UV Nation And A Need For Night Vision Goggles
June 11th, 2007
it’s a given – anyone who parties knows who Benassi is. remember how back in 2003 and 2004, Benny Benassi’s Satisfaction seemed to be pounding in your ears everywhere you went? it was played in every club and party scene, in every DJ’s remix, and was the anthem of every roadside pirated DVD stand. and, of course, the anthem of all your friends’ cars. the song quickly became the new Sandstorm (you all remember Sandstorm!), the new Stayin’ Alive of our era.
i missed Benassi the last time he was on our shores spinning at Atmosphere (!), so when i heard he was headlining the UV Nation rave, i simply had to go. it’s going to be soooooooooo good, i would squeal with a big grin! uv theme + benassi + scot project + bass agents + joey g + rooftop venue = i am so there! :D
but alas, it was bad. marilah kawan-kawan i tell you why!
Bad Entrance
sieutheng, ivan and i got there at about 9pm, and we were greeted by this massive long ass line that snaked and coiled throughout the 1U carpark. oh mein gott. entrance was horrible – or fantastic if you didnt actually buy tickets – because people just shoved their way in. i cant believe ticket-check consisted of TWO girls who could barely manage the antsy crowd. where were the bouncers? my underage brother and his equally underage friends got in, and half the world went in without paying. also, you could have brought in your own liquor or drugs and no one would have stopped you. remember Revelation 2004 at Genting? now THAT was a door check.
Bad Lighting
i thought that the Ultraviolet theme was brilliant, but that was unexpectedly also the downfall of this rave, as we quickly discovered upon entering the arena. BECAUSE IT WAS SO DAMN DARK!! we couldnt see shit except for the purple glows emanating from people (cleverly) wearing white. it was valiant, i suppose, to want to preserve the UV theme by intentionally leaving the place dark, but it all kinda backfired. it was so disconcerting and a little irritating to not be able to see who you’re talking to or what you’re drinking.
Bad Opening
we arrived when DJ Desire’s set was just ending, and from what little we got of it, it was quite good. Benassi’s introduction was completely FAIL coz of some techy issue or other. after DJ Desire left the decks, the music went off and emcee Joey G was pulled aside into some backstage palaver, leaving the raving crowd in confused and restless silence. WTF. yet everyone remained good-natured; no massive booing or anything.
the opening gambit when Benassi came on, btw, was a fireworks display. yay. (clap clap) at some point during DJ Desire’s set, security ploughed through the crowd and i could have sworn they were leading a couple of people in bagpipes and kilts, and i was thinking wah so clever! it’s a Scottish gambit! but no! that didnt happen! what happened was a short and overused fireworks show. so pertaining to the kilts and bagpipes, either my eyes completely fucked up, or my imagination ran wild, or i wanted to think that there was more than just boring ol’ fireworks. or all three. bah.
Bad Benassi
to cut a really long night short, Benassi sounds better on record than he does live. so what if he had a Coldplay and Chilli Peppers mix? that does not at all redeem him from the lousy set he played that night. is it just me or can he not pick up on the crowd’s vibe? i didnt like all those teasing buildups that he kept doing, they were far too lengthy and too frequent. people kept leaving throughout his set. headliner or not, if you cant entertain, people will go.
and can you believe it but we missed Satisfaction when it played!! stoopid, donno how we could have missed it. haha but when he played Who’s Your Daddy, it was mad fun. sieutheng and i started spanking each other, heehee. summore we were in the gay area of the crowd, so that was all good fun and games, as it always is when you’re in the company of flamboyance and sexy queens! meowwrr!
Bad Light Programming
yes the music was boring. couple that with really unintuitive light programming during the sets, and you get a bad rave experience. a climax just isnt a climax without the right lights and flashes =(
Bad F&B
F&B was a disaster, more so the B than the F. beer ran out by 9.30pm, and after 11pm, EVERYTHING ran out! the thirsty, tired and dehydrated crowd was left without water, mixers or alcohol of any sort for the rest of the night. and not only was there bad supply, but the system was balls – one apparently has to hunt down these girls wearing red UVN shirts to purchase coupons for drinks, but surprise surprise, these girls were nowhere to be found. not that we’d be able to spot them anyway, seeing how the area was pitch black and you cant tell red from blue unless your red is white and therefore glowy.
kesian all the security and crowd management. you cant whack people when you cant even see who you’re whacking!
Bad Crowd
ah i’m sure everyone who went noticed this. almost 20,000 people turned up for the rave, but the crowd was filled with many, many, MANY rempits and neanderthal-like idiots who just spoiled the whole experience for everyone else. when the opening acts were playing, they would yell ‘mothafuckas muthafuckas get off the stage! we didnt pay to see you! you suck! bring out benassi! arrhhhh arhhh i’m so cool! muthafockas muthafockas!’ -______- shaddap lah tiu.
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the Bass Agents came on directly after Benassi’s ‘do, and immediately good music with a good vibe started pumping. awesome possum! unfortunately, we didnt stay long. twas a pity, summore we didnt even get to check out the other arenas, or Scot Project =( eh come to think of it, where was Scot Project spinning??? i assumed he was going to open for Benassi but he didnt. anyway we left lah. we went to Murni’s and then i got food poisoning (again!!) from their Mango Special! arhghghgh.
pictures! :
at the entrance. haha that’s kellyn in pink! i was so preoccupied with taking a picture i didnt realize she was saying hi
it was so dark i had to ++++++ Brightness
lisha and i. she’s sooooooo cute right :D
this is how dry we were at first
and how wet we were after that
hahahhaa fugz so fails in taking pictures!
the main arena, the only place you could see anything
an even wetter ivan, me and sieutheng
me!
seng ming, whom i keep bumping into!
eugeneeee! stupid barger got damn high for SAT
crowd
UVed us
clever ppl wear white so that we can be found easily :D
the light from some side exit that everyone kept flocking to like moths to, well, light. we all exhibit phototropism by nature
after the rave. LIGHT!!!
aiyah in conclusion, it wasnt a good rave lah =(
Satisfaction? hardly.
40 Comments Add your own
1. MichelleSY | June 11th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Benassi. Didn’t. Play. Satisfaction.
WTH.
I have to say, I’d consider that the injury, whereas the suckiness of the crowd and the lack of beverages (were they hoping to dehydrate the crowd?) and the multitude of atrocities would merely be insults to add to the injury.
ps: Bagpipes and kilts? Really? *looks quizzical*
pps: Did you do something to your hair? Or was it the lighting?
ppps: How could Murni’s Mango Special give you food poisoning? 0_o
NOOOOO – I am coming home soon and I don’t want to get sick, especially when I’ve been craving their drinks for ages *sobs*
2. pinkpau | June 11th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
eh apparently he did play Satisfaction, just that we missed it :O which is so absurd because we only left the arena like twice? and for about 5 minutes?? bahhhh
ya i cant believe they ran out of drinks so early -__-
and yep i cut and coloured my hair the other day. got bangs again, whee! and i donnoooo but i think it was the mango special :P coz whatever i ate that day, my friends ate too, but they’re fine. so i suppose its the mango special! haha it’s okay wan lah u wont get sick. i just have a weak stomach!
3. ashleighhhh | June 11th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
thanks for making me feel better after thinking i missed THE rave of the year!
love you as always. lol
your posts i mean….
4. Michellious | June 11th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Benassi was good on Satisfaction but from all those critics I’ve been hearing (and from your post here), I guess he really isn’t good when doing Live. D’oh and to think I had “Attending Benny Benassi Live Performance” on my Life List! =O
5. Mellissa | June 11th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Blehhh, I have to agree with you on all counts. T’was damn disappointing. Hmph.
6. simplecheryl | June 11th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Humm..I didn’t bump into you this time eh. Yah, the rave was pretty bad. Speedzone was way better. Drinks were sold out pretty darn fast plus the ‘potong’ technical difficulties.
*blargh*
7. pass by | June 11th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
i’m completely aroused when you say you were wet!
who makes you wet??? ;P
8. tze | June 11th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
WTF PASS BY WTF WTF HAHAHAHAHA WTFFFFFFF
massive cleavage my dear su ann!
ok i didn’t go hahaha sorry ok i wasn’t exactly lying i really thought of going!
when are we gonna meet T_____________T
9. alvin | June 11th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
it continues to puzzle me why some people don’t like opening acts. @_@.
10. k0k | June 12th, 2007 at 12:53 am
must… concentrate… on… words
11. Random Surfer | June 12th, 2007 at 1:34 am
Speaking of words…
“that does not at all redempt him for the lousy set he played that night.”
I think the word you’re looking for is redeem?
Sorry to get all grammar-nazi-like on you, as always the rest was a fabulous post and fantastic pics…
12. Michelle | June 12th, 2007 at 5:19 am
Wow. No proper checks? Sounds dangerous…
13. kennysia | June 12th, 2007 at 8:46 am
He didn’t play Satisfaction and that is why people wasn’t Satisfied.
14. Lisan | June 12th, 2007 at 9:57 am
i didnt. see. you. and yearh. he didnt play satisfaction. i got in, underaged .LOL. and i didnt see you!!!
15. sieutheng | June 12th, 2007 at 11:45 am
so did he play satisfaction or not?! why some ppl say yes some say no wan.
16. ckyeo | June 12th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
got play no play janji can see piao mei there enuff!!
17. Johanny | June 12th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Looking good there wifey :D
18. pinkpau | June 12th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
asheigh : and not me?? dont worry, got another supposed ‘party of the year’ coming up soon. but i believe that will be another flop.
michellious : were u there? haha i love Satisfaction on record :D
mellissa : there will be other raves *pats us both
simplecheryl : alamaks u were there? im so tulan coz that place was so dark. u could walk past ur own friends and not even realize
passby : my boyfriend the martian makes me wet
tze : this thurs ah u dont ffk
alvin : i know -___- damn stupid. every concert/rave for sure got ppl doing that shit
k0k : yes u must!
random surfer : hahaha you nazi. edited! thanks :D
michelle : it is, but now i’m annoyed we didnt take the risk of bringing stuff in!
kennysia : haha dont steal my pun!
lisan : eh i thought he did? i thought he didnt.. but my friends said he did, tho just for a short while. haha u have it damn easy, back in my day ah, i tell u ah, where got so easy!
sieutheng : i think a lot of people must have missed it :O
ckyeo : what is piao mei!
johanny : thank u husband :D
19. ashleighhhh | June 12th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
haha well, probably a little bit of you. hmmm, another flop? why say so? haha can I add you up or somethin??
20. hw | June 12th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
nice new hairdo =)
21. foreverjas | June 12th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
aww. so sexy lah u. ! haha. those rempits..yakxxxxx.
22. Albert Ng | June 12th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
THE HAIR!
It’s one of those “do it once in your life” kinda things, right?
23. Charlie | June 12th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Those rempits/bodohs go to Zouk/assorted concerts and spoil the fun there jugak right. I hate it when they do that to the opening acts. When they’re out in the streets they’re all like “MALAYSHUN PRIDE YO” but when a local band is opening the show they can’t even keep their booze-stained gobs shut for 2 seconds.
Eh your hair is totally for the win btw : D
24. TheRealAnonymous | June 12th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Oi… why never come bump into me wan??? =p
Shiet la… i went late, didn’t manage to bump into a lot of people whom I knew were there… bumped into a few only. =p I went late and was with arch that group.
I actually tot benni’s set was good whurt… =p I do notice the occational varying tempo and the slow build up… but it doesn’t make a difference if u’re stuck in the middle of a crowd not being able to dance… let alone, move! And Arch kept on wanting to go more and more front which then made it worse! I liked his song choices for the night. =)
Btw… NOT LALA ENUFF LAH! More blonde! More blonde! LoL…
25. Jon | June 12th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
What happened to the last picture? Got cut off eh? Lisha’s got cute big round….eyes….abit eurasian look…:D
The only hit was satisfaction, and he didn’t really played it that long. I am hoping for Fat Boy Slim to rave it up here in Malaysia
26. george | June 13th, 2007 at 12:23 am
what a small world- lisha came over for chicken rice the other day
lol
and my friend who went said it was crazy
i told him, i’d be crazy if i willingly went to a rave party
lame-ness haha
27. madeline k. | June 13th, 2007 at 12:40 am
whee….now im so super glad that i din head down to kl on fri…thought of heading down kl on fri morn jz 4 uv nation than catch up with lisan and others…lol..i miss u gurl…make sure we meet up the next time im in kl or ur in penang k?luv ya!
28. alea | June 13th, 2007 at 1:43 am
the dj after benassi played better music. hahaha.
the whole world was apparently there ==”
29. 'lisha | June 13th, 2007 at 4:37 am
i was super sticky at that time.. -_-”
and it got worst when i was surounded with people with terrible BO ! =/
nice meeting you again btw.. ehhehe..
take care ya.. hopefully we can meet again ! =P
30. Jade Z. | June 13th, 2007 at 7:35 am
aiyo~ so kesian… >.
31. sweat | June 13th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
fuck you suann the cleavageeeee!
32. -archangel- | June 13th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
ohmaigawd ! my pimple -_-”
33. ashleighhhh | June 13th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
whats wrong with cleavage? everybody loves cleavage. girls love to flaunt, guys love to err…stare!
34. Sandra | June 14th, 2007 at 1:01 am
My Dear! what happen to ya hair?? hahaha.. well is that a Rave Party? or wat? haha i miss ya here lotsssssss… call me out lar.. me bored lar. no social life at all nowadays! hahahahahha
35. k0k | June 14th, 2007 at 11:36 am
you started it.
36. pinkpau | June 15th, 2007 at 4:46 am
ashleighhh : just a suspicion :)
hw : thank u!! haha i quite like it
foreverjas : haha thanks for the sexy compliment! and ya the rempits were irritating to the max
albert : no lah do before oredi
charlie : ya. those fools donno what it’s like to attend gigs. wanna see main act only then come later lah tiu. otherwise shaddup and sit down! correct anot!
therealanon : what lah u, dunno where u disappeared to. i oso saw arch they all for awhile only. benassi good meh.. so boring. hah sei lor not lala enuf meh! haha that day i went back to the salon and said i want blonder pls! this isnt jeng enuf! and then they said wash a few times will be lighter. ya wash a few times already. not lighter also -___-
jon : that last pic was taken on a table, and the other two donno how to position themselves properly. i on the other hand, am an experienced selftimer, hahaha. ooooh fatboy slim!
george : awww georgie porgie u would enjoy urself to the fengtau sounds of hard trance! :D
madeline : dont worry u didnt miss much. come down for revelations lah, tho thats in melaka.
alea : the bass agents u mean? yes they are good :) were u thre?
lisha : BO, ewwwwww. ya haha sure got chance to meet up wan. will prolly bump into u at maison when i come bak :)
jade z : why kesian?
sweat : u dont be jealous ok =( why u swear at me!!
archangel : hahahhaaahahaha
ashleigh : u ask this suet lah! simply go and scold ppl wan!
sandra : cut and dyed it a light brown, mah dear! yes it was a rave, and yes we must meet soon!
k0k : who said!
37. Gary | June 15th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Oohh … who’s ah … who’s uhmm …. who’s Seng ming :D ?
(( blush ))
38. scott | June 15th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Benassi makes THE BEST music videos.
39. Ivo | June 16th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Hi, just stumbled upon this site in search of live-dj-sets from UV-Nation (you wouldn’t know where to get them?). I had the pleasure of visiting this party during my three week visit to my girlfriend, who’s doing an internship in KL.
I know, the entrance was overcrowded, there was a shortage of toilets and the bar was a mess too, but I really had fun. Desire and Benassi were great, but that’s only my opinion.
I’ve been to a lot of parties here, in Holland. I ‘m used to well organized bars and coupon systems, an east accessible entrance and a closing time of 7 or 8 ‘o clock in the morning. But, inspite of this, I really had a good time. I thought the atmosphere was great and the people were nice!
40. howzan | June 19th, 2007 at 11:50 am
scott project played last. apparently he got sick and wasn’t suppose to play that night, but he couldn’t resist. if you believe joey g that is.
the drinks counter was so bad, there were no lines and people were shouting. i didn’t know they ran out of drinks at 11pm, but they re-stocked around 1am if i am not mistaken. i managed to get my drinks at that time.
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