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.
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