Octane and Club Stargate present PAUL GLAZBY AND BEN STEVENS

OCTANE EVENTS
&
Club Stargate

present:

PAUL GLAZBY // BEN STEVENS
VICIOUS CIRCLE TOUR 09





OCTANE returns for its 4th birthday celebrations, with two HUGE internationals.

There will be lots and lots more to announce in the very near future, so watch this space!

50 earlybirds at only $20 each available by emailing octane.events@gmail.com
every earlybird comes with a FREE Aroma sample!

FRIDAY APRIL 3RD

Holy shit, MORE DETAILS PLEASE NOW. Very keen to see these two again but need to know more!!!

AWESOME! Will almost certainly be making the trip up for this!

just for you strike.

Will be at Studio

they will play for one hour each, and one hour back to back as well!!

three hours of truly awesome mixing and amazing tunes.

earlybirds are only $20 with a free aroma sample. these are nearly sold out already, and the gig was announced two days ago.

email octane.events@gmail.com if you want one.

there is a WHOLE HEAP of announcements coming up, but i'll post it up once all confirmed!

Kyle D

Welly or Chch date?

There are no other NZ dates for either Ben or Paul sorry mate.

they are playing in adeleide, brisbane and perth.

was a mission to get akl date!

worth it tho, will be massive party.

Earlybirds have nearly sold out and there's still 11 weeks to go!!

Chch had k90 locked in for the available chch date so we had to pass unfortuantely...should be a great gig, Ben played an awesome set when he played for us in chch last time!

His set in Chch was pretty good - would've been good to hear More VC and Fireball stuff from him considering they're his labels, but he told me the music policy was a little 'differenr', haha.

Play to the crowd strike...im sure all good djs do this...im also sure ben read the crowd on the night as well as taking on board local knowledge

I'm really looking forward to coming over to NZ again, I always have a quality time.

See you in March!

OCTANE is back once again for another installment in dancefloor experiences. this time, for the 4th birthday celebrations we have recuited two of the best harddance DJ's in the world. The Legenday PAUL GLAZBY is back to deliver a huge set of cutting edge tunes, seamlessly mixed together in his energetic style. With him is BEN STEVENS, the heir to the vicious circle empire and a musical leader in the scene worldwide. this is the first time in 4 years these two have appeared toegether in NZ and to add to this they will each be performing one hour sets, as well as a one hour BACK TO BACK set inbetween!! The only venue fitting for this foray into hi energy heaven is Studio on K rd, and it will be decked out in style for the night on Friday 3rd April.

EARLYBIRD TICKETS HAVE NOW SOLD OUT.

Presale tickets are going to be only $29.50+BF
available from:

Real Groovy
Paristexas
UPfm reception
octane.events@gmail.com (free postage)
www.iticket.co.nz

There are a limited edition of 50 VIP tickets available for this gig which are $40 each and available only through octane.events@gmail.com

a VIP ticket will get you:
Limited edition necktag
Complimentary Club Stargate products
access to the Crew/VIP chillout area overlooking the dancefloor
Free drink
other awesome stuff tba.

Club Stargate have been chosen to cohost this party as they are a group with the same ideals as the Octane crew, they just want to have good, safe fun! Their products (all available on the night at OCTANE) are pure quality, and are aimed at people having an awesome night without any dangers! For OCTANE the middle level of Studio will be transformed into CLUB STARGATE! complete with Beanbags, couches, truppy lights, dvd's, and wicked music by Tom M, it will be the place to go to enhance your night with their new products - AROMA or the yet to be announced night improver, or just to check out the awesomeness! join www.clubstargate.com. keyword OCTANE.

Local support mainroom from:

KYLE DONEGAN
SHELDON
DAVE OI
DIEGO MEJIER
HAZE
RP
SERUM
JOEL HEWITT

Foyer room:

Maya & Vanya
Joe Johnson
Sean M (hams) + MC
Ryan & Pierce
+ more!

Get your tickets now and become a part of the OCTANE experience!

- The Octane Crew -


artist profiles:

PAUL GLAZBY




Paul Glazby is the Don, the ‘hard’ in hard house, the guy who conquered an entire scene almost overnight with his remix of Quench’s Dreams. The minstrel of mayhem who led the way from day one, when he boldly stated his intentions, and with every beat, every mix, in every set, at every club, on almost every continent, with every record he has made or played, he has kept his word.

That promise propelled a solo debut single that has since become the definitive hard house anthem. Kick It is the one that closes the last set of every Tidy Weekender, the classic so many others aspire to be. The tune launched the DJ, production and remix career of a giant who instantly towered over the hard house scene. The record launched a label which grew into a stable, an empire, a leader of the pack.

Vicious Circle has since clocked up almost seventy releases, including the all-time classics Beautiful, Yamamba, Crazy Pills and Hostile along with its founder’s unrivalled Ten Commandments series of ten consecutive singles.

It has spawned the renowned I Love VC albums, events and tours and it remains the biggest and best hard house stamp in the world. At the Hard Dance Awards it has received the accolades of Best Single and Best Album, while its head honcho has come home with a Best Remixer trophy.

The powerful punch Paul packs in the mix has graced albums on other labels, such as Tidy’s Insomnia, Hard Dance Republic and TW9 Live, while he has had singles snapped up by greats – Tidy, Nukleuz and Recharge.

Paul has also contributed to all of the major summer festivals such as Global Gathering, Creamfields, Gatecrasher Summer Sound System and the globally-renowned Dance Valley.


BEN STEVENS




Chances are the first time you heard the name of Ben Stevens, it was none other than Paul Glazby tipping the aspiring DJ for the top.

And in the half a decade or so since he first grabbed the attention of the revered Vicious Circle head honcho, Stevens has never had any problem living up to such high expectations.

Glazby’s faith in the youngster saw him land pivotal roles in the development of the Vicious Circle stable, both in A&R and event management, and as a result Stevens has a sense of professionalism that belies his 24 years.

Regarded by many of his peers as a technical genius on the wheels of steel, beatmaster Ben has become one of the most in-demand hard house DJs in Britain, with regular slots at high-profile events such as Frantic, Polysexual, Creamfields and the Tidy Weekenders.

The abilities and talents of Ben Stevens are without question: whether producing tunes or playing them, he knows exactly how to work a dancefloor and raise the roof off a club.






facebook event:

http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=48980563969#/event.php?eid=49283988651&ref=mf

Hi Everyone!

Well the time is drawing near and i hope you've all had a great weekend.

OCTANE is this friday! and here is a little update on what you can expect:

// PRODUCTION:

We are very pleased to announce the addition of 9 SAMSUNG 40" plasma screens to the main room! these look amazing, and will be surrounding the dj's, accompanied by live amazing visuals by the DurtyMovie visuals team of Matt and Tim, the most in-demand visual artists in Auckland!!

Now this would be enough to light up the main room of studio sufficiently, but we've gone ahead and enlisted M2 Lasers to bring in two powerful Green lasers to really finish off the spectacular main arena.


As you may be aware, Club Stargate will be hosting an enhanced middle level at Studio, complete with information on their new products, and many samples available!

Their new product - NEMI will be launched at Octane, and really is a new generation in legal party enhancers. check out www.clubstargate.com for full details.


// TICKETS

tickets are going quickly, there has been a big surge this weekend, resulting in very few VIP tickets remaining, and a re-stock in tickets for a few private sellers.

Tickets are available at:

Real Groovy
www.iticket.co.nz
Paristexas Albany
Paristexas Sylvia Park
UPfm Reception

and are only $29.50each!

or if you want group, birthday, or VIP ticket deals, email:
tickets@octane-events.info

you can win FREE tickets all week on UPFM as well as the promo mix cd.
www.upfm.dj // 107.5fm


// FREE MIXES TO DOWNLOAD:


Kyle Donegan's 25track 3deck Solid HH promo:

www.kyledonegan.info


BEN STEVENS MIX:

http://www.sushifreshbeats.com/shows/benstevens.mp3



// VIDEO

Check out the video from the last octane here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvCBByOJQLg


Have a great week people and see you on friday!


// The Octane Crew //

had some peeps cancel on me at the last minute and have 5 spare earlybirds at $20 - PM if you're intersted.

Octane/Vicious 09

Set times!

Main room -

10 - 11 Joel Hewitt
11 - 12 Sheldon b2b RP
12 - 1 Kyle Donegan
1 - 2 BEN STEVENS (uk)
2 - 3 PAUL GLAZBY B2B BEN STEVENS !!
3 - 4 PAUL GLAZBY
4 - 5 Diego Mejier b2b Dave Oi
5 - 6 Haze b2b Serum

Foyer -

10 - 11 Pierce
11 - 12 Jamie White
12 - 1 Andy Day
1 - 2 Paul Anarchy
2 - 3 Sean M (hams)
3 - 4 Joe Johnson
4 - 5 Jamin
5 - 6 Maya & Vanya

Club Stargate -

Tom M allll night, with guest Ryan


See you all tonight!


if anyone needs last minute tickets i'll be at studio till 4pm,
text me 021 557 867. (Kyle)

Tickets available from www.iticket.co.nz up until 7pm tonight.

There will be limited doorsales @ $40 each tonight.

There are only 5 VIP tickets left!

- The Octane Crew -

Wow. what a night. thank you so much to everyone who came and everyone who contributed to the night to make it what it was!

///The DJ's:

Hats off to everyone who played, you were all amazing, highlights of the night of course were Ben Stevens and Paul Glazby. two insane sets each and when they combined for that vicious circle hour, holy crap that brought back some memories! fire in the sky! beautiful! tortured! yeaaaahhhh!!

A special mention to RP and Sheldon who soldiered on and had the foyer of studio cranking harder than i've ever seen it before during the first fire alarm fiasco.

For me personally that was one of the most enjoyable sets i've played. having such an up for it crowd, all smiling, with that setup really made it for me

///The Crew:

CLUB STARGATE who brought some fantastic product that was most definately not available inside the venue. Also for being awesome people and enhancing the atmosphere of the gig!

A MASSIVE thanks to the M2 boys for bringing their lasers to OCTANE. they looked ridiculously amazing in the main room as demonstrated by that video above! (thanks emily for that) expect to see more of those lasers at CHEMISTRY.

Thanks to SAMSUNG who provided all 10 screens that really set the stage on fire.

DurtyMovie productions filled those screens with live tastiness for the majority of the night and in my opinion did a brilliant job.

All the boys for coming in to help pack out. you know who you are and you are legends, i salute you.

My doorgirl Shelly, thank you for spending the night in the little box at the front.

The bar manager Cahla, who kept her head when the f**king fire alarms went and being an all round awesome person.

Leighton the sound engineer, who was the reason the rooms were sounding so MINT through the whole night.

DION my legend of a mate, who was the one to identify the first fire alarm issue and basically fix it, once again you were a huge part of Octane mate, good to have you back on board!

The guy that fixed the fire alarm and identified the smoke detector that was causing the issue.

My lovely girlfriend, who put up with me talking about this gig non stop for months on end haha.


and last but not least:

You. thank you for coming and i hope you enjoyed the event. I apologise for the fire alarms, i wish they could've been avoided but we dealt with them the best we could

/////

This was the biggest Octane yet, in terms of production, and both Paul and Ben have said they would be happy to come back again, so watch this space next year.


There may be more up the Octane sleeve in my jacket yet, but we shall see, this event has taken an insane amount of effort, but the thanks of people last night and seeing the dancefloor packed and loving it till damn near 5am definitely made me happy.

Cheers


Kyle D + the Octane Crew.

Was a great night - thanks for putting in the effort, Kyle.

My only disappointment was that the VIP tickets (which we had to pay extra for) came nowhere close to delivering what was promised.

Here is what was promised:
- Free drink: NO. The bar staff refused to honour that promise.

- Free Stargate goodies: NO. These were not delivered along with my tickets as I had been promised by the promoter.

- Access to special 'VIP' area: Yes, we were permitted to access a balcony overlooking the main floor (before that area was closed off halfway through the night!) however there were no actual 'VIP's to be found at all - especially disappointing for those of us who had brought our official VC t-shirts to be signed by Paul and Ben.

We did get a cool looking lanyard to wear around our necks but that was about it.

Considering the fact that we passed up on the option of $20 earlybirds because we liked what was claimed to be offered by getting the VIP tickets, we kinda felt we paid an extra $20 for not much at all. Will know next time not to buy 'VIP' tickets

strike - i'm guessing you are Richard from teh other site?

if so, then i've already apologised for the lack of follow thru on the VIP's. i sont think i'll be doing VIP tix again as i dont like the idea of some people being better than others.

Paul and Ben were standing at the bar the whole night, you could've asked them to sign stuff no worries

overall the gig was very enjoyable, and the only hitch were the fire alarms (damn faulty smoke detectors)

a huge thanks to everyone that came again.