sweaty but excellent
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
usual place?
looks like you knew it
― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:18 (fourteen years ago) link
wow! almost as blown away by the activity on this thread as i was by sunday night. :)
here's a few responses -
Haha and instead we get Suicide. ("Ghostrider" would have been too obvious I guess!)
"ghostrider" was cueued up at one point!
what's this playing under TV On The Radio?
"walking trough heaven" by chris and cosey
though they do seem to be hitting a lot of classics tonight.
i had lots of new music and things i'd never managed to but always wanted to play with me. i also had the greatest hits of optimo. we could have played literally anything we wanted to but i think one of the things about the night was always picking up on the energy of the crowd, and sunday simply felt like the greatest party i've ever been to. it would have felt too self indulgent to have done anything else than to have played a party set (it would also have been a bit rough on the several hundred who didn't get in who went home to listen or remained outside and were listening on their phones).
we recorded the night with microphones placed around the club to capture the crowd noise. i haven't heard the awdio stream but i have a feeling you are only getting 50% of the story. the noise from the dancefloor was astonishing (there's quite a few points where we cut the music and they are singing along). we also had a secondary sound system in for the night and when we switched that on around midnight, the roar was deafening. the second pa also made mixing quite tricky so i'm going to blame any shoddy mixing on that. :)
i'll check how the recording came out next week and will then hopefully post up a link to the full recording with crowd noise.
d'you reckon there's still a queue?
there was still a queue at 2.30am. most people had given up by then but a few determined folks waited it out so we squeezed them in. we estimate that around 1500-2000 tried to get in. by opening so early, we thought a lot of people would come for a few hours and then leave so others could get in but it simply didn't happen. almost everyone wanted to stay until the end.
Wicked Game (Trentemoller Businessman Dubby Games Remix)
thanks! only ever had a white label and never knew who had done it.
last couple were The Chain by Fleetwood Mac and Seven Days by Chuck Wood.
it was meant to end with nina but then the club owner grabbed the mic and made a wee speech. i didn't want that to be the last thing ever heard at the club so played some more.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 12:42 (fourteen years ago) link
What was the track that led into Hung Up?
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 12:45 (fourteen years ago) link
thank you!
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
(there's quite a few points where we cut the music and they are singing along)
this would explain the occasional cuts lasting a few seconds then. thought it was just a buffering issue ha.
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 13:18 (fourteen years ago) link
"walking trough heaven" - of course should read through, not trough.
track that led up to "hung up", i think was -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DY75Ylyu9U
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 13:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't wait! And thanks again for arranging the stream on the day!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that was great
― dmr, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Holy shit, the capacity of the club is only a few hundred, right? What time did you guys start playing?
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
capacity is officially 400 but can actually fit 550+ in. we played 9pm - 4am.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, I wonder how long you had to be in line to actually make it in
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:00 (fourteen years ago) link
so did you have 400 people in from the start? sounded like there was a major switch to dancier stuff around 10.30-11 but i guess with so little room for dancing that wasn't really an issue anyway. xp
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm assuming they did, did you see the picture of the line in broad daylight?
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
it was full within about 30 minutes of the doors opening (took a while to get people in). the start of the night was always our chance to play music not for dancing to although on sunday, people were dancing to even the most undanceable music at the start.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm trying to imagine people dancing to "Song of the Siren"...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
You roll around on the ground with someone while really bright headlights shine on you
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
You say this with the voice of experience.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Just reminiscing about that time I starred in Lost Highway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laf8bhSeGNY
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/11277704
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
!! <3 <3
― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man I'd love to see more of that clip when the Passenger comes in!
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i have fond memories of dancing at Optimo to "The Passenger", at Planet Peach, when about 30 people were there. the bouncers were horrible, it was a horrible venue, but so much fun nonetheless.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 12:27 (fourteen years ago) link
matias aguayo was wonderful tonight.
― Times New Excels At (jim in glasgow), Monday, 3 May 2010 03:32 (fourteen years ago) link
yes. he was the best thing ever!
― stirmonster, Monday, 3 May 2010 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Fabric mix is aces btw.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
The Tyrell Corporation - Together Alone to Roni Griffith - Spys to Levon Vincent - Love Technique! This is such a great choice of records. I really love this mix, if only for the first song, but it gets better. Where is that Fad Gaget song from??
― Jacob Sanders, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 07:02 (fourteen years ago) link
The sub club website says that tonight (8th of August) is Twitch and Wilkes. I don't believe that for some reason, but as it is my last Sunday night in Glasgow ever I'd like to know if I should make it down.
P.S. My friend wants to know if I can look after her dogs for the night so it's not a case of just not bothering to go down. I can either go or stay in.
― heterosexist matrix of desire (Gukbe), Sunday, 8 August 2010 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Optimo website says
Residents party this Sunday (8th), with some familiar faces making an appearance...all will be revealed on the night...
― ␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆ you oughtta know by now (sic), Sunday, 8 August 2010 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
So, has anyone been to Hung Up!, which is what the ex-Optimo Sunday night has evolved into?
I'm a sad loser who never went to Optimo, but am wondering now...
They have Ivan Smagghe on the 15th and James Murphy on the 22nd.
― krakow, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
jealous of those going to James Murphy. always a good time.
― heterosexist matrix of desire (Gukbe), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
After LCD earlier this year converting me to their cause I'm very tempted if I can find anyone to hold my hand into the proper clubbing world.
― krakow, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll probably be there on the 5th.
― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
September? Who's playing that one?
― krakow, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 07:39 (thirteen years ago) link
No idea! But I'm planning to be in the same hemisphere/country/city, so
― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 09:55 (thirteen years ago) link
sic, was just saying to grimly f (on facebk) that we shld have another glasgow fap...
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm up for Sunday 5th September.
― krakow, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey Ward! I have had “try glasgow more” open in a tab for a week waiting for my travel plans to be vaguely finalised before I Suggest Fap. (I have a plane ticket for nine days away but haven’t had leave approved yet!) If real fappage wasn’t going to work out once I have times bashed into shape, I was going to mail you and grimly to see if we could lunch...
got yr ilxmail krakow btw
― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I have been told that Optimo is, in some form, coming back to Philadelphia! such excitement!!
― En Moog (Stevie D), Thursday, 12 August 2010 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
supposed to be in Brooklyn August 29
― mizzell, Thursday, 12 August 2010 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
yup, we're both playing philly on both the 25th and 27th (25th is a bar gig where i will be playing rock n' roll), 27th is making time and then we're playing sunday best in brooklyn on the 29th.
i haven't decided who is playing the club in glasgow on the 5th yet but will probably be some of our local residents - we're both in croatia that day.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 12 August 2010 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
WHOA!! stirmonster I am so so fucking excited :D Do you know what bar you'll be at the 25th?
― En Moog (Stevie D), Thursday, 12 August 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
the bar is the pope.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 12 August 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
DOUBLE WHOA, that's the local watering hole for a bunch of my good friends! I didn't even know they did events like that.
― En Moog (Stevie D), Thursday, 12 August 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Kinda rearranging our European trip to (finally) catch Optimo in Paris on Sept 23rd w/Danton Eeprom at Rex Club. I'm guessing NZ is still an unlikely destination, but are any Australian jaunts in the pipeline?
― etc, Sunday, 22 August 2010 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Waaay psyched for this Friday. So you're playing at POPE (the one on Passyunk East, I presume) on the 25th? What time are you on?
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Monday, 23 August 2010 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm afraid i don't know anything about the pope gig apart from what i've posted. i'll try to find out and post back.
etc - there is a very, very slight chance we'll be playing NZ in december as we're going to be playing in australia then.
― stirmonster, Monday, 23 August 2010 05:38 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.corsicastudios.com/index.php/september-2010/285-ekstravaganza-6-september-10th
http://www.corsicastudios.com/images/stories/eks6-web.jpg
― Citizen Smith (Jamie T Smith), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 11:49 (thirteen years ago) link
That's just a ridiculous line-up, wish I could go. Ekstravaganza is pretty much the best regular club night in London these days.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 September 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey Jamie! I just heard Keith spelling out “...i-l-x-o-r” over the music and thought he was saying you were “(ilxor)”, not just an ILX0r – didn’t work out who you were until after 6am – sorry for thus being so confusing!
― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Monday, 13 September 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link