April 21st : Wonderland The 90's ( Appeltern )

Saturday April 21st seemed to be our first outdoor festival, but when we arrived at the location ( it was a beautiful new location ) it was a large tent ... which was quite okay because it was raining off and on.

The location was recreationarea 'Strand Maaslanden' ( Gouden Ham ), which is located along the river 'De Maas'. Lots of water and green around and a small beach.

Our settime was 7.30 PM, and when we arrived the tent was pretty crowded. The organisation ( X-Factor Events ) was satisfied since it was their first time here at this location.

Although the theme was 'happy hardcore', we always want to put some early hardcore in it. Before us, Dune was playing and he also put in some old hardcore tracks. For us the sign, that this was not going to be any problem.

We were ready to go! We started off with Raveworld, and the crowd went mad! A good way to start our set. After a short while, Burning Love came by ( in the Weirdo & Sim remix ) and everybody sang along. So cool! After an hour, 2 girls and a guy asked me if it was possible to announce that their friend had his birthday that evening. That sounded good to me and after a couple of tracks I asked my dj to put in a small break. I let the birthdayboy on stage together with his brother, and let the audience sing 'Happy Birthday To You" in Dutch. Everybody sang along, it was an awesome feeling.

Now it was time to rock the last part ... we continued our set with Prophet's 'Allright Now Here We Go' which is one hell of a banger! and rocked a lot of happy hardcore tracks. But ofcourse the last tracks was reserved for The Viper's Remix of Burning Love. It really kicked ass! We couldn't end the set better.

We got a lot of good response from organisation and audience. For me, the peak in our set was the '98 To Piano' bootleg where all people put their hands up in the air. LOVED it!

Thanks you X-Factor Events for having us and the audience for this massive party.