Blight

New Year's Eve with D to the L I C T

Lobo and I strolled up to the place about 10:30, with snow everywhere, police cars everywhere, and the muffled shouts of joy and booming beats filtering through the building.

"Tickets?"

"I'm on the guest list."

"What name?"

"It's under Derelict"

"Oh! Ok here, take a wrist band."

And we were in. The place was packed, 3 levels and 4 completely different sound environments to partake. Derelict was going to start his rap session soon so we hunted him down and followed him up to his rap love nest. He belted out a good 30 minutes of tracks, with a good variety, and the crowd hooted after each song ended.

It didn't end there either. The mic was let to cool off and LICT jumped on the ones and twos to play his special new year's party picks. The room became absolutely packed as midnight neared... the beat paused and we counted down in unison

"Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one..."

"Woooooooooooooohooooo!"

The beat picked back up and the party continued.

I'm going to upload some videos later, but you can hear the tracks on DJ Derelict's site now.

One thing that was really cool is that we ran into Jacque, an old schoolmate that I've known since Grade 2. We headed out to eat with him and Owen - but Owen was drunk and didn't show up when we came to pick him up from the Shaw Convention Centre - ending up at McDonalds because Denny's was FULL TO THE BRIM with standing room only at the entrance.

posted by Blight @ 4:35 AM