Since my friend started to play at 7 in the morning
Are there people that stay there all night to party? That seems like the old school sort of "rave" sort of atmosphere, which would have been my only exposure to something like this. At one of them I left the club at what was now a Sunday morning and there were people going down the street carrying on with their day, some of them on their way to church and it kind of made me feel like a gooner being so wasted as the birds were chirping and what not.
The sound engineering is so important. I went to a show in Bangkok many years ago and I don't think they put any thought into the sound because everything was just super loud. This was the only time in my life that my face hurt and I could feel the pain running down from my ears down the side of my neck from the force of the sound that I had endured for something like 6 hours at that point. I bring ear protection to shows now to protect what hearing I have left.
You could call it a rave indeed. It was one of the Extended nights this club has license for, from 11PM till 12PM. And yes, some to more people enter the club to stick around till the end. Most of them with the help of some 'medicine', xtc, ketamine, coke and whatnot. Perhaps me being sober helped them asking me the question if I was working in the club 🥳
Yes indeed, sound engineering is soooo important. Ear protection is in my honest opinion not optional, not even in clubs with good a good sound setup. Wearing them already since the mid 90s. When one heard the top of what is possible with sound setup, almost any place has a bad setup. The older I am getting, the more I heard, the more specific and critical I get. Womb in Tokyo, has a fantastic setup, at least when I visited it back in 2005/2006 time frame. Fusion Festival in Germany has a great setup of sound on all their stages, but one stands out, year after year. The story goes that the inventor of the much used Function One system does the setup himself for that particular stage. Must say the sound at Open Ground is in the top of my list! For sure I need to get back to that place. Perhaps I shall also mirror the crowd a bit more next time, ie not staying sober 😂