3AM IN THE CITY

Brucey

Because Boundaries Were Meant To Be Broken

3AM IN THE CITY - II

Tuesday 16th August 2011

So another night rolls on, a shift finished at my other workplace…and now I’m racing to put my clothes on and get up to town in time, the rotas between the two places can be hectic at times, somehow I decided to rock AF1’s for some unknown reason, but hey ho that’s how my story goes. The work seems to just stay in one place this evening, with just one crowd to gather attention from, but it’s really that easy when your wearing a Pink Hoodie isn’t it.

I’m in one of those shifty moods, my work partners notice straight away, no smiling shows an anticipation in my mood…and if that wasn’t bad I was heading for WW3 it seemed…that was just in my mind. Someone’s just shouted at my friend, should I be upset? Was it my fault? I don’t even know…but the best thing I could do was support my friend. I mean when your wearing a company hoodie, you’ve got to maintain the highest respect for any given customer, damn if I wasn’t even wearing the hoodie, I’d of rather sat down and spoke to the person If I thought they wouldn’t just want to wring their hands across my neck, but hey we all have our fair share of haters. I suppose I have one or three now.

Just get work over and done with I think to myself…french exchange students are not the one when I’m in this mood I can now admit, but their in the club and I saw them there till 3AM. Magic must of worked I suppose…It rolls onto half 1, I hit the club, Stella, Richmond and a Snap back. I’ve decided just to chill, listen to some Dance Classics then get myself the hell outta there and into bed. I really am feeling out of the world, the short conversation with my Sister In Law resulted in me feeling good for what I said, but confused by my own actions I’d done and what is to come….the best I could do was a Caspians, Taxi and another Stella when I got home. Another day of 3AM in the City.

3AM in the City. I

The city has changed from what it was a year ago. I mean I’m only near the age of 20, but all I’m seeing is 18 year olds acting too big for their shoes. I look at 18 year olds today and think whether I just missed the new generation of clubbers. Whether all this has changed now that I work for a nightclub and see a lot more than others I don’t know, but what I do see is youngers causing trouble, the rowdiness on the club floor to the pointless fights on the kebab stretch afterwards. This blog no longer focuses on music but the night life I experience as well.

Saturday 18th June 2011

I’m ill…work seems like something to just get over with tonight…that time of the week where the clubs at it’s busiest…the streets are cold, people are unsure of the night after a bleak Friday night due to the weather. Wristbands aren’t back in yet, looks like it’s another night of flyers…another night of explaining who the fuck Lauren Pope actually is and explaining it’s in July…Not tonight. Short staffed, gotta work hard, and to be honest everyone seems to be coming to me tonight, I suppose it’s just as well after that pint of Carlsberg I had earlier…Tired, Ill and Cold, it’s wishful thinking for a laid back night.

Before you know it, the boys have arrived in town…Ahh time for some laughs then, the usual in Queens Square. That’s until Paul lobs a flyer at me, triggering me to break into a run after the fucker…then he darts away leaving me to smash me leg into a barrier, I wasn’t gonna be able to dodge this one…straight over, cue eruption of laughter? No? Somehow I’ve managed to do a proper headstand in the middle of the road in front of about 50 people and do a backwards roll straight back onto my feet…with my fag still in my mouth. God knows how I did that, but it impressed, major fail turned into major fall styled out. Saved myself there.

Moved on to sort the business at the top of our Club Street and get more people into the club…something kept me on edge that night (a situation not to be told over the mediums of the www.) but I honestly think something’s gonna happen that night…I mean you cannot put them two in the same club, shit’s gonna go down otherwise. Shift over…get in the club, do the usual…bottle of lager, pay your respects to your clubbing family, cigerette and talk whatever business you gotta talk. One of the boys has got a girl on him like a leech, funny stuff, easy to par as well. But the night draws to a close and I’m hungry. Dixy it is…as usual V.I.P in that place I swear.

So the kebab stretch rolls round, we get our orders and I’m waiting around on a girl to come take me and the boy home, one long wait for a personal taxi I tell you…all of a sudden something kicks off on the street…typical Saturday…a Pitney and some Geeza’s from Planet, was it gonna get ugly? Before you know it, the one boys outnumbered and moves away but remains around shouting his mouth off at the boys, the situation I find laughable because apparently the guy was been racist about some Chicken flavour, jheeze last time I checked Chicken’s Chicken yeah?! Then the usual proceedings, the Police come down the road the guy darts off in his mates car…Done. One silly fight. Is this the usual norm for 3AM in the City? Fight’s, food and Taxi’s? This generation is confusing me.

Why isn’t there anything remotely like this in the UK?

This is a blog…

Ok this is a blog, so yeah let’s put an update on all of this…

Remember this is mainly my music blog where I tell people about all the new tunes I’m finding, this time last year I had stumbled across Swedish House Mafia’s “One”, a tune that didn’t even drop in the clubs till September…

It seems to me that Skrillex is finally getting the attention he deserves, moulding dubstep to his own unique sound, on my page you’ll find his remix of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way”, an unfinished remix due to his laptop been stolen, this may be the only version to surface online but the drop is immense, finally a dubstep song that get’s stupidly heavy. It’s amazing to think he was just Sonny Moore from From First To Last, Jheeze.

Dirty Dutch is getting big at the moment…Chuckie, Afrojack and Sidney Samson all just releasing some dirty remixes, seriously, if your a dance/electro/house lover…check these artists out, I am so excited to see Chuckie next month at Birmigham’s Electric Carnival.

An update on the Local Scene, Hardcore band Fallacies have just released new merchandise which I urge you to buy and represent as they look banging, the band are due to record at the end of the month, cannot wait to hear some new stuff, Save Your Grace and the Fallacies boys are due to tour the UK in July/August time, make sure you check their facebook pages out to find out the dates.

If you ever need to ask around an artit or keep up to date with some remixes, just find me on facebook under Matthew Bruce and I’ll be sure to help out…

Until then, make sure you go hard! No matter what Genre!! Shout ut to 1.0/STFU.

!! B !!

David Guetta priming it as always with that electro hook to his timeless tunes, again hooking up with Flo Rida after the hit “Club Can’t Handle Me” and Nicki Minaj who is just tearing up the music scene right now…

This is the kinda Hip-Hop music that catches my ears, this has some true Soul Cal feel to it with the keys and that “Grandmaster Flash” DJ hook to it, gotta hear more from Mann to make my opinion on him, but this is a true hit for a first single…good to see Fiddy back to his Prime.

Dirty Dutch Music has been making it’s rounds lately, and here’s a true banger from Sidney Samson, everyone thinks this guy was a one hit wonder after “Riverside” but you know nothing, this guy is big across the shores in Netherlands, check out Dirty Dutch…you may be surprised.

Skrillex has been killin’ it lately in the Dubstep scene, and this mix of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” is a sure banger, that was sadly never finished and is instead looped by someone else, due to Sonny Moore’s laptop being stolen by someone. Pricks.