From abenn Sent Wed, Oct 7th 1998, 12:30
From abenn Sent Wed, Oct 7th 1998, 12:30
hmmmmm, I went to the Ally Pally New Year's Eve bash 2 years ago and don't
think I"d bother again ... tis a right bummer, cos I live right next to
Ally Pally meanin its just a little stroll down the hill,thru the park
home, no need for the extortionate taxi bizness ... but that year, when
they had Orbital playing Chimes in the countdown to the New Year, I thought
everyone was gonna go mental when the clock struck midnight, but did they
eckers like! everyone just kept on dancin, none of the big hugs & snoggin
bizness whatsoblinkinever!!!??? :(
Maybe its cos I'm from a Scottish family and up in Scotland at Hogmany
everyone just loses the plot completely, everyone's huggin and kissing and
going totaaally MENTAL, partyin it up bigtime, the whole country's just one
big ceiligh for a week! Maybe da Londoners are more uptight than us
Northerners or somethin? I dunno, but also it was total chaos in there,
the Chemical Bros & Psyconauts room was sooo rammed, the bouncers at the
door wouldn't let any more people in, meaning some friends got all
separated & lots of aggro at the organisers & bouncers, 2 hours queues for
the loos and the cloakroom ... maybe The Mean Fiddler will sort tings out
this year, who knows? but if its not happenin there, then run down the
hill to Aless's house, (the house with the big Holly trees in the front
garden all covered in red Holly berries already!) where it'll DEFINITELY
be parrrrrty time, in da propper Scottish styleee, loooads of boooze, Black
Bun, clootie dumplings, wild Scottish dancin, blindin soundz & probbly lots
of verrrry naughty completely sozzzzled Finnish girls ... and lads, you've
gotta have a bottle and a piece of coal before you're allowed over the
doorstep at Hogmany, tis an ol Scottish tradition!
'For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!
We twa hae paidl'd in the burn,
Frae morning sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar'd
Sin auld lang syne!
And there's a hand, my trusty fiere,
And gie's a hand o'thine,
And we'll tak a right gude-willie waught,
For auld lang syne.'
Rabbie Burns.
Aless
>Spotted on the Ceremony mailing list:
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>All star line-up for monster Mean Fiddler New Years party
>
>Underworld - Temptation indeed
>
>New Order and Underworld will be headlining the Mean Fiddler's huge
>Temptation New Years Eve dance party at Alexandra Palace. Alexandra
>Palace has now become the venue of choice for dance promoters on December
>31, with the Mean Fiddler following in the footsteps of Universe and
>Essential, who have both held events there in the past.
>
>Joining the headliners will be Laurent Garnier and Monkey Mafia, who will
>also be playing live in addition to DJs the Chemical Brothers, Sasha, Luke
>Slater, Richard Fearless, Dave Ralph, the Bronx Dogs and the Scratch
>Perverts.
>
>There will also be a live audio-visual link-up from the Essential Mix New
>Years Eve bash at the Blackpool Winter Garden featuring Pete Tong and Judge
>Jules.
>
>The event will take place across three rooms between 9pm and 10am. The Mean
>Fiddler will also be putting on another Temptation night on December 29 at
>the Manchester Evening News Arena, Manchester. This will also feature New
>Order, Underworld and Laurent Garnier playing live with Justin Robertson,
>Luke Slater and Andrew Weatherall DJing. [At Nynex arena, apparently.]
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>[From next month's Musik]
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>NEW YEAR: NEW ORDER
>
>AFTER several successful comeback gigs, indie-dance icons New Order are
>headlining two shows called Temptation in December.
>
> At Manchester's 8,000 capacity Evening News Arena on December 29,
>they'll be joined by live acts Laurent Garnier and the Lionrock Sound
>System, and DJs Justin Robertson, Luke Slater, Andrew Weatherall and
>James Holroyd.
>
> At London's 12,500-capacity Alexandra Palace on New Years Eve, their
>guests are Underworld and Audioweb, plus Sasha, Judge Jules and Pete Tong
>in the Radio One Essential Mix room, and Monkey Mafia, The Chemical
>Brothers (DJing), Richard Fearless, Bronx Dogs and the Scratch Perverts
>in the Heavenly Jukebox room.
>
> Both events run from 9pm to 6am, with tickets priced at 30 quid for the
>Manchester show and 39 quid for the London show. Contact
>0161-832-1111/0181-963-0940 for further details.
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>(Sorry for the non-IDM content. But hey, Slater and Garnier and Weatherall
> count, don't they? :-P A rave in Manchester with Slater, Garnier,
> Robertson and Weatherall, with New Order playing a few Joy Division tunes.
> I think I could hang with that, yeah ... )
>
> - Greg