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Baron_von_Carlton wrote:Used to be on at the Social and before that at the Maze (where the manager pulled the plug due to excessive volume)

Ah, I'd wondered about that. Shame - the Maze + Highness Sound = great venue. My first dubstep night was Loefah there and it was awesome.

Upcoming Shackleton + Geiom night on the 26th should be ledge, although the system at Igloo didn't entirely convince me at the Geiom album launch...

Not actually dubstep Highness themselves are worth checking for pure reggae stuff, too.

Cheers man. I'll defiantely be making that next Futureproof. I remember that Indoor festival with Skream + Digital Mystikz @ rock city was heavy. Never new the maze had djs like Loefah on. Always wrote it off in my head. Wont be making that mistake again.

Hold tight the original DUBCAMP family. DJK + C60. Wednesday in kudos about this time last year. been trying to get it back on @ pelhams on a thursday but need to get enough $$$ for flyers / posters before we do it again...hold tight adam/efa/earlybird/d-nile/spam...good times....good to see you holding the torch in notts adam...may catch you at the next misst...

yeh not bin a lot on over christmas break wich was a bit garsh. But yeh nottingham has a huge dubstep scene right now. Blatantly promoters should get together for some rock city duttyness, wud be bad tings in the main hall haha. Big up adam, brackles, all wigaflex gang, geiom, Rust, rubberdub, futureproof, pollen and metaphi.

You know what adam, I thought the system you had at the last misst night was loads better than iration. Once you'd sorted out the technicals it sounded sweet. The bass was ridiculous - proper bone shaking but didn't hurt your ears and had a real clarity.

I know Iration has got powerful mythology about it but I'd be inclined to conserve bass miles and stick with your indigenous system.

Yeah Heavyweight Rocksteady are the founders in Notts- big up to Geoim on that one!

I-Line your right, the full Garvey system in the half the room we do sounds tremendous when in full swing...12 Bass Bins and the mids and tops to follow sounds sweet in there with the bouncy-floor!!

We'll just have to wait a little longer for Iration to grace the Garvey, but i assure you, they're coming!!
Hope to see you all down at the next one, should be a good crowd now the students are back too -
http://dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=36469

Notts is a strong scene, although we're our own worst enemy most of the time with little to no communication between promoters as to dates/bookings etc. Alot of the time it gets very behind the back bitchy which is stupid in such a small city.

I doubt rock city is a possibility for anyone apart from Detonate due to the costs of such a big event. Garvey should be a big enough venue for stuff like this but again due to money the lineups havent been big enough to get people traveling like they do for exodus etc (No offence intended there ad btw) but hopefully that should be changing this year...

As far as wigflex goes we had a few nights before caspa last year at Muse which had distance, dub child, max cooper and a few others. We were killing the capacity there tho and wanted to move somewhere bigger, then due to the bullshit that is scene and business politics every venue we looked at was either shutting down/uncontactable or already closed without even the managers being told....We're now regularly down at igloo working with Kid n Play to bring some differently heavy lineups featuring non-mainstream underground artists. WigFlex is NOT a dubstep night.

The weekly night at dogma is now myself and earlybird playing pure classic dub and reggae. If you're a roots person and aint just in this scene for the image get yourself down...


But seriously, looking forward to the iration visit - if you ever need some proper dub to warm up the system Ad lemme know, we'll be down with a box of 7" originals quicker than you can rack a line bruv...

Exodus goin on sick.....joining forces with Heavyweight up in Newcastle now Miist in Notts....the future looks bright.

Dubagonal wrote:As for Pollen i dont think i've ever been to one. Is it at Moog? I cant imagine dubstep sounding to good on that system but i'll have to get down to one to see for myself.

We used to always make sure we had an 18" sub in the corner rumbling away with some PA but we were trying to push the deeper, Electronica side of the sound so that was fine for that size venue.

To be honest mate I don't think you will see another Dubstep night their, the next ones the last from me and my leavin do and thats not gonna be Dubstep led cos of the other nights clashing which is no fault of theirs, I've been on about leaving for ages but its been long.

We had complaints at Gravious Live and they almost lost the licence, some cunty school teachers been complaining from day 1 about Moog. Real shame as Its a nice mini rave out when It goes off, I've brocked out to Klute their a few years ago.

When I hear dubstep on Iration's system nowadays it sounds like the speakers are fucked.
They need proper eq-ing or whatever the engineers do to bring the best out of the sound system, Iration Steppas stuff stil sounds crisp and sick but the dubstep can get a bit foggy. Just my opinion.

It's been interesting to watch the progress of the Notts dubstep scene - seeing MRK1 and Virus Syndicate at The Loom Festival seems like many moons ago now!

I can remember the days when you knew everyone on the dancefloor - but it's good that there's more people into it now - I am sure it's more economically viable to book certain DJs and live acts now.

I don't go out to much stuff these days due to general tiredness and having to focus on my music more - but I have got many happy memories of the good ol days!

Loefah at the Heavywieght/Vexd at Futureproof/D1 at Heavyweight are prob my fave nights over the last couple of years...

I am looking forward to the next futureproof - bit of a reunion session that one.

Dubagonal wrote:Nice one Adam. Its good to see Notts gettin a propa dubstep night rather than just the back room at the odd DnB event. Line up looks Bad.
Still remember that night with Tes la Rok and Rusko in November.....

woah woah woah!

way to miss out on the last 2 years!!!!!!!!

RE: Notts scene

right now is banging

and its covering a lot of bases, whatever you think about Stealths naughty monopolisation of venues (plus the 30 minute cue WITH a ticket dying to see Skream!) they manage to put on very very varied lineups and the dubstep room these days is PACKED

edit: realised that looked a bit like a dig, it's not really, big up the guys at Stealth for letting Rust/Transit Mafia etc do the sick dubstep room

Heavyweight Rocksteady were (and if they do more will be) always the best, i saw my first dubstep night at the Maze, me and about 20 other people, the room was literally shaking down so it got cut off, big up Benga and N Type and my not knowing who they were back then! and big up EFA at the front skanking on his own about a year before we were mates!

The Wigflex crew know how to put on a night, the computer games = sweet idea.. although get some veggie sweets! Watch out for me and Spamchop doing some 8 bit/technodubstep experiments nice and loud soon!, bring yer gameboys!

Misst, only actually been to one, wierdly! They always fall at wierd times for me for no reason, although it was large and I was ridiculously drunk, ended up leaving the dubs in need of garlic bread(?)


FOR NOTTS LISTINGS CHECK : http://www.myspace.com/nottstep

notts, were getting better, but it always seems like everyone knows everyone but only thru a mate, when if we all collabed it would be pure sound pushing!

Joe C wrote: whatever you think about Stealths naughty monopolisation of venues etc.

Shady business a gwarn?

Slothrop wrote:

Joe C wrote: whatever you think about Stealths naughty monopolisation of acts, venues etc.

Shady business a gwarn?

not really. as far as I know.

It just seems that a lot of the big venues in town are owned by the same people.

Im just bitter they made me stand in the cold for 30 minutes while people without tickets went in and got to dance

I've heard bad things about the big dogs who own Stealth but nothing negative about its promoters/managers trying to monopolize nights. They do have some heavy nights and a really crisp sound system but i never feel that same friendly vibe that i get at the Blueprint.....Queues are a joke some nights aswell (especially Detonate)