Were you a "Raver" in 1989........

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Land of Oz

[woofmarkthedog]

Asset Wrote:

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> Hey Woof, I was a Tonka girl

Remember Harvey ,chocky & rev playing in the middle of the dance floor ....Ahhh they were the great parties

W**F

*put y'paws in the air*

[????]

...Plane Love at the Fridge

[Asset]

Did you go to Mondays at the Zap Woof? I'm still in touch with Choci, Harvey's defected and is living the life in LA, no idea what happened to Rev. Had some great nights at their dos.

[Asset]

Harvey - *swoon*

[woofmarkthedog]

Asset Wrote:

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> Did you go to Mondays at the Zap Woof? I'm still

> in touch with Choci, Harvey's defected and is

> living the life in LA, no idea what happened to

> Rev. Had some great nights at their dos.

Yes I did, proper messed up the week.....but it was well worth it. What is choci up to now ?

W**F

[Asset]

family man

[gallinello]

Was Tonka a South coast 'thing'? I remember Harvey from 'Moist', again at The Gardening Club; I'm sure I heard Larry Levan spin there too.

F**k, it seems like a thousand years ago, or just like yesterday!!

Did anybody ever go to: The Brain, Labyrinth, Flying, Kinky Disco, Love Ranch, 'The Drop' parties, Farringdon, early 'End' nights (Subterrain)?

Gotta stop now, coming up a little ; just on the memories alone! How can you explain to anybody else who wasn't there: the sights, the sounds, the antics - not all MDMA-induced! - the musik, the vibe, the matiness, the togetherness, and deep, deep house music, all night long?

[bigbadwolf]

Did any of you 'ravers' get the crap beaten out of you during a Police raid? Now that's what you call being 'all clubbed out'.

[gallinello]

Are you a bit radio rental, bbw ?

[Asset]

Tonka was all over, Harvey played many places, e.g. Ministry, Moist was his night at the Gardening Club. I went to the Brain, Kinky Disco, Solaris, Hug Club and many things that had no name and I don't remember where they were!! 20 years ago now kids, seems like only last year (sometimes).

[Asset]

I saw Harvey in New York last year BTW, still rocks!

[bigbadwolf]

gallinello Wrote:

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> Are you a bit radio rental, bbw ?

I'll have you know I stopped eating dinner with rubber cutlery a long time ago.

[woofmarkthedog]

gallinello Wrote:

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> Was Tonka a South coast 'thing'? I remember Harvey

> from 'Moist', again at The Gardening Club; I'm

> sure I heard Larry Levan spin there too.

> F**k, it seems like a thousand years ago, or just

> like yesterday!!

> Did anybody ever go to: The Brain, Labyrinth,

> Flying, Kinky Disco, Love Ranch, 'The Drop'

> parties, Farringdon, early 'End' nights

> (Subterrain)?

> Gotta stop now, coming up a little ; just on the

> memories alone! How can you explain to anybody

> else who wasn't there: the sights, the sounds, the

> antics - not all MDMA-induced! - the musik, the

> vibe, the matiness, the togetherness, and deep,

> deep house music, all night long?

Yes I think Tonka was.

There was a different scene down there, deep down I'm a country boy, Raves in huge barns in the middle of the country, on beaches,in the middle of an orchard, on air fields but never got raided to close them down ,visits from the police of course. I've done both London/ Sth coast ravin. Loved it all and would never change a thing , it was massive & it was tiny. We were a very lucky generation i think, It changed and allowed so much, you can see the influences now everywhere.In Art, design , life. Truly british & very entrepreneurial.

God it still makes your spine tingle.....

W**F

[hibbs]

The Milk Bar, Velvet Underground, Malibu Stacey, Legends... damn they just don't make them like they used to!

[bigbadwolf]

Roll on the 90's and we were confronted by the plague of the boy band. Particularly this gang of arseholes!!!

Robbie's trouisers are all over the shop and I don't think I've seen a haircut like that outside of those pictures (90's inspired) you see in male hairdressers. I hated this lot with a burning passion.

[????]

It's kind of odd how the whole rave thing seems to hsve been quite underplayed...

IMO:

it was arguebly the most important youth culture of them all and certainly the last one that had an older generation not understanding what the youth was up to

it led to licensing laws being chsnged

It moved drugs into the mainstream

It was universal in appeal for a youth culture - everyone was raving, public schoolboys and football hooligans- it actuslly killed off the tribsl nature of british youth culture

It went global

My sister once said to me in an ecstatic state at White Waltham Airfield "This is gonna chsnge the world". I laughed......maybe, maybe she was right

[????]

it does seem like yesterday not 20 years ago

[bigbadwolf]

I bet you've still got all the old clobber that you wore to these festivals of protest/change/fashion crimes haven't you Quids.

[????]

most gone.......but scarily recently........f*ck me I'm shuddering....fluroscent 3/4 length trousers were just the tip of the iceberg

[*Bob*]

Yeah, did you ever go to Mooncloud? I used to go there with little Jimmy Simmons and the Kebble sisters - remember them? Crazy! We'd start off there and then go to Wadded at sunrise, just mashed off our melons! And those Tijanan parties where The Biscuit Crew always played last - seventeen hour set.. Magic.

[woofmarkthedog]

I first came across the scene quite by accident in 88, I went to Ibiza for a week & stayed for 5. I remember being in Pacha & there were trannies on stilts wearing flares & caftans whilst completely out of their trees on whatever, the music was mental. I was blown away & intrigued at the same time. Then things started to kick off over here in 89.....

[*Bob*]

woofmarkthedog Wrote:

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> I remember being in Pacha & there were trannies on

> stilts wearing flares & caftans whilst completely

> out of their trees on whatever.

Yep, they're still there.

[woofmarkthedog]

Really oh my god , i'm going to take lie down.

W**F

*Fire on tonight *Bob* *

[ratty]

Anyone do Vision?