Well it was Freakin.
Quite the interesting party.
You cant really catagorize this party into any stereotypical or cliche terms. It wasn’t ‘kickass’ nor did it ‘blowass’.
The grandest adventure of the night would most defiantly be the circus that took place at 12 midnight.
We all got in, set up the TRIBE photo booth, walked around abit. I came back to the booth at around 12ish and plopped my ass in a comfy chair. I look up at the ceiling and noticed the house lights were slowly coming on. ‘Hmmmmmmmmm interesting’ I though to myself. Within a few minutes the entire Better Living Center was as light as day, a few minutes after that the music stops and security guards are going ape shit to clear everyone out. Once again I thought to myself ‘Hmmmmmmm interesting’. So I ran over to one of the trusty security guards and asked the nice man some questions. Apparently there was an ‘electrical fire in the basement’ and all patrons had to be cleared out.
Oh boy.
So within 10 min all 7000 or so people that were there at the time were herded outside, without jackets and without being told jack squat. That was a task all by itself, I am honestly surprised they managed to get everyone out of that place in that amount of time.
So 45min past, every single partygoer is freezing their asses off outside while firemen, police and security wander around the barren venue. By this time people were chanting and screaming to get back inside. It was a disaster waiting to happen. Needless to say, a massive crowd that size is almost impossible to control. But save the day, the ‘problems’ got cleared up and everyone was let back inside. Now what’s so intriguing about this is every single person was let back in, without a search and without proof of payment. They didn’t have any choice in that matter, but I talked to quite a few people who were planning on paying at the door and just wandered in. Some big money loss for Lifeforce.
Now when the doors finally opened, chills ran down my spine as those 7000+ partiers cheered and went apeshit upon being allowed back in.
What could of been a BIG problem actually turned out to be a minor inconvenience.
With the newly energized crowd eagerly awaiting to return to partying, Tim Patrick jumped to the decks and laid down a bezerk and electrify set to prove why he is one of Toronto’s house legends.
And party got better...
But lets take a step back for a moment.
The lighting in all three rooms was phenomenal. A tremendous X shaped rig crossed the House arena which supported an army of intelligent lighting. The main stage had an erray of half circle rigs that added some definite character to the room. Lighting in the trance room was less fancy, but the visual lighting and graphics on the white waving backdrop was impressive.
The sound, well, I really can’t complain. All three rooms seemed to have their volumes adjusted perfectly so the ‘bleeding’ of sounds between arenas was barely noticeable.
Myka: Classy and soulful set. Sweet deal.
Tim Patrick: Clean cut mixing. Right on bro. As we all expected his track selection was nothing like his normal Turbo variety, nice run through the spectrum on tracks, but he also threw down some of his ‘Turbo-licious’ vinyl for those of us who venture out to Turbo-land often.
DJ Dan: Rumors were flying about him not spinning due a bad case of food poisoning. But as far as I could tell, he was there, a bit under the weather, but considering, a nice, sweet and consistent set.
Barry Weaver: I left before he spun, how was his set? Same thing for Czech.
Oh and when they say they have ‘undercover’ cops patrolling the party, trust me, some of those cops were dressed as the thugliest of creatures I have ever seen. Could of fooled me. Saw a whole lot of people get arrested and dragged out, I think we were all expecting that though. No OD’s while I was there either.
Some sick costumes from people venturing over to the TRIBE booth, Kate in her roller rink outfit, the S&M couple and not to mention lots of high little furry animals running around.
Overall, it was a much better planned out party then anything I had seen before at the BLC. The whole ‘fire in the basement’ thing was a bit fishy, but everyone got back in, so no big problems.
My guestimate on attendance, a little under 10,000.
Well its time to get some rest now, nighty night.
PaRtYKiD’s rating
7/10
PaRtYKiD
Corey B.