Skylab 2007

Skylab 2007

1 October, 2007 | 4.25PM

• Section: Music News Topics: Industry Girl Blog
• Written by: Industry Girl

My mind was spinning.  Even my dreams were woven with bits and pieces of reality which left sleeping very uneasy.  I hadn’t really eaten a full healthy meal in days.  Between my Blackberry surgically attached to my head, meetings with fire marshals and vendors, McDonald’s and non-stop emails, I had but only seconds to breathe every day and a whole lot of heartburn.  The reason: Skylab 2007.  At that point, it was a week away and I was nervous. 

Skylab, Denver’s legendary massive, was returning for an encore and this was my very first involvement with it.  My level of involvement with Skylab was similar to the things I do on a daily basis for the clubs.  The only difference was, each club I promote can only host up to 2,000 people and one headliner a night while this massive has hosted 8,000+ and a lineup of over 30 DJs last year.  This year’s lineup boasted international talent, including Armin van Buuren, Bad Boy Bill, Lee Burridge, Donald Glaude, Tommie Sunshine and Freaky Flow to just name a few.  The scale and intensity is incomparable to anything else.  I was nervous as fuck.

When the odds of throwing a successful party sometimes feels like the odds of winning a hand in gambling, why do we do it?  When the stakes are high and the nights leading up to the event are sleepless, you wonder if you’re cut out for the job and why the hell you put yourself out there. At any moment, the dance music gestapo can shut your party down or one of your headliners can no-show.  You go through these emotional roller-coasters where the lows are marked by stress and uncertainty while the highs are flagged with excitement and anticipation. 

These feelings teeter back and forth but when the night of the event emerges, the negative feelings begin to dissipate and are replaced with exhilaration.  You re-discover that regardless what happens, at the end of the day, you are contributing to the scene.  As Skylab materialized and came upon us, I put aside the idea of success measured by tangibles, rather I measured it by the vibe, an overwhelming and distinctive intangible quality surrounding the people and the event that can be electric.  You take notice of all the people arriving in intricate costumes and all the smiles.  You notice the thousands of people waiting patiently in line to experience their favorite artist that are otherwise impatient for anything else.  You notice all kinds of people that are socializing together that otherwise would not co-mingle.

At the end of the day, we do it for the culture.  We do it for the music.  We do it for the artists.  We do it for the thousands of party-goers that plan out their outfits a month before the show.  We do it for all the kids that have never been to a party before and this would be their first.  We do it for the all the new friendships that emerge through our parties.  So party on party-goers.  My nervousness seemed to have gone away.  I’m not going anywhere.

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