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Synergy Anthems - Review Reported by billy boy / Submitted 13-06-02 15:04 With a line-up including Phil Reynolds, Spencer Freeland, Ian Mac, Marc French AND K90, AND all playing classics, Synergy Anthems promised a night to remember at the Shepherds Bush Empire. We rocked up at a little after 11pm and were immediately surprised to find approximately zero people in the queue to get in. A little perturbed (the last Synergy I went to at SBE was a sell-out) we continued on inside where the first tune to greet my ears was Zombie Nation’s “Kernkraft 400”!! Now I knew the night was supposed to be classics, however, I’d never heard that track played at any hard dance night I’d ever been to! Once inside, our initial fears were confirmed, the place looked around a quarter full i.e. about 300 clubbers when there were 1,200 advertised tickets available. Owen B was at the decks and there were literally less than a dozen people on the dance floor at 11.15pm. We wandered upstairs to find the place all but deserted – there were two or three people sitting around in the balcony level and about a half dozen punters relaxing in the upstairs bar where a young lady (whose name eludes me) was behind the decks and putting on a brave face while pumping out spine tingling numbers such as Daniel Ro’s “Jen/R/8” with absolutely no one dancing. Still, determined to make a night of it now we were at the place, we headed back to station ourselves in the centre of the dance floor to see what havoc we could cause. Following on from Owen B it was Marc French’s turn to see if he could get the crowd up and moving. Sure enough, things gradually got going and more people got into the swing of things on the dance floor. The advertised door closing time of midnight was judiciously moved back to 1am, which allowed more clubbers through the door – including quite a few from the Walkabout next door – some of them heavily fuelled by a Friday night on the beers… Now, a lot of the tunes being banged out really were classics – however, they were largely classics from Gatecrasher or Cream three years ago – not any hard house or trance night I ever went to and as such the impact of them was a bit lost on this particular crowd. As anyone in the hard dance scene in London knows, a huge proportion of revellers are from the antipodes. Many of them recently arrived and having had their first clubbing experiences here in the UK. As such, during the breakdowns of many of these big old trance numbers (which they’d never heard), many of the clubbers were standing around bemused on the dance floor waiting for things to get going. Don’t get me wrong – there were times when the tunes were hitting the mark – but just when it looked like the crowd were enjoying themselves, another obscure number got dropped in and the place sort of died down again. Following on from Marc French was a DJ I didn’t recognise distinctly and couldn’t make out properly through all the smoke in any case – I’m guess it was either Rosco or Grant(is) who were listed to play earlier in the night – apparently the gig kicked off an hour late. Once again, during the first section of his set, the tunes were from a different box than the ones marked “Classic Hard Dance” that you might hear at Timeless and didn’t really get the dance floor jumping. Leading up to the end of his set, however, he did lay on several genuine “hard trance classics” back to back, including a mix of Binary Finary’s “1998”, which finally got the ‘Empire crowd jumping and screaming the way we like to see it. The party kicked off in earnest with K90’s entrance at 2am. This is one guy you can rely upon to deliver the goods, no matter what the occasion, and sure enough – with trademark grin in place – he launched into a set of his finest work that left us with no choice but to leap about joyfully, pumping our arms in the air! In addition to his spot on tune selection and energy on stage – his two “K90 Go-Go Girls” (complete with skimpy outfits and provocative postures) kept the crowd’s attention firmly stagewards. As well as rolling out classics such as “Deliverance”, “Hyperintelligence” and Phil Reynolds’ remix of “Breathe”, he treated us to one of the latest remixes of the legendary “Red Snapper” and one or two of his latest tunes. Hot on the heels of K90, Spencer Freeland stepped up to the wheels of steel and proceeded to unleash upon us the kind of set we’d been expecting all night long. He laid on a series of wicked, banging hard dance numbers that mixed up the very best of old and new classics and would have gone down a storm at Timeless. At the peak of his set, he dropped in Paul Janes' remix of Tony de Vit’s “The Dawn”, which really got the small crowd fired up. And, unfortunately the crowd was a bit small by this stage – not befitting the set we were being treated to. Spencer ended up playing over his allotted hour slot by about 15 minutes and all the while we were expecting to see Phil Reynolds make his entrance. Curiously, Mr Reynolds never materialised (maybe cancelled due to the poor turn out?) and Ian Mac took over straight from Spencer. From what we heard of his set, it was in the right vein again – good banging hard trance. The crowd had dwindled even more by this point and as we were not exactly “riding a wave of euphoria” ourselves, we slipped out before 5am. So, all in all a bit of a disappointing night. High points were certainly K90 and Spencer Freeland, with a smattering of good tunes through the earlier sets. Otherwise the DJs were the right calibre; it just seemed to us that the tune selection so often left something to be desired. The other massive factor was the low turn out – the ‘Empire could never have been more than a third full at the peak of the night. Though this meant plenty of space to oneself on the dance floor – the atmosphere was pretty suppressed for much of the night. I’m not sure what the reason for the low turn out was – it could have been for any number of reasons: the late start; too many other nights out available – Synergy Anthems was up against another classics night ECG II on the same night as well as Superfish at the Fridge; Heat’s Hawaiian party was on the following afternoon – followed by a choice of Frantic meets HQ, Endorphin, Twisted or Fahrenhite; or maybe it was World Cup fever – and England played Denmark the following day. In any case, it looks like Synergy needs a bit of reinvention if it is to become the success it really was a year or so ago – we wish them luck !! Share this :: : : : Follow HarderFaster :: Other Features By billy boy: Tasty 2 - The Valentine's Love Dance - Review Frantic Valentine's Ball - Review Interview with Matt Clarke Fevah - Review Frantic XMas Ball - Review The views and opinions expressed in this review are strictly those of the author only for which HarderFaster will not be held responsible or liable. Comments: From: Tara Reynolds on 2nd Jul 2002 12:44.55 I just want to clarify the reason that Phil didn't turn up.... it was because his booking was never confirmed. Nukluez tried many times to get in contact with the promoter but to no avail. I just want to let people know this so that they don't think that Phil just didn't bother turning up, or that it was an agency mistake. From: space on 17th Jul 2002 15:34.33 the venue was great - big, clean, and everything worked - went to fill my waterbottle in the toilets and got soaked cos it filled in about a second and the water blew out the top of the bottle!

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