Site specific venues Dazz:
So this year (2013), its as follows:
- one event on the Sunday -3pm -5am @ Jabaz Clegg (we consider that the main day in a massive room ala any normal Nighter event)
- Then to freshen things up, we pick a city centre venue, modern, new, clean to mix it up a little - this year its at a venue called NoHo in the Northern quarter of Manchester.
It allows people to explore the space of the city and enjoy the culture, cafes, people etc rather than being in one place all weekend
in addition to that, they'll be a little event on the Sat as a little warm up to the weekender and a pre-cursor to Radcliffe which is happening down the road later in the evening - again, at another nice, cool venue located in Manchester. That'll just be a nice bar to meet up, play records and then make our way to Radcliffe for a bit of a dance.
Now for Popcorn....musically, there are a number of perspective, but the reason why Marc and I (mainly Marc) picked popcorn for the first event is because of its cultural affiliated with Belgium specifically, allowing for us to bring over two mega popcorn collectors and get them to mix it up Manchester's best northern/r'n'b spinners.
Sound wise, its mid-tempo soul and early r'n'b stuff - I consider this to be popcorn, but I may be wrong - I've picked this because I play it, so it comes to mind...
Cheers Dazz, atb,
Gary