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< Echatio ~ THE END IS NIGH - LAST EVER OPTIMO |
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 Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:33 pm |
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The end is nigh….
After 12 and a half years (or around 650 Optimos), we have, after a huge amount of consideration and many sleepless nights decided that Sunday April 25th will be the LAST EVER night of Optimo (Espacio) at The Sub Club.
We have loved doing Optimo with all our hearts, but our hearts are also telling us it is time to call a halt to it. Playing at, organising and promoting a weekly night takes up an enormous amount of energy and there are so many other things we want to do that some of that energy is needed for other projects. We also need to get our lives and weeks back a little bit and take on new challenges and opportunities (we have to turn down an awful lot of opportunities by being committed to being in Glasgow every Sunday and being wiped out every Monday).
We will continue to tour, promote and release music as Optimo but it will no longer be possible to hear JD Twitch and JG Wilkes dj at The Sub Club every Sunday night.
However, it is not completely over. Twitch played at the Sub Club on Sunday nights for two years before Optimo started and was involved in a Sunday evening club for a few years before that, so it is hard to let go of Sunday night events in Glasgow completely. Twitch and Wilkes will continue to promote Sunday nights at The Sub Club under an as yet to be announced name. The new night will give a platform to the plethora of great djs in Glasgow, bring djs we love to Glasgow and bring live acts nobody else would bring to this city. Sometimes Twitch or Wilkes may play alongside them and sometimes Twitch and Wilkes will play together on a Sunday night but, without Twitch and Wilkes playing together weekly, it won't and can't be Optimo.
Who know what this new venture will morph into but whatever, we hope that the anarchic spirit we brought to the Sub Club in 1997 will continue to prevail on Sunday nights.
So, there are 7 Optimos left. Hopefully we will see some of you before the end. We absolutely intend to go out with a bang.
It's not over until the fat lady sings..... |
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| stoob |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:56 pm |
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| will_v |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:02 pm |
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wow.
best of luck with your new venture(s)! |
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| GinaX |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:10 pm |
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Wow indeed.
That was unexpected.
Good luck with the future plans though!
Doubt there will be a dry eye in April |
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| djeuan |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:17 pm |
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gutted beyond belief  |
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| Mozza |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:26 pm |
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| words cant really describe how much optimo has meant to me over the years. |
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| Dan |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:27 pm |
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Very sad news indeed!
I may not have been down recently, but have had many many amazing nights when I was able to go on an almost weekly basis.
I'm sure im not the only one to say that the music policy has influenced and introduced me to soo much in soo many ways.
All the best Keith and Johnny in whatever it is you do now. |
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| will_v |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:28 pm |
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| random request but, would either of you consider writing a book about optimo and you experience as a dj? |
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| graham le canadien |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:28 pm |
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wow.
end of an era!
the last night's queue will be a clusterfuck of mammoth proportions!!!
hat's off to 12 years of the best party on earth.
thanks guys! |
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| devo |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:28 pm |
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| End of an era. best of luck lads. |
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| i am blip |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:35 pm |
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sad day
and the last one is when i'm at bangface.  |
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| DCS |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:38 pm |
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Dan wrote: Very sad news indeed!
I may not have been down recently, but have had many many amazing nights when I was able to go on an almost weekly basis.
I'm sure im not the only one to say that the music policy has influenced and introduced me to soo much in soo many ways.
All the best Keith and Johnny in whatever it is you do now.
Couldn't have put it better myself.
Thank you for the music! |
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| Johnny Crash |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:41 pm |
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That's sad news but it couldn't go on forever.
It's a pity that at such short notice, I've already had my last Optimo.
Good luck in the future! |
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| Suzy_Blue |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:45 pm |
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Nooooooo!
Gutted beyond belief but glad there is a bit of notice to get a few in before the end. |
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| jed |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:48 pm |
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i'm genuinely a bit tearful.
thank you for the music! x x x |
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