Hooray, that’s Dj Switch winning the Birmingham heats for the DMC Technics World Championships. Hosted by Heducation at the lovely Medicine Bar. Switch’s dad was supporting him all night, taking video footage and stills, and after the prize giving, lugging around heavy bottles of CK One and uge record bags. Props to him, its really nice to see someone have that sort of backing. Big cheers for “Poppa Switch”.

It was more of a stand around and watch event, than a club night -although there was some serious dirty drum and bass going down in the kitchen, and Dj Rafik spun up a cool set after the competition in the Med Bar.

Had to make do with built in flash all night, due to my flashgun being a bit worse for wear – takes me back, and makes me realise just how fantastic the built in flash on my now ancient Nikon is. Remember kids, its not what you’ve got, its what you do with it.

Many a free DVD, T Shirts, Wallets and stickers were given away Shame there weren’t more people there.

more photos in the gallery section: DMC Championships

A few pics from the bank holiday weekend – theres a full write up over at BrumLive from Adam Moffatt with some of these pics.

Managed to drop and break my Nikon SB-600 Speedlight flashgun during the night, bit of a downer. It’s lasted up to nearly two years of heavy use though, so props to Nikon for getting me this far -any donations to a new flash are more than welcome.

It was pretty busy all night, which was great. The warehouse wasn’t opened up, which is probably just as well – could have been a bit sparse. You could only get pints of cider from the bar or bottles which was a bit disappointing, but the Bacardi cocktail bar made up for the lack of beer in pints with some great tasting (and rather strong) Mojitos.

You can find all the photos from the night in the gallery section of this website.

Like what it says on the tin really – another fantastic night put on by the guys at Ultra+. James Zambiela is a bit of a wizard on the decks, and Ultra+ had the bright idea of hooking up a camera and projecting it on a nice big screen so everyone could see what was going on. One of the most excited crowds I’ve seen at the Factory for a while. There seemed to be an unusually high number of complete nutters (good nutters, not punch your face in nutters), making up an awful lot of high energy in the main room. Something in the water perhaps? I think the photos speak for themselves really. Someone made off with Shiela the Ultra+ mascot, a life size blow up doll of dubious origin who looks down upon the party goes from the rafters. Anyone with knowledge of her whereabouts is urged to keep it to themselves.