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Event Name: Paul Oakenfold - Greatest Hits and Remixes
Event Date: 06/14/2008
Venue: The Queen Mary
Event Type: Concerts, DJ, Rave, Special
Description: PRE SALE Tickets - $30 (SOLD OUT)
$40 tickets (SOLD OUT)
$50 tickets now available.
Perfecto Main Stage:
Paul Oakenfold
Paul Oakenfold is one of the biggest DJs in the world. His rise from South London soul boy to world-conquering DJ is fascinating, inspiring and revealing.
also performing:
Mark Lewis
Dj Reza
Luv & Lodi
Paul Ahi
Interstate (Live performance)
Advance Tickets
available at www.clubZone.com
PRE SALE Tickets - $30 (SOLD OUT)
$40 tickets (SOLD OUT)
$50 tickets now available.
VIP Admission - $100
*VIP Tickets exclusive to 21+ ONLY
VIP Ticket includes:
- 2 Free drink tickets
- Access to the Perfecto Stage
* VIP Tickets are reserved for individuals 21 years of age & over (ONLY)
Bottle Service Package - $1,500 (Per table), includes:
- 6 VIP tickets
- 2 bottles of vodka with all the mixers; Figi water and Monster energy drinks
NOTE:
*NO REFUNDS will be provided for those that purchase "VIP TICKETS" and are under the age of 21. General Admission tickets are available for 18+
For room reservations on the Queen Mary, log on to www.queenmary.com. Make sure you use the code: Mixology1 to receive our discount. Complimentary HAN vodka, SINGHA beer, FIGI water and MONSTER energy drinks in the rooms.
For more information on this event, click here.
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ZIGGY
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What a HYPE event!!
Secure your advance tickets early on clubZone.
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Posted: 5/2/2008 7:34:39 PM
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sirlicksalot
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Greatest hits of a DJ?
Kidding right?
last I saw Oakenfold, his sorry azz was opening for Underworld and he sucked big time. Sounded like he wished he was on the john dropping his load.
Thankfully, he made Underworld sound that much better--which they are of course.
sorry but Oakenfold is digging deep and if you buy into this, you are a big azz sucker.
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Posted: 5/2/2008 10:00:06 PM
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sirlicksalot
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Yay 12th in the dj world.
that is so exciting.
Kinda like being 12th in the special olympics.
bad comparison...sorry, thanks for playing though...please try again.
Besides, this is all mute since he sucked when I saw him last...you disagreeing with my opinion of him being terrible is ridiculous since you weren't here in Denver to see it, were you?
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Posted: 5/2/2008 10:14:50 PM
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allwood
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On 5/2/2008 10:14:50 PM, sirlicksalot wrote:
Yay 12th in the dj world.
that is so exciting.
Kinda like being 12th in the special olympics.
bad comparison...sorry, thanks for playing though...please try again.
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if you say so, i take it your not a House music fan then?
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Posted: 5/2/2008 10:16:19 PM
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sirlicksalot
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On 5/2/2008 10:16:19 PM, allwood wrote:
if you say so, i take it your not a House music fan then?
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Besides, this is all mute since he sucked when I saw him last...you disagreeing with my opinion of him being terrible is ridiculous since you weren't here in Denver to see it, were you?
I like house...love it...but P.O. is done..resting on his laurels when he sells his hits ****z.
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Posted: 5/2/2008 10:18:39 PM
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stack
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That would be a sick show.. oakenfold is good..
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Posted: 5/3/2008 1:22:28 AM
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phoe be
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Oakenfold
as far as I know
is one of the best representatives/DJ of house music
here is a bio
Paul Oakenfold's musical career started from admirably humble beginnings, playing soul and rare groove cuts in a Covent Garden wine bar in the late 'seventies with mate Trevor Fung. By the early 'eighties, having decided that NYC was the place, Paul decamped there armed only with the chutzpah to blag his way into a courier's job in West Harlem. At that time, more than any other, New York was bursting with musical invention: hip-hop was the freshest street sound around, and Larry Levan - arguably the first ever superstar DJ, inspiring a frenzy in the crowd that some guy playing records had never inspired before - was packing out the Paradise Garage every week with the revolutionary, hypnotic mixing style that would become the acid house DJ's stock in trade.
Returning to London, Paul became one of the UK's leading authorities on hip-hop. During his stint as an A&R man for Champion he signed the as-then unknowns Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, and Salt N'Pepa. Oh yeah, and he appeared on Blue Peter with a breakdancing crew who he was looking after at the time.
In 1985 young Paul spent the summer on a beautiful Balearic island called Ibiza. Ever heard of it? Oakey is as much responsible as anyone for making it the clubber's paradise it is today, as two years after that first trip he, alongside mates Trevor Fung, Nicky Holloway, Ian St Paul, Danny Rampling and Johnny Walker, went there for a week to celebrate his birthday. If the first visit had been good, this one changed their lives forever. Dancing in the warm night air beneath stars at the then open-air Amnesia to the oddest mix of music any of them had ever heard, courtesy of island legend Alfredo, Paul's urge to import this incredible experience - and the Balearic sound - back to England became too great to resist.
Prior to his Ibiza trip, Paul had been running a successful soul/jazz night at The Project in Streatham. On his return from the white island he persuaded the owner to let him run an after-hours 'Ibiza reunion' party. An attempt at a Balearic music policy had failed Paul one year earlier: the crowd just hadn't been ready to hear so many musical styles mixed together in one night, let alone in one DJ's set, but by 1987, and coupled with Paul's sheer enthusiasm and showman's talent for setting a musical mood, attitudes were changing. The night was a complete success, and led to what was to be - alongside Danny Rampling's Shoom - one of London's, and England's, first major acid house nights: Spectrum at Heaven in Charing Cross.
Spectrum grew out of Future, a night held in The Sanctuary, which annexed the much bigger Heaven club. Many never thought Spectrum (suitably subtitled 'Theatre Of Madness') would succeed: a 1500+ capacity club on a Monday night? Forget about it. And at first they looked to be right. For the first few weeks, attendance was low, leaving Paul and co-promoter Ian St Paul in dire financial straits. Then, suddenly, the vibe was out and the queues were literally going around the block. And a new phase in club culture had begun.
Spectrum continued for a couple of years, changing its name along the way to Land Of Oz. New initiates to the scene (as almost everybody was) marvelled at the full-on atmosphere of the place: hands reaching up into the sweat hazed air, laser lights pulsing and washing over the smiling crowd. Alex Paterson (later of The Orb) DJed in the VIP chillout area (the White Room), while Paul created his now trademark fervour in the cavernous main room.
Alongside running a seminal club night, Paul's production career had also begun by 1988 under the name Electra, working with long-time collaborator Steve Osborne. By 1990, with his work on The Happy Mondays' frugadelic Wrote For Luck and then Hallelujah (on the Madchester Rave On EP), Paul had created two of the cornerstone records of the indie-dance scene, a hybrid that demystified acid house for kids who'd been raised on a musical diet of guitar, bass, and drums. Paul was one of the guest DJs at The Stone Roses' legendary Spike Island gig, and his work with Osborne on The Happy Mondays' classic Pills, Thrills And Bellyaches LP (NME's 1990 Album Of The Year) won the pair the 1991 Brit Award for Best Producer.
Remix galore followed, for Mondays labelmates New Order; Massive Attack; The Shamen, and Arrested Development among others, as Paul and Steve began trading under the name Perfecto. If the name was little known at first that soon changed with the 1992 Perfecto mix of U2's Even Better Than The Real Thing. The track, with delicious irony, attained a higher chart position on release than the original song, thus signalling a watershed in the history and growth of dance music.
1993 saw Paul hired to provide the warm-up sonics on U2's Zoo TV world tour, and as a result the de facto arrival of the superstar DJ. The past decade has seen Paul rack up a dizzying blur of firsts and foremosts, including, not least, his being voted the number one DJ in the world by the readers of DJ magazine, and has heard the name "Oakey!" yelled hoarsely from clubs, fields (including an epoch-making set on the main stage at Glastonbury Festival, no less) and arenas in every corner of the globe.
On the production front Paul began to release his own tracks as well as continuing to turn in remixes, while Perfecto expanded into a fully-fledged label. Its offshoot, Perfecto Fluoro, became the label of choice in the mid-'nineties for the harder, trippier Goa trance sound. Today Perfecto boasts artists as diverse as Arthur Baker, Harry 'Choo Choo' Romero, and Timo Maas on its roster, and has gone from strength to strength by refusing to pander to only one style of dance music. Alongside the building of the Perfecto brand, Paul released a string of superlative mix CD's, amongst them his awesome New York set for Global Underground - still the series' biggest seller to date. And who else would have been commissioned to write the theme for what was certain to be the biggest TV show of all time? How did you guess? Paul wrote and produced the Big Brother theme, as Element 4, with Andy Gray.
On the club front, well, time for a deep breath...Ready? OK, here we go: Paul undertook a legendary two-year residence at Liverpool's Cream that took residencies in general to another level, from the personally designed DJ booth to die-hard fans (dubbed 'the Oakenfolk' in the press) who would travel the length and breadth of the country week in, week out to hear him whip up a magical musical storm, that would still be ringing in the ears and exciting the mind in the office or the lecture hall on Monday morning. Ever keen to push himself further and harder, Paul decamped in 1999 to become Director of Music at home, the multi-million pound superclub built defiantly - and, as it turned out, problematically - in Leicester Square, the heart of London's West End. That club's immediate downturn in popularity after Paul's departure goes to show the extent of his impact and following. There are but a handful of DJ's in the world who attract the fervour and create the excitement that he is capable of provoking in a crowd. You only have to be there when he plays to feel the electric charge in the atmosphere, more akin to the devotional than the merely appreciative.
Leaving home was a difficult decision for Paul, but he risked his UK and European profile, not to mention turning down the certainty of serious amounts of cash, to decamp to America, one of the few places in the world - ironically, given that it all started there - where dance music is yet to be championed and grasped in the way in which it is elsewhere around the globe. But this was a move typical of the man: where others would sit on their laurels and bathe in their hard-won glory, he has always taken the tougher option, sustained by his belief that greater effort means greater rewards. It's this attitude that saw him leave a huge fanbase in Britain to start all over again in the U.S.; that has seen him play to crowds in the low hundreds in isolated Alaska; and that led him to take a pair of Technics with him when he went on holiday to Cuba, and organise a free, unpromoted and not strictly legal party, purely to spread the word of great, life-affirming music and good, good times. This man lives, breathes and eats his art.
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Posted: 5/3/2008 2:34:30 AM
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phoe be
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he pioneered house
its so good to think back
listening on-line
anyways
Paul Oakenfold is a legend
see 4 urself
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Posted: 5/3/2008 2:50:05 AM
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ZIGGY
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clubZone.com has pre sale tickets available now at $30!!!
VERY limited in QTY - so secure these tickets FAST if you know you're going to attend. Price will move up to $50 very shortly.
VIP Admission - $100 (VIP Access)
(VIP Tickets exclusive to 21+ ONLY)
As for some of those comments above, everyone has their preferences, likes and dislikes, but however you slice it or dice it Oakenfold is a pinnacle in this industry, and deserves respect from any electronic music enthusiast.
Amazing show! Not one to miss.
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Posted: 5/3/2008 9:41:35 AM
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