French music legend Alan Braxe came out to play Frisk on the night that Perth switched its clocks forward. Upon arrival Chris Ryan had the crowd split, maybe as it was Pride night or possibly just too early, but the girls were doing their stuff on the dancefloor and the boys flexing and watching from around the bar.

Moving to the dance floor to claim a good spot I was stopped in my tracks as I noticed a shiny red dot tracing across my friend’s forehead. I shoved her out of way but it was too late. We were surrounded by snipers, pinned down we had nowhere to move. There was so many. Waiting for them to fire I contemplated how they smuggled so many weapons past the stringent door staff, then I released it was just a red laser being shone onto a mirror ball. It was kind of annoying.

As *Tori Amos’*s voice cried out “It’s gotta be me” it was clear which era Rob Sharp was going to position his set. Any doubts were removed when a remix of the Eurhythmics Sweet Dreams came throbbing out of the speakers and literally had the crowd jumping around the dancefloor. The loudest cheer during Rob Sharp’s set was saved for the Stardust track Music Sounds Better With You, with the crowd possibly confusing him with a Frenchman. As the night grew later the crowd got thinner and the set moved from more friendly sounds to repetitious beats with jazz. It wasn’t exactly an appropriate choice for the setting.

Even though the crowd had shrunk, it didn’t stop the arrival of Alan Braxe causing excitement. He came to the decks by introducing a little bit of Tiga to the mix. Pressure From the Bass had the Bar Open sound system pushed to breaking levels as the speakers clipped. The sexy Canadian sounds of Tiga caused what was left of the crowd to converge from all areas to pack the dance floor once again.

Braxe was always going to play it, but mixing Music Sounds Better With You with the opening lines of Gwen Stefani Whatcha Waiting For made it worth hearing the song played twice in one night. The French love didn’t stop there with Paradise In Love With You sounding like it was written to prelude the Thomas Bangalter and DJ Falcon epic Together.

Alan Braxe’s own production Intro had the depleted crowd utilising the now vast space. As You Gonna Want Me crooned from the speakers it had me contemplating how long after a song becomes cheesy/annoying does it become fun to hear again? Tiga had been banished from sound systems long enough to make his brand of electro exciting again, and as he is about to release some rather massive songs it will be interesting if we hear a lot more of him soon; maybe if I could look into someone’s eyes and see the future?

Had daylight savings not only faded the cows but also confused the audience? Had phones automatically updated at 2am sending people home to bed early, thinking it was much later than it was? Or was the sparse crowd due to Alan Braxe having a set time too late for the Bar Open audience? One wonders how the night might have been had Rob Sharp and Alan Braxe switched times but at least there was plenty of room to dance.