 |
Features
|
|
|
| Introducing NEM3SI$’s new label Infinite Resistance! | | Mindbenderz talk ‘Lord of the Rings’ and fishing, as well as the creation of their new album ‘Celestial Gateway’! | | Iono-Music artists One Function, Eliyahu, Invisible Reality and Dual Vision talk Robert Miles, kids, dogs and vinyl, while we chat about their current releases! | | Luke&Flex talk influences, the Irish rave scene, why Flex wears a mask and Play Hard, their new EP out now on Onhcet Repbulik Xtreme! | | Lyktum expands on his new album ‘Home’ – talking about his love of storytelling, creating new harmonies and the concept behind his musical works. | | Pan talks getting caught short crossing the Sahara, acid eyeballs and tells us Trance is the Answer, plus shares his thoughts on his latest release 'Beyond the Horizon' - all from a beach in Spain! | | Miss C chats about living with the KLF, DJing in a huge cat’s mouth, training her brain and the upcoming super-duper Superfreq Grande party at LDN East this Saturday, 16th September! | | NEM3SI$ - I Live for the Night – talks superficiality, psychopaths, and bittersweet success, ahead of a plethora of evocative, emotional, and passionate upcoming melodic techno releases! | | Psy-Sisters Spring Blast Off! We talk to DJ competition winner ROEN along with other super talents on the lineup! | | Blasting towards summer festivals with Bahar Canca ahead of Psy-Sisters Spring Blast! | | Shyisma talks parties, UFO's, and Shotokan Karate ahead of his upcoming album 'Particles' on Iono-Music! | | SOME1 talks family, acid, stage fright and wolves - ahead of his upcoming album release ‘Voyager’ on Iono-Music in February 2023! | | The Transmission Crew tell all and talk about their first London event on 24th February 2023! | | NIXIRO talks body, mind and music production ahead of his release 'Planet Impulse' on Static Movement's label - Sol Music! | | Turning the world into a fairy tale with Ivy Orth ahead of Tribal Village’s 10th Birthday Anniversary Presents: The World Lounge Project | | The Psy-Sisters chat about music, achievements, aspirations and the 10-Year Anniversary Party - 18/12/22! | | A decade of dance music with Daniel Lesden | | Earth Needs a Rebirth! Discussions with Psy-Trance Artist Numayma | | Taking a Journey Through Time with Domino | | New Techno Rising Star DKLUB talks about his debut release White Rock on Onhcet Republik! | | PAN expands on many things including his new album 'Hyperbolic Oxymoron' due for release on the 14th April 2022 on PsyWorld Records! | | Psibindi talks all things music including her new collaborative EP 'Sentient Rays' on Aphid Records, her band Sentience Machine and 10 years of Psy-Sisters! |
|
|
|
|
|
A world first! Will Paterson reveals all as Frantic teams up with Moondance for a huge free party
Reported by NinetyNinePR
/
Submitted 04-01-06 15:31
And no I don’t mean he’s going to be putting Will Jnr. on display — right here on HarderFaster, Will Paterson promoter of Frantic exclusively reveals hard house club phenomenon Frantic’s plans for 2006 (and beyond), and gives us the inside scoop on his sensational new club Hidden in Vauxhall, South London. Oh and of course there’s the small matter of the never-been-seen-before free party collaboration with old skool party people Moondance this Saturday to talk about!
Most of us are pretty well informed about Frantic, but for those of you who don’t know much about Moondance, let us fill you in briefly. Moondance events have been held since way back in 1995 by a man who goes by the nickname of Funki and have always been about reliving classic moments in rave music history from years gone by. Be it happy hardcore, jungle, breakbeat-filled rave music or classic acid house, Moondance has always been a history lesson in the evolution of dance music. In recent years the events have mostly taken place in venues enshrined with clubbing history, such as Koko (formerly Camden Palace) and SEOne (formerly The Drome). This Saturday provides an unmissable chance to enjoy such classic tunage at the same time as experiencing Frantic’s 21st Century hard house stylings, and all at the ultra low cost of £0! Clearly, this is the only way to stave off those January blues...
Will Paterson and Amanda from Frantic
So Will, what exactly is going down at Hidden this Saturday?
In a world first Frantic is teaming up with the legendary Moondance for an awesome FREE Party this Sat 7th Jan at Hidden in Vauxhall.
Moondance will be bringing their own magic touch to the old skool room, while Frantic will be rocking the other main arena with block rocking hard house and trance! All this and classic, funky and dirty house in the middle arch!
This is truly the party to get 2006 really started!
What was the motivation behind this party?
Funki and I have wanted to do a party together for the last year, but the right opportunity never presented itself. Then when we took over Hidden in October we were looking for a party to start 2006 and this fitted the bill perfectly!
How did you first come into contact with the Moondance crew?
We both used to do loads of events at the grand old Camden Palace! When we used to do Bank Holiday Sunday Afternoons Moondance used to do the evenings so we would come into contact with each other that way.
Moondance is all about classic dance and rave music from days gone by… are there any styles from bygone eras that you are particularly fond of? Aside from old skool jazz of course….
I love loads of guitar bands from the 60s right through to the 90s. I particularly love bands like MC5 and The Stooges and then all the Seattle stuff like Nirvana and Mudhoney.
The event is taking place at Hidden, the club in Vauxhall that you recently took over. Was the decision to move into venue management something that you had been thinking about for a while?
I’d been working on moving over for the last 3 years, but it’s a real challenge to find the right venue at the right deal. I must have looked at 40 different premises until Hidden came on the market.
What new challenges have you faced since entering this area of the club business?
Where do I start! Lol!
It’s been a real rollercoaster ride since October. My business partner is a venue manager with 20 years experience, but it’s still a big challenge running your own venue and particularly a venue that wasn’t working at all well when we took it over.
However it’s been brilliant fun working on it and every day there are new challenges that keep me fresh and hungry for more!
At the moment we are working on redesigning the outdoor courtyard and redoing the toilets. It’s going to look wicked when this next stage of the refurb is complete in March!
The Red Room at Hidden
Which is more stressful — running a venue or promoting an event?
They are both stressful! Lol!
Funnily enough they are quite similar in that the end game in both is attendance. In other words the key task in both jobs is to encourage people to attend the venue or the event.
How do you feel that the first few months have been at Hidden? It definitely seems that the club has made its mark on the London club scene…
On balance I’m pleased with what we have achieved, but feel strongly that the next stage of the refurbishment and the new promoters we have in place for 2006 will put Hidden on a completely new level!
What’s in store at Hidden in the next few months then?
There are three big things going on at Hidden at the moment:
1) Believe
This is our weekly Sunday morning after hours sensation playing only the finest house and dirty house and electro! The week before Xmas Tim Sheridan came down and played and impromptu 3 hour set and had to be almost dragged from the decks at the end as he didn’t want to finish!
2) Summit
We are convinced that Summit is going to make it big in 2006. The boys have so much passion for hard house and trance it’s a certainty that they are going places! Their next party on Friday 3rd February is going to be a real corker with the infamous 123 crew!
3) New house events
Hidden is predominantly a house venue and we have some wicked events line up with the massive FunkinU and PlushDaFunk crews alongside Sat and Sun after hours house events!
Hidden
And what about Frantic this year? There has been talk of a downsizing of the operation?
It’s not so much downsizing as concentrating on bigger and better events, while leaving space to plan a bigger outdoor event for 2007.
We will be running 6 events in 2006 with the first three being:
Timeless Sat 28th Jan — The Renaissance Rooms
This is one of only 2 Timeless events in 2006 with a very special live set of Lab4 playing their legendary ‘Live at Samsara’ album in full!
HHA Sat 25th Feb
There are only 2 HHAs in 2006!
This is our biggest ever HHA line up with so many stars it hurts your eyes!
Transmission Sat 15th April Alexandra Palace
This is the biggie!
10,000 Capacity with new staging and new sound and every single important hard house DJ known to man or woman!
We are then spending much of the year planning an outdoor event for Summer 2007 which is a big undertaking, but one we are determined to make work. There has never been a dedicated underground outdoor event in the Capital with hard house, trance, old skool, hardcore etc. and we hope to change that!
Would you ever pass the running of Frantic on to anyone else or would you rather always be in charge?
Well I already share the running of Frantic with Amanda and work closely with Chloe, Elvis, Zoe and Benz so it’s not a one man band, but no I can’t envisage stepping back completely as I feel so passionately about it that would be a wrench!
Which new and exciting artists are you looking forward to seeing perform at your events this year?
I’m looking forward to Greg Brookman doing his PA at HHA!
I can’t wait for Organ Donors and Kutski to do their first ever b2b at HHA!
The Dutch superstar Fausto is going to rock HHA!
Alongside them I think that Alex Kidd, Cally & Juice, Cally Gage, Little Gem and of course Andy Whitby will be smashing every event they attend in 2006!
Are there any bits of audiovisual technology that you haven’t had the chance to use at Frantic yet? If money was no obstacle…
I’m keen on using the big LCD screens! They have amazing picture quality and light up rooms better than floodlights!
I’d also like to use the massive 30 watt colour laser I’ve seen at Psy Academy! This will be appearing at HHA in Feb!
And finally, have you got any other exciting plans for 2006?
I hope to be doing another massive Frantic vs Storm event in Coalville as the last one was absolutely off the hook!
I’m still looking for the right venue for another rematch between Hardcore Heaven and Frantic!
Lastly the 9th Birthday will be Frantic’s only other date at Koko in 2006 and will take place on August Bank Holiday Sunday 27th. This is going to be beyond massive!
Thanks to Benz and Daf for their photos. http://www.harderfaster.net/?section=photos&username=Daf
Frantic vs Moondance FREE PARTY!
|
|
On:
|
Saturday 7th January 2006
|
|
At:
|
Hidden [map]
|
|
From:
|
22:00-05:00
|
|
Cost:
|
FREE B4 1am!
|
|
Website:
|
www.hiddenclub.co.uk
|
|
Ticket Info:
|
Completely FREE before 1am with your Moondance NYE or Frantic NYDay Ticket Stub
|
|
Buy Online:
|
Click here to buy tickets
|
|
More:
|
Frantic vs Moondance FREE PARTY!
Saturday 7th January 2006
2200-0500
@ HIDDEN
100 Tinworth St
Vauxhall
London SE11 5EQ
Moondance NYE @ SEOne and Frantic NYDay @ Koko are about to SELL OUT! London’s 2 biggest and best New Year’s parties are almost full to capacity - we are expecting many Moondance NYE and Frantic NYDay Ticket Outlets to SELL OUT BEFORE Christmas Day. You have been warned! But the fun doesn’t stop on January 2nd…
London Clubland just got that little bit more exciting for 2006! For the first time ever 2 legendary Dance Music heavyweights are coming together to give you one unforgettable night out at London's newest venue sensation! Frantic and Moondance are teaming up for a MASSIVE FREE Party for ALL Moondance and Frantic Ticket Holders on January 7th 2006 @ HIDDEN in London! Buy one of the last 500 tickets for MOONDANCE NYE or one of the last 300 tickets for Frantic NYDay and get your first night out in 2006 completely FREE! It’s like the best Xmas present you never got!
Set across 3 state of the art arenas with loads of seating, well stocked bars and friendly security Hidden is a club like no other! Have a look at the latest photos at www.hiddenclub.co.uk. You can expect nothing but the finest DJs each promotion can offer, and a musical policy ranging from Hard House and Trance, to old skool, jungle, funky house, electro, breaks and much more!
Arena 1 – Moondance – Dance Classic
Slipmatt
Snypa
Food Junkie
Trix
Genoside
Squirrel
Arena 2 - Frantic
Andy Whitby
Cally Gage
Little Gem
Elvis
Andy Rise vs Matt Pick-Up
Shimmer vs Janie Mac
Stevi D vs Luke Warner
Arena 3 - Volume vs Freedom 2 Dance – 88 and 89 House club classics, funky and dirty House
Rob Blake
Jay C
Benz
Dragan
Chris Barrett
All you need to do to secure FREE ENTRY to this mindblowing event is turn up on the night before 1am with your NYE or NYDay ticket stub and the party is on us!
Ticket Info
Completely FREE before 1am with your Moondance NYE or Frantic NYDay Ticket Stub
Stay FREE for the AfterHours! Believe is the Finest House Music EVERY Sunday Morning from 5am to Superlate. Everyone at the Moondance vs Frantic FREE Party can stay at Believe for FREE! You really can’t argue with that!
Don't leave it too late to get one of the last advanced tickets for the Biggest NYE party in the Capital and the legendary Frantic NYDay Party that has SOLD OUT the last 6 years in a row!!
You know all your friends are going, so give Ticketweb a call on 08700 600 100 now and book a ticket from the comfort of your armchair. The tickets will be held for you to pick up at the door.
|
|
Flyer:
|
|
|
|
Share this ::  :  :  : 
Follow HarderFaster :: 
Other Features By NinetyNinePR:
Polish Poison — introducing DJ Keen
Global trance superstars Above & Beyond bring their Anjunabeats to London for the Tri-State album launch
All-time trance king Ferry Corsten rolls into town for Heat NYE
Lashed 3rd Birthday preview with promoter Roman
Perth’s finest Abs cranks up the Volume
The views and opinions expressed in this review are strictly those of the author only for which HarderFaster will not be held responsible or liable.
|
|
|
Comments:
|
From: Dickon Laws on 4th Jan 2006 15:45.41
"I particularly love bands like MC5 and The Stooges and then all the Seattle stuff like Nirvana and Mudhoney" You've been waiting to say that in an interview since 1998 mate! Hats off to you - there isnt much you wont try and do and annoyingly make a success of every time!
From: Mizz_behavin on 4th Jan 2006 16:20.21
 go will go I am actually planning to be at all 6 events this year  so much for my "retirement" 
From: icc on 4th Jan 2006 16:21.45
Niiice
From: Stevi D on 4th Jan 2006 16:32.15
bring it on!!! i cant wait for this. not long to go either. And dont forget PEEPS its free!!!!!!
From: Gordon Darley on 4th Jan 2006 16:33.48
Good stuff Will. From what I know of the plans at Hidden for 2006, things are definitely set to get even better there, Roll on this year 
From: BrinnO on 4th Jan 2006 17:06.45
Great stuff as always!
From: anushka007 on 4th Jan 2006 18:26.14
Good work Mr Paterson and have fun on Saturday, I am sorry I wont be there this time, but I will be poping down to check out new venue and parties some other time thats for sure 
From: Cally Gage on 4th Jan 2006 18:52.40
Excellent interview and I'm sure you will smash everything that you do in 2006 - as always!
Can't wait to start the year at Hidden this Sat - it's going to be ace so see you all there.
x
From: Steve Gillen on 4th Jan 2006 20:16.41
good stuff
From: Karl Schmidt on 4th Jan 2006 22:18.12
Rock on Frantic!!! I do believe this year is going to kick solid ass!!! Well done Will, Amanda and crew - Frantic events just keep getting better and better!!
From: Maria on 4th Jan 2006 22:29.44
You can count with me for one more hard year in 2006. I can say it here that you are so far my favorite promoter that i'm working with. See you at Hidden on Saturday.
From: Batch on 4th Jan 2006 23:40.26
Fantastic job will
2006 is going to be an amazing year
more memories to be made
From: Matt Smallwood on 4th Jan 2006 23:49.44
Nice one Will + Amanda, Hidden is deffo one of the best venues in London imo! Has certainly come on alot since I used to play there in the good old Trinity days! Hehe! Good to see all the hard work paying off, good luck for 2006!
From: steelo kuchiki on 5th Jan 2006 11:44.20
in the mix, big up mr patterson. top banana
From: snowqueen on 5th Jan 2006 12:16.42
welldone will and amanda
From: bennett on 5th Jan 2006 13:50.38
roll on 2006!
From: Miles Gorfy on 5th Jan 2006 22:01.12
Looking good
From: dani d on 6th Jan 2006 00:03.34
Witcked interview Will and Amanda,great stuff
From: Jennie B on 6th Jan 2006 10:54.58
Looking good but where did patterson get that double chin from 
From: benz on 6th Jan 2006 13:13.16
From all the MINCE pies he ate over Christmas! Geddit?! MINCE!
oh dear
From: Pandora S-K on 6th Jan 2006 13:52.41
Looking very good!
From: Jennie B on 6th Jan 2006 14:48.00
what mince as in teh gh3y
From: twist on 6th Jan 2006 19:05.44
I honestly don't know where Will gets the energy!!!! he has also built an enviable team around him who work so hard. Well done all.
From: X-Field on 9th Jan 2006 11:35.47
Nice interview And good that there is a photo with it. Now I finally have faces to the names.
From: Kelly Knappett on 9th Jan 2006 12:58.27
Hey Will.....Good to know you are planning another Hardcore Heaven vs Frantic!!
We cant wait for it!!!
xx
From: Jazzy on 10th Jan 2006 03:46.39
Sounds absolutly unmissable!!!
Thanx for all your dedication and hard work.
Looks set to be another mental party year
from Frantic. See you all there!!
xxx
From: Aaron Baskerville on 10th Jan 2006 10:57.34
Great to see you finally have your own venue Will. Well done on all your hard work over the years and putting HH on the map.... although these days mate, "It's all about the House"
From: Type 1 on 11th Jan 2006 14:42.27
so ya a bit of a grunger then will! good lad! Q: did u ever where a flannel shirt and ripped jeans back in the day ;-)
|
|
|
![[HarderFaster] - Work Hard, Play Harder!](/images/mainbanner_top1-xmas.gif)
