Back To The Old Pool 10th Nov

[tag]

hi folks,

Fantastic night at the Academy last night,hats off to Ian and co for putting on such a well organised trouble free night.

Met up at my house with duke and his cuz lee (top lad,hands like shovels lol) then headed off to town to meet up with TK tonny and superkev and co.Met a load of other heads in the Baa Bar and good to meet some new faces at last,Biggz,Italoldskool and his wife mandy,finnegan lee,leaky,grenville,kev p.Headed off to the academy just b4 10 so we could catch miss saysays settage,some quality tunage getting played there trace shame ya wasnt on for longer.All Djs played excellent and i was in between both rooms all night just catching up with old hazy regulars and taking shit loads of photos lol.Highlight of the night for me and probably a lot of others was getting to see Ce Ce Rogers live on stage,starting with Joe Smooths - promised land following on with all join hands then finsihing with the awesome 'Someday'.The place was rocking bigtime lots of friendly smiley people all night.I even got to shake the sweaty hand of Mr Rogers lol.Big shouts to all the usuals you know who ya are was good to see everyone out again enjoying what they love the most.

good work ian,thanks for a great night mate

tag

ps loads of top photos to follow soon

[Duke]

we ad a great nite n met up wid tag n sum of hes m8's gud bunch of lads , a BIG THANKS 2 TAG 4 letting us chill bac at he's pad n stopping my cus killing a bloke over 10fags (the fucking paddy )just got bac in n im ready 4 bed

[italooldskool]

Had a top night, was great to meet tag,duke,lee and cutter and finally put a few faces to the names ive been reading about for years.

Was lucky enough to meet ce ce rogers at the bar after his performance and had a bit of a chat with him. He came across as a really humble and genuine bloke,was a pleasure to speak too. Also loved his performance, top drawer

I was a little disappointed with what i saw of Marshall's set, i was hopin he was gonna pump out loads of chicago classics, it took a while for him to get playin what i would regard as oldskool, but netherless was great to be in the prescence of a true house great. Was nice to hear him drop move your body and frankie knuckles your love

Some great tunes played in both rooms all night, respect due to all the DJ'S and organisers of the event .

Think this event has brought me well and truely brought me out of ravin retirement

Cant wait to attend another oldskool event soon and hopefully meet up with more of the OSA crew.

[Silky]

Crackin night all round,

Good and bad points, tho,

Get the Bad stuff over and done with: WTF was Mike Knowler all about? He was proper poor on the night his mixing was terrible, also Andy Carrol dnt rate in my books either, was funny when me and Debs were staring him out when he started playing some 80's cheese!!! and he was givin us the DJ (Im playing some awesome tunez) look. Rant over.

Trace you were class, i was with you in the car on the way in and you were so nervous, you did really well, shame Cano made us late!! Proper enjoyed you at the mash up afterz, had a nice head scratch massage too! Thanks Hun!!

Ce Ce Rogers was sheer class, that mans voice can make any grown man tremble, i managed to get to the front and get a pic of us holding hands, i just hope the picture comes out alright!!

Someday, Promised Land, All Join Hands were absolutly mind blowing.

Then it was Jefferson's turn, since i hadn't seen him before id love to of heard some more deep US from his prime but was glad to the fact that the set he put on was really uplifting, and found myself asking Neil & Mart for ID's on his set, it sounded very new, and some nice stuff bein played!

Steve Proctor, for me the opening 4tunez in his set were fooking mint, i need to track em down, he set impressed me!

Only caught half of Pluto's set, Lovely to finish the nite off with some Belgium Tecchy, R-Theme was ace,

Nice to get to know Mart & Neil some more, Remember havin a really heart to heart with the man like Raddish some nice comments being exchanged, i ment evey word, hello to Pauly & Sweet , Tag , Jiglo , TC , adamw , Mesh , Damo , Danster Sonz sorry if i have forgotten any1 i was proper towards the end.

Nice to finally meet some of the PR crew, Cutts what a fantastic bloke, never got a chance to have my picture with ya, but got some class snaps when you were on stage!!

Duke, you made my night with some smoke, totally top lad, Alison Limerick was on at the time and i totally got into it and wazz buzzing off mi rockers!!!!

The mashup after was ace at Cano's lots of nice downtempo didnt go bed till 9.45am, an OSA record for me, ill expect a Trophy when im next up!!

Big thanks to Woody for sorting me out on Fri night and massive thanks to Cano & Trace for keeping me here till Monday night!

Slept like a baby and im still feeling rough now!!

Thanks for making my visit a fooking class 1!!!!

[PepeLePew]

I'm still spellbound by Ce Ce's singing. Without doubt the best vocal performance I've ever heard. I would happily have paid the entry fee just to have heard that 15-20 mins of perfection.

I stayed upstairs most of the night. Given it was like one massive reunion, I can't remember one event attended by such a good showing of quaders, hazydayzers, pirate revivalists, osaers and los legendos . So much so if hands weren't in the air the were probably hugging or shaking hands

I've never heard MJ play live before and apart from Hazydayz glowing reviews. I had read a mixed bag of reports, so wasn't sure what to expect. I actually really enjoyed it; more modern than I think most people expected but it rolled along very smoothly and ended fantastically.

Went downstairs to catch Micks set and really glad I did. Even without being able to see the crowd; he had all the nutters jammed on to the broom cupboard sized dancefloor dancing to monster anthems. Even at low volume it was class.

The other djs I know they can play a lot better (more creatively), and though not awful subdued the evening for me.

Massive thanks to Ian and anyone else involved with making the night happen, for creating another fantastic memory for me to keep forever.

Thanks for all the ribbing about staying sober yew bunch of barstewards
Makes a change for me to not be suffering any sort of hangover though Unlike some I don't doubt

[ikontraband]

well , what can i say but that was one of the most special nites i ever had the pleasure of putting on so far loads of small clips ill be putting up on utube next day or 2 ,such a fantastic atmosphere made or the more special by the great turn out from all the friendly osa ,pr, hazy, quad/daisy crew , who again made the effort to travel from all over to support this event ,the club managers + head doormen ect of the venue kept telling me all night that they have NEVER had such a well behaved crowd of clubbers in there and we are very welcome back anytime

anyways , my report , started off hectic up early sat morning to get ce ce from the airport , what an amazing guy he is even though tierd from his 10 hour flight he had time to chat to me n my mate tommy bout all sorts he was happy to sign records posters flyers for us , and share some good memories which was just unreal talking to one of our heros, thats when he mentioned in the convo about promised land and that he acutaully co wrote it but let joe have the credit (cause things like that happend back then ) then he said ohh i can sing promised land too for you tonite if you like ,me n tommy just looked at each other n i said erm OK lol, i was then even more exited , so after gettin him n marshall sorted in hotels ect it was off to the club who had problems with the downstairs sound system the night before so we only had minimal set up , im sorry if this spoilt anyones enjoyment but tbh our biggest concern was the main room and PA ect so we couldnt moan too much because the production team and engineers helped us put on a hell a show , my mate who did the visulas for the night also did us proud all the late nites in the studio and me pestering him to add this add that over the last week or so really paid off ,so cheers mike

we got to the club bout 9.20 brought ce ce up to do a quick 5 min sound check before they went for something to eat , we all knew there n then you guys was in for a treat and it was gonna be something special and boy it was ,

pezz got things rolling in the main room top dj fantastic warm set , downstairs round bout same time miss saysay was kicking things off in style with good crowd enjoying her set too, then mouse took over ,i never got to spend anytime really enjoying anyones sets much after that so cant really comment personally of who you never thought much of or who was crap ect but id really love any feedback off anyone who went (without being too nasty or personal) so i can get it right for the next time ,

most of the night for me was just hectic running round sorting passes out for press , photo guys extra guest ect ect then was just waiting on marshall n ce ce to get back to the club in time to go on so i could relax a bit n enoy the rest of the event ,then the time came just after midinght the stage was full and it was our man like CUTTER bigging up the main man in the wings ce ce rogers to walk on stage and just blew everyone away , mind blowing stuff as all the clips will show for themselves ,

YouTube - CE CE ROGERS @ BACK TO THE OLD POOL Liverpool 10/11/07 (1)
a little bit of history was made on our very own doorstep ,

Then the godfather stepped up to the decks n played a varied set , now remember this guy is told hes doing a classics event by his manager ,so as he plays bang upto date dj gigs new stuff ect you gotta remember a classic to him might be something thats only 6 or 7 years old so it can be tough to specify exactly what hes gonna do on the night ,

tbh i was told by few people 30 mins into his set "hes playing a bit too new" so i just had a friendy word in his ear bout it being not as "classic" as we would like and he just said ok man no problem (unlike mr park @ hazy ) then sure enough he started dropping in proper stuff like inner city , joe smooth , alison limerick ,house music anthem ect and we was all back on track
again it was a pleasure to see him make it all look so effortless up there ,

then steve proctor finished off upstairs had it rocking never got to see much of plutes but that guy just plays a blinder everytime i book him so i had nothing to worry bout there and ive heard nothing but fantastic reports bout his last hour ,

massive shouts to me helpers on the nite marty , derek , shannine , lisa and shaz ,and the djs off here miss say say , mouse, cutter ,pluto

big shouts to everyone i managed to say hello to on the nite ,
mesh ,nics, cano ,si kelsall , pauly n sweet ,mart , tag ,woody, miss tickle ,pepe , kev p , leegas, shazzer , tash ,danster(aka ronnie o'sullivan) , lee finagan , there was loads more im sure so im sorry if i missed anyone but its still a blur today after the mash up back at ours yesterday ,

id like to say a very special thank u to my LISA for putting up with me last 7 weeks ,as its very stressfull putting these things on and u are there for me ever step of the way


im having a well earned break now for a few months sorting my discogs sales out ,but hopefully do something in the spring sometime we will see , anyways should see most of you all at "IN MY HOUSE" febuary as its my birthday nite so hopefully bring a possee out with us to see the man like pluto how could anyone miss that


once again THANKS to all who came for making this nite special cause its not just the djs + PAs you book or the music they play , but its also having a good crowd that makes these things work...


laters peeps

[finneganlee]

well people im just recovering afet a weekend of madness nice to av met a few faces off her tag, nics, woody, tc, leaky, and dukster top top lad chongin on the reafs like guddun lol
I m upping the first lot of pics

[finneganlee]

few more pics people of mayhem n wrogness

[ikontraband]

more clips

YouTube - CE CE ROGERS @ BACK TO THE OLD POOL Pt 2

YouTube - CE CE ROGERS @ BACK TO THE OLD POOL 3

YouTube - CE CE ROGERS @ BACK TO THE OLD POOL 4


few more to come ,enjoy

[leaky]

well what can i say, what a night
set off to liverpool a bit unsure about whether we had any digs, been trying for ages to book a hotel, with no luck, until finniganlee, managed to find a spot which had rooms, (top marks for going out of your way to try find 1 ) anyways when we reserved the room they didn't want a deposit, so i tried to ring friday to double check we deffo had a room, couldn't get an answer all fri/sat, so as a precaution we chucked our sleeping bags in car. we arrived in liverpool around 4 and found the hotel to be all locked up and in darkness so headed to lime street, got parked up, and went in search of another hotel. 1st stop was lord nelson right next to venue, and this is what set the night off we asked if they had any rooms, which they hadn't. but the girl on the reception asked the manager if he had any ideas where we could get a room. gary, he was called, and what a fooking top bloke, he and the receptionist spent a good half hour ringing round other hotels for us, gary even trying his personal contacts in his mobi, and the city was totally booked up but he wouldn't let it lie, i was all thanking him and saying we have our sleeping bags if we dont drive well crash in car, but he was having none of it, tried hes damdest to get us sorted, in the end for all his efforts he failed, but his best offer he could give us, was to let us park the car in his hotel carpark, so that if we did crash in car, we couldn't get nicked as it was a private locked carpark he even told the night porter that we might be there and that we could come in and use the toilets. wouldn't take a penny, not even for taking a parking space, now in my book for a bloke to go that far out of his way to help out 2 has been ravers trying to book a room in his hotel, next to the venue, to go get shit faced, on a match day, 3 hours befor the event, that hes never seen befor, is something pretty special and set our night off on a great buzz. we got car parked up in our new home and went into the hotel bar to start warming up.
next stop was bar baa, we hopped in a taxi and asked for what ever the street was called, to which the driver jumped out and said why dont you walk its the next street so arrived and met duke, tag ,finniganlee, bren, biggz, to name a few. had a good old drink and chat with various ppl befor heading off to the acadamy.
arraived knowing i was gonna have hassel at the door, cos id got my ticket wet and it was unreadable, the door man was sound, no worries mate have a good night and all that, im thinking jusus. how friendly are folk round here anyways this theme continude the whole night, went on the 1st floor 1st and listened to saysays set, had a good old boogie, then ventured up those mad stairs, that got steeper through the evening not sure who it was but enjoyed whoever was playing befor mr rogers,
then it was time for the dood himself, deffo a highlight of the evening, what a voice spent about 15min having a battle with my new phone cos it would only video for about 2 seconds, eventually sorted it and got a little momento. caught a good part of the godfarthers set jumped around for a good while and waved those arms after that its a bit of a blur, up and down and outside for smokes, for the rest of the night until the last thing i remembered was about 3.15 going for a smoke in car and thinking can i challange those stairs again next thin i knew there was this mad, rumbling noise i opend my eyes to a huge world war bomber plane flying overhead. looked at my watch and it was 9.30 slept like a log didn't even hear the phone when you rang to tell us to get back to your gathering, jiglo sorry for not saying bye to everybody but id had my fill (lightweight) and what a good fill it was
it was great to meet so many sound people, duke, jim, biggz, debs, tag, finniganlee, bren, manc, konspiricy, nics, misstikle, cano, saysay, pepe, adamw, and loads more that will filter back to me ive come away from liverpool thinking. what a great night. and what a friendly bunch of people, not just the osa crew that i met, but the whole crowd, and everyone else we met in the pool along the way. and to top it all off id managed a good kip (and didnt wake up with a sore arse cos patey, my partner in crime does have a look of micheal barrymoor) and wasn't rough on sunday great night all round. my mate said liverpool is gonne be the european city of culture next year, and after my visit, i think its more than worthy of the title even caught some of the remembrance parade on sunday which was impressive.

highlights of the evening... c c rogers the friendliness and kindness of all the people we met and biggz for going down on his arse on the dancefloor, and sitting there looking confused, till i pulled you up

lolwights, following through walking round the city on sunday

top night all round

heres a snap i took of our diggs, venue door is on the right of pic, and our cosy little blue hotel is tucked in the corner behind the silver room talk about rolling straight into bed

[PepeLePew]

Can relate to that Leaky. So many times I've tried to book a hotel room in the pool for a night after hazyz or quad. Ended up kipping in hotel du Beetle 3 out of 6 times

[Jiglo]

Originally Posted by leaky

............... looked at my watch and it was 9.30 slept like a log didn't even hear the phone when you rang to tell us to get back to your gathering, jiglo ......................

Jeez leaky, I didn't know at the time you were sleeping in your car mate and when I found out when you text me at 10am, I felt pretty shit and I told Debs and she bollocked me for not telling her sooner and she got upset

Glad you had a top night though mate

[Mesh]

Well, what can I say that hasn't already been said? It was an absolutely fantastic night, with fantastic people and fantastic music
Got there early to catch SaySay and Mouse doing it for the girls Well done you two, what I heard of both your sets was boss
Spent the next few hours flitting between the two floors hugging and catching up with people I've not seen in agges Was proper boss to catch up with you all and to meet some new faces too. You lot are the reason that these nights are so special, so thank you for making the effort to come over to Liverpool
Then came Ce Ce Rogers..fuckin ell...what a performer He was one of the best live performers I have ever seen. It was amazing to hear tunes like Someday, Promised Land and of course All Join Hands being sung live by and Old Skool legend. I remember standing there at the front of the stage with Si watching Ce Ce thinking..I will cherish this memory forever When I am old and grey and reminiscing about my younger days, this memory will stand out
Next up Marshall Jefferson who played a fantastic set, started off with newer stuff and then launched into some oldskool classics which the crowd loved. I got to meet the man himself backstage and I have to say he is one of the coolest muthafuckers I have ever met
Managed to catch Steve Proctor who imo is one of the best DJs I've seen lately, he knows so much about music and never disappoints when he's on the decks
Then finished off with Pluto who had the crowd rocking Yet again you played a fantastic set
Then to the mashup for much madness, pocket waftys, monkey sex, crochet classes, heather sellers, BABY..and much much more Thanks to Murfs and Ian for hosting, shout to all the attendees and my Si..you gang of mad bastards
Shout to all the people I met for the first time Mistickle, AngieWillo(PR), Leegas, Silky, Bren, KevP, DMSR(PR) sorry for telling you I would like a cat and I live in a bathroom..its the only French I know ..anyone else I met
Final shout for Ikontraband/IanK, thank you for yet again putting on such a fantastic night. You have consistently put on nights that have been some of the best clubbing nights of my life You managed to bring like minded clubbers together who just wanted to hug and dance
I know how hard you work to put these nights on and you should be proud of the fact that you have created a lot of special memories for a lot of special people
Shout to all the hazycrew, the pr crew, the osaers..that was my last one for a while so thanks for making it as boss and mad as it was

[kevp]

had a crackin nite nice one ian for all the hard work in putting the night together was a credit to your efforts

big shout all the usual suspects ian,murfs,plutes,shazz,pepe,lee,bren,finniganlee,b iggz (lol @ the reminicing @ the near death experience on route to the quad allnighter all them years ago )was nice to meet a few new peeps tag,duke and who ever else memorys struggling a bit was a tad

cece rogers blew me away with his amazing performance my highlight of the night and prob the best live performance ive ever witnessed

looking forward to next night out wherever an whenever it is

[kevp]

Originally Posted by ikontraband

more clips

YouTube - CE CE ROGERS @ BACK TO THE OLD POOL Pt 2

YouTube - CE CE ROGERS @ BACK TO THE OLD POOL 3

YouTube - CE CE ROGERS @ BACK TO THE OLD POOL 4


few more to come ,enjoy