After a long (what seemed like forever!!!) train journey,we (myself a fair few of the Tonk troops) arrived at the entrance to Union.I have vague memories of the venue from the days of Twist afterparties there,and have always wanted to return to the place where Karim's thundering beats once made me dance into a astma attack!



Upon entry,with little wait,Glow Balls influence on the night was unmistakeable,as my eyes were greeted with stunning back drops,glowing in glorious uv,and plenty of very familiar smiling faces (many of which were also glowing!!)

Aqiuck scout around the venue to re-familierise myself with the venue soon found the Jaw dropping sound system in the Twist room!I was siuprised to hear trance playing in there,and really enjoyed the set (cant remember the fella's name,sorry!)

The place was s6tarting to get busy now,i found meself a spot on the floor in the glow ball room and started to get some dancin done!

The room was absoloutley packed by the time Eddie H finished he's set,doin a fantastic job of tgetting the room hyped right up!!!

From then on things just get better and better!Once again,my good friend Nik showing he's worth as a Glow Ball resident,i absoloutley loved ya set m8,you should have seen the state of me and Jas trying to controll are epeletic dance moves on the space stricken floor!!!A great mix of a some absoloute classic and upfront pumping hard trace!!!

Hoopz played a blinder,i don't think i've ever seen some one enjoy themselves behind the decks so much!Nice work dude,look forward to hearing alot more of you next (this) year!

Skol done a stunning job,considering he's one of the UK's top VINYL DJ's,and unfortunaltly,there was no way they could get a set of decks in the booth!!!Still managing to keep the crowd well happy with some classic hard house anthems!!!

Technikal,well,it kind of goes without saying!As always,Alf absoloutley smashed!Hands in the air,euphoric stomping in unison!

I was really excited to see MDA & Spherical on the line up,im a big fan of there production work,and had never actually seen them behind the decks before!They didn'y fail to impress!!!Some seriously talented DJ'ing,with tune selection that had the crowd blown away!!!

I must admit,i was considerabley 'in tune with the atmoashere' during young talent Aaron James's set,and thoroughly enjoyed floating away with the lasers for the majority of he's set,the tunes setting the perfect scene for a wander around my mind!!!

Set of the night,for me,has to go to the D4rk lord himself!I guess hardstyle is a bit like marmite,ya either love it or ya hate it!Well,I hate marmite,but if any of you saw my behaviour during D4rks set, I think it's clear to see I LOVE HARDSTYLE!Absoloute stomp fest of a set by D4rk,the only down side was the dact it finished (perhaps a little early?)

The free cd's,whistles,party poppers ect were great,although,in future,when there's hardstyle,can i just have a clean towel?

Thanks to everyone involved making it such a special event,and a big hi to all me club budz old and new!!

See ya all in feb!!!
Phizz

Sweet as.
Glad it was as good for you as it was for me and happy new year.

Glyn Waters? top bloke!

Sweet review matey! Thanks for the kind words.

A brilliant night once again from the glowball team. nice one guys!

thats it!

Couldn't agree with you more!That hardstyle set was absoultely amazing. Never wanted it to end.

Everyones set was amazing that night, thanks to all for putting on such a wicked night! x

I hope wearing my tutu was the highlight of your night mr!

oh it was,but im not going to publicly describe how that made me feel!

hahaha! ;) you better still have it and wear it out again lol!!

Was definatley worth the wait!
Sex music.

OH YES INDEED! Best set of the night and possibly the set i have most EVER enjoyed, it was mental! I think a few people were a bit shocked that had come from the back room, i heard a few 'what the fuck is this?' and technoshroom said he heard someone say ' what the fuck is this, hardcore at a hard dance event?!' LOL! no it's called HARDSTYLE MATE! I thought D4rk would be on last when i saw he was playing and knew it was going to be totaly different to anything else, but by the time it came on i had forgotten just how good hardstyle is in comparison to anything else just for sheer madness and evil! Great night overall, D4rk definatly my highlight!

Awww thank you guys.. If I had any blood pumping through my veines I might even blush ;)

Really really appreciate the support and the feedback.
Have to admit the last 2 tracks played were borderline Hardcore, purchased from the Gabba/Dutch Hardcore section, so they may have had a small point, but quality tunes that I felt fitted in very well at the end, and certainly had the desired effect looking at you guys going nuts to them!

Was a shame the set was cut short a couple of minutes early, wouldn't let me play the last 3 minutes of the final tune :(

And if you liked what you heard, I have 2 brand new Demo CD's uploaded on New Years Eve, one HardStyle, and one a little Harder!!

Check out my D4rK R3CORDS group here:
D4rK R3CORDS

Thanks again to you guys for your support, and of course a huge thank you to Glowball for having me down to play x

he's human after all ;o)

Cheers guys :)

sorry m8,im crap with names,great set though m8!!!

Glyn you will be forever in my debt for playing Through Your Eyes at Hard Nation!!!


well, until the next time I hear it!!

It's no problem mate, glad you enjoyed it.


It's always in my cd wallet just in case ;o)

ending with evil activities was fucking blinding i love that tune and hearing so many people singing it back to you . the tatanka mix of i kissed a girl was blinding too lol

Thanks mate.
Both songs mean a lot to me for different reasons. Evil Activities especially :)

P.s. Great name, I got searched at customs back in 1992 I think, and they wanted me to prove my walkman worked. They looked at me very strangely when the cassette was titled Sheep on Drugs!