dj qbert (and some other noteable gigs)

Kali

Some choice gigs for the coming month and a bit...

The legendary qbert plays the village on december 7th.. tix are 20 euro and available from big brother and all city records.

Rodney P & Skitz play this Friday the 7th at the Shelter... 16 europeans...

Supernatural & DJ Noize (world MC and the world DMC champion) rip it up in the village on nov 27th... NOT TO BE MISSED... tix are a measly 17.50.

Makaveli

I remember Supernatural from the Grand Master Flash gig. Was fantastic.
Especially when he got the people in the front row to hold up something and he freestyled his way across the stage putting each item into the freestyle.
Legendary.

Kold

Wish i lived in dublin

RasTa

I seen the first q-bert gig and is without a doubt the best hiphop gig i've ever being to.
Sound chap aswell who gives cool autographs

Kali

Right just got my tix for qbert & supernat gigs and a little correction on the Supernatural price, its only 15! (now definitely not to be missed)... so pissed off that both are int he village tho.. such a terrible venue.

Kold

Ugh if i wasnt doing my leaving cert id so try to get to the supernatural gig.... Meh

Kali

they have the leaving cert in novemeber now? whoa..

Kold

I go to bruce college... We're expected to do 27 hours of study a week...which i dont do but i cant really explain a trip to dub. We have school on those days though im fairly sure

Cannibal Ox

I'm going to Supernatural, the guy's just too good to miss.

I'm trying to get the funds together to go to Q-Bert, but I'm not sure if I can manage it.

Makaveli

Originally posted by Kold
I go to bruce college... We're expected to do 27 hours of study a week...which i dont do but i cant really explain a trip to dub.

Um isn't Bruce College in Dublin city?

red_ice

Originally posted by Makaveli
I remember Supernatural from the Grand Master Flash gig. Was fantastic.

I thought he was pants. His rhymes were to predictable and his 'freestyle set' is all the same as his other rhymes.

At rahzel he had a verse that went like...
"i go to the gym, to get muscle on my arm,
so no people can do me no harm'. At that concert, i had a red fatfarm hat on, and for the set where he took 'random' material from the croud and 'freestyled' about the stuff he pulled from the croud, he took my hat on then went

"i go to the gym and lift weights with my arm
All this while i wear a red hat with fatfarm'

Everyone with the exception of the few that copped on went mental.. His rhymes were to inconsistant and he really needs a haircut


Back to qbert

sweeeeeeeeeet!

Noone knows of a DJ called p-trix? hed kill anyone when it comes to battling!

Kold

Um isn't Bruce College in Dublin city?

and Limerick and Cork. Im in cork

Lenny

qbert is palying this thursday aswell, tickets are 8euro.
Think its in the villege he's playing also or else its the metro. nearly positive its the metro

only him playing on the 7th.. you sure it ain't the 6th? you mean?

Kali

Originally posted by Lenny
qbert is palying this thursday aswell, tickets are 8euro.
Think its in the villege he's playing also or else its the metro. nearly positive its the metro

only him playing on the 7th.. you sure it ain't the 6th? you mean?

*consults ticket* aye tis the 6th... dunno where I got the 7th from

you sure he's playing this thursday as well? can't be the village anyway.. supernatural and noize are on.

Kali

so ehh supernatural was breath-taking as per usual, 3rd time I've seen him, his 3 words and 3mcs bit was getting a bit stale I thought (though still entertaining).. his bit at the end (where ppl hold crap up) was the longest I've seen him doing it, and was truely amazing... dj noize was excellent, played a brief stormer on his own then done backup for supernat... support came from tu-ki (brilliant as always) and man or machine who were rather odd but entertaining in their own unique way i guess, either way decent night for 15euro like.

RasTa

qbert gig is 8 euros ???

Kali

Originally posted by RasTa
qbert gig is 8 euros ???

20... dunno what lenny was talking about

Kali

So ehh anyone else completly disappointed by QBert? he used the same 2 records all night... scratching got boring after 10 minutes.. it was a case of "whoa look at him go, thats deadly" .. "hey wait he's doing it again".. "err ehh again?" .. ended up leaving early, I was led to believe it'd be a 2hr hip-hop set with the odd bit of scratching and some amazing mixing thrown in, not 2 hours of complete and utter scratch wankery... boo... that said Mayhem was excellent as always, same can't be said for the other Choice Cuts DJ, who just seemed to be content to leave records play, either way glad I went, but if he comes again I won't be attending.

Klimseven

The QBert gig was definately the greatest gig I've ever been to...fuc king unbelievable. Everyone I spoke to agreed, QBert just had the audience in a trance for his entire set(except for Kali).

Kali, obviously you got the term 'legendary DJ QBert' from some blurb you read and didn't have a clue what he was about. He's a phuking scratch DJ for christ's sake, the best scratch DJ of all time, in fact. If you don't like 'scratch wankery' then don't come to a QBert gig, jesus.

The gig was amazing, the DJs before QBert weren't great though...just mixing records, boring as phuk...but holy Christ QBert was unstoppable. He used only one turntable the whole night and took challenges from Yogafrog: he had to impress without using the fader (I saw **** I've never imagined was possible during that), beat juggling with drum beats, scratching 'rockit'...and the amazing battle against three Irish DJs(who he slaughtered).

People were just lost for words at what this man could do with one turntable, definately the best beat juggling I've ever seen in my life (with 1 turntable!!!)...and it wasn't gimmicks (as any real hip-hop fan knows) the sounds were so phuking good, he had the crowd befrazzled! Seriously, anybody with a taste for underground, real hip-hop sound knows that QBert is the most innovative DJ of all time...even though EVERYONE I saw (including long-haired rockers) was amazed...

QBert did it again, proving there are no limitations to what can be done with the turntable. He's a true hip-hop pioneer and is creating constant, fresh innovations for one of the greatest elements of the culture: DJing. O_O

Kali

Originally posted by Klimseven
The QBert gig was definately the greatest gig I've ever been to...fuc king unbelievable. Everyone I spoke to agreed, QBert just had the audience in a trance for his entire set(except for Kali).

Kali, obviously you got the term 'legendary DJ QBert' from some blurb you read and didn't have a clue what he was about. He's a phuking scratch DJ for christ's sake, the best scratch DJ of all time, in fact. If you don't like 'scratch wankery' then don't come to a QBert gig, jesus.

err I've two of QBerts releases sitting here on my desk... plus I've watched his DIY dvd twice.. I'm a big fan (as I am of DJ Voda & Greenpeace, but they're more sample-based).. so don't insult my intelligence... but dear god I didn't expect scratch. scratch. scratch. scratch. with the same two records for the whole evening coupled with some bog-standard beats... (dont get me wrong for the first 10-15 minutes I had a huge smile on my face and was genuinely picking my jaw up off the ground at what he was doing) but after that I would have much prefered to see him on two decks myself throwing samples together as his mixing and timing are absolutely phenmomenal... as is he didn't come anywhere near either of the times I've seen Craze in terms of getting everyone moving (where literally ppl were tripping due to the amount of sweat on the dancefloor and at the same time gob-smacked at his mixing speed and control), I mean in terms of crowd-pleasing it was just a demonstration go through the motions showpiece ... wheres the 2hour hip-hop set promised?

tibor

Originally posted by Klimseven
The QBert gig was definately the greatest gig I've ever been to...

[SNIP]

QBert did it again, proving there are no limitations to what can be done with the turntable. He's a true hip-hop pioneer and is creating constant, fresh innovations for one of the greatest elements of the culture: DJing. O_O

What are you? His agent?

It was like the DJ equivalent of Joe Satriani, technically superb, but get's old extremely fast. He can scratch. We get it, already. It should have been billed as a scratching showcase, not a gig.

Klimseven

He's always trying to push the boundaries, imo. He was trying something totally new (with the one turntable) and I suppose everyone wasn't going to like it. I thought it sounded good aswell tho...different preferences I suppose...

Attreu

Gig was excellent but Kali does have a point this gig was billed as


"1. Qbert will be showcasing a new approach to scratching in his scratch showcase and 2. will also be playing his first Hip Hop club set in over 10 years."

I saw the first part but missed the second.

Anyway what the man did with one turntable and an ipod blew me away.

My only gripes were that he only played for an hour and there was no hip hop club set.

djfattony2000

I actually thought he sold out completely. How many times was the 'Brand new turntable from Vestax' mentioned by the MC as he would point to it on its well lit pedostal. Don't get me wrong the scratching was amazing but he didnt even line up the beat records himself. That in particular annoyed me.