October 5th - House Of Revolution, Eindhoven

Last friday we had two gigs in 2 different countries .. The first one was opening House Of Revolution in Beursgebouw in Eindhoven ..

Opening is always a thing, because when you start, the chances are big there aren't much people around yet. Beursgebouw is a pretty big building, which can hold about 7/8000 partypeople ( we were here on Queensday and the placed was packed ).

When we arrived ( 9.45 PM ) the building was still pretty much empty ( only organisation and bar people ) but after the doors opened, and we started our set, people came in ... after abut 20 minutes, I think 6/700 people were already partying. They really showed us love ! Eindhoven is always great to play ! In the end there were about 1500 people which was awesome ! This was a great way to start to evening !

We didn't had much time to stay, because at 12 AM it was already time to start our next dj set!

Other dj's that night were Flamman & Abraxas, Mental Theo, Dune and The Darkraver.

April 30th - Queensday

April 30th is a special day in Holland .. our queens birthday ... that means parties in almost every city in Holland, especially the bigger cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and Eindhoven.

On every square in a city you hear electro, techno or even hardcore beats ... it's quite nice .. thousands of people everywhere, and when the weather is good, you only see happy faces ...

We had 2 gigs that day, and man oh man was I looking forward to this ..

The first one was in Eindhoven in a big venue called 'Beursgebouw' .. it's a huge eventlocation with a total capacity of 6000 people I think, and I think they were there at that moment ... people everywhere!

First gig called 'House Of Revolution goes Q-Day' as seen on the flyer. Many dj's including the top happy hardcore ones, Paul Elstak, Mental Theo, Dune and Flamman & Abraxas ( Party Animals )

We were playing after Mental Theo, and he played some hard stuff! - No happy hardcore ;) - A lot of old tracks in a new 2012 coat, including the new 2012 remix of 'Wonderful Days' .. 

Settime 6.00 - 7.00 PM. We started of our set with 'Raveworld' which is a classic! The tone was set! There were a lot of gabbers in front of the stage, and our set was appreciated. People sang a long and danced so we were quite happy. We started of a bit hard ( early ) and then worked our way to tracks like 'Turn Around' from Damage Inc. and 'Destiny' from Brothers In Crime.

It was nice to see that happy hardcore is still doing it's thing!

I also saw my niece in the audience with I haven't seen in a long time and she looked proud :)

After us were our friends Flamman & Abraxas with MC Remsy, and that's always fun! Haven't seen them in a while.

After the gig we had little time because at 8.00 PM we had to be in a place called Veghel. A small village about 25 km from Eindhoven. I had to host the last 3 hours as a MC, but in between Bruce and I had to play our dj set. Our setttime : 9.00 till 10.00 PM.

We arrived at 7.45 PM and we just a little to eat some snacks. I started of hosting with Dj Graphic, a hardstyle dj ... Veghel was ready for some harder sounds, after a whole day of electro beats.

Although hardstyle is not really my kind of music, Graphic played some dope ass tracks and I liked what I've heard!

After this it was time to ROCK! The audience was great! A whole square full of people who loved hard music! Great fucking vibe! I saw a lot of people dancing, singing, screaming and more.

It was a real great atmosphere! A great way to close down this Queensday for us as Critical Mass.

My Queensday was not closed yet though. I had to rock once more with no other than The Darkraver. And closing down a stage with The Darkraver is another level.

We went from happy, to oldschool, to hardcore till LOUDER! There were some tracks I hadn't heard in years ! The people loved it!

The last track was Rob Gee's 'Ecstasy You Got What I Need'. What a party this was. Steve ( The Darkraver ) throwed at one point a whole bucket of ice cubes to me ( as a joke ) but instead of me most ice cubes came down on the Pioneer equipment .. We had fun ..

We hope to do this again next year ..... !!

Schedule Queensday ( week 17/18 )

On April 30th it's that time again ... we have our own national holiday called Queensday ( in Dutch it's called koninginnedag ) .. we celebrate the birthday of our old queen Juliana ...

In Holland that means party party party ! Big outdoor parties in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht en Eindhoven for instance .. all kinds of music, mostly house .. ( electro, techno, hardcore, hardstyle ) Some dj's have 4 to 5 bookings this day, it's insane!

We will have two and we are looking forward to it, cause it's going to be MAD !!

We will rock :

• Eindhoven - House Of Revolution goes Q-day! - Beursgebouw
• Veghel - Queensday Veghel 2012