Modified Nationals 2012

This show was the TENTH Modified Nationals and although the weather sent its cruellest test in ten years, it did not thwart us! There was the massively loud indoor section with Car Audio and Security, the guys from Soundstream, Cerwin-Vega, PPI and so many more cool brands – that are all part of the new ProPlus Audio company, the mad Vibe truck – with a scary warning on it about damage from BIG bass, and in the other hall, that had previously been the Max Power stage, the whole thing was filled with Hertz cars, all linked to the stage and the volume was just bonkers!

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

The outdoors was grey and windy but right on cue, my ‘Fenman’ burger slot on the main stage came up, as did a row of waiters like something out of The Polar Express, except each bore a full size serving platter, rather than a plate, upon which were four monstrous one kilogram hamburgers. As well as chips. Three 330g patties in a five inch bun, after butchery tests and then cookery trials! It’ll be on the menu at £20 and will feed a family of fouroh yes, it also has four rashers of bacon and three slices of cheese in there. A lad named Scott was the first to finish and I needn’t have fretted about the 30 minuteshe demolished it to applause from a highly entertained crowd. That rapper dude with the ears who was on BGT was on stage and he was brilliant. I demanded one chant of ‘YOU FAT B******D!’ from the crowd and let them get on with it.

The indoors show area was filled with a fabulously high standard of cars and pretty promo lasses, some of whom in the last year, I have even got to know a little by nagging on Facebookso hello Natalya Bex and Michelle Westby! But then, we had seen each other at shows for years. Somehow, saying hello on FB isn’t creepy, like if I had asked for phone numbers&;.and they are game lasses.

I hosed the whole thing down with video and did a few stills and as I know you would rather see and watch than read, I am going to keep the verbiage down for a change and just deliver the goods!

First, as a right here thing is the gallery of shots from the show. Ping this link and sing the theme from Vision On’s gallery tune if you are old enough to recall it. (Even if you are not, is so iconic, it has been used for ever, since on all sorts of programmes, so you might know it)
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The Big BadaBOOM was an idea but like the reality of the Burger challenge being picked up and run with by the East Of England Farmers at the Peterborough Arena, all I had to do was ask and make sure that I told you guys about it. On an ideal sunny weekend, I would have been from one booth to the other on the mics a bit more but the rain made sure it was mostly just us and the competitors, rather than getting lots of spectators.
But there it was, EMMA SPL, then dB Drag, then Propper Droppers, all in a row and cars trundling from tent to tent. We had one nutter blow a side window out, we had a 10Hz tone played at 130dB or moreit was madness.

Here’s some video stuff:

First clip of the day and I ask the MyMod babes to wine’ their bodiesthey were happy to.

The Babestage – warning, this may get an adult rating as has a near-nekkid bum in it&;..


Steve Biagioni – stuff that, check out the quality lurkers who ponce in the background- starting with Maxxis girls!


Adam Rayner’s Big BadaBOOM at The Modified Nationals 2012


A totally bonkers P.A. for any DJ.


One of the very best hair tricks I have ever filmed. The area was dead and QUIET before we started and Ed Elson was puke struck by the bass by this time of the day


Checkout the latest lunacy from the Source Sounds P.A. Golf. And a Minor Milestone, although I confess I did it for the Anglers Mail first, this is a two-clip YouTube edit of a pair of uploaded clippettes, now joined and original uploads deleted.



It was tiring poncing about in the peeing rain and while Talk Audio’s presence was a few cars and two big old vertical banner flags a flapping in the rain, we all managed to have a good time.

I was the announcer for the prize giving for EMMA, under their tent, then had to go off to the Hertz stage indoors to do the main show’s prizes and even dragged a few of the promoter’s team of family on stage to accept a round of applause from the remaining crowd, for their ten years of unstinting efforts. I want to add a massive thank you as well, as the show is important to me, too and I love it.

The dB Drag boss Darren Millard supplied a trio of big old trophy cups for the Big BadaBOOM and when I saw they had my name engraved on their plinth panels, I filled up. That is one dude who needs an industry knighthood, after NINE years of running dB Drag in the UK. I reckon he must have been responsible, at times, for supporting the whole of the UK subwoofer industry. As if you blow them up in SPL contests, they ain’t covered by warranty, no how! And his boys do need a lot of woofers each.

As for Marcos Barnes, of Propper Droppers, he has a FANATICAL Dutch and Belgian following, with a troop of cars coming over to take part. His format has really taken hold and it is not going to go away – I reckon we need to get the Bass Mekanik on board as I reckon he will really FEEL this one!

I confess, I wanted the Bass King 2012 jacket to stay in the UK and when I asked JBL UK about it, I was immediately stumped a 1,450watt peak monoblock amp, a JBL GTO 1001EZ to offer to the top scoring non-UK entrant. It went to a dude called Davy, as mad as a hatter and with a brutally loud install.

Also, the entrants were asked for a bit more wedge to take part and as such, were stumped a tasty goodie from the sponsors – JBL- whom I wish to offer up a Rayner-sized hug and a teary thank you from the bottom of my heart for making this all possible. This was a pukka Sandisk 4GB USB stick, which was gratefully received. I did my best to get around to all the competitors in the rain but I am sure I missed some folks. If you were an entrant and didn’t get your freebie swag for being there, then PM me and I’ll need a LARGE sized s.a.e. sending to me (it’s more than 5mm thick) to post a stick to you.

Above all, a thank you to the people who showed up and took part. I understand that all three formats ran more cars in one show than they ever had before, which is a fine result, with more than ten new competitors in dB Drag alone.

One bit I will go on about is Ed Elson. It turns out he is a second-generation engineer and has fitted the TWO 300A alternators to his Audi’s new diesel (!) engine, himself. The whole lot is his labour and he could relate it all in detail. The lad with the S2000 indoors had an iPad in the beautifully flocked dash but Ed’s was awesome and as late-hired judge of ‘Built Not Bought’, I had no choice or challenge to the validity of the decision.