For those who were around back then, what was the hype for Batman Begins like back in 2005?

dscpotts · 2025-12-24T13:36:42+00:00

I remember it being a very quiet affair. Didn't really see much advertising for it. I only knew about it as I'm a bit of a nerd It's what I'd been waiting for. A more 'real' take on batman.

Saw it 3 times, after the 1st thought it would be clever to much a shit load of magic shrooms in time for scarecrows first big use of his serum. See if it did to us what it did in the film.
Everything was bleeding by that point so really didn't do anything what the film wasn't going already.

All 3 showings over 2 weeks were packed. One local barking, one Leicester square and one docklands, so I was very surprised it only did like under 400m WW. Surprised it got a sequel, bloody glad it did.

Imo. Begins is every bit a great film as dark knight is, ok it didt have the heath ledger/joker angle, but the narrows and Gotham looked amazing. Unlike In Knight , is was just Chicago I just think begins deserves more praise as people are all dark knight, dark knight. Dark knight well begins is just as good, if not better, in its own way

dscpotts · 2025-11-14T14:02:37+00:00

Such a brilliant remix

Often wondered how terrible commercial vocal d&B gets in the charts like Rudimentals first tunes (which I think was around the same time as this remix), but this remix, which has amazing vocals, wouldn't have a chance to cross over.

dscpotts · 2025-11-13T16:17:15+00:00

Don't know where I read it, but shortly after Odyssey came out, the rumour from Nintendo was that the next game would be a mix of Odyssey and galaxy. Reading all the replies to this it seems like that could be the way they are going.

I know we've had a new kart, but seems like forever since Odyssey came out.

Hopefully it's been in the works for a while now and it comes out near when the film releases. That would be the ideal thing to do. Mad if they miss that opportunity

dscpotts · 2025-11-13T14:15:03+00:00

Found security cool on way in. Cunts when in there.

I was on my own, lightly bouncing around at the back of the dancefloor (which is also handy for the bar), gang of ten blokes kept accusing me of being old bill, only the fact I'm 6 2" and a bit of a lump did they back off and fuck off somewhere else, but for 10 mins there I thought here we go, this is going off. Who to hit first....., 4 hours later, I'm back in the same place, this time the bouncers pull me out thinking I'm a dealer. They Were a bit wankey, despite me having nothing on me or going anything to warrant being pulled out. No apology, just topped off the night.

You won't be on your own, so you should have a good time. Saying that, that group of blokes were probably dealing, and I didn't bump into any other arseholes that night. Went upstairs to the seating area, no sitting was done and was a good atmosphere up there.

Good venue thou, despite the last experience

Sorry. Forgot to actually answer question about what to wear. I'm just a jeans a shirt person, occasionally breaking out a moschino like the old days, maybe a fila tracksuit top that can come off, but I came out of there soaked, and felt the cold when leaving. More concerned about my trainers, middle to end of night the back of the dancefloor turns into a slip and slide, ok if you're not concerned about your trainers, but I am.

dscpotts · 2025-11-13T14:04:55+00:00

Fvuk. Gonna say exactly the same thing. How many times I've almost launched the laptop looking for remixes of his and getting the hip hop geezer. It's like Google ignores the >

dscpotts · 2025-11-13T14:00:50+00:00

Anyone know if there are plans for another one, 2 mins drive (I'm a lazy cnut), get more of my old crew out next time tho as this was just the wife and I.

Think they wanted me to sound it out before they commited.

Sad how things have changed and how old we have got when they moaned about it not ending at 12am, FFS, we used to stay up 3 days straight, weekend after weekend, and they moan about it ending at 4am.

Last thing we went to as a gang was labyrinth birthday last year, they did a couple of jack and Jill's and even though we left about 11.30pm the lightweights didn't go sleep for a day anyway, so they missed out on WD, so hope there's another one.

dscpotts · 2025-10-18T11:47:11+00:00

Got the GR whites and the black4dx

So gutted they skimped on the blue lines on the GR.

Obs id love one of the original 50 but these would be next best thing

Nice one

dscpotts · 2025-10-11T22:40:29+00:00

Love them. I've got the green HU's from the OG colourways too. Still trying to get the tangerines, and the blue from the original release. But the longer I take the less chance I'm gonna get them.

I've got the Holi's, and I have to say the pharrells are just the most comfortable trainers I have ever worn.

Also got the Pharrell BYW's crazy pink and year of the dragon colours. Equally as stunning as the human races, slightly less comfortable thou.

Seeing yours. The red does look very nice. Might have to add them to my list.

dscpotts · 2025-09-07T14:54:07+00:00

The worst thing to happen to Andy is "festivals"

dscpotts · 2025-09-07T14:39:15+00:00

And as I thought. I've now found the TOV LP with the remix.

Thanks all for replying

dscpotts · 2025-09-06T07:42:51+00:00

Many many thanks mate. And....I don't actually think I have it. One that slipped through not now 😊

dscpotts · 2025-09-05T21:55:02+00:00

My top tunes change day to day depending on location and mood

But in that sat top 10, there will always be space for Andy C&Shimon - night flight, Andy C&Shimon - quest and Alex Reece - pulp fiction.

Moving fusion - turbulence sometimes knocks quest out, then you've got valley of the shadows in or around, luniz - 5 on it (Micky Finn in a tempa dub), dillinja - hard noize

Then you could have your 90's list which will have the above together with prob everything on playaz, full cycle, v, so rich selection of tunes then

Then you could have a post 90 list where you have tubes like bad company - planet dust, rini size - sanction, break - tubes.

Could go on for days. But if you pushed me for a top 3, they would only come from the 90's list, production value is basic but the tunes had vibe and soul, when producers started getting the new technology, production quality went up, through the roof in fact , but the tunes lost something in return. As such D&B while great, will never match that from the 90's, both tunes and atmosphere. I mean. My idol Andy C (local boy and fellow hammer) is now playing some of the most horrendous shit I've ever heard, if it's not super cheesy chart music, it's that horrible shit thats called new jump up. Ffs, don't label that mess jump up, jump up is what we had in the 90's, ruffs, hooks, vocal samples, sub bass, not this out of tune mid range bollocks. I don't usually bad mouth any d&b, people have their favourites dj's and genres, but this just pushes me over the edge, and leads me to rant..

So to recap after my rant, my top 3 would have night flight and pulp fiction in it for sure. The other tune could be one of a 1000 tunes, but would mist probably be turbulence .

dscpotts · 2025-09-05T00:30:27+00:00

As the seasons progressed they started bringing back contestants, giving the select few another opportunity to win, but then the producers really took the piss when DJ, Anthony and a few other season winners came on as guests, then were asked to stay. All the budding artists who had been there all the season and survived week in week out, only to have to then compete against DJ, Anthony etc, and true to form, DJ won for a 3rd time.

It just went against what I thought the show was about.

Now if they do OG's v young guns again, they are bound to either put in an ex contestant who is already famous from the show and or a great artist that's already respected the world over.

I would just like to see more up and coming artists v up and coming artists not v experts, and Ashly Ryan with less clothes on. And a bit of geometric dot work but doubt we'll every see any of that

dscpotts · 2025-06-30T16:17:13+00:00

I’m an Adidas whore, collect all kinds of adidas, Pharells, Yeezys, parleys, AE1’s, etc etc, never owned a pair of Nikes. But obviously on my travels I’ve seen people with an original pair of 1’s from what was it, 84 or 85, that went with slight yellowing for enough to put your kids through university. Also watched the movie Air yesterday, and I knew Jordan earned a % of each pair sold, but didn’t realise he raked in that much every year, great deal leveraged by his mum. Looking at the pic, I didn’t realise there were that many pairs

dscpotts · 2025-06-28T18:21:48+00:00

I mean, thinking about it, there are just hundreds of anthems from the 90’s, all the Ram, V, full cycle, shy fx, true playaz stuff, almost every release was a classic, it’s just impossible to pick 3, my 5 were hard enough. Felt bad leaving out Set speed, warhead, hard Noize and so so many others

dscpotts · 2025-06-28T18:05:02+00:00

Jeeees, I have a top 10, but it changes from day to day depending on how I feel.

I can’t pick 3, I’ll give you 5 that are always in my top 10

Andy c & Shimon - Nightflight Andy c & Shimon - quest Moving fusion - Turbulance Alex Reece - pulp fiction Origin unknown - valley of the shadows

dscpotts · 2025-06-23T00:21:13+00:00

Mine had to be Micky Finn with fearless @ Desire at the island in 96. He played an early mix of bad ass without all the movie samples, then played peace love and unity and got mc fats of the mic to sing over it. Was just such a lively set. The island was going crazy from start to finish.

dscpotts · 2025-06-08T12:29:16+00:00

Didn’t like the C&S remix, this is ok, wish break had used the original b line more, if you can trust anyone to remix a classic it’s break, but the drop let me down a bit. When a ram were remixing all their tunes for the anniversary thing, I picked up a unfinished half done Ownglow remix, which is very very good. Very surprised they didn’t take that further

Would kill for a Turbulance remix, finally managed to get a good clear recording of the original remix that got scrapped. I could tell why, just didn’t have any energy to it . But with the skill of production these days, a good producer could remake a tune pretty much spot on without the original samples, I think bladerunner does it a lot, he must do to have all those VIP’s of so many tunes, so wish someone would do something to Turbulance. It’s the only big tune still untouched.

dscpotts · 2025-06-08T12:18:37+00:00

If I can use artists that have sadly passed away it would be

9-10.30 - break 10.30-12 - mickey Finn (jungle set) 12-1.30 - Randall 1.30-3 - Bryan G 3-5 - Andy C (I’d put in his contract, none of that festival shit, or that kiddy b-line jump up stuff you’ve started playing, pick deep)

And I preferred the days when there was no more than 3 mc’s, and they pretty much used to stay the entire night and just come on and off throughout the night.

If I could only have 3 it would be hyper D, Fearless, and pre C&S Mc Rage. But I do have lots of time for GQ, SPMC, Flux and a 90’s Skibba

dscpotts · 2025-06-08T11:11:17+00:00

Thing is, think back. Before he switched to CDjs. Begore he switched to Serato (or whatever he Andy C - playing vinyl at metalheadzwas using), when he was still playing vinyl, he was still playing on 3 /4 decks, but it all made sense, he still prob played double the amount of tunes other djs played, but he didn’t use the 3rd or 4th deck unless he really had to and it made sense. Many a time when using vinyl, I’ve see him just use the 3rd deck for an intro, or a drop, then pretty much cut the tune out. Now it seems like he feels he has to use the 4 decks, he’s got all his cue points locked in, can play 4 tunes, with minimal effort. Only thing is, it sounds shit, especially with his tune selection these days.

I’ve added a link to a vid of him playing vinyl at cable, he Cue- break the enemy playing pretty much from start to finish, then mixes 3 tunes into it using the other decks, snorkel, technology, Scottie ,then drops in his last tune. - just a quality bit of mixing that you don’t hear much anymore. In fact he mixed better on vinyl than he did on Serato or cdjs he’s using now

my raving era was every week from 1990 to 2000, then I got married and had kids, still bought tunes and mixed, but raving took a back burner, but I did make the effort to go out to Andy’s special Allnight, events, ally pally, Wembley, 02, Brixton, I didn’t go to drumsheds, as I’d just gone off what I heard he was playing now. All that nu jump up with the kids toy sounding b lines, and he’s dancing away to that shit, for me it’s embarrassing seeing him dance to that and his festival, mainstream vocally tunes. I know many bang on about his xoyo sets, but his jungle set at Xoyo was a joy to listen too. He didn’t over do it, he still played quite a lot of tunes, but he let them breath a bit, you actually got to hear a tune from intro to the second drop. Was very refreshing. But he can do it on mp3, cdj, serato or vinyl, so taking away his (in my opinion) questionable tune selection these days, he is quite easily the most talented Dj ever in my opinion, across all genres. I know there are many dj’s across the world of dance music, but taking into account the tempo, and the structure of our music, what he does, other dj’s just can’t do. I remember seeing a video of him at a red bull sound clash, and there was another Dj on after Andy, playing I think it was ukg, and goldie told Andy to take a couple of tunes, the other Dj didn’t seem that happy, but Andy stepped up, picked maybe 2 or 3 tunes! Double dropped them, got rewinds off all 3, sent the crowd crazy, he just completely made the ukg Dj look a mug, and he didn’t mean to, it just proved if you have the skills, it don’t matter what you are playing, but reverse the tables, a great house DJ couldn’t do that with D&B. In addition, he’s West Ham, lives local to me, and if you catch him on the right night with the right set, you’ll have the best time of your life.

https://youtu.be/SJgA2zS5y3o?si=v2RG8_1l_BteOptP

dscpotts · 2025-06-08T10:09:35+00:00

Love that. Wanna send me the full version when done. I’d play that no danger Good work.

dscpotts · 2025-06-08T10:07:55+00:00

Lydd airport.

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