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TOURS
- End of October - Storm - The Pier Head - Hastings |
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Information
Contribution
- YH
STORM!
Review Contribution
- YH
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DJ's
included Colin Dale. PA - Orbital and Ten
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It
was a dark and stormy night - well actually it was a quite a mild
evening for Hastings in October, which was just as well for the
thousand or so clubbers that spent all night on the pier for the
second Storm! of its kind.
The Storm! Corporation were the first
to put on large club events on the South Coast over a year ago,
usually at the Brighton Centre or The Event, with all the spectacular
laser/light displays and DJ and live line-ups that you'd expect.
Their licensed events, which finished at 2am and were usually packed
within half an hour of the doors opening were excellent value for
money. The success of the Brighton Storm! nights soon attracted
less scrupulous promoters who ripped off punters with inferior DJs
and higher prices, so Storm! decided to look elsewhere for venues.
Hastings Pier was the ideal choice - large, never-before-used and
best of all, it had council permission to keep the sound system
pumping until six in the morning, a first for any event in the area.
Needless to sat, the two Storm! events
held on Hastings Pier - one in August and the seoncd a couple of
weeks ago - have been a tremendous successs. DJs like Grooverider,
Colin Dale and Harvey ensure heavy house sounds whilst a handfull
of PAs, from the likes of ORBITAL and an impressive new act from
Maidstone called Ten, whip up the audience to new levels of Hysteria.
The advantags of the Pier as a venue are many, the main hall is
right at the pier end so a loud 30K turbo rig doesn't carry to the
beach, let alone to the nearest residents, the amusements are open
all night, as are food and drink stalle (the licensed bar is open
until 2am) and theres the open walkways for a bit of fresh air.
It's pretty much a perfect setting if all night raving is your thing.
With the local authorities apparently
quite happy with the two Hastings Storm! events so far, it could
turn into a regular event. Certainly the next all-nighter (this
time till 8am) is already booked for December 21. If only other
local councils would take a similar line on other under-used vocals.
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