Kirin who’s good mates with the club booker was threatening not to play… behind the scenes the club booker was trying to get some organization from a musicians from various groups that weren’t interested in cooperating… one of their responses to what was happening was ‘that’s rock’n’roll’ – as if he really knew what showbiz and rock was really about… arguments, disorder and mayhem… but in showbiz we don’t bother with problems only solutions – in the midst of the chaos the only thing that mattered was that the show goes on… and so it did.Circle Pit had some sympathy for the club booker and went on stage quickly and nailed their set. Thom the lead singer of Mercy Arms agreed to finish by midnight so the deejays could take the stage…. Up and comers Noise Abuse agreed to start early in the back so we’d have some deejays to satisfy the clubbers –and the night made for another mad night in clubland…

            We werefull by 11 and by midnight we had queues down the street and the club was breathing in and out people that bring her to life….

            Projections looked crazy. The gig-goers left and the party people turned up and by 1am our second full house… and by 4am… the next wave had come in after the close of the3am venue and the night kicked… at the close we did it again… 6am – (though the club in general wasn’t still full we had a full dance floor of about 80 people and the usual meandering clubbers on the sidelines and at the bar… and tucked away in the various corners of the club…. Musically Friday was out there.Except for Atrocities who where terrible all performers were kickin’ tunes..New DJs – The Let’s Play DJs and Zuology held the main decks til close graduating from the back bar with honors. Noise Abuse took the back bar decks when we were having band problems in the front bar and gave the clubbers that came for deejays a good set… all in all – from all the madness and chaos we pulled another big night out of it!

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The thing about clubs is that they have their times and seasons and things peak and dip… the trick of keeping it happening and staying in the peak is the real test. The change over from winter to spring is difficult because clubs are harder to work in spring than winter. We’ve been managing it – and it really comes down to the music. We’ve really programmed the club as a cutting edge music venue… staying on the pulse of what’s happening – more than that – being a place where what’s happening is taking form and coming out of…

            We’ve achieved this despite the lack of support from the local community music agencies.From some quarters this lack of support was due to conflicts of interests and other times because of nature of some performer’s residencies and their reestablished runs of gigs in other clubs. So, other clubs relied on what was been fed to them – whereas we turned around and started sowing from within the club and from these we’ve been reaping amazing results… funnily, the isolation from the ‘main fodder that is out there’ and the results of being uninfluenced by the more general accepted consensus of Sydney’s gig and party community has turned Candys into a world of it’s own. It’s made the club one of the most (if not the most) self-sufficient – it’s left us free of hoi polloi to really experiment and set our own standards.

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Part of this has been the process from we’ve pushed the limits of what kind of music genres can be put together on a night. Sometimes we’ve nailed exceptional events that transitioned brilliantly and sometimes we’ve had mixtures that just didn’t mix but somehow, like when Airbourne (hardAussie rock – 70s style) was on before an electro house night… total clash of music style, fashion and patron types - yet even then the feeling of being in a musical time-portal and going back in time and jumping forward in time and hearing the difference in the clash in music changeovers, feeling the club change and seeing the difference in fans – made it an exceptional night – even though they were not compatible. That was a night that for all the reasons it should not have happened – it happened!

But it’s a fact that rock is a music world where all the continents have been discovered. It’s no longer explorers forging the way discovering new sounds– these days it’s the inheritors of rock – taking their influences from the past and imitating,improvising, perhaps improving and perhaps emulating to keep deriving the sound…we don’t think anything cutting edge can happen from rock as a genre unless anew technology evolves that allows a new sound emerges or a super-freak genius comes out of nowhere. Apart from that even though rock’n’roll may never die –it has and continues to give way to new emerging contemporary music styles and it is in ways merging with the electro movement.

Anyway, we’ve got some amazing new artists being inducted and making their way as part of the roster of the club and all seem to be getting more and more focused on the idea of an emerging sound however, due to the of youth of the artists (most are 18 – 23 so they are still relatively unseasoned) and due to the diversity of sounds they all have and we are yet to find the experienced producers that will become involved – we are struggling to identify and crystallize tracks that will pronounce the sound. Trying to get this happening is like getting addicted to a rubic’s cube and needing to work it out.. you know it can happen, the elements are there,but the realization depends on an obsession… who knows?

.. ..Anyway, final note – Saturday night at Candys, RITUAL, wasMASSIVE yet again… club pumped til dawn… one hell of good party. Yet again the usualstory – big turnouts, solid deejay sets, crazy projections – fantastic vibe –cool young deejays in the back bar – main stage and back bar packed andpartying hard…. Another extraordinary party.

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So, that was the weekend that past – now here is the weekendthat is coming… check out below and tune next week… take it easy! That’s all folks.