Saturday, March 12, 2011

Lights out for Mr. Steve Lawler!


Yesterday was my second BIG party night in Sofia. And it was HUGE!

It all started as a joke, because I didn't know who was going to play in the two weeks that I'm here on vacation. But I knew that I definitely wanted to visit my favourite Bulgarian club Yalta. Before I moved to Germany, I used to go there every week. Yalta has style, insanely good music and the best party crowd in the whole world. I'm not saying this, just because I'm a Bulgarian, but because it's true. You should ask Mark Knight, Pete Tong or Fedde Le Grand, they know what I'm talking about :D

So, back on last night - I got very excited when I found out that Steve Lawler was going to have a gig. I went there with a good friend of mine, Hristo Peev - a young DJ from Bulgaria, who has his own radioshow on www.djvibes.org. And I was lucky enough to win myself a guestlist spot :) The party was hosted by Elevate Agency - THE event agency in Bulgaria for excellent house music parties. They had a nice contest and gave everyone a chance to be on the guestlist.



The evening began with an amazing set by Yalta's resident - the young and very talented Liubo Ursiny, who Hernan Cattaneo himself pronounced to be Bulgaria's breaktrough DJ 2010. There's no comment needed, I'm used to listen to great music from Liubo, he knows what he's doing and he's doing it insanely good:)



At about 2am Steve Lawler took over the booth. To be quite honest, I've known him for years as a huge name in the business, but I've never heard him play. So I went there with no expectations. 5 hours later I got home with a really BIG smile one my face, feeling extremly happy that I was at his gig! Steve's a great guy and a great producer. His style includes some deep tech house vibes and his set was exactly what the Bulgarian audience wanted.



The party went on 'till 5:30am, when Steve had to go in order to catch his flight to Italy. My sources told me though, that he was actually invited to play at the WMC in Miami at this very same evening, but he'd choosen to play in Bulgaria instead. So, it didn't really matter to me, if his set was 2, 3 or 5 hours, every single minute of his gig was worth it!



For those of you, who want to see him live, Steve's next shows are:

- 18/03 @ Air, Amsterdam
- 19/03 @ TBC, Budapest
- 19/03 @ Cinema Hall, Budapest
- 25/03 @ Arcadia, Miami
- 26/03 @ Karu & Y, Miami

1 comment:

  1. Great one as always Elly....Gotta love the intro of the set....

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