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Euro Cultured Manchester 2006

Benji and I will be making an appearance at this years Euro Cultured Festival in Manchester.  We'll be the ones scurrying around with clip boards talking our mouths off.

For those unaware of what Euro Cultured is: it is essentially a chance to showcase some of the best artists, dancers, musicians and DJ's from all over the continent.  The party will spread across two streets and four venues in Manchester city centre -map here- and the guys and gals at Spearfish who have organised this right royal shindig expect some 14,000 people to attend.

You can get more information about the whole thing from the festivals website, we hope to see you there.

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Blurb Example 1- Stengade 30

For those of you a little unsure of how Youngin Europe works, here's an example of one of the many blurbs that will make up the site.  This one's on Stengade 30, a club in Copenhagen with a pretty special night every sunday, courtesy of regular blurber Jenny Laabido:

"If you are in Copenhagen on a sunday night and don't go to Stengade 30 you are a fool.  Me and Mr T will pity you.  'Rub a Dub Sundays' is legendary on the Copenhagen party scene, and don't surprised to find the place packed well past 4am on monday morning.

When you think of Scandanavia, dub reggae and ragga doesn't immidiately spring to mind.  Yes its a bunch of whiteboys behind the decks and on the mic, yes there are loads of middle-class trendy alternative types present, but the music is of the highest order; from dub classics to hidden gems.  And don't worry, there IS always a splattering of rastas and plenty of dope around to give the whole thing a bit of authenticity.

Entry is free before 10pm, head upstairs where the evening starts over a few beers, which are surprisingly cheap by Copenhagen standards.  As the evening progresses the music starts pumping out from downstairs and by about 1am the dancefloor is a seething mass of grinding bodies. There's another couple of rooms dotted around the building with individual soundsystems, mainly for chill-out purposes.

Some reggae and dub nights around the world can be intimidating and often a bit hairy, but not in Scandanavia of course!  The place is frindly and people are thoroughly approachable for a dance or a chat, regardless of how beautiful and well turned-out they are.

The rest of the week Stengade is a metal club, but on sundays loosen your hips and bust a move down there."

Usernames, Passwords and Login' In

Around 6 months ago Youngin Europe was faced with a conundrum, do we invest a bit of time and money redeveloping the site or plough on regardless. It was a no brainer.

Choosing to head down this path has faced us with more conundrums, many of which have been documented here.  One such problem is the issue of users logins.  To cut a long story short, as of the relaunch Youngin Europe will require its users to complete a free registration, in order to post blurbs, comments and photos to the site.   However, you will not need to login in order to view any of the information in the guide.

Youngin Europe understands that logins can be annoying, and for this reason we think our decision needs a bit of justification.

Firstly, not introducing logins could severely damage the integrity of the guides content.  Spam, practical jokers, idiots; all have the potential to reduce the quality of the information Youngin Europe provides, and that would not be acceptable.

Secondly, we can now introduce a number of services that we would have been unable to provide up until this point.  This includes: tracking all the comments, blurbs and photos you submit; a small profile; and a photo!

Essentially all the info you submit will be attributed to you and not lost in a maze of databases.

As for the some 600 blurbs already submitted by our loyal following?  We'll be in contact to give you the chance to resubmit under you new profile.

That's all for now;