Party Review for Destiny Communion 93
found in | Type | Author | Year |
Diskmagazine | LSD Abh - Al Capone - Alpha - ... | a5/93 |
D E S T I N Y P A R T Y R E P O R T By Telemach of Nerve Axis Time for another of those cool party reports, suppose i`d better do this one as it happens `cos i'll be able to remember fuck all by the end of this weekend! Its 1:20 pm, this party has been going now since 10am (though some of us have been here much earlier than that (Tango of DESTINY, Steinar of REVENGE. RAIZOR of COSINE, and me). I think right now we have about 50 people SUPPOSED to be here, but most of them either haven't turned up or have buggered off down the off-license. And so far not a lot has happened, i`m still not any where on the road to getting pissed, because fuck all has happened yet, BRUM of SLIPSTREAM has sold me a cold pasty for 45p, about 35p overpriced if you ask me, i've scrounged a can from EVIL C and I STILL haven't got a fucking Monitor for my miggy, so I suppose I`d better thank ELRIC of Nerve Axis for use of his A1200 (seeing as he`s a moaning cunt and keeps complaining to me about almost everything) [naaah, Its OK Phil!]. Right, let's see who is here so far... hmm, a few, most are at the off-license purchasing large amounts of alcoholic substances. Fuck this i'm getting no fucking joy from anyone round here, everybody's fucked off down the off license and STILL haven't returned yet and its been ages since I started this report, hmm, well SHADOWMAN of NERVE AXIS is coming down here by 6pm with his A4000 tower system so some nice fucking-up of expensive equipment to be had there, why does ELRIC of NERVE AXIS have such a shit external drive? Hmm, time to leave this report for a bit. Its now 1:50pm and NOTHING has happened yet, apart from ACE testing the sound sytem and lots of people playing DESERT STRIKE and SUPERFROG. So far all I have seen scene wise here is a rave demo by DIMENSION-X and the intro by KHUL of NERVE AXIS that won 3rd place at the SUBMISSION party. We are still trying to decide which of the 3 pieces of chip music by THE ZONE to enter, but seeing as TWILIGHT of DESIRE is entering, I think I know he`ll win! I still haven't seen our A1200 intro, its supposed to be cool, so I am waiting patiently. YAZOO of TOXIC still hasn't turned up, even though he was supposed to be at DAVID LYNCH of NERVE AXIS' house yesterday! Right, i'm off to phone SHADOWMAN of NERVE AXIS. Its now 5:45, I have collected all the Nerve Axis entries for the competitions, shame that our cartoontro and Munchkin's intro weren't finished, hmm, oh well, we've entered the A1200 compo, chip music, and put 2 entries into the music competition, plus DR KAYA (our Italian GFX artist) has got a nice picture finished that we are entering into the GFX compo. Quick summary of the party so far, not so cool i`m afraid! Sorry Tango, youv'e done a fucking good job getting this party running on your own, but so far all i've done is talk to CATH and 2-COOL of LSD and watch DIMENSION-X's new rave dentro (RETINA BURN ONE, nice!) and watch EVERYBODY play fucking desert strike! Well, the competitions start soon and SHADOWMAN better turn up soon. Our AGA intro was pretty cool, but of course CATH ran through it in two seconds yelling out all the places he could have optimized it. I've finally got a look at KHUL's intro (the one from the SUBMISSION party). KENTOM of NVX is now getting his camera out to take some more photos. Also YAZOO of TOXIC has turned up. KENTOM has just run up to me to tell me that CATH of LSD has just single-filed the SUPERFROG crack intro in 2 minutes without an action replay. Hmm, what happened to the disk-throwing competition Tango? Everybody is just about finished filling in their VOODOO DESIGN UK CHARTS voting forms. EVIL C has just decided to tell me that the disk-throwing is at 2am tomorrow morning! The competitions start soon, time for the moment of truth! HMM, there seems to be some strange practises going on with these voting forms, joining other groups for 10 minutes just to fill in an extra voting form! Dunno how many people are here now, maybe close to about 50ish, not a big party by any standards, but its nice when you know all the people here. TDK of MELON DESIGN couldn't get down though, Typical. Judging by what's been flashing up on monitors though there is some nice stuff being released here. 6:05, no sign of the competitions. This is turning out to be as boring as the DIGITAL party if Tango doesn't do something quick. The competitions are about to start. 8:35 now, MAD OTTO and SHADOWMAN have both turned up, wow, OTTO is BIG! The competitions have been run now, we entered the music competition, the chip music competition, the GFX competition and the AGA only competition. DIMENSION X have already won the megademo competition with their rave dentro RETINA BURN ONE, by CYLON of DIMENSION X, Its a pretty damn cool rave demo, nice music and interesting pics. They have won by default because no other group entered! We have already won the AGA competition with our intro IMPOSSIBLE CUBE by ROMBUST of Nerve Axis. Its really all a matter of the music, chip music and GFX competitions now, the 40K intro competition has been cancelled due to no entries (wish ours had been finished or we'd have won that too!). We chose a picture by DR.KAYA (our Italian GFX artist) and its pretty sexy! My personal vote for number one is a picture by ORCSLAYER of REVENGE, a well cool Chaos skull, check out this guys work, he is one of the UK's best GFX artists! Suppose I should mention that the voting system is a nice open one, everybody votes! I've met a good few people so far, some guys I trade with and a few members of my group i've never seen before. Everbody is going crazy with the cameras now, looks like there is going to be a good few party slideshows of this one, FUCK! People will know what a slapper I look like! The voting results should be coming through soon. I've just had another "discussion" about Amiga scene vs PC scene. Here's my piece to you all, the scene is all about people, its not the hardware, its the people, when all the cool guys like RED DEVIl, SKIN + AMBLIN, SPLATT! and all the rest, the guys who brought this scene through the last few years, when they go to PC, then I will too, the scene is all about people, if we all had Spectrums it would make no difference, its the people that matter, not the machine. Shadowmman has given me a free printer cable, pity it not a bloody centronics adapter! Futura have got an intro finished for the compo, hmm, looks like they win that one! Hmm, i've just realized, I haven't drunk anything alcoholic in hours, in fact i've just drunk some lemonade (uurgh!) but it was free from BRUM of SLIPSTREAM, so I cant complain! Its 4:25 am. Some serious shit has been happening now, i've been talking to 8-BALL of ECLIPSE (this man is fucking stoned, like totally nuked!). He still has enough shit in him to O.D. an elephant! He Finally crashed out in the side room about an hour ago and hasn't been seen since. ST.M of Eclipse has already hurled all over the hall doorstep, so 8-BALL has threatened to kick him out of ECLIPSE for being a tit! SCREWLOOSE, MEGAWOG and Q of NVX (and me) have all just returned from a trip to a 24-hour petrol station to get some film to take a photo of EVIL C of NERVE AXIS, who is asleep right now and looks a total tit! Most people are now asleep, but i've had so much fucking caffeine I couldn't sleep for a month! CLANSMAN and ELRIC are playing SUPERFROG next to me with ALL the cheat modes on! sad people! The results of the competitions are going to be announced tomorrow says TANGO, should be good, But everyone knows that TWILIGHT of DESIRE will win all the music competitions! Hmm, this party doesn't want to end until Monday morning it seems by popular consensus, HMM, don't know whether anyone will last that long though! 8-BALL of ECLIPSE has promised me an interview for AMNESIA magazine, fame at last! Party rating so far: At the start it was a little bit shite, everyone keeping to themselves and sorting out their compo entries, not much fun. After the competitions though everyone started talking and the dope/booze/ pasties started flowing freely (mainly due to RAIZOR throwing the fuckers at me!). Had a fun walk out with the ECLIPSE guys, talked to THE WELDER of FUTURA a bit (yes, I KNOW I am a crap coder and intuition is cool! I just love utils, there's no way I could be a demo coder!). Overall its better than the DIGITAL party, we all know each other roughly, so its not like the DTL party where you knew almost no-one! 6:05am. Almost EVERYONE is asleep now, most of the people who were here yesterday have already pissed off and If I can be arsed I might even be bothered to find out who is still here (not that many now, about 20 peeps). You want to see the amount of fucking cans lying around here, the floor is littered with lager cans and pastie crust! There, finally cleaned up my mouse after some fucker wrote SLAP UK on it in permanent marker! THE WELDER of FUTURA and TWILIGHT of DESIRE are rooting through TANGO's Hard drive listening to all his module collection. Hmm, to be quite honest, this hasn't really been a "proper" scene party, it was invite only, so we knew exactly who was coming today and only about 50 people turned up, not a "real" scene party, it has been more a gathering of friends, basically everyone in here swaps with someone else here, who swaps with someone else here, who swap, you get my point, but its been nice to meet some of our people and i've made a few new friends here as well today and yesterday, so its been OK, but i've spent 20 quid so far and payed for fuck all of the food/drink i've had (which, to be quite honest, wasn't a lot, tomorrow I use this tenner to good effect in getting very nuked). Ieah, it hasn't been a "scene" party really, it has just been a computer party of friends really, but Tango has done a fucking good job organizing this party, its a shame the first 8 hours were pretty boring and the competitions weren't wonderfully well- entered (only one entry to the demo and AGA competitions and none at all to the 40K intro competition! If you don't try to compare this party to something like Quartz summer conference or Digital Symposium, then it rates fairly highly, i've had more fun here than I did at DTL anyway! Last entry: Its 3:10 pm on Sunday, i'm back home, we left early as almost everyone else had gone, except the ECLIPSE guys and TANGO, TWILIGHT and GIZ. The final results for all the competitions are these: D E M O C O M P E T I T I O N 1st prize - RETINA BURN ONE by DIMENSION-X it won by default as there were no other entries 4 0 K I N T R O C O M P E T I T I O N 1st prize - BLITTERCHIPS INTRO by FUTURA it won by default (no other entries) M U S I C C O M P E T I T I O N 1st prize - MOD.JETSET by TWILIGHT/DESIRE 2nd prize - MOD.MAKING OF KTETH by THE ZONE of NERVE AXIS 3rd prize - Can't remember this one! There were eight entries in total (two of them were Nerve Axis guys) and had I thought about it earlier I would have got a list of everyone who entered C H I P M U S I C C O M P E T I T I O N 1st prize - TICTAC of VOODOO DESIGN 2nd prize - THE ZONE of NERVE AXIS 3rd prize - Forgot this one too! It all looked as though TWILIGHT had it easily until this really cute little mod by TICTAC of VOODOO DESIGN came on and stole the show! A G A - O N L Y I N T R O C O M P E T I T I O N 1st Prize - IMPOSSIBLE CUBE by ROMBUST of NERVE AXIS We won by default because we were the only ones to enter! D I S K - T H R O W I N G C O M P E T I T I O N 1st Prize - RAIZOR of COSINE (I think!) God knows who really won this one, it was held at 2am and everyone was either pissed, stoned or tripping and generally no-one had a fucking clue what was happening GROUP WITH MOST MEMBERS AT PARTY Not really a competition, but Nerve Axis won by having a record 12 people there. PERSON WHO LOOKS LEAST LIKE HE SOUNDS LIKE ON THE PHONE CATH/LSD, who I argued with for 10 minutes that he wasn't CATH before I finally believed him! PERSON WEARING THE WORST DUNGAREES Again CATH wins hands down here. PASTIE-THROWING COMPETITION I think RAIZOR of COSINE wins this one for lobbing a cold pastie at my face. PERSON WHO HAD MOST CRUEL THINGS DONE TO HIM WHILE ASLEEP Definitely EVIL C of Nerve Axis, sellotaping his nose shut was pretty cruel! See the party photos for further details (The mini iced gems are a classic!) PERSON LEAST ABLE TO CONTAIN LARGE MOUNTS OF ALCOHOL Definitely St.M of ECLIPSE, who threw up all over the steps at 2:30am [Surley thats an INABILITY then, Paz!] PERSON WHO IMBIBED MOST AMOUNT OF INTOXICATING SUBSTANCES This one must go to 8-BALL of ECLIPSE, because he was full of the most unpronounceable shit you can imagine, and was still more coherent than DETINATOR of DESTINY or ST.M of ECLIPSE L I S T O F G U Y S T H E R E LSD CATH of LSD 2-COOL of LSD FUTURA MR GUMBY of FUTURA THE WELDER of FUTURA DESIRE TWILIGHT of DESIRE DESTINY CASIO of DESTINY VENOM of DESTINY TANGO of DESTINY GIZ of DESTINY DETINATOR of DESTINY DIMENSION-X DELTEX of DIMENSION-X SLIPSTREAM BRUM of SLIPSTREAM ECLIPSE 8-BALL of ECLIPSE UK FIREBALL of ECLIPSE UK AQUAFRESH of ECLIPSE UK ST.M of ECLIPSE UK COSINE RAIZOR of COSINE TOXIC YAZOO of TOXIC+SKILLION REVENGE DR STRANGE of REVENGE KILLERBYTE of REVENGE ORCSLAYER of REVENGE STEINAR of REVENGE HAVOC of REVENGE NERVE AXIS TELETEXT of NERVE AXIS SCREWLOOSE of NERVE AXIS KENTOM of NERVE AXIS MEGAWOG of NERVE AXIS CLANSMAN of NERVE AXIS PRIDE of NERVE AXIS EVIL C of NERVE AXIS ELRIC of NERVE AXIS DAVID LYNCH of NERVE AXIS Q of NERVE AXIS SHADOWMAN of NERVE AXIS MAD OTTO of NERVE AXIS I think that's it for this one. I suppose I could have written it now after the party, but it was much more fun doing it as it happened, even if it is slightly less intelligible because of it! As a final word, we got totally lost on the way home in MEGAWOG's car and we nearly visited SAREK of NERVE AXIS, but couldn't find our way, so we, erm, didn't! Okeydoke, that's all for this party "report", crap wasn't it! But it was fun while it lasted! Overall party rating: 75% COMMENT: Good piss-up, shame everyone had to leave on the first day! end.