Eardrum. Magnetic Man. Skream. Benga. N-Type

What a night. People were skeptical, is Birmingham really ready for Dubstep? The answer is definitely yes!

The last time Skream played in Birmingham there was about 30 people in the Med Bar, this time I had a sneaky feeling it would be a lot busier. The buzz around Dubstep at the moment is phenomenal and this was proven last night.

Got to Med Bar at 10.45 and there was already a cue! ushered in and searched the place was already busy, with an arrangement of Dubstep in the Med Bar, Drum n Bass on the poolside and Hip Hop in the Kitchen.

The fact that there were another three Drum n Bass nights on and another Dubstep night on in Birmingham the same night and Med Bar was this busy was amazing! The scene is growing very quickly.

With Heist playing 10.30-11.30 poolside we jammed to some fresh plates from Co-Lab crew, and moved swiftly into the Med Bar. N-Type got on deck at around 11.40 and immediately set the place on fire. Serious plates all the bangers and some new shit too, the crowd went wild, massive set from N-Type.







Up next was the main attraction "Magnetic Man" a trio of Skream, Benga & Artwork, lined up their macs on stage for the "live" set. I'm not a massive fan of the "live" set thing but being as they are the biggest names in Dubstep I expecting big things. A little disappointing I must say, the few variances in the tunes didn't really count for much and I would have preferred to see a Skream b2b Benga DJ set! Never the less big tunes but could have been a lot bigger!



Went and checked out Lomax poolside dropping some serious jump up Drum n Bass, full time skanking amongst the packed out ravers. Hold tight the three blonde girls getting jumped on by every man in the venue. Also the regular Polish guy who gets pilled off his face ever weekend, dances like a cunt and gets denied by every girl in sight. Anyway back to the music, Lomax drawing for tones of new Co-Lab bits with MC PM supporting on the mic things were serious!





Back into the Med Bar for Emile, for what seemed to be a two hour set? Anyway Skream n Benga stand aside, Emile was better than you! Big selection, big tunes and big mixing had me skanking constantly, personal favourite Jakes - 3kout was dropped.. I proceeded to jump about like a fool, and some old garage which was jokes, hold tight DJ Escape feeling that one.





Finally at 4.05 the music stopped and the lights came up. What a night, Birmingham had been destroyed by a tornado of Dubstep, Drum n Bass and Hip Hop.

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Roll on the next Eardrum!