BRINGITON Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Went to the FINAL 'Bed' night (31st December, 2003) - do you remember me! I wore pvc chaps, a red satin tight top and a gold glittery stetson. My friend, Sophie wore a miss christmas pvc outfit - she looked HOT! Still got the flyer for that last night which ended at 6am. I remember the 'bouncers' looking tired out at the end. Used to love the 'white room' as they called it. After it closed we started going to 'Fez Club.' U can still catch us up Devonshire Street at weekends in Halcyon and Forum Bar and DQ. Might try out Urban Gorilla cos I heard it's gud, but somehow escaped me so far. Will always remember the gud timez down @ Bed! Are you for real??? I can't believe you've just replied to a post started in 2004, where the last post was in May '05! Ha ha ha. Ace work, welcome to 2007! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe9T Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 I'm REAL allright!(well, maybe not...nearly got on BB in 2004 & am plannin' a move on the next auditions in Manchester or London) Bed may be dead, but the memories NEVA die! I woz just lookin for old piccies of 'Bed', when I found a Forum on it. Am surprised you knew I posted a reply! Let the rest of the dead know by re-awakening them from the past 3 years of slumber!: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormy Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Ill join this post as well then! Long live Bed!!! Had some proper good nights there, was a shame it shut! But there are some other good venues in town now thankfully. Sheffield is going up and up!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe9T Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Check this out! DIZZEE RASCAL @ BED NIGHTCLUB 2003 STYLEE WOEBOT « Swag. | Main | Brick Door Mix. » December 22, 2003 Nonsensical 10. 1. First bit of nonsense: Paul, who it seems has completely given up blogging (Well dahling it's so 2003!) sent me this requesting I post it. Presumably Eden, who also seems to be somewhat switched off, told him to fak off, that he wouldn't put it up at Uncarved. This isn't NYPLM you nutter Paul. It's Me Me Me striktly. As I'm being asked to edit it I thought I'd take a few liberties with the material: Engelbert Humperdink at Bed, Sheffield on Friday So Engelbert Humperdink is doing his thing with Justin (BIG pals, sit around together listening to old Greenslade albums) and the show comes to Sheffield and WE, the beautiful people of South Yorkshire, get a one-off club date? Why are we so favoured? Cos Engelbert Humperdink's album -- widely revered as the sound of Bow -- was ACTUALLY recorded here, in Sheffield. Round the corner from me in a studio in Nether edge, as it happens. Well, that's the story that's going round, and I've heard it from three different people, so maybe it's true? Anyway, Bed is Gatecrasher's venue, which means little other than that there are huge bass speakers under the floor, which make yer knees wobble. It was an "urban" night, seemed to be full of regulars, no aggro, and lots of poeple were noticeably dressed up to the nines. Sheffield women are gorgeous. This month's hot fashion tip -- trilby hats at a jaunty angle right over the face. Modtastic. The music was all hip hop and r&b with a few bits of UKG, and most tracks somehow sounded like jungle over that system. But by far the biggest sound of the night was dancehall. Whenever the energy dropped the DJs would play some and the crowd would go wild -- I was really surprised by just how far dancehall has taken over the hip-hop / r'n'b axis. As you'd expect there was lots of scratching and cutting, and records generally didn't get played to the end -- good stuff. There was also absolutely no compunction on the part of the DJs about playing big hits, so Sean Paul got a good airing. This did get on my tits a bit when I was waiting for Engelbert Humperdink to come on -- the last DJ before him was playing solid ToTP fodder which I could have done without. I got a bit bored. Then Engelbert Humperdink came swaggering through the crowd with his fairly modest and polite entourage, wearing an outfit like Elephant Man -- oversized jacket covered with huge badges. Semtex took the decks and Wiley (I think) started hyping the crowd, a real show man, bigging up the ladies, talking about the 8 hour drive to come up, giving people the mic so he could hear some sexy Sheffield accents... Then Semtex dropped I Luv U and Engelbert Humperdink bounded on stage and the place just erupted. There were a *lot* of people who were seriously into him, crews from Manchester and Leeds, and the first 20 rows or so were jumping. Engelbert Humperdink did a pure MC set just like he does at Eski dance or whereever, rapping over his own stuff and other records, doing prepared raps as well as Freestyle, bounding across the stage, dancing, jumping on the speakers... Semtex couldn't always keep up, with Engelbert Humperdink occasionally telling him to move on with the next track, always two steps ahead of where the crowd wanted to be, and displaying impressive empathy. Wiley and (I think) some feller from Roll Deep were up there too adding their flow to his so you got the whole rap tag team thing. There'd been a few rappers on during the night and they were OK but Engelbert Humperdink really is something else. His flow is intensely syncopated, very much like the skipping, hiccuping beats of UKG, and the lyrical ideas just fly out of him like a shower of sparks. There's always piercing diction yet his accent means he sounds like he's gargling with golf balls all the time. He's totally hyped and confident but there's not a trace of the turgid gangster braggadoccio that blunts the attack of so many rappers, instead there's a constant volley of ideas and images - he's got so damn much to say he doesn't have /time/ to collapse into cliches. His beats, naturally, make SO much more sense and have SO much more groove heard live too. That stuttering, plinkety-plonk doodling transforms itself into something like jungle's hyperkinetic breaks, but in bullet time, slowed to a stop yet endlessly oscillating. In other words, what sounds a bit ropey on record is funky as **** live. I was too knackered to stay til the end, but the standout of what I heard was Jus a Rascal, which was a blitzkrieg-like, its overwhelming, massed-voices monstrosity had everyone screaming. Quite fantastic. Though his freestyle over the Diwali rhythm was also excellent. I left when Semtex tried to get him to rap over PIMP -- I don't think Engelbert Humperdink was much into it, and three times in one night for that track was too much for me, so I wandered off. I WOZ THERE! ... GUD TIMEZ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dj4321 Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Still very confused with this thread. Bed's music policy was just what sheffield needed, but Sheffield was not ready for it hence the lease ended and now Bed is no more. To be fair the building had its glory days as the Palais (Jam Factory, Make it Funky, Compulsion) and Music Factory (Love2be). Bed never quite had the consistency as the earlier club nights. May be it was a sign of the times. Highlights for me was was Derrick May - Palais, Todd Terry - New years Eve @ Love2be. (celebrities galore) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe9T Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Dizzee Rascal was advertised as Engelbert Humperdink on posters outside venue for that night back in late 2003 @ BED! Prob that's why it closed - people didn't know who was comin or goin! Neva went prior to it becoming Bed, but know it had sum history AND great timez. Still luved it though... but things have AND must change. Even the places to be at present will be no more in the future. THAT'S PROGRESS - whether gud or bad. MEMORIES are great and 'Bed' must have been gud cos we still talkin bout it. GOOD TIMEZ:smile: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dj4321 Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Bed did have some good nights but the history of the building with its previous owners and massive club nights far outweights the events Bed tried. It was too inconsistant, compared to the massive weekly nights at the Palais and Music Factory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Wasnt Bed just bought & run by GC to make sure nobody else bought it and threatened their main nights at the Republic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe9T Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Apparently, I was always led to believe that due to flats bein built close by, the place cud not be run any more as a nightclub. Nothin to do with the the place not makin enough money. I think it was goin to continue as a venue where bands played, but wud shut by 11:30 or no lata than midnight. The final ever night was Hed Kandi and it was rammed! Main Room: Mark Doyle/Andy Norman/John Jones/Pav(Percussion) The Loft: Sheffield All-Stars - Corey/Simon Brown/Adam Cooling/Nathan Lewin White Room: Porn Party - Rheamous Johnson/Zak Creevy/Special Guest Pinky Cox The crowds had all gone by 6:30 AND 'Bed' had become no more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe9T Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Hi John M! Yeah I heard that too. Gud way of doin it though, I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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