Friday 10th May
& Saturday 11th May 2002

Hardcore Will Never Die Part 4
Berne, Switzerland

FRIDAY:
Played a '91 techno set at a party in Newcastle called D-Tox. A lot of noisey stuff on +8 Records etc. I think it may of been a little harder than people were expecting! I think the organiser got a little scared when I played Vortex by Final Exposure/Joey Beltram. I think, still to this day that is one of the noisiest records ever made like, mad high pitched squeeks beeps. had a problem with the left hand deck, the tonearm was getting stuck when it reached a certain point in a record, bahh.

Proceded to get drunk on chocolate vodka, wine & some other mad drinks. Room was full of helium ballons so I had a go inhaling it & speaking. one ballon blue up in me face, ha.

Went to Revoloution vodka bar with little MoJo, had a pitcher of something, then tried to go clubbing. Couldnt get in 1 place coz I had trainers on and me record bag, so we went to try and get in a gay club, but it wasnt open. Had a burger and trundled home.

SATURDAY:
Took a lot of time to get going. Slightly hungover, but not to bad for the trip to Switzerland. Eventually got moving around 10:30 and went into Town ot get the train to Edinburgh. No seats, bah. Stood all the way, apart from when I had a poo. Train was full of drunken cockeny women with devil horns on there heads, on a hen night. Noisey people, not good for my niggling headache!

Gets picked up and took to the airport from freind Emma Boobs. Wnet to pick up tickets and they had been booked under the name Mr Glenn?! Sorted that, had a coulpe of pints, then changed my money into Euro's. Saw a sign saying that Switzerland was still Swiss Francs, bah, change me money again.

16:10 the flight, pleasent journey, 2 1/2 hours, nice meal, couple of beers, one called 'Fuctberger' Im sure the name was.

Greated at the airport by Dominic (DJ Dave Speed), his girl and DJ Dione from Holland ("Sick Confusing Mother Forker" tune). Told him I thought he was a girl and everyone in England thought so to!, haha. He also goes under the name E-Noid (Dione backwaards), fascinating fact for ya.

1 hour drive to Bern, have a little power nap, awake feeling wide awake, nice. Ready to party!

Go to hotel, some problem with the manager, He wont let 1 person stay in a double room or something. Weirdo, Im sure he had an imitation nose. We have to leave as Dominic is playing in 20 minutes.

Arrive at the club, greated by Big bearded Alex (Cut-A-Kaos), the party organiser. To get to the club we had to get in a sort of open top ski lift, ha, canny it was I tell you.

Club was very nice, sound system was awesome, crystal clear like all party's ive played at in Europe. 2 rooms, downstairs was the gabber/new style room, large merchandise stall at one end, 100s of T-shrits, tape packs, records etc, decks in the other, and a mad cage at 1 side. VIP bar behind this room, free bottles of beer and Jim Bean, hmm.

X-treme core/speedcore/Terror room was upstairs, slightly smaller than downstairs as this room had a bar. To get the the decks you had to walk up a short steal ramp, which provided some sliding fun later on in the night, weeeeeeeee.... Indee & Capcom were playing brutal speedcore! 250 BPM+ and this was the first set of the night. This set the pace for the music in this room allnight, total mental speedcore allnight like!

Had a few beers with Indee & Capcom in the VIP room. Capcom was calling new-style 'unhappycore', ha. back upstairs and the Milan Speedcore Project boys arrived. Nice to see yooz again, Twilight & Frazzbass.

Met lots of new people and people I already knew, but had forgot.

Spoke to Mr Randeye for a bit.

Met some dude from Rige, sorted out a distribution deal for GGM T-shirts, mainly the "Harder Than Bin Laden" T-shirts that everyone wants. We should have some done first week in June, along with baby T-shirts for girls with "BLOW YOUR BOOBS OFF" on the front, ha ha ! the 'O' will be GGM logo's. Dunno whats going on the back yet.

Anywayz, backl to the madness. Spent most of the nigt in the speedcore room, only went downstairs to stock up on beers. Now then, everyone played really really mental fast like! half the time it sounded like machine guns and the crows were loving it like! Terror Enlarger done an hour PA. This must of been about 2000 BPM for almost an hour like! Breaks in the music were provided by various rude words. Mental and good it was.

Cut-A-Kaos played next, this was also very fast, tempo hit machine gun level a few times during this other insane hour! Nice.

Lots of girls with funny looking haircuts.

100s of TERROR FOR LIFE T-shirted nutters!

I played 12:20 - 1:10 lots of UK based speedcore, Max Death, Corrupt, Colenel Stench, Traffik, Boneheddz etc. Was scared I was going to be playing too slow! haha, but it seemd to go down OK. I acompanied the music by my usual bopping up and down and other madness.

Milan Speedcore Prooject took over, and the frantic beats continued onto 4am.

Dont remember much after playing, as I helped Capcom polish of a bottle of JimBean. I do remember finding a Coathanger, so Captain Coathanger made an apperance. ha. Brought some smiles to the faces of the nutters on the dancefloor in the speedcore room.

A pink rubber glove apperaed from somewhere, and I had that on too. I brought that back home as a souvenier. Got a slight memory of sliding down the littel steel ramp and Im sure many other funny things may of happend!

4am came and I went back to the hotel.
My lift to the airport was arriving at 9am, so I set the alrm on my mobile phone to go of at 8:45. Silly me, forgot to change the time on my phone, so it went off at 9:45, Swiss time! Luckily the hotel room phone rang at 9am. I thought it was someone being sick backwards, but it was the receptionist speaking Swiss! Washed my teeth and brushed my face and went down to reception. One of the Dude's from Darkheadz kindly transported me to the airport.

Flight was in 40 minutes, checked in, name was wrong again, this time I was Mr Glann! had to get that changed, run for the bat adn take my bags on the aerobat, bahh. Nice salmon meal, no beer!

Arrived back in Edinburgh at 12:30 in the afternoon, went to Boony's, had a nap, went to the pub, got drunk, fell asleep.

All in all, a very good weekend. Mucho thanko to Alex for the party, about 800 people there I think.

Also thanks and hello's to Indee, Capcom, the Rige dude, Darkheadz, Dominic & girl, Twilight & Frazzbass, the girl that helped me to stand up and everyone else I met but have tha tI cant remember.

Flyer

SMURF