Hard House Academy - Wow what a night!

Thank YOU the Frantic Faithful! Thanks to everyone that attended HHA and making it yet another amazing Frantic night and helping us celebrate our 9th year of HHA. We hope you all had a great time at The O2 Academy Brixton and for those of you who are still carrying on at the afterparty, we hope you enjoy the crack on!

Thanks to all the DJs for performing, there were some really stand out sets including Welsh wizards Cally & Juice new LIVE PA.

Thanks to all the ticket sellers, crews and all staff who worked on the night to ensure the event was a success, we always appreciate what you do for Frantic.

Big thanks to O2 Academy Brixton Management, Staff and Security for accommodating us again for yet another HHA.

Thanks to all the Production teams for a stand out stage show, the lighting and sound was truly immense!

Thanks to Twisted Entertainment for such a fantastic performance! Also thanks to Twisted Bliss and Contagious Dancers.

Thank you to the film crew for filming the event including some hilarious artist interviews, watch this space for the video coming soon!

We loved the effort made with the Circus theme, there were some seriously freaky clown costumes and all sorts of different fun Circus outfits. We can't wait to see the photos!

We would like to apologise for those of you who waited in the ticket collection queue for longer than usual. Next time we will use the front entrance for those of you collecting your tickets for the event ensuring the process is a lot quicker.

We'd love to hear what you thought of this years HHA. Who rocked it for you? What did you think of this years production and performances? Please send any feedback you have to willfrantic@yahoo.co.uk.

Next up for Frantic is the massive NYE shindig at Hidden on Thursday 31st December, we're looking forward to moving into 2010 with you!

Early Bird tickets for the only NYE party to be at this year have SOLD OUT. £12 Super Saver tickets are selling at a fast rate so make sure you secure yours now. Saver Tickets for this event are priced at £18.

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Also, before the end of the year we have another not to be missed event!

One AWsum Xmas – The 2nd Birthday Bash on Saturday 5th December at Hidden
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Keep it Frantic!

Will, Chloe, Gordy and all at Frantic HQ

aaaaaaaaaand relax.

Highlights:
No Queue @ main entrance.
Cally & Juice Live Set.
Friskys Set.
Kutskis Set.

Downers:
The Euro Zone / Resonate -
Bit of a let down that in was in a small corridor and the Dj booth looked like it was in a concessions stand.
A*S*Y*S Not playing.
KiddKaos Not Playing?


But apart from that was a cracking night! (= xx

The good points

Production: lights lazers sound n stage show was tops by UK standards...obviously been watching DVDs of Dutch events ;)

The bad points

que for dsi tickets=piss take. Lack of atmospher around the venue...thinks bk to previous HHA's when the whole place would be buzzing def not so Saturday nyt. The main room was over half empty by 3:30 :(. Now the one thing I love about brickie n I know alot of other ppl do to is the balcony....partying up there watching the light show is like beeing in a diff event altogether...FFS it wasn't even open. The only reason I can see for this is that the event didn't sell that well n if it had been open the main room would have been even emptier earlier.

For me I say R.I.P HHA :(

Apparantly A*S*Y*S had a hissy fit and wouldn't play in the 3rd room! Great for all the people wanting to see him play!!

I would like to know to the above person 123testingcyborg2000 is.

Jester, i think you have a point there. To me as a raver, i would say that shows no respect from asys to the people that wanted to see him play. Thats a bit out if order.

I feel like a geek quoting myself.
But im guessing A*S*Y*S didnt play because of the above reason?

but thats not fair to the people that turned up to see him. Sorry but i think its bang out of order. Surely it doesnt matter where you play at events like HHA, teh fact that you have been invited to play at such a legendary event should be enough and that people may have paid to see him play.

Highlights for me:
- the filth foyer, particularly sets by Dave Curtis and Andy Rise/Matt Pick-up
- meeting lots of lovely new friends
- watching the amazingly-dressed stage performers
- playing b2b with Nathalie in the filth foyer!!! What an experience!

Lowlights:
- having to leave at 3am cos I split my corset, haha!

xX

oh babes, not good xx

I know! I was gutted! I must be a fatso, hehe. Or maybe I was dancing too hard ;)

i would say its more the dancing too hard, your not a fatso xxx your tiny xxxx

Hehe, thanks hun ;) I was beginning to doubt that..splitting ones corset does not fill you with confidence!

You and the girls looked absolutely amazing!!


How was the after-party everyone? The line-up looked damn tasty!

Was wicked. Only stayed until 11 but all the dj's in the frantic set played awesome sets :-)

cheers hun, i loved the outfit, it worked better than expected. I cant wait for Atomik weekender now, i have even more ideas up my sleeve.

I can understand how it would knock, you but hun you are teeny tiny xxx Next time you shouldnt stomp too hard lol

I didnt go to the afterparty i went home and went to bed xx

Hannah - That's exactly why he didn't play!

Bunnykins - It's just plain rude! There's plenty of djs out there that would do anything to be given that opportunity! OK it wasn't the best room at the venue, but you'd think flying in from Europe and not bothering to play seems like a waste of everyone's time!

See in my opinion if there is working equipment to use and people to play too then there is no reason why he should have walked out, like you said some people would have done anything to be giving the oppitunity to play on saturday night. I feel sorry for any people that actually came to see him play xx

The acronym possibilities are endless however it was meant to stand for Hardstyle Academy, seeming as HDA is already a Euphoria event. I genuinely feel that it would be more descriptive given the music at saturday nights event, I really hope Frantic just realise that they have a long term fondness in the hearts of most Hard House clubbers in London and pushing Hardstyle as much as they are doing currently is consequently going to damage their reputation.


The crowd reaction when you drooped Rampage was quality.

OK , I'm going out really rare ,like once a year . I've been to every HHA since 2002 , and i have to admit it really has changed.I dont feel the vibe , i dont feel same atmosphere between ravers,this all round happyness and frendlyness.Everyone seems like angry at everyone.You can't go to to people u dont know and just stomp with them,or start chatting with people...i dont know, it is not the same.People change maybe becouse music changes.It's getting harder and agressive and people acting the same. I was really sad becouse balcony wasnt even open,i understand-last year it was hlf empty,but still,it is the whole point of Academy.
Speaking about music,i'm more of old hard house fan,and this all round hard dance was bit too much for me in the end of the night.As much as i love Proteus , his set with Alex Kidd killed everyone LOL . And it was really sad when at 5.30 main room was nearly empty , and it looked like nobody cared will there be one more tune or not..sad :((
But as i was in a good mood,and enjoyed my self I had a great time .If something will not change , HHA wount be so great as it used to be. I recon there should be more hard house,and club classics remixes , with legendary Frantic residents,cyber outfits and etc.. anywhay , that is only my point of view ;) diferrent people,differnt preferences.

THAN YOU FRANTIC for one amazing night , it was worth coming !!!

Firstly Id like to echo Chloe's comments and thank all the DJs, Performers, Production Crew and Venue Staff who all helped to make HHA happen.

A big thank you to all the clubbers and ravers who made the trip to Brixton Academy.

Im very sorry to those who waited in the ticket collection queue. The venue wanted to allow only Ticketweb collection through the main door and asked that we put all the other ticket agencies through the smaller door. By the time we realised this was problematic some people had already waited too long. Please contact me on willfrantic@yahoo.co.uk if you had problems getting in and Ill give the first 50 to contact me free entry to Frantic NYE.

I always look at comments about DJs and Music Policy very carefully. As a promotion we try very hard to cater for all the different harder styles. At any one time one style is more popular than others. At the moment this happens to be the more European style. This means that a lot of the bigger names happen to play this style and therefore were advertised, very openly, to play the Main Arena on Saturday night. However we did deliberately book a big filth line up with the Hi Oktane guys for the Foyer and organised a Vinyl only room which focussed on the more traditional Hard Trance and Hard House sound. We also booked people like Rob Tissera for the Afterparty. It is not the case that we are heavily pushing the European sound to the exclusion of the other styles and actually we book considerably less Euro acts that our contemporaries across the UK. Also both Timeless and the Birthday will always look back to the more traditional harder sounds so in no way are we leaving our roots behind. For NYE we have one Euro room with the Squelcher guys and then a Filth Room and a whole room of Hard Dance so the Euro sound is most definitely in the minority. For Timeless on Valentines Day there will be little or no Euro, so looking across the next 12 months all styles will get a fair hearing. Having said all of this we do still feel there are some exciting Euro acts and we will be booking some headliners who play this style for Tranzmission at Easter.

We will be posting the line up for Frantic NYE and AWsum's 2nd Birthday online this week and look forward to your comments.

Yeah in comparison to Bionic you guys are considerably less supportive of Hardstlye ;)


Excellent :) Will I appreciate with you guys owning Hidden that it is always going to be your cheapest option but Timeless at Coliseum is one of the best Frantic events ever!

Once again I had an excellent night, thoroughly enjoyed myself and will defiantly be there if you guys do it next year. I'm glad to hear that Frantic take into account and evaluate most comments put on forums. (obviously with the exception of the l23testingcyborg2000 retard)