Nottingham: soon to be third city of Dubstep

glacius · Post by **glacius** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:00 am

Big ups to Leicester! KONTAKT deffinatly smashing it up!!!
Walsh smacked it hard on saturday.
The sound system was flipping mental aswell.

Watch out for Birmingham as well. up comming!!!!

Big ups to the whole of the midlands, it's good to see everyone around here pushing the sound!!!

ed g · Post by **ed g** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:09 pm

Joe C wrote:everyone smiles in notts

Yeah big up the Futureproof crowd! Good vibes all night.

ed g · Post by **ed g** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:14 pm

*Grand* wrote:hasn't Notts always been on a dubstep tip... i was under the impression it was?

Yeah it's been doing alright for itself for a while.

Saw my first live dubstep in Notts when Kode 9 and Spaceape played in May 2006. The scene's been growing ever since really.

futureproof · Post by **futureproof** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:19 pm

Yeah big up to the Loom and Heavyweight Rocksteady crew for pushing the sound waaaaay before anyone else in Notts. Pioneers!

i-line · Post by **i-line** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:52 pm

Thanks!

Nice photos by the way Ed. I like the yin yang thing going on in the first 2 there! Hard to believe they were taken in the same spot on the same night, lolz.

ruckspin · Post by **ruckspin** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:03 pm

BlizzardMusic wrote:
djfurness wrote:In my opinion...its

1. Leeds
2. London
3. Bristol
4. Nottingham
5. Liverpool
6. Manchester
Replace Nottingham with Manchester

that's better

ed g · Post by **ed g** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:23 pm

i-line wrote: Thanks!

Nice photos by the way Ed. I like the yin yang thing going on in the first 2 there! Hard to believe they were taken in the same spot on the same night, lolz.

Favourite picture from the night was this one...

Sums up the madness of Bass Clef's set.

This one also makes me laugh - looks like his legs are on fire.

djstandfast · Post by **djstandfast** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:27 pm

steppa wrote:notts is large definately, real nice community see so many ppl time and time again at the dance who i never link with, but always see having a good old skank. Just one thing that bugs me, promoters need to link more, then it would be rediculous, having to choose between shackleton live and afterdark aint fair!

all big cities are getting it locked down now. But i have to say for the sheer amount of nights a month with dubstep highly involved on the music nottingham has got so much to choose from.

yeh man, they need to space them out over the month
the other weekend there was
cotti at stealth thursday night
detonate - youngsta and appleblim on the friday
rubber dub (afterdark) on the saturday
at the same time, shackleton, geiom etc at igloo on the saturday!!
expensive weekend

adam_misst · Post by **adam_misst** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:28 pm

Baron_von_Carlton wrote:Notts is most definately on a Dubstep tip. Shame everything is on a bloody friday when im at work

Thank God for Wigflex.

Its a good job the rest of our nights this year are on Saturdays then isn't it Baron!!

Nottingham has a very diverse dubstep scene which you don't see in a lot of cities...big up all the promoters and people that are making it happen - keep it up!

ketch · Post by **ketch** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:49 pm

ooo nottingham is full of fun..

(for those that know)

theres so much going on, i struggle to make it to them all!
Just hope it keeps growing...

thinking · Post by **thinking** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:54 pm

btw anyone Notts-wise want to get myself & kidkut to come and rinse your party? Heard good things.

Specimen tracklist to be found HERE.

ed g · Post by **ed g** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:02 pm

ThinKing wrote:btw anyone Notts-wise want to get myself & kidkut to come and rinse your party? Heard good things.

Specimen tracklist to be found HERE.

Wow, that's a very healthy tracklist!

Downloading it now...

slothrop · Post by **slothrop** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:04 pm

Notts is very exciting right now. More stuff going on than I can get to actually...

stodge · Post by **stodge** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:37 pm

Yes yes! Got to love the Notts scene!
- Top quality line-ups, don't just try to pack in the crowd pleasers but go a bit more ecclectic.
- Lovely folk - both the crowd, the promoters and the dj's.
- Some of the best nights around. (Wigflex and Futureproof ruling, but many others working there way up the ranks!)

d-nile · Post by **d-nile** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:46 am

Have to say I really enjoyed the little bits I saw on fri night. The crowd were ace - really nice mixture of people and I didn't see any idiots at all. Just hope it can stay that way. A few people need to look up deodorant in the dictionary though!

It was great to see all the hard work from the futurproof crew come to fruition.

Another great party in Notts.

Ps - lets not go on about it too much - it's at a nice level right now. I would rather it stayed at like that.

adam_misst · Post by **adam_misst** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:53 pm

I can't see anyway but up in the next few years for dubstep in Nottingham, some killer productions looking to come out this year too...

I've heard stupidly good unreleased tunes from a lot of producers in the area...Earlybird/Tantrum/Geoim/Blitzz all slaughtering people with there latest bits...

Keep your eyes peeled in 2008 midlands crew!

dubagonal · Post by **dubagonal** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:27 pm

Yeah man. Big up Blitz and Earlybird. HEAVY tunes.

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:31 pm

*Grand* wrote:hasn't Notts always been on a dubstep tip... i was under the impression it was?

Yup, Mala, kode9, Oris J and shit loads more played here years before dubstep was what it is now. Big up the Loom, heavyweight and FP crews for always being well ahead of the game - and of course now spam and the rest of the wigflex crew.

Thank God for Wigflex.

You don't have to thank me, jus make sure I get some boomshank sauce before you go away bruv...or the recipe!

I love Notts, I think it helps that we're about half the size in terms of city centre than everywhere else. Which is all down to not having good sewers in the outskirts in the 1800s or something when they were deciding which cities were gonna get 'greater' areas like London, Mancs, Leeds and Liverpool did.

Anyway, I rekon this year will be good but we need to be carefull. While the size of this city is a blessing in many ways, it could be our downfall if promoters dont work together to make sure its not too hard to ram a night out - like the double bookings that've gone down recently, and people booking the same artists that've played 2/3 months before - will turn the scene stale like it did with DnB.

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:33 pm

Going up to notts the other night made me miss it- it's the community vibe that comes from its size that I miss, really.

Shame it's such a fucker to get to on the train from the south

Littlefoot · Post by **Littlefoot** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:44 pm

Notts has been on Dubstep for time, its true for sure, thats how I managed to get into it, saw Benga and N Type play at the Maze and get dubstep banned with the soundsystems power haha, me and about 20 other people

good night

remember seeing who I think now was EFA going nuts

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