09 Highlights - October

Robert brought us her belting review of THRASHER!!! at Warehouse Project....


…Oh my good god… If you weren’t there, I am truly sorry, if you were there, then, you feel me…

On a historical October Saturday, manc’union’ and nationwide ravers united under the bricky metropolis that was Warehouse Project. An epic line up drew us to beg borrow and steal in a bid for the golden tickets to see the of the likes of Skream, Benga vs Caspa, Rusko in the main room and an explosive west coast line-up in the 2nd room, whereby the beautiful Hoya Hoya crew and Mary Anne Hobbs spoilt us rotten with the pure showmanship that was Daedelus and Gaslamp Killer!


Arriving at about half 11, Rusko was soon to kick the roof off in the main room, faces delighted and bodies truly thrashed as popular favourites such as ‘cockney thug’, ‘pro nails’ and ‘bread get bun’ superseded through the speakers and into the happy hearts of the dubsteppers army. Followed by the legendary Skream, the overwhelmed crowd jumped about to give the warehouse that familiar hot, ‘this experience is bigger than me’ kind of glow…

By this point the magical Daedelus was about to begin in the next room. After a purely dedicated 20 minute que dancing session, we were in. Rustie got the packed sweaty room in full flow ready for the musical genius that is Daedelus…who, can only be described as some periodic god send who truly sent us all into the future that night! Creating a frenzy with glitched up beats, hip hop ripples and thumping rhythm nobody in that room stopped dancing for a second- at the same time, unable to take their eyes of his pure showmanship and his master of what looked like and extreme version of the game ‘lights out’ but with crazy beats on instead. In that room, Manchester offically ‘went digital’ so much so that a group of three created an imaginary planet/orb thing and threw into the air…maybe they took it a bit too far…

Next up in the 2nd room was the “The Mother F***ing GaslAmP KiLLeR!!” who commended Daedelus for playing the best he’d ever seen him- and that is saying something! Juiced on the revelry of the crowd, Gaslamp Killer thrashed around his iconic curly hair as he dropped the likes of Jay Z ‘big pimpin’ and Underworlds ‘born slippy’ and warped them into a musical heart thumping treat never conceived of before. MC’s stepped aside at the side of the stage and watched in awe, as he reduced the crowd to a hyped up puddle of sweat! Hoya Hoya’s multi-talented Illum Sphere stepped up next, and although we were all truly spent he managed to get us going all over again to supa mixes of the classic Tweet’s ‘oops oh my’ and Outkast’s ‘millionaire’…Due to the awesome intensity of the second room I’m sorry to say I wasn’t quite sure what was happening in the main room at this point so please insert mind blowing experiences here [.............].

All in all Thrasher was a historical night of pure musical fantasy, you lucky lucky people.

WORDS BY ROBERT