Hooray, the Summer is here, (with exception to the occasional mandatory downpour) the nights are getting later, and the race is on with the bars to get everyone's drinking dollars before the Holiday season truly kicks in. As a result, there appears to be a lot going on in our small town, as new nights are beginning to pop up..
The big names are appearing on various banners and blackboards. The cars, vans and trailers festooned with Flyposters for the clubs are back and there's another tide of stag nights, hen nights and birthday parties in fancy dress arriving by the many stretch limosines that still continue to find Bull Green roundabout hard to negotiate on a Saturday night.
As the late-night schedules kick into gear for the Summer, the competition will certainly be fierce, and it will result in a cracking build up to that ever important night - the August Bank Holiday Sunday. Either way the clubbers can look forward to a very interesting 12 or so weeks in Halifax.
Speaking of big nights, The Tube has recently celebrated it's 10th Anniversary, which by Halifax standards is a very long time for an independent venue. It's not long before Chicago reaches their 1st Birthday and if I'm not mistaken, Lush's birthday bash is due anytime soon, so the clubbers can expect a few more mega events in the next couple of months from these venues.
Bar Eleven have also been upping the ante, as over the past couple of months they've featured the likes of Graeme Park, Brandon Block and Marshall Jefferson to their weekend line-ups, and this week they've got the frontman from Embrace headlining at the bar for what appears to be yet another potential killer of an all-nighter.
In other circles, it appears that the live entertainment side of our town is picking up as we've recently seen a Burlesque night at Bar 15, The all day live event featuring 9 live bands is due soon at the bar in Bull Green. Another night I'd definetly recommend for entertainment value is the big one at Jaks featuring the lads from Dirty Sanchez, if you're easily offended then make sure you're in the front row hahaha!!
There are many other live music events cropping all over Halifax at the moment too - it's almost like festival season has come early this year.
What I've also noticed in Halifax too, is that finally after many years, there are now a lot more places open late on a Thursday, The Cell now opens until 2am, Yates' are open late, The Tube now open until 5am and Lush is still up there with Liquid, Jaks and of course the notorious Barbarellas.
In the meantime, prior to all this chaos, I've been trying to take advantage of this pre-summer quiet period to do some in-house organizing...
Tube Obsession Disorder:
As many of you who read my status updates will notice, I seem to spend a lot of time 'sorting out my classics' - this is something which, when I started, looked like it was going to be a simple process, however, little did I know about the Iceberg that looms below the hidden depths of my record collection.
What I was trying to achieve, was to overcome a symptom that I like to call 'MP3 Hoarding Syndrome' - an ailment that I'm sure a lot of DJs besides myself suffer from, on a regular basis.
This is where a DJ comes across a collection of MP3s, whilst searching for one track, and then fails to resist the temptation of 'copying the lot - just in case'
This results in a folder with hundreds, if not thousands of MP3 files that gradually builds up over time into a monster of a folder containing gigabytes of tracks, a lot of which are repeated, re-ripped, or named incorrectly, making it a nightmare to sort out afterwards.
Well, I fell victim to this syndrome, and as an attempt to beat this terrible disease, I decided to take the plunge and try and sort it out.
Six, yes, SIX months later, and I'm still 'sorting out my classics' - I have'nt even started on my chart/commercial/party/rock & indie stuff yet!
What makes it even more painful, is that only recently, I did a quick check on my folder with all my music in, just to see what difference I'd made, and I got this rather cheery message from my machine..
'This folder contains 158GB of Data'
'28,889 Files'
Looks like it's going to be a very long Summer for me too!
Till next time, Keep on Clubbing, and Be Safe
DK.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Back To The Future?..
Blimey these social networking/stalking sites are catching on aren't they?
I find myself spending hours every day browsing many different social networking sites, be it Bebo, Twitter, FaceBook or MSN whatsitcalled, often achieving nothing in the process. I blame my genetic urge to find out what's going on in the world.
That said, it just goes to show how quickly the world we live in has changed does'nt it, I mean, it was not even 5 years ago, letters were pushed aside for email, chatrooms were closed due to the increase of instant messaging, and now the infamous 'status updates' are keeping us all up to date with the latest knowledge.
At one time, we'd have to wait until the hour to find out what's going on in the world, now it seems the worlds media relies on the thoughts and opinions of various tweets and groups.
Flashmobs are the latest craze, YouTube makes mere mortals into megastars within days, and Scottish Singers become bigger singers than Mariah Carey simply because they had their hair done in a tumble dryer before going on TV.
You gotta love it though have'nt you, it just goes to show how much stuff there is 'out there' that keeps us all entertained, and I think without realising it, there's now something bigger than TV to keep us all occupied. Think about it, when was the last time you sat down in front of the TV for more than an hour?
When was the last time you 'recorded' a programme, bought an album in a shop, or even wrote a letter?
Here's a thought for you though..
When I was a kid, I remember seeing this old film (probably made in the late 50s/60s), something about a time machine or whatever, and the people in it decided to travel way into the future. Now when they got there, they came across libraries in this old deserted town, but when one of the characters tried to pick up a book off the shelf, it disintegrated due to it's extensive age.
We're moving very quickly into a fast, digital age. USB sticks are everywhere, everything comes with a memory card, and it's all quite cheap, and easy to get hold of. When was the last time you printed something out for yourself? - imagine in a few years when the whole world catches up...
There are Myths that the Egyptians were living in a higher technological era than the rest of the world, as were the Incas and the Aztecs. Well, if we stay 'all digital' and something ultra magnetic were to happen, some freaky monster EMP from space or something was to wipe out the whole planet, there wouldnt be much evidence of our existence in a few million years would there, well apart from a couple of dusty ZX81s, a Pink Floyd Album and an 'Only Fools & Horses' box set, well, maybe on DVDs that feature a bloke getting up to go to the loo every now and then.
I wonder if that's what happened to the Aztecs, Egyptians and that lot from Atlantis - maybe they Twittered themselves out of existence.
That movie I saw as a child is beginning worry me a little - the libraries are disappearing already.
So it could be worth printing something out every now and then, and keeping it safe, OK it might add an extra layer to your carbon footprint, but at least you'll have something to show for yourself when we're all gone...
I find myself spending hours every day browsing many different social networking sites, be it Bebo, Twitter, FaceBook or MSN whatsitcalled, often achieving nothing in the process. I blame my genetic urge to find out what's going on in the world.
That said, it just goes to show how quickly the world we live in has changed does'nt it, I mean, it was not even 5 years ago, letters were pushed aside for email, chatrooms were closed due to the increase of instant messaging, and now the infamous 'status updates' are keeping us all up to date with the latest knowledge.
At one time, we'd have to wait until the hour to find out what's going on in the world, now it seems the worlds media relies on the thoughts and opinions of various tweets and groups.
Flashmobs are the latest craze, YouTube makes mere mortals into megastars within days, and Scottish Singers become bigger singers than Mariah Carey simply because they had their hair done in a tumble dryer before going on TV.
You gotta love it though have'nt you, it just goes to show how much stuff there is 'out there' that keeps us all entertained, and I think without realising it, there's now something bigger than TV to keep us all occupied. Think about it, when was the last time you sat down in front of the TV for more than an hour?
When was the last time you 'recorded' a programme, bought an album in a shop, or even wrote a letter?
Here's a thought for you though..
When I was a kid, I remember seeing this old film (probably made in the late 50s/60s), something about a time machine or whatever, and the people in it decided to travel way into the future. Now when they got there, they came across libraries in this old deserted town, but when one of the characters tried to pick up a book off the shelf, it disintegrated due to it's extensive age.
We're moving very quickly into a fast, digital age. USB sticks are everywhere, everything comes with a memory card, and it's all quite cheap, and easy to get hold of. When was the last time you printed something out for yourself? - imagine in a few years when the whole world catches up...
There are Myths that the Egyptians were living in a higher technological era than the rest of the world, as were the Incas and the Aztecs. Well, if we stay 'all digital' and something ultra magnetic were to happen, some freaky monster EMP from space or something was to wipe out the whole planet, there wouldnt be much evidence of our existence in a few million years would there, well apart from a couple of dusty ZX81s, a Pink Floyd Album and an 'Only Fools & Horses' box set, well, maybe on DVDs that feature a bloke getting up to go to the loo every now and then.
I wonder if that's what happened to the Aztecs, Egyptians and that lot from Atlantis - maybe they Twittered themselves out of existence.
That movie I saw as a child is beginning worry me a little - the libraries are disappearing already.
So it could be worth printing something out every now and then, and keeping it safe, OK it might add an extra layer to your carbon footprint, but at least you'll have something to show for yourself when we're all gone...
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