If any of you guys ever want to know the sort of things going on behind the scenes in clubs while you are having a dance please have a read of this it is a corker.

I know that promoters shouldn't air their problems in public but what went on saturday has damaged my good name and i'm just not prepared to take this on the chin.


lol.... where do i strart???

we had a really good early crowd and the amount of dressed up women was amazing. Thanks for the effort girls.

But by 22:00 the queue was really big and we tried to hurry things up a bit. The two queues didn't really work and it was a bit of a mess but you can't turn people away and tell them to go int he other queue after they had queued for an hour. I ended up going down he queue calling for tickets holders to come forward. People with tickets were given a pass to get in but I was then told off for getting them to the front and getting them in first and was told they would have to go to the back of the queue??? WTF! After about 30 mins of this had to argue my point and they finally agreed.

By the way, the reason it takes ages is because the amount of false information i was given was ridiculous.

Because the door was quite crazy there were a couple of groups of guys that got in that i was not happy with. Sorry about that.

The only people who jumped the queue were people who had booked VIP table and Ticket holders. I never queue jumped any of my personal friends because it it isn't fair on everyone else.

So by 23:15 we had hit capacity. We only had about 30 people left to collect tickets who were still ok to get in.

I then rushed round to platinum to open it early so people were not waiting in the cold. The guys at platinum could not have been more helpful.

The whole idea about platinum was this:
I was expecting to hit capacity at sosho because of the response that i have had. I knew many people would have waited for as long as it takes to get in to see your mates. Because it was going to be busy early i was expecting people to leave from about 01:00 so we could start letting people back in from then. It always happens like that.

I told everyone to go to platinum and get a wristband so when the capacity eased we could start letting people back in. This worked a treat and everyone went inside to the warm instead of queuing for 2 hours. I didn't have to do this but after last easter @ egg i wanted to make the effort for people who never got in.

At about 00:30 i ended up in the office and i was then told by the management that they didn't like the crowd. It wasn't a sosho crowd and it wasn't what they wanted. People were buying to many beers and vodka's and not enough cocktails. WTF? We had nearly hit our 12k minimum bar spend already by then also.

I was then informed that the doors were now closed for good and they didn't want any more of you in there AT ALL! no arguments. They also wanted you out as quickly as possible. WTF?? they said they were going to close the rooms and venue early. I also had my future events canceled. Please bare in mind this was still about 00:30 with a packed venue and 0 trouble.

I was a bit numb by this point. I had about 2/300 people in platinum expecting to come back who would want my blood. Ticket holders and my friends all still wanting to get in. I was already getting loads of abuse from everyone outside but there was absolutely fuck all i could do.

I was going to do a afterparty at the london stone but because of all the fucking about i canceled it. I was going to let everyone who had a platinum bar wrist band on in free to say sorry for the mucking about.

After sorting out the tickets at platinum and extra djs (tom huddard/mark storie/jack michaels) i then had to tell people they were not getting into sosho at all. We had loads of people leave sosho then to be with their friends at platinum bar so if you were wondering why the ground floor was half empty by 1am that was why.

I also noticed that around that time the main lights were turned off on the ground floor so there were no moving lights which was an obvious attempt to get people to leave.

Poor Sonny Wharton stepped into the middle of this with a half empty room and i later found off we was kicked off the decks by the management. I heard rumors about why but never heard it first hand.

I ended up in platinum all night where we were appreciated.

I was told of a scuffle in the basement around 04:00, if anyone knows who it was please can you send me a link to their dsi profile or facebook profile and i will ensure none of them get into my events again.

I heard the basement was closed at 04:00 and the rest at 05:00. I was disgusted with the managements behavior so didn't want to be there. I would have pulled the dj's off and moved the whole party to platinum if they could have coped with the extra numbers. Unfortunately nothing so dramatic took place.

The whole thing was handled really unnecessarily. If they didn't really like it, why did they not have us back. Why go out of your way to ruin everyones night just to show how much power you have?

It is such a shame because i think we could of had a brilliant night in there. Even if it was a one off.

I need to apologize to everyone who go messed about but I just wanted to go some way towards explaining what actually went on. Unfortunately my club nights are built on my reputation for caring about clubbers. If i let people think i have purposely treated them this way i will loose peoples faith in what i do.

Nothing shocks me in this business any more.

By the way, did anyone have a good time? I wasn't in there long enough to tell.

click here to look a the pictures of all of you scumbags!! lol

if there are any venues in london with capacity 700 please get in touch

temple rooms!

lol.... i was thinking of calling Lee

Do it mate.

Had a good night in Platinum thanks. After all my mates left Sosho to go there as half of them couldn't get in and Tom was playing.

Sosho - what a joke. 12k bar sepnd obliterated - people not buying cocktails....not fucking surprised cos it takes them about an hour to make each one.

If they were expecting a retox crowd of mashed up people then they have got it all wrong...that is a fairly unique crowd!

I am not too sure that any other Friday or Saturday night promotion will bring a "cocktail crowd" and surely they will make less on the bar anyway?

Back to Egg? New room opens soon...

I was really looking forward to Sosho on Saturday and glad to say I wasn't disappointed, the music getting turned down and the lights going up early did seem like they wanted us to leave early but didn't reflect badly on my night.

Thanks for another good night.

x

I was initially gutted when Sosho didn't let us in (even though we had tickets!!!!) but Platinum was awesome right through to the end. All worked out for the best!

Not been there yet but maybe try The Island?

I'm sure there will be an initial teething period for promoters who have had to move their event to a new venue this year. Like everyone else on here, I'll still support Formula! :-)

i thought everyone for formula was brilliant...excpet for that geeza in the stripey scarf....what a knob!

excpet for that geeza in the stripey scarf....what a knob!

Is that the same fella with the stupid hat on as well? he was a right spaz.

i think this place can fit 700

shocker, Platinum was cool though, thought Tom played well.

I was pissed off when Sosho dropped our night "Luna" next week cos it was "double booked"
luckily I managed to get "Luna@Island" (yep, shameless plug but you owe me that one mate)
I don't think the Saturdays are that great in Sosho, I might be wrong but they know you and you crowd well enough so I can't understand what's not too like and why they kicked off on the night?

I think Formula@island would suite you perfectly mate

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Over rated venue..........Rochie you know what to do? see you 2morrow....

i thought everyone for formula was brilliant...excpet for that geeza in the stripey scarf....what a knob!

Yeah, what's that all about - scarf inside?!? And he was cadjing free shots from behind the bar. Tosser.

You are well out of order Rochie, you obviously didn't try hard enough did you? Everybody hates you anyway cos you are gay... Oops !! ;-p

Anybody can see really that this is all Sosho's fault, your reputation is not at stake here and I for one love your nights. I think you the island is a great venue but too small for you and I think you need to keep it North London/City area.

West end?? bahhh.... Please dont

You are an all round good egg... Do your nights at Egg - with it's new room !

what about copyright?

;)

93 feet east on the same street as me almost that would be nice ;-D

what about copyright

Does that place still exist??