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Bearracuda Seattle
Mar. 23rd, 2009 10:24 amI'm still having mixed feelings about Saturday's Bearracuda in Seattle, and not sure personally what to make of it. It was a fucking blast but I left with some weird mixed messages.
Anyways before I get to all that let me recap:
Friday Mattacuda and I arrived at the airport where his friend Drew had buckets of the fried chicken Oprah herself gets flown to her from Seattle. Delicious!
We dropped our stuff off and went to the Cuff to meet up with Vancouver James. Did some drinking, then went to a few other bars (CC's, somewhere else, and then I think somewhere else. I don't remember the names. Aren't I helpful?) and then back to the Cuff. We ran into a few guys from Vancouver that came by the bus load for Bearracuda!
We were off to this other party that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
seattlewolf was DJing but as we were walking there I started to feel gross so I opted to cab it back to the hotel. I was up until 4am feeling like death and then started puking. Fun times! Luckily it helped and I was able to fall asleep. Vanilla Vodka and stomach acid coming out of your nose is so awesome.
Saturday: Delicious Brunch, shopping with James, hanging out at Drews, blah blah blah and then it was time to setup Bearracuda. Setup was easy with the three of us (Matt, James, and myself) and the staff there were really nice. This time the sound guy was different and was WAY more helpful than the last guy we had in December.
Anyways on to the party....
We had to beat away guys with a stick! We must have told 20 people before 9pm that we weren't open yet! Between 9-10pm we filled the place. The bears started venturing out to the dancefloor around 10ish/10:30 and really started to get comfortable.arthole spun an amazing set and they ate it UP!
I went on at 11:30 and the dance floor was crowded (not packed though. We REALLY need to push people out of the "butt-2-nut" bar area and onto the floor) but the guys on the floor were dancing up a storm! I let the music fade a little so Jeb could get some much deserved applause from the floor and then started my set. Last time I DJed Bearracuda Seattle the stuff that really got the dancefloor going was the Housey/Tribally top40 remixes vocal stuff so I started out with a little fun electro and worked my way towards that direction. I don't know. I got a lot of compliments afterwards, and a lot of thumbs up from people dancing, but the club started to thin out. I still had a nice group on the dance floor but the rest of the club was starting to get sparse by 12:30. Then by 1:30 the club was dead. Like "we are closing" dead.
The same thing happened to Freddy last time, but we blamed it on the snow. Is Seattle just not a late night crowd? It wasn't horrible because there were so many people so early but...
Or was it my music? (I really want to hear some people's honest opinion) I was just going off the feedback I got last time. People told me they enjoyed the recognizable stuff just not the generic remix's that they had heard a million times in other places. Ok... Familiar but different. That's what I love to play anyways! Oh well, I'm not going to get a strike everytime. There will be gutter balls here and there. I just want to figure it out so that Freddy and I can REALLY bring it for Bearracuda Seattle in May.
I kind of left the club a little down but more confused. I didn't so much CLEAR the dancefloor but there was a slow trickle. I think my set was just OK and not GREAT. I'm trying not to let it get to me. I've had my fair share of packed dance floors and adrenaline rush's so far. Live and learn.
What I was MOST happy about wasarthole FINALLY getting a chance to rock a PACKED dance floor with people actually dancing. He doesn't talk about it much but he's put in more than enough energy playing shit gigs. DJing for steam works where people aren't there to dance. DJing Bars where people aren't there to dance. Stuff like that. He deserved a nice big dancefloor with smiling furry dudes gyrating.
Don't get it wrong, overall Bearracuda was very successful! We got a TON of great feedback and I think May will be a different story, but for right now honestly I'm a little dejected but I'll get over it.
Anyways before I get to all that let me recap:
Friday Mattacuda and I arrived at the airport where his friend Drew had buckets of the fried chicken Oprah herself gets flown to her from Seattle. Delicious!
We dropped our stuff off and went to the Cuff to meet up with Vancouver James. Did some drinking, then went to a few other bars (CC's, somewhere else, and then I think somewhere else. I don't remember the names. Aren't I helpful?) and then back to the Cuff. We ran into a few guys from Vancouver that came by the bus load for Bearracuda!
We were off to this other party that
seattlewolf was DJing but as we were walking there I started to feel gross so I opted to cab it back to the hotel. I was up until 4am feeling like death and then started puking. Fun times! Luckily it helped and I was able to fall asleep. Vanilla Vodka and stomach acid coming out of your nose is so awesome.Saturday: Delicious Brunch, shopping with James, hanging out at Drews, blah blah blah and then it was time to setup Bearracuda. Setup was easy with the three of us (Matt, James, and myself) and the staff there were really nice. This time the sound guy was different and was WAY more helpful than the last guy we had in December.
Anyways on to the party....
We had to beat away guys with a stick! We must have told 20 people before 9pm that we weren't open yet! Between 9-10pm we filled the place. The bears started venturing out to the dancefloor around 10ish/10:30 and really started to get comfortable.
arthole spun an amazing set and they ate it UP! I went on at 11:30 and the dance floor was crowded (not packed though. We REALLY need to push people out of the "butt-2-nut" bar area and onto the floor) but the guys on the floor were dancing up a storm! I let the music fade a little so Jeb could get some much deserved applause from the floor and then started my set. Last time I DJed Bearracuda Seattle the stuff that really got the dancefloor going was the Housey/Tribally top40 remixes vocal stuff so I started out with a little fun electro and worked my way towards that direction. I don't know. I got a lot of compliments afterwards, and a lot of thumbs up from people dancing, but the club started to thin out. I still had a nice group on the dance floor but the rest of the club was starting to get sparse by 12:30. Then by 1:30 the club was dead. Like "we are closing" dead.
The same thing happened to Freddy last time, but we blamed it on the snow. Is Seattle just not a late night crowd? It wasn't horrible because there were so many people so early but...
Or was it my music? (I really want to hear some people's honest opinion) I was just going off the feedback I got last time. People told me they enjoyed the recognizable stuff just not the generic remix's that they had heard a million times in other places. Ok... Familiar but different. That's what I love to play anyways! Oh well, I'm not going to get a strike everytime. There will be gutter balls here and there. I just want to figure it out so that Freddy and I can REALLY bring it for Bearracuda Seattle in May.
I kind of left the club a little down but more confused. I didn't so much CLEAR the dancefloor but there was a slow trickle. I think my set was just OK and not GREAT. I'm trying not to let it get to me. I've had my fair share of packed dance floors and adrenaline rush's so far. Live and learn.
What I was MOST happy about was
arthole FINALLY getting a chance to rock a PACKED dance floor with people actually dancing. He doesn't talk about it much but he's put in more than enough energy playing shit gigs. DJing for steam works where people aren't there to dance. DJing Bars where people aren't there to dance. Stuff like that. He deserved a nice big dancefloor with smiling furry dudes gyrating. Don't get it wrong, overall Bearracuda was very successful! We got a TON of great feedback and I think May will be a different story, but for right now honestly I'm a little dejected but I'll get over it.
