citydreams
on the road again
*shows Dub a picture of Sophie Ellis Bextor*
Whirly GIG
- Thread starter sleeper
- Start date
Louloubelle
Well-Known Member
Buds and Spawn said:Then you've obviously been lucky enough to have avoided the real thing!!
well i've been dragged along whirly for birthdays n stuff, i've been 7 perhaps times over a few years and every time DJ Monkey Pilot has played the same old stuff
there again, some people obviously like hearing the same old stuff over and over again, (mostly hippes
) so as long as they don't get bored he can carry on playing it without ever incurring the expense of having to go to a record shopBuds and Spawn said:
Yeah - but the point is you can have fun without getting totally off your face...
....does...not....compute.....
i have been, and it was shit.
i was having a rubbish time, and then some cunt pulled a sheet over my head without any warning.
sadly, under the influence of many drugs, i freaked out at the sudden change in ambience, and had to be escorted off the premises.
ever since, have hated hippies.
DJ Squelch
King Of Insides
How long have they been going now? I read an interview when in the mid 90s when I used to go when it was at Shoreditch Town hall and they said it had been running for 16 years then. Their obviously doing something right to be going that long.
Yeah, so its a bit cheesy & a bit hippyish but its good clean fun if your at the right age for it, so good on em. Long live Whirl-y-gig. I haven't been for years & I'd probably hate it now but Im glad their still going.
Right Im off to some manky warehouse full of moody crackheads listening to gabba.
Yeah, so its a bit cheesy & a bit hippyish but its good clean fun if your at the right age for it, so good on em. Long live Whirl-y-gig. I haven't been for years & I'd probably hate it now but Im glad their still going.
Right Im off to some manky warehouse full of moody crackheads listening to gabba.
Buds and Spawn
...if I can't dance...
When I said the real thing I meant yoghurt weaving - whirly doesn't score highly on the hippy quotient... but then I guess we all have different ideas about that kinda thing...
pootle
little moran
Pretty much every Whirly is touted as the "last one"
I stopped going when it left Camden Town Hall a few years ago. For a couple of years I always had fun at Whirly, but it was more about the people than the music, which like others have commented on has never been its strong point.
Also, Richard and Mary (and other Whirly devotees) started doing this slightly unpleasant thing of almost bullying people into going to Whirly and demanding loyalty from its followers, which is really not the way to do things. Practically every Whirly these days is touted as "the last ever" in an effort to get people to go.
It was good for a while, for certain people, but Richard and Mary are terrible business people, and refused to accept that Whirly has to evolve and change if it wants to survive.
I stopped going when it left Camden Town Hall a few years ago. For a couple of years I always had fun at Whirly, but it was more about the people than the music, which like others have commented on has never been its strong point.
Also, Richard and Mary (and other Whirly devotees) started doing this slightly unpleasant thing of almost bullying people into going to Whirly and demanding loyalty from its followers, which is really not the way to do things. Practically every Whirly these days is touted as "the last ever" in an effort to get people to go.
It was good for a while, for certain people, but Richard and Mary are terrible business people, and refused to accept that Whirly has to evolve and change if it wants to survive.
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
Buds and Spawn said:
You certainly do.
I used to go years ago (when it was at Hammersmith, then after it moved to Camden). Last went in 2001 I think (with sam, D and John Wisehammer!!), but even by then my visits had become pretty rare.
I'm not nearly as hostile as some are in this thread (some people just hear/see the word 'hippy' and can't wait to break out the instant uber-insulting prejudices** ), but I do agree it had become very samey musicwise, and stuck on the same track generally, by the time I stopped going.
**And I'm no fan at all of new agey hippy leylinesology drivel myself, but they do get more than enough of a rough time on here ...
Strangely enough, round about 2001, I discovered Unsound at the arches, which was better to the power of 1000 ....
The last time I saw Whirly in any guise was when they ran a tent at the last Canterbury Fayre (2003) but the good thing about that were the bands they had, and the festival atmosphere -- very different from the club. The DJs were still not much cop though.
I'm not nearly as hostile as some are in this thread (some people just hear/see the word 'hippy' and can't wait to break out the instant uber-insulting prejudices**
), but I do agree it had become very samey musicwise, and stuck on the same track generally, by the time I stopped going.**And I'm no fan at all of new agey hippy leylinesology drivel myself, but they do get more than enough of a rough time on here ...
Strangely enough, round about 2001, I discovered Unsound at the arches, which was better to the power of 1000 ....
The last time I saw Whirly in any guise was when they ran a tent at the last Canterbury Fayre (2003) but the good thing about that were the bands they had, and the festival atmosphere -- very different from the club. The DJs were still not much cop though.
