Escape From Samsara

[Skim]

I think the pixie juice has addled everyone's brains.

 

[fudgefactorfive]

Pendragon and Otherworld were way more fun than Samsara - half the RTTS organisers were wankers (I used to make the flyers for Otherworld, briefly for RTTS, and, to my eternal shame and horror, Parallel Youniversity - shudder). I'm still not over the baffling hair-splitting between what constituted "psychedelic techno" and "goa trance".

Who needs seratonin anyway!

 

[gabi]

Is that one of your pieces?

 

[fudgefactorfive]

Is that one of your pieces?

Background from one ... all feels a bit embarrassing now ...

 

[gabi]

fucking hell

 

[fudgefactorfive]

well quite

 

[sam/phallocrat]

aw bless

anyway it was all about Whirl-y-gig

 

[Loki]

there was some fucking clown dressed in a reflective jacket, a white hard helmet and white gloves twirling glow sticks around. And people seemed to think he was cool.

that was me

 

[scotlander]

btw pendragon nye was my best indoor party ever
ill never forget theatre factory and women in burkhas in the stairway at 4am

I remember seeing them at Trancentral once, they were behind a sort of iron gate at the top of the stairs.

We always thought they came form a sweatshop next door and the only time they got off work was 10-6 on fri and sat nights.

 

[DJ Squelch]

I used to quite like EFS in the early days, even went on holiday to Morrocco for a month with some of the crew. It all went a bit crap in the end when they were advertising it in Time Out and it became full of tourists wearing rucksacks on the dancefloor. It was definately Hard house / hard / acid trance in the beginning but got more psy-trancey towards the end. Pendragon at Tyssen St. was better.

Might of gone tonight if I'd read this thread earlier.

 

[Taxamo Welf]

so are these nights all over then? I never got into clubbing (to dance music) until i was far to schooled in techno from the parties for trance.

This stuff can't have finished tho, it must juts hace different flagship nights.

Somehting i always wanted to check out was tech-trance, but that seems to be one of the casualties of psy.

 

[Giles]

I used to quite like EFS in the early days, even went on holiday to Morrocco for a month with some of the crew. It all went a bit crap in the end when they were advertising it in Time Out and it became full of tourists wearing rucksacks on the dancefloor. It was definately Hard house / hard / acid trance in the beginning but got more psy-trancey towards the end. Pendragon at Tyssen St. was better.

Might of gone tonight if I'd read this thread earlier.

That was its undoing, I think. Victim of its own success. I remember going to EFS in around 1998/1999 and it was such a good atmosphere - everyone there was up for it, proper clubbers (some of my fond memories may have been influenced by drugs, I admit!) but later on it was full of "clubbing tourists" and this killed the atmosphere.

The whole point of this sort of clubbing is that everyone there is part of it.

I remember that last couple of times I went there, just before it stopped, and it was more like a gig, in that most of the "audience" were just standing around with their mates with their "Lonely Planet guide to London" books almost in hand, not participating, just waiting to be entertained.

ANyway, I am off their now, so we shall see!

Giles..

 

[aqua]

I think I went to EFS? but I'm not sure

I loved the fridge, but mainly went to love muscle nights - not through choice, just happened to co-incide with when I was in london

happy times

 

[Chairman Meow]

That was its undoing, I think. Victim of its own success. I remember going to EFS in around 1998/1999 and it was such a good atmosphere - everyone there was up for it, proper clubbers (some of my fond memories may have been influenced by drugs, I admit!) but later on it was full of "clubbing tourists" and this killed the atmosphere.

The whole point of this sort of clubbing is that everyone there is part of it.

I remember that last couple of times I went there, just before it stopped, and it was more like a gig, in that most of the "audience" were just standing around with their mates with their "Lonely Planet guide to London" books almost in hand, not participating, just waiting to be entertained.

ANyway, I am off their now,
so we shall see!

Giles..

98/99? Pah, it was all over by then I had my hen night in 1996 at the Samsara Xmas party [or was it Rtts?] and we'd been going for *years* by then! Agree it was all about the Whirlygig though...we used to go there in Old Street from 8-12, then home for a bit before going down to Club UK at 3 when it was half price in [used to live round the corner]. I wasn't there the night it was raided though a mate was - he covered his head with his coat trying to avoid being photographed, and walked straight into the arse of a police horse.

We even considered coming over from Ireland to go last night....

 

[han]

Club UK was fuckin brilliant wasn't it.....I remember going there back in '94, the best clubbing experience ever....detroit techno, robots on stilts with laser eyes....if they had a Club UK reunion night I'd be there like a shot!

 

[William of Walworth]

Went once. Didn't particularly enjoy it. Wrong drugs

And mostly wrong music too, but I'm not a h8ter ... so I'll leave this one ...