I was told about halopromo recently by a friend of mine, so I thought I'd pop along to this one with a few mates. After visiting the halopromo website we were filled with anticipation. The general air I got from their site was that these people are on to something new and fresh. If you read their mission statement this is a bold claim indeed - to be using the "best" DJ's, to be "Unique", and other similar statements. Not exactly humble, but whets the appetite nevertheless, even after hurriedly turning down my speakers when that awful cheesy title tune comes on, plenty of sites have cheesy title tunes though so I didn't worry about that, assuming it wasn't really representetive of the cutting edge "dirty filthy" , "Electro", "funky" sounds we were expecting to hear, as promised by the gumph on the site. By the way halo what's up with the in your face whole page site that eats up your screen?

Anyway on to the event - I was severely dissapointed. The "up for it", and "mad crazy" crowd we had been expecting kind of reminded me of an episode of Hollyoaks gone wrong, enough of the fake tans, cement mixer make up for the girls, and polo necks/open neck shirts with medallions for the blokes, blimey is this the eighties or something?
The music was actually quite difficult to listen to as it failed to deliver the cutting edge vibes we had been expecting, tune after tune after tune of blandness mostly with second rate vocals and weak backing tracks but we kept listening, after all the site says it's cutting edge right?

So to conclude, I don't want to sound insulting because I got the impression these people are quite friendly and extremely well organised, also for those people into that kind of thing it was probably ok, but do you not think that you are claiming and hyping stuff on your website that is a bit misleading? Have you actually heard the kind of cutting edge sounds that are around at the moment? In comparison I'm afraid that most of your DJ's track selection kind of sounds a bit bland, dated, and "safe" in comparison? Just the same old same old funky bland vocal generic house if you ask me.
I think the claims to have the "best" DJ's are absolutely ludicrous. They were competent but boring.

We were a bit gutted at the waste of money and time to be honest. However like I said the night was friendly and well organised (well felt that way anyway) even though there was a slight poser-y air of prententiousness. Recommended to people that want to have a friendly and er.... well organised time. Not recommended to people who want to hear fresh music, or perhaps regular clubbers because they might find it a bit bland.

clubbing aint about listening to music in bling style bars and its high time your mag started to reflect whats actually going on in bmouth club land rather than loads of photos of people in the same bars for god knows how many years.i hope you dont take this personal but im sick of hearing theres nothing going on cause there is and you guys dont even write about it.2many djs at the opera house,MYLO,plump djs and nic fanciulli.shame on you.

And good call Monsieur positiv... I've been down here 7 years now and recently seem to be the best lineups coming around that I've ever seen down here...

hmmmm helen from Dv8 how wrong you are, Bournemouth has always had the strongest cutting edge dance music scene on the south coast maybe with the exception of Brighton, there is a massive pool of dj and music production talent in town with just about every conceivable music taste catered for in a myriad of diverse club nights. The fact that you lot have your blinkers on and think that getting glammed up and poncing around in swanky bars to guttless commercial manufactured U.S. R&B chart music is the be all and end all is because you cannot see beyond the end of your powdered noses

i realise we're getting a bit off the point but Helen - I think they've got a point... I stopped and looked at all the different posters in a window this morning and was amazed at how much is going on in Bournemouth now compared to a few years ago.

the only shame (in my opionion) is that more people don't get off their backsides and support the good stuff that is going on. i've lost count of the number of times an amazing DJ / band / club night has struggled in bournemouth because of the apathy of the "locals". maybe it's like that in all provincial towns...?

as for halo - from the little i know they've done a cracking job at what they do - they've got a good following and i'm told their parties are great. fairplay.

Well said Sam & Tosh..... Freakazoid, Halo has a huge & dedicated following & sell-out events round the UK & Ibiza, therefore I don't think you can fault them for not appealing to your "personal" taste... you seem a very difficult guy to please!! Everyone has their own opinion, I can appreciate that, but not everyone voice's it so harshly & so much (fookin hell took me forever to read this thread) on a public website!

Im not being mean.... just wish you'd experience Halo at their greatest (i.e. at the Cross, the End, Key etc) as mentioned before & then you'd hopefully eat your words (yum yum)!!

Have a good bank hols... :0)