Valve: Hospitality, Andy C & Plastician

With such a stupid line up at the Custard Factory on Friday it was bound to be heaving and the music was bound to be heavy. With the soul shaking, ear drum destroying Valve sound system powering the pool, Hospital records hosting theMed bar and Eardrum Dubstep in room 3 things really did go off.

Arrived shortly after the doors opened at 10:30 to avoid any ridiculous queuing and chilled in the Kitchen for an hour or so until Dillinja was on in the pool at 11. As 11 o'clock came there was still plenty of room in the pool for some stupid skanking and this is what proceeded. Dillinja came with the bangers, plenty of familiar tunes and couple of new surprises in there as well, Shining a strong favourite for me!



Midnight brought "the executioner" Andy C, renowned as the best drum n bass DJ for his unbelievable ability to mix, he was down for a two hour set with partner in crime MC GQ> Personally I've lost a bit of faith in Andy over the past year finding his two hour sets a little boring, obviously they still have that amazing mixing but his selection just seems to be letting him down and the same old tunes and same old Ram classics just seem to be coming out the bag.. the crowd thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it though. Don't get me wrong there were some highlights including Logistics - Together and Chase & Status - Smash TV but other than that nothing remarkable.

After than dipping into the Med Bar to catch a bit of Nu Tone, playing a little differently to the normal Hospital stuff, including some disgusting Dubstep-esq tune??

Hopped over to the Kitchen to catch Jason X's debut set, a purely cdj set raised my eye brows at least, but he did well dropping some serious bangers and kept the room bubbling. The next few hours were really a wait for Plastician at four. Time passed slowly with Lemon D on the Valve doing nothing special followed by Bryan G who decided to bring UNCZ to the party which was definitely not a good look.

After chilling with Blaise, Grace and JP inside for a bit, 4 o'clock came and went. Finally at 4:30 Plastician stepped up and absolutely smashed through the next hour, working through all the familiar hits from his Rinse show only 10x's better live and with the added support of SP:MC. Tune after Tune I skanked so hard to Jakes/Joker - 3k Lane, Nero - This Way and plenty of others until Plastician finally brought the curtain down with Japan and Intensive Snare. By then the vocal support had switched to Stamina MC now and the "are you stupid in the face" lyruc echoed around the arena a MASSIVE MASSIVE set from Plastician.



Few crowd snaps...



Stussy ad campaign?



New best friends



My night was done, I'd seen everyone I wanted to see so we jammed for a bit with Emile in the kitchen then headed home, Another huge night from Broken Minds and Breakthru. Roll on Coki and Rusko @ Eardrum on the 28th November, though I fear I may be in NYC?

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