Digital@ PoNaNa, Lincoln, Friday 18th July 2003 Posted by Bushy on Jul 22, 2003 - 7:36:00 PM

The Line up for this Monthly event included Colin Barrat, Ingo and Paul Glazby.

On My way towards PoNaNa from the Digital pre-bar, Marthas, i was preparing myself for a night of Hard Tuneage, i was not dissapointed!

The evening had started well at Marthas, with the dj there warming us up nicely with tunes such as Sharkboy 'music is my life' and Mr Bishi's 'throw your hands in the air', this was quite refreshing as usually the tunes aren't that hard! Something was different tonight, it must have been because Mr Glazby was in town!!

Entrance into the venue is down a short flight of stairs, and a surprisingly low entrance fee of £5 b4 10:30, and £6 after, gets you into the 2 room venue, cloakroom cost is £1. Once inside you feel the low ceiling isnt gonna be too friendly when it comes to dispersing the heat, but, then again, thats what hard house nights are all about, hot, sweaty bodies on the dancefloor!

As we took to the main room, we took up our usual milling place right next to the dj box, it was coming up to the end of the first dj's set, which was a very strong, aggressive techno set, which, to my surprise i enjoyed lots! Next up was Colin Barrat, after a few words of encouragement to him, from my good self, i'm sure he was ready to rock the place, and that he did, on his Digital debut, the boy Colin shook the foundations of PoNaNa with some driving hard beats, with a techy edge, fit for a gang of beat thirsty clubbers. Dropping in a few from the RAW stable, one that stood out to me was RAW9 (remixes). One tiny setback for Colin about midway thru his set (he left his cdr with all his new stuff on at Ingo's place) didnt phaze him, just slightly pissed him off.

By now the club was starting to fill up, and the temperature started to rise, as more and more flocked to Lincoln's hottest clubnight.

A quick peek into the back room, led me through to hear some Funky beats being thumped out of the speakers, was quite enjoyable, but i have to admit that my heart was set on staying in one room, and that was the front!

As Colin Barrat, was coming to a close, his last 10-15 minutes were filled with seriously hard driving house, then a certain somebody arrived!

Earlier in the evening i had been asked by Amy(gf's mate), if i could let her know when Paul Glazby arrived, as she didnt know what he looked like. My answer was, 'you dont need to know what he looks like, just look out for a glow that hovers through the club and up to the dj box. that' i said 'will be GOD, aka Paul Glazby, failing all the hovering and glowing bit, i'll show you'

Mr Glazby turned up, and took to the tables, Colin Barrat finishing off a very impressive set, in my eyes, definitley one to look for in the future!Without stopping Glazby went straight on through into his set, opening up with the 10pm remix of Techsture, the birth track of his new label 999, he took it off in great fashion, seamless mixing from one track to the next, dropping in new material with older material, one track which stood out, is Base Graffiti - Base E.P, packed full of hoovers, and deep throbbing bass, this is gonna be a massive tune, bigger than hostile, in my honest opinion, and is due for release within the next couple of months, a few others worth a mention, is 'House always wins' - which is the flipside to 'The Hulk' which induces the sample 'dont make me angry', among others that impressed me Glazby also threw out some other tracks such as Intoxicating, throw your hands in the air(glazby rmx), hostile and ph4, thrown in for good measure! Needless to say the man had done it again, he came, he saw, he played records, he made everyone dance there little backsides off!

Glazby clocked off at 1am, Ingo earlier told me they couldn't book him for the last set, which is what they wanted, due to him playing at Tidy Storm, so once he had finished with the wheels of steel, it was the turn of Mr Ingo. To follow up from Paul Glazby is a difficult job, but i am glad to say, Ingo did himself proud, and was knocking out some fairly hard tuneage, a lot of which i gathered is new material! Lots of cdr's going in etc. Ingo kept everyone dancing away til 2:15, when they finally turned the sound off. All in all, i think everyone had a good night, and is well worth a visit to any clubber who likes it HARD!!