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IS THAT REALLY EMINEM ON STAGE? IS THAT REALLY SANDER KLIENENBERG ORGANISING A GAME OF MUSICAL CHAIRS? IS THAT REALLY DANNY TENAGLIA ORCHESTRATING A LIGHT SHOW? THE THIRD SUMMER SOUND SYSTEM HAD ARRIVED AND BROUGHT WITH IT THAT SPECIAL ATMOSPHERE THAT’S UNIQUE TO GATECRASHER. WE WERE THROUGH THE GATES AND READY FOR ANYTHING…
EARLY EVENING AND THE SUN MADE AN APPEARANCE, BURSTING THROUGH THE CLOUDS AND SPREADING SMILES ACROSS THE WHOLE OF TURWESTON. IN THE ARENAS, THINGS STARTED TO HOT UP TOO. THE DANCE RITUAL ARENA WAS GETTING GOING WITH A SUPERB SELECTION OF FUNKY HOUSE FROM THE HANDS OF THE SUPER SUAVE DIMITRI FROM PARIS, WHILE THE SHEFFIELD MASSIVE MAIN ARENA WERE BEING TREATED TO TOP NOTCH TRANCE TUNAGE COURTESY OF GERMANY’S TALLA 2XLC – A VERY COSMOPOLITAN START TO THE DAY.


WHEEE!!!	MAIN ARENA..	GOING RIGHT OFF	SHHHTTT...*

IN THE TWICE AS NICE ARENA, THE BOOTY-SHAKING COMPETITION FOR THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE OF THE GARAGE AND R ‘N’ B WORLD WAS TAKING PLACE AND THE BUD BUS WAS BOOMING OUT AN ECLECTIC SELECTION – WHO’D HAVE THOUGHT WE’D BE DANCING TO KIM WILDE’S ‘KIDS IN AMERICA’ IN THE SUNSHINE?
IN THE TIDY TRAX ARENA, FRIGHTENINGLY-HAIRED LAB 4 TOOK TO THE STAGE FOR AN ULTRA-HARD TECHNO SESSION, CULMINATING IN A SPECTACULAR DUET WITH A RAUCOUS SLIM SHADY. OR WAS IT? ”HE CERTAINLY GOT SOME FUNNY LOOKS ARRIVING AT LUTON AIRPORT,” COMMENTED TIDY TRAX’S RICHARD MYSTERIOUSLY.


THAT'LL BE A LASER THEN	THE MAN _ PVD	THE JOLLY ROGER	UM...BONGO?

ONE OF THE MOST TALKED ABOUT EVENTS OF THE DAY WAS SASHA AND JOHN DIGWEED’S AMAZING SIMULTANEOUS SETS. SASHA IN THE CHEMICAL GENERATION ARENA AND DIGWEED IN HIS BEDROCK ARENA – ATMOSPHERE BY THE BUCKETLOAD. AND WHEN THEY JOINED UP FOR THEIR THREE-HOUR BACK TO BACK SESSION IN BEDROCK? WELL, THE SITE MANAGERS HAD TROUBLE KEEPING THE ARENA ON THE GROUND. AND AS THE NIGHT ROLLED IN OVER THE FIELDS, CLUBBERS BY THEIR THOUSANDS FLOCKED TO SEE THE ALMIGHTY CHEMICAL BROTHERS, A ROAR GOING UP IN THE CHEMICAL GENERATION ARENA AS TOM AND ED TOOK TO THE STAGE AND DEFTLY RAN THROUGH AN AWESOME SET CONTAINING MOST OF THEIR SINGLES AND THE BEST ALBUM TRACKS IN A RIP ROARING HOUR AND A HALF RIDE.


THE FLAG FLYING DUTCHMAN	PEOPLE AS FAR AS THE EYE COULD SEE	AWESOME LIGHT SHOW...	YET AGAIN DID THE MAIN ARENA PROUD

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NIGHT OF COURSE INCLUDED DANNY TENAGLIA’S MEGA SEVEN HOUR SET, WHICH HE LAUNCHED WITH HIS OWN LIGHT SHOW, USING TORCHES. EVER THE ENTERTAINER, DANNY INTERSPERSED THE GROWLING DIRTY HOUSE MUSIC WITH A COUPLE OF BIG UPS TO THE GATECRASHER CROWD. A MAN ON A MISSION, HE KEPT THE PACKED BE YOURSELF ARENA ON FULL THROTTLE UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE. MANY WHO SPENT ALL NIGHT IN THE ARENA SAID HIS SET WAS “LEGENDARY”.


SEXY AND STYLISH EH?	THE INFAMOUS TEEPEES	WHO WANTS AN ICE CREAM?	ABRA-ABRA CADABRA, I WANNA REACH OUT AND GRAB YA...

IN THE DRUMANDBASSARENA, SHY FX SENT GOOSEBUMPS CRAWLING UP THE ARMS OF THE DANCERS WHEN HE LAUNCHED HIS SET WITH A DUBPLATE THAT PROCLAIMED, “WE INTERRUPT THIS BROADCAST TO BRING YOU A LIVE TRANSMISSION FROM GATECRASHER”. MEANWHILE, IN THE TIDY TRAX ARENA, THOSE TIDY BOYS CHOSE A DIFFERENT TACK TO LAUNCH THEIR SET. THE THEME TUNE TO ‘JIM’LL FIX IT’. A JUBILANT HALF OF THE BOYS, ANDY PICKLES COMMENTED AFTERWARDS, “IT WAS A BRILLIANT DAY, 14 AWESOME DJS, A KILLER LIVE ACT AND THOUSANDS OF SMILING FACES… YOU REALLY HAD TO BE THERE!”
PAUL OAKENFOLD WAS SPOTTED IN THE VIP AFTER HIS SET, ENJOYING HIMSELF. “GATECRASHER’S ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FESTIVALS IN THE WORLD,” HE COMMENTED AFTER HIS SET. “THE BEST THING ABOUT PLAYING HERE IS THE AMAZING CROWD.”


DESPITE BEING ALL HIS IDEA, PROMOTER BEN THOMPSON SKIRTS HURRIEDLY ROUND THE OUTSIDE OF THE WHITE PARTY PEOPLE...	HAVE THAT...	HANGING ON TO THE LAST	COULDN'T YOU HAVE GONE BEFORE YOU GOT ON STAGE...

INTO THE EARLY HOURS THE MUSIC AND SILLINESS CONTINUED. GREEN VELVET SCARED EVERYONE, DAVE CLARKE MADE EVERYONE STOMP, JUDGE JULES BROUGHT EVERYONE UP AGAIN AND LUCIEN FOORT FUNKED IT UP IN THE BEDROCK ARENA. PUT QUITE SIMPLY, YOU COULDN’T HAVE ASKED FOR 15 HOURS OF BETTER MUSIC, AND BETTER COMPANY TO ENJOY IT IN.

AT THE END OF THE NIGHT, EVERYONE STARTED GOING A BIT HATSTAND. ANYONE IN THE VIP AREA AROUND 5AM WOULD HAVE WITNESSED THE BIZARRE SIGHT OF PROGRESSIVE GOD SANDER KLIENENBERG GETTING EVERYONE TOGETHER FOR A GAME OF MUSICAL CHAIRS TO AN R N’ B SOUNDTRACK. IT’S ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT COULD ONLY HAPPEN AT GATECRASHER. ROLL ON NEXT YEAR!

JIM 'ILL FIX IT', EMINEM, 14 AWESOME DJ'S, A KILLER LIVE ACT AND THOUSANDS OF SMILING FACES...

THE TIDY ARENA... YOU HAD TO BE THERE!