Bukem & conrad this friday

the master of smooth returns to Adelaide friday june 18th

tix only $25 b4 10pm

I've convinced 9 of the boys from the riverland to come down for it this weekend.. am a bit excited as I missed out last time LTJ was here..

Do I get a free ticket for bringing those people along to the show??

/me bats eye lids and puts on nice smile...

i doubt they needed much convincing

its Bukem and Conrad goddamnit

i hear lovvers of all stylez are coming from all over for this one!

ps do i getta ticket for convincing Chrys to pay for hers

ill see how i feel after work

wicked.. name dropping... i know buster.... does that win the name dropping game?


but really.. i wish i could check this out but i'll be staying home this weekend to catch up on film clip work.

Nah just making a point.... No offense to the promoters but $25 is a bit out of my pocket range at the moment... I'm sure it's well worth it and If I had the cash I'd go in a heart beat just not this time...

Devil.. get a new hobby....

So who else went...what did they think?

the $25 thing was a bit odd. Me and 4-5 mates stayed at the Ramada this weekend for it because it was at Traffic. Didnt particularly like the fact there was no passouts till 1 (which turned to 12 30), so we went back to the hotel till about 11 30.

Awesome atmosphere. Huge crowd on the dance floor and it stayed the whole night too.

Musically it was mindblowing. Better than the last time i saw him, and just about the best set ive heard of anyone of any genre. I loved it. The atmosphere made it so much more enjoyable as well.

I was a bit unsure about Traffic as the venue as it isnt extremely roomy (last two times he was at the Tiv and St Pauls, which are much bigger) and i thought it would be jam packed and hard to move around. The crowd was the exact right size for it i thought. Packed dance floor but with room to move and have a break on the second and third levels. Perfect.

I was a bit dissapointed with a couple of things tho. The fact they only played for 2 1/2 hours shocked and dissapointed me. Last time from memory he played for over 4 hours and i was hoping for something similar. The camera incident may have caused that as Bukem only played 2-3 more tracks after that before stopping.

The camera incident itself annoyed me too. (just for the people that didnt go...about 2 and a bit hours into the set, Conrad spotted a bloke on the floor with a small hand held video camera. Conrad told Bukem to stop playing and then said that they wouldnt play another second until they have the film. COnrad said some things, the guy went up the front and on stage, and they argued back and forth while Bukem started playuing another track. Looked like it almost got heated, Bukem started getting very angry as well, the guy gave him the film and they played for about 15 minutes more then that was it.)

I can understand why the club wouldnt want video cameras in there but i thoguht Conrad went a bit overboard. In reality, 2 minutes of footage which for all intents would have been dark, jumpy and impossible to see much at all isnt life threatening. Maybe i just dont understand what the problem was but some of the things Conrad said were laughable and ludicrous.

When he said 'You are here to listen, not to look' i nearly fell over laughing. Sorry but if i was just there to listen I would have stayed at home and listened to his cds on repeat for 3 hours. I was there, and im sure most others were there to also see how the master did his work. We pay money to look AND listen. Their job is one where 100,000s of people each year go to watch them perform. Its understandable that people would want some sort of memory of it. There were 100s of phones and photo cameras shoved in Bukem and Conrads face during the set taking photos and probably 100% likely some videos off the phones as well...yet thats alright.

I can understand why he wouldnt like it, but i thought him taking the film (he could have just watched him delete the footage) and some the things spoiled my time a bit. After the show I found Bukem to be very approachable, didnt mind signing anybodys atuographs and didnt mind having a chat....Conrad on the other hand came across extremely arrogant, quite unapproachable, and after about 4 or 5 signatures he seemed reluctant to want to give anymore and it seemed that his fans wanting autographs, shaking his hand and wanting to say well done was an extreme hassle.

Overall i left thinking it was mindblowingly great music, best set ive heard, equal best atmosphere in a club ive seen (equal with James Holden....maybe Bukem in front) but slightly dissapointed with the set time and some of Conrads actions/words.

Still...Bukem proved once again he is the man!!

Didnt end up going.. had a big night Thursday and not enough sleep before heading to work so by 11pm I was in bed Friday night. My mates went though and reckon they had a great night probably one of the best nights they have had in a while although the only thing was that it was a bit hot in there but I'm sure those sweaty jungilists have so much love to give as well it would have added to the atmosphere

Holden - the last time that minke was open

i would of been there if it wasnt the fact that i finished work at 1 am and got pissed off for it !

The Bukem xmas show at St Pauls wasnt that good imo. There werent a lot of dnb heads there for that one so the atmosphere wasnt what you would normally see at a Bukem gig.

I doubt Holden has had quite the impact musically that Bukem has. Tunes like Music & Horizons set the blueprint for drum&bass and are recognised worldwide as the tunes that turned dnb from a fad into a serious musical force. When they were released the entire direction of jungle changed.

Thats pretty damn major, and Id hazard to guess a lot more genre defining than anything Holden has done.

Funnily enough he also wrote a track 'Horizons' that redefined what it meant to be 'progressive' and has continued to raise the bar with every subsequent release. Bear in mind too he's only 25, 'Horizons' is a good 4 or so years old and James hasn't even hit his peak yet...

me: sat in a nightclub back in Blighty about 10 years ago - chap sits down next to me and asks what did i think of the last set?

me: yeah great music but the mc sucked. Don't you think they just spoil the music and didn't he go on? blah blah blah

chap turns away in disgust and chats up girl on the other side

me: realising it was Conrad sneaks away quietly