Raving/clubbing - what made you finally stop going?
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girasol
Addicted to handstands!
Fixed it for you
To be honest I can't bear more than a couple of hours of techno/d&b/dubstep/etc at a time - and a lot of clubs/raves seem to only play one kind of music. If I had a club I'd have completely random/different genres of music in different rooms (and some nights to try to do that)Anyway, I was never a regular at raves/clubs, more an occasional thing - I could never have done it every weekend, even when I was younger.
Don't really like squat parties, but love the outdoor ones in the summer
Don't really like squat parties, but love the outdoor ones in the summer
I always wanted to go to one of them, but had no car
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
The site is the hardest problem to solve. Vans, rigs and DJs are easy
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This bugs me too - back in the day you'd go to a rave and there'd be a techno room, happy hardcore room and house room as well as a chill out room. You hardly ever see even that level of variety these days, or if you do see variety, it's within a linked spectrum of dance - e.g. hiphop/dub/dubstep/D&B...
Griff
Feeding the foxes
Andy the Don
Wise men say only fools..
Got too old, the music got too loud and it went on too long. Also feeling crap for the next three days put me off. If I went out on a Friday night to Saturday night I used to still feel very fragile on the Tuesday/Wednesday. These days give me a spliff a glass of wine and Radio 4, now that's what I call raving..
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Oioi!!!!!! Hands in air!!!! Harcore ravers make some fuckin' noiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiise!!!!!!
Griff
Feeding the foxes
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Back in the day when it was all breakbeats, bass and piano and helium voiced chicas it was great. Then it all went a bit shit. Then you had Force and Styles.
It was only shit 98-2002 really. Looking forward to Stu Allan next Friday and if he doesn't crank out the cheese I will be disappointed.
That's almost exactly what some friends of ours will be doing "somewhere in the South of England" the weekend after Glastonbury -- private mini festie type party of maybe 100 people with a small beer marquee and sound system and fire
To answer the original question ... I was never at all into commercial clubbing (expense/couldn't easily get away with smoking spliff) and never properly into raving of the more free party kind either. Only occasionally.
Mainly never got into it properly because I never did MDMA/pills and was only into beer and weed and never much liked techno with rare exceptions ...
Still went to a fair few few underground/free/squat parties which were as likely to have some dub and reggae in the mix as well as techno -- Unsound in the early days at the Rainbow Centre Kentish Town (1995 I think), Cooltan a lot in the early nineties, Unsound as revived at the Arches early this decade (really really top parties, especially my 40th birthday one, but that was so much down to the people!
) and a few others more occasionally -- an OCB one I went to once was pretty good, plus that Liquid Spiral one in Borough High Street that Fruitloop and Sam mentioned. Other squat parties were most often pretty squalid and skanky and manky and on occasion moody in atmosphere too.Exceptions included two damned good Okupational Hazard ones ... but they included bands!
Overall though it was always a stamina-challenged struggle to stay up late for me, I was already late 30s/early 40s when getting into most of all this, and I did the wrong drugs and drank too much beer ....
Still like festival based partying though, always did, could hardly feel otherwise following old times at Stonehenge (1984!!! pre rave for sure but no shortage of partying ... ) and Glastos of the nineties with Travellers Fields and their back of a truck systems and all.
But the whole underground raving thing was steeply in decline in frequency for me even before I left London, and now that I'm out of London and living with my festie loving but non-late-partying partner ... well festies will continue
but anything else will be as rare as rocking horse shit.Give me a good pub with decent ale early on in an evening, that was always where it was at for me mostly and still is!
Ahem, went on a bit there, sorry ...
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
That's something I've been meaning to ask for like, ever. Why not?
The liquid connective/id spiral one with psytrance in the basement, nagual on the 2nd (maybe 3rd) floor and a burst water pipe in the morning? I think there was a ket-fuelled painting session in the basement which I helped facilitate with Brian (the CIA hippy). Good laugh
e2a that was before a certain FJ introduced me to the old regret though, I disapproved of it massively at the time . . .
That was the one.
FJ led a lot of people astray. That AXA one was probably the cleanest squat-party I've ever been to - nice carpets and the phones still worked! A friend of mine rang her parents in New Zealand half-way through to say 'Hi mum, I'm at a squat party!'. Probably not the best idea in retrospect.
Things had a kind of political edge to them at that time (albeit a slightly mental one). Nagual were an interesting bunch, political and protest videos got shown, stuff was organised there in the morning when people had come down or sobered up. If that still happens I don't know about it.
I did have a bad experience one time on acid when all my mates fell asleep and they started showing shaky-cam videos of police baton-charges and arrests/de-arrests etc. After about four hours my so-called mates woke up and couldn't work out why I was so freaked out, and I was too freaked out to tell them.
Happy days.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I just don't get it. In my late 30s, raving was a key part of my fitness programme - it's that aspect I miss the most as I approach 50.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
I enjoyed going to the OCB nights a few years back, a more civilised raving experience.
I went to the one on a certain inter-borough outdoor wildlife reserve destination in 2003. That was
i was involved in a lot of those, we had some damned good nights, the one on the marshes was beautiful. some of the squat parties were superb but hard work as well, altho doing it with a great group of people helped.
tbh, i feel raved out now. after doing it pretty regularly for ~15 years, i started to feel that it was becoming a bit samey iyswim? still pop along to the odd event but nowhere near like it used to be.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
It's not physical recovery, it's head recovery. Physically I'm up and bouncing with the squirrels a day later, it just takes a few days to re-align sleep/brain these days.
It's why there've been 3 MDMA bombs and a wrap of 2cb in my stash box since NYE that haven't been touched.
Meph tho...the completely lack of comedown/headfuck the next day might lead to a new dawn in clubbing...well, it would do if other life plans weren't about to start...
It's why there've been 3 MDMA bombs and a wrap of 2cb in my stash box since NYE that haven't been touched.
Meph tho...the completely lack of comedown/headfuck the next day might lead to a new dawn in clubbing...well, it would do if other life plans weren't about to start...
Griff
Feeding the foxes
Good work there. There was a great one in Seven sisters if I remember rightly, a brilliant one in Wood Green, possibly an ex Telecoms building with rows of lovely clean toilets and a lovely one over Walthamstow Marshes I remember walking back in the early hours with LDR, Yossarian & Emmett. Possibly a couple of others too.
Me not doing MDMA/pills
I really don't know tbh. Call it weed or beer preference based conservatism??? ....
I really don't know tbh. Call it weed or beer preference based conservatism??? ....
That was the one.
FJ led a lot of people astray. That AXA one was probably the cleanest squat-party I've ever been to - nice carpets and the phones still worked! A friend of mine rang her parents in New Zealand half-way through to say 'Hi mum, I'm at a squat party!'. Probably not the best idea in retrospect.
Things had a kind of political edge to them at that time (albeit a slightly mental one). Nagual were an interesting bunch, political and protest videos got shown, stuff was organised there in the morning when people had come down or sobered up. If that still happens I don't know about it.
I did have a bad experience one time on acid when all my mates fell asleep and they started showing shaky-cam videos of police baton-charges and arrests/de-arrests etc. After about four hours my so-called mates woke up and couldn't work out why I was so freaked out, and I was too freaked out to tell them.
Happy days.
I remember he AXA party you're talking about, in fact I went there with sam and his mates I think.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Miss out the beer, and weed is the perfect drug for dancing - as opposed to chewing your face off.I really don't know tbh. Call it weed or beer preference based conservatism??? ....
I once had a beer while waiting for something to start and it ruined my evening - not forgetting to mention the "beer monsters" clogging up the dance floor ....
free spirit
more tea vicar?
Let's just say me and FS had some interesting conversations at the weekend
oh dear... it's not my fault, I got fed with rave truth serum and it made me talk.
I reckon I do fancy the odd bit of quality raving this summer though, and I've got a whole new area of the country to explore as well.
I'll bring my tunes and suicide amp with me then rather than leaving them in storage?
That was the one.
FJ led a lot of people astray. That AXA one was probably the cleanest squat-party I've ever been to - nice carpets and the phones still worked! A friend of mine rang her parents in New Zealand half-way through to say 'Hi mum, I'm at a squat party!'. Probably not the best idea in retrospect.
Things had a kind of political edge to them at that time (albeit a slightly mental one). Nagual were an interesting bunch, political and protest videos got shown, stuff was organised there in the morning when people had come down or sobered up. If that still happens I don't know about it.
I did have a bad experience one time on acid when all my mates fell asleep and they started showing shaky-cam videos of police baton-charges and arrests/de-arrests etc. After about four hours my so-called mates woke up and couldn't work out why I was so freaked out, and I was too freaked out to tell them.
Happy days.
I was mint, I can recall quite a lot of it clearly (surprisingly enough) - I gave the phones a try out as well, when we were helping set up, but I think I only rang Plumstead.
Nagual haven't come to much though, imo . . .
Nagual splintered I think. The Drug Monk went to New York, the rest went their separate ways. It was a shame as they had potential, but they were a bright bunch and were always gonna get led in different directions.
FJ is in Amsterdam I think, although Ms Loop is in more regular contact than me.
FJ is in Amsterdam I think, although Ms Loop is in more regular contact than me.
Boycey
juvenile rave slut
don't know who said that but you are not alone there.
the different rooms for different genres thing winds me up too tbh- encourages monotony IMO.
i very nearly fucked off the whole dance music thing through sheer boredom after 5 years of partying, a large dose of acid and some very eclectic djing on a hill in sussex sorted me right out though fortunately.
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
*longs for the nostalgia of the Hedge Party*
I'm sure there'll be something in the summer. I have a new venue.
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