what was expected... but a resounding success all the same. Both January and February will see Serious being held again at The Cross, so plenty of opportunity to pay them a visit and check it out for yourselves. Photos from HarderFaster archives Share this :: : : : Follow HarderFaster :: Other Features By josie: It's the Generation game featuring Agnelli & Nelson, The Thrillseekers and Lange Peach at Heaven: Reviewed The Gallery at Turnmills: Reviewed The International Indoor Festival at SeOne: reviewed The double ender: interview with trance legends Darren Tate and Mike Koglin 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: minced_1 on 5th Jan 2005 13:06.31 Fantastic review. It was a great night - bit hard for me, but sometimes thats exactly what you need! The judges T-shirt was especailly rank, AND I bet he does practice his signature. From: Darz on 5th Jan 2005 14:36.33 Absolutely awesome night, the best in the country in my opinion, held at London's top venue. Your right... Simon and Adam took the roof off at the end, and Jules does practice his signature... not in his house, but to thousands of clubbers wanting it each wknd!! From: Exiled Angel on 6th Jan 2005 09:29.44 Brilliant review - keep them coming Josie! This echoes a review Shaun Rowland did for Serious some time last year (check it out in the archive) and similarly it was a night that outdid all our expectations by a long shot and left us all in no doubt that Serious is really one of the best nights in London! If you haven't been, and you like trance even a little bit, or ever have done then for pete's sake make a date to check it out, it really will blow you away and restore your faith in trance! In another repeat of Josie, I was amazed to discover that Judge Jules really can rock it. We were as gutted as well! From: gravitational pull on 6th Jan 2005 09:37.34 That review was good fun. From: Dee on 6th Jan 2005 09:43.54 Great review Josie, very entertaining. From: Bagel on 6th Jan 2005 09:51.31 Excellent review...still havent got to this despite also reading Shaun's aforementioned review...sounds great anyway From: BottleofWater on 6th Jan 2005 10:19.05 Serious kicks arse. End of. From: Norris123 on 6th Jan 2005 11:58.00 Wicked review Josie. Keep 'em coming... From: *charlie*! on 6th Jan 2005 12:01.27 I like the way u worded this review, it made me giggle a few times thats for sure..... good work From: Tanya on 13th Jan 2005 12:59.10 Um, thats only half a review, what about the funky room?! From: Steve Prince on 14th Jan 2005 16:03.44 simon patterson well all ways rocks it From: Alix on 21st Jan 2005 09:49.22 Tanya - um, no... a review is someone's personal interpretation, experience and opinion of an event. If Josie spent her time in the trance room it's still a review isn't it and a damn good one too!

All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective companies. All other content is (c) 2001-2024 HarderFaster.

Terms and Conditions | Privacy Statement | Text Mode