DAVE CLARKE 16th March RESISTANCE Waterford

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Resistance returns to Waterford with a Bang on St Patrick’s Eve (16th March) for a night of world class techno at The Forum, a venue it last visited back in 2007. The one and only DC (Dave Clarke) will headline the night with his first Waterford appearance in over 2 years,Support from Alan Simms (Shine) Niall Power (Electric Circus - Resistance) along with some bright new techno talent from the South East. Admission is just €15 and advance tickets are available now at BPM Records and The Forum.






Throughout the “noughties” Resistance brought the World’s best DJs to Waterford, and South East clubbers showed the likes of Laurent Garnier, Groove Armada, Timo Maas, Erick Morillo, Jeff Mills, Deep Dish, Felix Da Housecat, Green Velvet, Mylo, Slam, Carl Craig and many more that the Resistance atmosphere is hard to beat. For their first event of the new decade, it was clear that there was only one DJ worthy of the headline slot, Resistance favourite Dave Clarke, who makes his 8th appearance for the club. DC loves coming to Waterford and in the past has played the club on his birthday, and also played his first ever set anywhere in the world using CDs, for Resistance clubbers.

Dave Clarke has a well-deserved reputation as one of the best techno and electro DJs in the world, but he’s always been an outsider, from his stormy childhood in the 1980s to his tempestuous relationship with the media today. Clarke was born and raised in Brighton and was expelled from school a number of times from an early age. The school always took him back but he fully admits to being a thoroughly disruptive boy with a short attention span. What started him on the road to where he his today was his hijacking of and combining his parents’ hobbies. ‘I started playing with my mother’s records and my father’s technology,’ he says, ‘My mother had lots of old disco records by the likes of Roy Ayers, Lonnie Liston Smith and the Crusaders, and my dad was really into technology. He had disco lights in the front room, record decks, reel-to-reels and reverb units. It’s pretty obvious where I get it all from really.’ However after his parents split and family life became unbearable, he ran away from home at 16 and ended up sleeping rough in car-parks before a friend offered him temporary floorspace. The only thing that kept him going was his love of music. From soul to the Psychedelic Furs, from Devo to the nascent Chicago house sound, Clarke devoured it all voraciously and blagged himself a DJ slot at a club called Toppers in Brighton. The night he played became so successful that it worried a young John Digweed whose club-night it was up against.

Clarke’s reputation was sealed at the start of the 1990s when he produced a series of EPs with the collective name ‘Red’. Signed to de-Construction he received rave reviews for his 1996 debut album ‘Archive 1’ which dabbled in breakbeat and electronica, a novelty for the puritanical techno scene of the time. Clarke, then as now, has no time for techno purism. By the millennium many first generation techno DJs had fallen by the wayside, drifting off up blind allies and sub-genres, but Clarke’s sets, his extraordinary mixing skills mashing up techno, electro, ghetto-tek, hip hop and even 1980s new wave numbers, remained in constant demand. He put out a number of mix CDs including 2001’s first ‘World Service’ set which showcased his dual love for electro and techno. From Tones On Tail to Die Warzau, from Anthony Rother to the Sisters of Mercy, from Terence Fixmer’s crunching techno to the filthy ‘booty’ sound of Detroit, Clarke is still as enthused as a kid about it all.

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run_Forrest_run

good to see a big name DJ coming back to Waterford...ah remember the Metroland days

razbee

cant come soon enough ,cant wait

e.c

Function One sound system installed for the night!

e.c

Just one week to go until the barron returns:D

PatrickD32

run_Forrest_run wrote: »

good to see a big name DJ coming back to Waterford...ah remember the Metroland days

What you mean good to see big names coming back to WD?
Who would you consider not good names from the time metroland to dave clarke in 2010?
What big names havnt been in Waterford since metroland > 2 clarke gig coming up?

Between all the promoters down here, they have had huge names????
Waterford have seen huge names in between that period.
So I dont get what you mean at all?


Do you even know anount serious djs have played/are lined up to play?

Good to see big names coming back? In fairness man?

burkey85

PatrickD32 wrote: »

What you mean good to see big names coming back to WD?
Who would you consider not good names from the time metroland to dave clarke in 2010?
What big names havnt been in Waterford since metroland > 2 clarke gig coming up?

Between all the promoters down here, they have had huge names????
Waterford have seen huge names in between that period.
So I dont get what you mean at all?


Do you even know anount serious djs have played/are lined up to play?

Good to see big names coming back? In fairness man?

X 2, Was thinking the same meself,
The amount of big names we've had in the last few years has been great.

Erick Morillo, Joris Voorn, Jeff Mills, Felix Da Housecat, Groove Armada, Vitalic, Eddie Halliwell, Andrew Weatherall, Mark Farina, Miguel Migs, Charles Webster, Kerri Chandler to name a few

PatrickD32

exactly man, juan atkins, ortin cam, marco remus, list goes on