Your very first rave

[aurora green]

Let's not turn this very promising thread into a debate about whether it's ok to take kids to parties or not.
It's irrelevant to this thread. I just re-told the story of my first (and I mean first ) rave. I haven't said if I ever took them to subsequent raves, or if I thought it was a good idea to take them in the first place

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm not having a go at you but I am curious as to why someone would take a kid to a rave.
I don't think it's unreasonable to have a debate about it either.

 

[Mation]

Not on this thread though, eh?

 

[Orang Utan]

Oh, OK

 

[gucci piggy]

Oh, OK

Start a new thread though, I think it's an interesting question.

 

[Orang Utan]

I might, but then I'm gonna look like a Mail reader - I'm not sure if I care enough!

 

[gucci piggy]

I might, but then I'm gonna look like a Mail reader - I'm not sure if I care enough!

Fair enough

Aurora, I'm quite interested (if you don't mind me asking) - how did it work out taking small children raving? Did they enjoy it? For that matter, did you enjoy it? I was just wondering about if you had to stay sober, worrying about losing them, getting any extra hassle/threats from police etc

 

[radiohead]

get over yourself and worry about your own life.

(lol )

my first rave was in a club.. was great.. but asword spread about it it became diluted with all sortsa cunty folk and so i don't go no more.

would love to find my way to an outside-y rave sometime

 

[aurora green]

....I was just wondering about if you had to stay sober, worrying about losing them, getting any extra hassle/threats from police etc

All of those things...but I wouldn't of missed it for the world.

You've got to remember this wasn't some scabby squat party, it was a party practically on a beach (albeit an ever so lightly radio active one, in all proberbility ), much more like a festival, and it was the early ninties, new-age traveller time, families were common...
It was a different vibe from nowdays.
No ket monkeys, very hippyish.

 

[loud 1]

I might, but then I'm gonna look like a Mail reader - I'm not sure if I care enough!

ive done it.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I'd take my kid to a fluffy outdoor festival, but not a squat party...

I'm actually surprised these alsatians you get running around at squat parties don't go mental with all the music, and end up attacking people...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Just to add though... My first rave was in India, in 1995... One of those trancey parties near Manali. Only about 100 people, but very, very cool. Dancing with the Himalayas lit up by the moon all around you.

And I don't give a shit how cheesy some obscurantist is going to say that is, when you are there it's fucking amazing.

 

[hungry 4 kicks]

Mine was in 92/93 (think).

Drove around lost for ages circling Radlett before we found an enormous warehouse/hanger thing from which 'beats' were emanating.

I came prepared because I'd heard about raves and knew the right sort of thing to wear (a burnt orange shirt, pressed, my 'painting' jeans and a big silver and jade pendant :thumbs up: ).

I think they were playing 'dance' music and there were lots of people I didn't understand. Some of them may have been on drugs, but I didn't do them so I can't be sure. I stood in one corner for a bit and then moved to another one.

iirc, one of my friends decided they didn't actually want to go to a rave after all, and so stayed in the car.

We went home after about an hour.

That was my last one for about 10 years.

Club UN - Moon dance '95....wish I was around in the late 80s for the field vibes.....

 

[Pie 1]

I have a very foggy memory of a huge barn in the Essex countryside, a bit to much acid and very loud repetetive music in summer 1990. I really can't expand it any further than that

 

[May Kasahara]

Honestly I can't remember, so I obviously didn't experience one of those scales-from-eyes conversions from indie slut to rave bunny! It was probably some dirty techno & gabba night that my friends from school went to.

Never been to a full-on field rave, for which I'm actually quite grateful.

 

[JTG]

I'd take my kid to a fluffy outdoor festival, but not a squat party...

I'm actually surprised these alsatians you get running around at squat parties don't go mental with all the music, and end up attacking people...

With the exception of the Unsound doggies - who I know are very well behaved - I get very nervous with dogs at parties and that. I don't know why people bring them.

 

[Onket]

They are a fashion accessory.

 

[gaijingirl]

My first proper rave - complete with first E was 1990 on my birthday on New Year's Eve somewhere near Amsterdam. It was fucking incredible. We asked around for a good club and someone told us to wait at the back of Amstel train station for a bus which would take us to one. We ended up in some massive warehouse type place - God know where in the countryside in Amsterdam. I had my first E and danced SO much that I literally couldn't walk the next morning....

Sadly the come down was not helped when I got back to my bus where I had been living and it had been smashed into, everything nicked and trashed.

Still, that rave was a bit of a turning point for me.. it was just incredible!!!

 

[JTG]

They are a fashion accessory.

Most of the time they seem to be a warning sign saying 'my owner is a dickhead'

Most, not all.

 

[sherriff rosco]

My first proper "rave" was with the Fear Teachers out somewhere near Camberley in 1990. Driving in me mates little VW bug we got stopped all the time by people asking us where the party was? How would we know ! We were two stoners in a bug trying to find it as well! After parking up it was a long hike cross country to the party site! Didn`t stay long as we had to go to work the next morning but it looked good!

Sometime around then ( might have been later that summer?) was the Chobham Common party.....now that was a blinder ! My first proper brush with what outdoor raves are all about.

I remember the first party I dj`ed at more than the first I went to ! I was cacking myself!!

.p.

 

[spanglechick]

I'm actually surprised these alsatians you get running around at squat parties don't go mental with all the music, and end up attacking people...

fuckinng x 1000000000000

now i have something else to worry about with the dawgs...

anyway - i don't think i've been to a rave. unsound / housebreakin and bangface both seem rather too civilsed and smaller scale (tho, i expect that's cos the red star is a more civilised venue than where unsound / housebreakin have been in the past.)

will tonight count, i wonder...?

 

[Onket]

Tonight is effectively the same as Redstar in terms of venue.

 

[Addy]

My first rave...

Utopia if my memmory serves me right.

 

[MysteryGuest]

Actually I was just thinking that, if you go along with the principle of the aphorism "if you can remember it you weren't there", then everybody on this thread probably went to a First Rave once that was sooo fucking minbogglingly incredible they actually have no recollection of it whatsoever. If anybody's got a diary maybe they could check it for mysterious blank pages that are there for no discernible reason...

 

[ngeru]

will tonight count, i wonder...?

Yep.

 

[spanglechick]

Yep.

cool. well it was ace. exhausting, but ace. techno - yay!

 

[fractionMan]

MY first real rave was at the warehouse (oz) in plymouth in spring 93. It was LOUD and there was lazers everywhere. Some old people (at least 25!) took me under their wing. Ratpack played in gold shiny suits! I was 16 and after the first one I went raving every couple of weeks for the next two years.

I guess mine was at Treworgy in 89 when a bloke drove a sodding great merc van into the festival, set up a masive sound system & started banging out techno all night. Hadn't understood what all the fuss was with dance music until then but I was off my nuts on microdots having seen Hawkwind earlier that evening & remember thinking "OK now I get it!"

Now that was a festival! Totally fucked up anything goes nuts. 10 toilets for 10000 people or something.

I was 11/12 at the time

 

[Numbers]

The KSS/Malfeiters rave on Sunday morning was in a venue I raved in in 1989

At stages of my time there when the k & acid was being drilled into my core by the acidtekno I could see snapshots of myself from age 19 to 36 like in a film roll in various positions of intoxicated dance and I lead myself in mirroring the movements.. very surreal, it was like being at my first and last ever rave simultaneously.

 

[The Pious Pawn]

some time in 91 some were in bedfordshire to a do by a group called exedous

 

[Onket]

The KSS/Malfeiters rave on Sunday morning was in a venue I raved in in 1989

At stages of my time there when the k & acid was being drilled into my core by the acidtekno I could see snapshots of myself from age 19 to 36 like in a film roll in various positions of intoxicated dance and I lead myself in mirroring the movements.. very surreal, it was like being at my first and last ever rave simultaneously.

It had better not have been your last ever!