Party Review for Quartz Summer Conference 92
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QUARTZ SUMMER CONFERENCE REPORT ¹ The party was held on 8th and 9th of August in Bridgwater, Somerset, UK. It took place in a hall of a sports cen- tre, which wasn't very big. But it was big enough, because just 150 people showed up. The only thing missing in the hall was a huge video screen. The organizers put 4 TVs in front of the hall. On each of them the current demo, GFX etc could be seen. In the same building there was a bar, a couple of pool and snooker tables and some other things to entertain the bo- red party visitors. Unfortunately some of the promises weren't held. Hey Jaz! Where was the aqua park? Or did you mean the puddles on the car park? Haha! Sleeping was nearly impossible. The guys who wanted to sleep, had to use the floor of the party hall, which was of course rather noisy. And if someone finally fell asleep, some funmakers tied him up or put adhesive tape on his mouth. I didn't want to be a victim of that so I stayed awake. Who was there? Well, unfortunately nearly no one of the famous british guys were present. There was just 1 member from Anarchy, 1 from Dual Crew and just nobody from Digital. That was disappointing. Here are some other groups I can remember being present: Quartz, Delicious Designs, The Silents, Destiny, LSD, Anthrox, Cybernetix, Doom, Futura, Phobia, EOC 1999, Dimen sion X... Lots of people left after the first day and in the evening of the 2nd day, about 20 freaks were left. There was also lack of releases at the party. I can just remember Grapevine Issue 11, Dual Crew Messagebox Issue 4 and some other crap... About the competitions: There were of course the usual compos like Demo, GFX and Music. The voting was done via vo- ting sheet, as it should always be. Here are the results: Demo: ³1. Paradroid/Anarchy (150 Pounds)¹ 2. Ranx/Quartz (70 Pounds) 3. Majic Mushroom/Quartz (30 Pounds) Graphics: ³1. Elwood/Delicious Designs (50 Pounds)¹ 2. Fish/LSD (25 Pounds) 3. Scorch/Independent (10 Pounds) Music: ³1. Snare/Quartz (50 Pounds)¹ 2. Bernard Sumner/LSD (25 Pounds) 3. Fobia/Silents (10 Pounds) There were also a couple of other com- petitions like disk throwing and real- time demo, but I don't have the results of them, sorry... Well, all in all it was a funny and well organized party, even if the ex- pected people were missing. ³Groo & Rufferto of Delicious Designs.