From: promotion@aardvarkrecords.co.uk   
      
   EVENT            :EUPHORIA 04   
      
   ORGANIZER    :Tiger Beer   
      
   EVENT MGMT : Ideaholic Event Marketing   
      
   VENUE           :Padang Field, Singapore   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   A sports ground the size of 2 football pitches. 25,000+ people; mostly   
   teenagers.    Premium lager on tap and a flawless day.  And acts flown in   
   from all four corners of the globe. Sounds like your typical huge British   
   live music event, doesn't it?  And there you would be mistaken.  Because   
   this is Singapore and nothing (and I mean nothing) is what it seems in   
   Singapore.   
      
      
      
   This was the Tiger Beer branded event,  Euphoria '04.  From the moment the   
   British hard dance duo, Zetan Spore, rose through the stage via very crafty   
   understage hydraulics.well, this was going to be something no one in   
   Singapore had seen before.  Euphoria 04 was the first event of its kind in   
   Singapore.  This was not only the largest outdoor event in Singapore's   
   history.it was also the first.   
      
      
      
   Headlining act Zetan Spore was always going to be in interesting choice.   
   Dance music was illegal until very, very recently.  That went for commercial   
   dance as well as the hard dance sounds of Zetan Spore, those clever   
   tricksters who fuse Psy trance, progressive house, hard dance and tribal   
   sounds.  So the majority of popsters had never heard the likes of it before.   
   However, the festival's organisers were most keen to get them out there.   
      
      
      
   Singaporeans are renowned for being conservative, well mannered and polite.   
   At fist, the audience wasn't quite sure what to make of this duo who looked   
   like they had just stepped off the set of the latest Matrix movie set. It   
   was amazing to see their reaction's within the first 15 minutes of Zetan   
   Spore's 2 hour set.  The audience went from "Are we still on planet Earth"   
   to "This is kind of cool" to absolute mayhem.  Mayhem was helped along with   
   some absolute cheekiness from Mark and Ian Hasdell from Zetan Spore - helped   
   in large measures by throwing cups of lager off the stage (which apparently   
   breaks about 5 different laws in Singapore).  That was it, the crowd was   
   theirs.  The glow sticks almost became lethal weapons and 25,000+ people   
   just did their thing to the music - and did it energetically.  Ian Hasdell   
   did his usual hallmark wizardry on the desk with twin brother Mark Hasdell   
   giving it his all on guitar and didgeridoo.  After a two hour live set, they   
   left the stage with the audience wanting more.   
      
      
      
   Not content with wining over the Singapore crowd, Ian and Mark's humour won   
   the press and television journalists over from the word go...so much so   
   these newcomers nearly stole the press conference limelight.   
      
      
      
   Following swiftly on the heels of a premier performance supporting Eat   
   Static at "Future Sounds of Exeter" earlier in October and two major live   
   coast-to-coast radio broadcasts in America; Euphoria 04 hallmarks Zetan   
   Spore's emergence as a major dance act hailing from Britain's   
   much-overlooked Southwest.   
      
      
      
   The act's record label, Aardvark Records, is currently negotiating tours for   
   North America, South America, Australia and New Zealand.   
      
      
      
      
      
   Official Zetan Spore website:  www.zetanspore.co.uk   
      
      
      
   On-line discography:   
   http://stage.vitaminic.co.uk/main/zetan_spore/all_tracks/   
      
      
      
   New release:  CD "Burn Up" available on-line: eMusic, iTunes, Vitaminic,   
   Napster, Karma Downloads and other premier music download sites   
      
      
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