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Experience Planet Love, Northern Ireland's largest dance festival, thanks to internetdj member, Nelo. THE SCENE Planet Love is Northern Irelands biggest festival devoted to all things dance and took place on Saturday the 21st of September at Shane's Castle Co. Antrim. THE PLAYERS: Me - Nelo. I had missed Creamfields and was grateful to get a chance to finish off my Summer in style. John B - from Australia. At the decrepid age of about 29 John has witnessed the glory years of dance music and is still loving it to this day, a savage party animal. Katie S - From Chicago USA. Katie loves to party and although she has no idea who the hell Paul Van Dyk is she still knows good music when she hears it. THE DIARY 9:00am Crawled out of bed, very early for a Saturday but this was no ordinary Saturday. Had some breakfast and mixed a very trancey CD for the car. 11:00am John and Katie arrive in the motor and what a car they got, one huge Toyota Land Cruiser. We fill up the boot with blankets and sleeping bags and stack up the CD's before we hit the road. 12:20pm We cross the border and our mobile phones stop working, I feel naked without mine - sad but true. We have yet to see any other cars making the same pillgramage as us which is quite surprising. Tiesto's In Search Of Sunrise 3 is blasting from the speakers. 12:45pm We stop off in Newry for lunch and stock the car up with booze. It seems that Alco pop's are a lot more popular in the UK then in Ireland and much cheaper too. I decide my poison will be a few bottles of Carribean Twist, the bloke behind the counter looks at me like I'm a rampant homosexual. Must be gay juice I'm buying. Spot a couple of clubbing people walking around but none of them really look like festival material, I stand out with my bright red pants, massive hair and pimp sunglasses. 1:50pm Arrive in Belfast, this city scares the crap out of me, I suppose it probably due to growing up watching bombs go off and people getting shot on a daily basis here. We don't stop. Irish and British flags can be seen fluttering in the breeze, marking out the territory of similar people with different beliefs and massive amounts of hatred for each other, my skin crawls. 2:35pm After passing a huge British military barracks we come to the main gate of Planet Love there are people everywhere we avoid crushing them with our car. Next we set up base in the carpark where people are finishing off their booze before heading in. In the distance we can hear Scooter screaming away. Retro memories start flooding back the alcohol runs quickly to my head. 3:00pm Time to play. After a long walk in which our Red Bull was confiscated by security we enter the arena. Before we even get to look around John and Katie need to go to the toilets, Katie smart girl that she is fills her bag with toilet paper cause she knows there will be none left at the end of the night. Planet love consisted of 5 huge tents: The End, Essential Selection, Nukleuz, Rendevous and Love the main tent. There was a full fairground in operation with loads of different gut-wrenching rides including a massive slingshot bungee - pretty dangerous to take on after a few pints and a dodgy burger. 4:00pm Time to go mad. Our first stop was at the Essential Selection tent to see the legendary Erik Morillo ply his trade, the man was stomping playing a wide variety of excellent tunes with precision mixing and a smile like no other. After about 30 minutes we ran across to The End to see what Mr. C was upto. The former Shamen jock was keeping it current with Tim Deluxe's "It just won't do" but the crowd here wasn't quite as lively as in the last tent, so we went back to Morillo. 6:00pm Hemstock and Jennings were tearing up the Love tent. Always crowd pleasers up here the boys were throwing down some of their own unique styles and sent the crowd wild with delight, us also. 7:00pm Marco V takes over where the last pair left off and continues to build, this was a pleasure to listen to because…