WTF is with calling the RnB room at hq VIBE?

Just a little rant...

I was rather annoyed to look at this weeks Onion and see a new HQ night advertised... An RnB area in SOHO bar at HQ on Wednesday nights called VIBE.

I would think that with one of dnb's own, MPK, working in HQ alongside Pratty who has hosted a VIBE night at Mojo West in the past that the people at HQ would take enough care or notice as to not call an RnB night VIBE when VIBE Drum & Bass nights have been running in Adelaide since 2004. One just went down a few weeks ago at The Sceptre for Christs sake and it was advertised in the previous issue of Onion!

I mean RnB... there is nothing I hate more in a nightclub genre. VIBE's not even appropriate. Give it a name like Sleeze or Grope or Grind or The Market. Is there nothing you can do about this Daniel? What's next, RnB Inbound or RnB Playtime?

Rant over. Geez, got even more annoyed than I'd planned to.  I'm sure Chris, Piers and Andy will feel the same way though.

Dale

Don't mess with the Vibe!! Isn't that right Robyn?

It's not too much to ask is it? To not crud up the name of one of Adelaide DnB's local nights.

I was thinking of attenting Enchanted RnB ... should be a good night.

calling an RnB night Vibe is blasphemy, RnB is for pussies, nigga wannabe tough guys that sing like girls

 

I R&B... not all R&B is the crap they play in clubs. Seriously.

You poor thing, they got you too. there is still hope for you Lexy

but we love sounds oops electro oops i mean rnb

i had no idea right up until now.

it is a bit unfortunate, but there's not too much that we can do about it really.... it's not like they are trying to appeal to our market at all. as long as our name stays in tact throughout the dnb community, i'm a happy man.

just like when you fall at any hurdle in life, all we can do is dust ourselves off and keep moving forward.

Not even. R&B isn't just about whatever bull they play at Jimmy Rowes... or wherever they play TOP 40 RnB POP it's about Erykah Badu, Ray Charles, Floetry, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Jill Scott, Mary J Blige, Res... and just out of those artists, four of them have been remixed into drum & bass tunes!! HELLO... MOTOWN???

Rhythm and Blues is fucking rad

I love Motown artists and The Blues Brothers is an alltime favourite... I don't think Soho Wednesdays are going to be pushing that kind if VIBE though Lexy, pun intended.

yeah!!!!!! what she said!!

oh such inspirational words!

Fair call... it just irks me when people pigeonhole shit  

There once was a R'n'B recovery at the Hilton called 'Bump 'n' Grind'.
How appropriate.
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I'm making the call that most club R'n'B (okay ALL club R'n'B) is utter top 40 crap and is enjoyed by a pack of poorly evolved plebians.

It could not be further removed from the legitimate long-established genre known as Rhythm & Blues.

spade = spade
let's not pretent that there is a link

I know, it's beautiful.

Besides we can do something... surely MPK & Pratty as venue promoters for HQ have some sway in influencing promotional policy. Daniel is a longtime Vibe resident and Pratty well aware of Vibe's history so hopefully they stick up for us.

If they don't, I'd be surprised and disappointed.

you had to have at least 5 "gang-rape lines" shaved into your eyebrows to get into that joint

 the R&B they play out these days isnt real rhythm and blues thou

arr montel jordan u can rock my boat anyday bahaha  purrrrr

why dont they rename it physics.

Like the biology night or something.

kinda reminded me of chemistry that did!!! 

hmmm

or they could call it Vibe' rator! 

check out the photo with him with both thumbs up!

arrrrhahahaha so funny

chicha chica wah wah bang bang! come to mama!

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/0518-gra/jordanmo.nte.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Jordan%2C%20Montell&seq=3

That shirt is terrible.

 

fair call.

so 90's hey. cracked me up

Im waiting for blossom to pop round from behind his shoulder any minute

nightclub r&b hasn't been real r&b in a long time, thats nothing new!

There's a rave called Ultraworld being held at Kryal Kastle which I thought was bad too... Then again, Ultraworld's not exactly original either

Dale, there's absolutely nothing you can do unless you trademarked the name.

I think if you trademarked it now, it'd be retro-active because you have proof you used it for that kind of business (assuming of course you have tax receipts, ABN, and so on...)

I would think respect would be enough of a reason... people that need contracts and trademarks to behave honourably are not individuals I choose to associate with anyway. If HQ choose to keep that name, I'll choose to feel a certain way about it and that is the end of it.

Regardless, VIBE DnB presents THE BIRD December 1 at the Sceptre

yeh i got burned at DJ's delight last weekend.. turned out to be a rundle mall bake sale. 

Love your avatar man.

Easy Tiger  Bit fired up there mate. I understand why but how did I get dragged into this hahaha! This is the first ive heard of it as I'm not the "venue promoter". HQ doesnt consult me on all of their shows, rooms and events mate. My role at this stage revolves purely around the top room and the DJ comp plus any extra's that Daniel tasks me to on Friday nights.

Further more seeing as youve thrown my name into it would have been smarter to perhaps also contact me as well as posted if you truly believed I had a position of power on the matter and raised your concerns and then post the out come. Or did you just wanna have a rant on here. Have you actually voiced your issues with anyone at HQ yet?

You should know me well enough to know where I stand on these types of issues and know that I would have looked into it.

At the end of the day I think youll find that its probably the "crew" who has no doubt been contracted to the room who calls themselves "vibe" but im not sure. and as others have said, if theres a name, business or product thats worth protecting then it should be registered one way or another. Its not a matter of not being an dishonorable person as you stated by doing this. Its good business sense. Im sure your name Eclipse Touring is registered at ASIC as a company or at the very least as a business name at the Australian business register?

and there you go.

cheers for the clarification glen.

The Vibe room at Flashdance is named after the Lisa D and Matt G's business, they have been doing these nights for years. Feel free to ring them and complain.

again, i don't see that it's going to take away from vibe dnb anyway.

very different audience to appeal too.

My god, I'm on the same side as Pratty and MPK...

I feel dirty now...

what's the shortcut for a shower these days? ctrl alt .......

i agree with them too.

To be honest before Pratty pointed it out I hadn't noticed. I did notice that Dale has used the name "Beach Party" however. For some reason it sounds very similar to the "Beach Party" that I did with Blake in Jan 2004 at Semaphore. Do you hear me complaining? 
Next week I'm doing a party called Summer Broke, brought to you by Total Eclipse featuring J-oscilate. 

will this be an RnB event? 

sorry, had to do it. You left it right out there daniel 

Thanks to MPK and Pratty for their comments, you've clarified things nicely. Only singled you out in my initial posts as you're the only guys that would really care about DnB at HQ. Been meaning to mention it next time I bumped into either of you. Guess there is no need to raise this anymore since its out of your respective areas. This thread grew a little beyond my general rant expectations anyway.

I stand by my initial reaction as being somewhat understandable none the less. To explain, it's kind of the second time with We Love Electro being announced weeks after my We Love Sounds Electro based event at HQ (by different individuals, granted, and that issue was adressed to the credit of HQ) so my initial reaction may have been a little exagerated and more emotional than anything based on that.

Fuck it. I think the impact will be minimal at the end of the day anyway so grind away everybody!!! Feel the RnB vibe.

P.S.... Summer Broke, brought to you by Total Eclipse featuring J-oscilate would be a pretty phat RnB night I reckon. That shit's funny. Touche'. Only way I can try to match that gig is the Enchanted RnB Playjam featuring Andy B. Luckily the name isn't registered yet so it's all systems go

its almost as bad as having a kiddie techno/hard dance event being called 'altitude' 

while we are at it...

there was a progressive house radio show on fresh called logical progressions

blasphemy!

Good call

 

i'm all about r'n'b especially shit like that tough no shirt wearing d'angelo
and quite frankly i reckon that particular vibe is paramount see ya's tonight

you worry me sometimes dave

 

 

well people for want of a better word whilst i was out on wednesday night catching the vibe and getting my 'usher' on. I failed to see any of you perhaps it is time to climb down from the trees and emerge fourth from the 'jungle'. Time to embrace the sounds and more importantly the vibe that channel v has so wisely named 'urban'

Ummm, NO.

that was mals show yeh?

Zip it!

no one dis the malster

mal is cool but it is still blasphemy