Your very first Rave!!

[GiantMidget]

I remember my first rave very well. I was 18 and the world was my oyster. Started getting into DnB and my mates birthday was coming up, Another friend suggested we went raving in London down at Camden Palace. As i was new to this i was a bit hesitant but my mates assured me it would be all good. We went and it was phat, Had my very first pills there as well and came up to DjHypes - Ready Or Not. I was on cloud 9 and it was one of best experiences i had ever had!! Even now whenever i hear that tune i always remember that tune and even get a little moist. In my eyes i should add! :crazy_dru

So my question to all is, do you remember your first ever rave and how was it? :love:

[spark_plug]

was one of my mates first times doin a party n it was bout 5 miles from my house. at thhe glorious substation. took 3 pills n went crazy and vomited clear red stuff 3 times...sketchy!!!!

[starlaugh]

Urm Wales somewhere..

[rach]

took us 3 hours to persuade our lift to drive us there.... he didnt look impressed when we had to stop about 12 times on the way as we were pissed as farts... had the most amzing time, in a couple of barns, was pissing it down with rain all night so rolled around in the mud a lot... nonstop techno all night. completely got the buzz and was out doing it for all the weekends after that.

turned my boyfriend was doing one of the rigs at that party long before i ever met him!

i have dear old digital-a to thank for my downfall! :wink:

[Digital-A]

i have dear old digital-a to thank for my downfall! :wink:

You see it as a downfall darling, i see it as a beautiful and amazing friendship ... from your point of view i can see why some may consider it a downfall haha :wink:

My first party was at a place called 'the log' up north close to where i used to live, drank my own weight in cider, eventually got home ...

[Digital-A]

took us 3 hours to persuade our lift to drive us there.... he didnt look impressed when we had to stop about 12 times on the way as we were pissed as farts... had the most amzing time, in a couple of barns, was pissing it down with rain all night so rolled around in the mud a lot... nonstop techno all night. completely got the buzz and was out doing it for all the weekends after that.



Was i there?

I cant remember, the problem being its possible i could have been ... *tuts at self for previous self-abuse*

[rach]

hahah a downfall into the dark and derranged world of techno, speakers and the ridgeway!

yeh that was the first night i met you actually thinking about it

you had a load of issues cause a certain boyo was driving your decks home!

[rach]

i found a video of it but dont know how to embed it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYtQbIwCAR0&feature=related

[spark_plug]

EYtQbIwCAR0

we dont like your hippie type round these parts. bugger off


you embedded it wrong btw:P
i edited it for u in a quote

[spark_plug]

DIDNT FUCKIN WORK THO DID IT!!!!

[rach]

we dont like your hippie type round these parts. bugger off


you embedded it wrong btw:P
i edited it for u in a quote

us hippies are no good with computers and nonsense

and dont speak to me unless your coming down this weekend!

[spark_plug]

us hippies are no good with computers and nonsense

and dont speak to me unless your coming down this weekend!

express your anger at dom_sufc, not me! hes the one who gave my lift away:P:P

[starlaugh]

us hippies are no good with computers and nonsense

and dont speak to me unless your coming down this weekend!

WHAT hes down this way this weekend???

[rach]

express your anger at dom_sufc, not me! hes the one who gave my lift away:P:P


warn him of serious beatings...

but also tell him i want to meet him... i do love a PV meet up.... even if it does involve serious beatings

[spark_plug]

WHAT hes down this way this weekend???

he is


















.....without me:cry::cry::cry:

[rach]

WHAT hes down this way this weekend???

lee you coming out this weekend? ben you can get a train to oxford and lee can drive ya poifect!

[Digital-A]

you had a load of issues cause a certain boyo was driving your decks home!


.... scum bag!

[spark_plug]

lee you coming out this weekend? ben you can get a train to oxford and lee can drive ya poifect!

pay for my train ticket to oxford n i will!

[Digital-A]

pay for my train ticket to oxford n i will!


ill pay for your lunch on the train ... the others can splash the ticket ;)

hows that?

[GiantMidget]

pay for my train ticket to oxford n i will!


Not wanting to promote illegal behaviour but you could always hijack the train and flee to Mexico. :wink:

[starlaugh]

lee you coming out this weekend? ben you can get a train to oxford and lee can drive ya poifect!

Me?? Who me??

Yes I shall be, well I might pop to Bleepfunkt on Sat afternoon... other than that its a quiet one for me this weekend me thinks... Monies need to be going on my car really, needs a cam-belt and I should replace it before it goes snap

Dunno Sat night does sound fun, but I know its a bad idea :)

[spark_plug]

Me?? Who me??

Yes I shall be, well I might pop to Bleepfunkt on Sat afternoon... other than that its a quiet one for me this weekend me thinks... Monies need to be going on my car really, needs a cam-belt and I should replace it before it goes snap

Dunno Sat night does sound fun, but I know its a bad idea :)

yeah! stay in lee! youre suppose to be takin it easy man!

[Playground Politics]

i really like the green on those speakers!

my first party was near oxford, jumped about lots,(before that i would never dance, ever, i thought it to be ridiculous) long time untill i had my first pill, was a small barn, with a hippy van backed onto it, rach drove me (bless u for all those times untill i pulled my finger out and started driving) and i spent the night wondering why there was a brummie following us around

[Tank Girl]

think it was a spiral tribe squat party aged 16 with me big sis:bounce_fl

[spangle]

My first one was aaages ago in poyle I think really didn't know what to expect n we had to leave early as some girls we took needed to be home :laugh_at:

First proper party we'd spent the day in Brighton n my forwarded me a text saying something like 'massive free outdoor party tonight phone 07*********' we were just like fuck yeh drove for 4 hours up to Kettering for st**m multirigger was still one the of the phattest parties I've been to & sparked off a few years of partying and getting way more involved in the scene ever since! Would love to go back to that one or the first summer of partyin when everything was new and exciting and not so locked-down :love:

[Digital-A]

i really like the green on those speakers!

my first party was near oxford, jumped about lots,(before that i would never dance, ever, i thought it to be ridiculous) long time untill i had my first pill, was a small barn, with a hippy van backed onto it, rach drove me (bless u for all those times untill i pulled my finger out and started driving) and i spent the night wondering why there was a brummie following us around


Christ i remember that night ... well ... some if it ...

i remember holding onto PP's arm singing songs from shrek ...

''...on the road again, sing it shrek ... ''

whooooops :)

[General Lighting]

first free party was some crew called Sputnik sounds in Reading, around mid-late 1991

was totally different then, the crew people were a lot older (about my age now), pills lasted longer but comedowns were way harsher

all that crew got addicted to heroin and burned out 2 years later - it wasn't that good "back in the day"

my best times were probably 1997-2001 TBH

My first one was aaages ago in poyle I think really didn't know what to expect n we had to leave early as some girls we took needed to be home :laugh_at:


I used to cycle to Poyle from Reading if I couldn't get a lift wasn't too bad apart from going back up Knowl Hill on a comedown :crazy_diz

[spangle]

I used to cycle to Poyle from Reading if I couldn't get a lift wasn't too bad apart from going back up Knowl Hill on a comedown :crazy_diz

I live about 5 minutes from Knowl Hill! And there isn't a chance in hell you would catch me cycling up there from Poyle to Reading on a comedown you nutter lol

[redneck]

we went to loads of sketchy little affairs before we started finding the proper good circus warp parties in about 1989.

and the rest, as they say, is......... all a bit of a blur tbh

:crazy:

[General Lighting]

I live about 5 minutes from Knowl Hill! And there isn't a chance in hell you would catch me cycling up there from Poyle to Reading on a comedown you nutter lol

thats the advantage of where I am now, its not quite flat but there's no gradients like knowl hill

I once saw a copper on his racing bike training going up knowl hill with a TVP royalty protection unit vehicle being used as a "pacer" vehicle (was the day before charles and camillas wedding so I expect they were testing the car beforehand)

[rachus]

glade 2006.. if thats classed as a rave..
other than that it was legal rave one of the slinkys night in late 06'

[Benzo]

Can't pinpoint the first rave as was already heavily into drugs festivals and free loud music by the time raves took off.
However spiral tribe, smeatharpe, castle morton, exodus, biology, genesis etc, etc. Fuck the old days-now is where its at.

[MrAHC]

1991 a werehouse on Pump St Blackburn it got busted by old bill who surounded it and put full beams n sirens on. I thought it was part of the music and a lighting effect.:laugh_at:

didnt realy get into rtaves n till 93 though was still into hippy music n manchester music till then.

[Playground Politics]

Fuck the old days-now is where its at.

what do u mean then?

[Shit Robot]

Somerset I think,maybe Avon,cant remember.was yonks ago lol

[Benzo]

what do u mean then?


I hate wallowing in how much bigger and better things were. The free festivals in the summer were well big and organised. We used to get a festival list at the start of spring with a LANDLINE number on it and go out most weekends all over the country. I love the way the scene has survived and spread across europe etc. It feels a lot more diy now, and the music is more diverse. Back then it took ages for for electronic music and ravers to be accepted at these things. I have to live for the now and take things as they come, enjoy new music, drugs etc. Also pills used to cost a small fortune back then.

[General Lighting]

I think the available resources (such as technology) and drugs are definitely better now, but the social atmosphere of newer parties isn't as good (but I only mean new as in from 2005 onwards)

IMO the free party scene had its peak from 1997-2004 when the economy was booming - babylon didn't actually give as much of a fuck about it as normal people were too distracted by the dot com boom and easy credit/loads of consumer goods etc to whinge about what we were getting up to in fields.

remember how even tony blair was biggin up cool britannia and having tea with people what admitted to doing drugs openlu and are now seen as junkie scum even if they are pop stars?

Today, parties, when they happen, are still OK but they were taken for granted during the recent good times and ravers brought a lot of the backlash upon themselves.

The one change I have noticed is that as recently as 5-6 years ago you could go round a party smiling and chat to randoms and meet loads of new people, and everyone was buzzing and happy, even in SE England and some parts of London!

nowadays even at a fluffy Norfolk "bumpkin" party you are liable to just get blanked or people are really blunt and abrupt if you aren't part of their clique (I suppose people have to become cynical though as there are a fair few thieves/blaggers about these days)

[process]

its still pretty fluffy up north! i quite often go to parties on my own cause loads of my mates are so lame when it actually comes to going to parties. i just got pissed of with them saying i cant be bothered, so i just thought fuck it and went on my own. loads of freindly faces to talk to up north and now when i go i recognise loads of people. cant be bad.:weee:

[binge]

Pumpkin the Tunes- Halloween rave in Cavenham about 98/9 when I was about 15ish. Didn't go again till the start of 2002.

I was at a DnB night in Ipswich that my mates were playing at/ Got a flyer for an X-party the next night. Went to the meet point in my local tow, and found out it was about 15mins from my house- rounded up loads of people and headed there.

Was on Stanton Airfield- about 3 warehouses with 3 massive rigs- proper lasers, light show, etc. Convoys kept turning up from all over the country- shed loads of people.

I think a few faces on this sight may have memories of this party..........

Was a fucking banger. Cue 20 weekends partying in a row!!

[General Lighting]

Was on Stanton Airfield- about 3 warehouses with 3 massive rigs- proper lasers, light show, etc. Convoys kept turning up from all over the country- shed loads of people.

I think a few faces on this sight may have memories of this party..........



and yet it didn't even get any negative publicity in the papers or mentioned on the police/council/neighbourhood watch websites (there is a mention of one in that area in '05 but I think what you must be referiing to happened long before)

WTF happened here?

[binge]

There was a brief mention in the local paper. And you have to remember at this point the whole of TV was on a similar shut down.

In a nutshell- the same sites got rinsed, locals got fed up. Victims of our own success.

I was really gutted to leave the scene to go to uni right in the middle of it's hey-day (2003).

[General Lighting]

There was a brief mention in the local paper. And you have to remember at this point the whole of TV was on a similar shut down..

do you mean TV as in thames valley area (because it wasn't that locked down back then :wink:) or that Anglia TV and BBC East and the papers deliberately didn't report on raves as it was a "elephant in the room" issue and maybe the cops didn't want to give it the "oxygen of publicity" as thatcho once said?

[binge]

do you mean TV as in thames valley area (because it wasn't that locked down back then :wink:) or that Anglia TV and BBC East and the papers deliberately didn't report on raves as it was a "elephant in the room" issue and maybe the cops didn't want to give it the "oxygen of publicity" as thatcho once said?

As in Thames Valley... well it was by the time I got to any of thoses parties (2006ish). Whendid they get the Rave Squad? That's always a bad omen....

[General Lighting]

As in Thames Valley... well it was by the time I got to any of thoses parties (2006ish). Whendid they get the Rave Squad? That's always a bad omen....

Around 2004/05. before the airwave radios as some of us used to listen to their antics on scanner

The term "rave squad" was and TBH is just spin.

you did have cops monitoring websites in their spare time and "armchair vigilanté" locals passing on info from SJ and here,

but all the rave squad actually consists of is just a few extra bobbies in a couple of "serial" vans with "PSU" gear (what is normally called a "riot" van) that were available for the whole area to use for any large scale incident of anti social behaviour, This included the usual pissheads you'd get fighting in town, particularly after football.

these sorts of anti social behaviour unit actually existed before the rave lockdown!

What happened though is because of the behaviour and attitudes changing, the overuse of venues in both regions, and the NHS flagging the increasing binge drinking/drugs problem in Britain, the gap closed between pub/club/townie type idiocy and the rave scene and parties went from being viewed as a rather quirky bit of youthful mischief to medium level crime.

this is also why the cops can argue to the news media they aren't spending loads more money, as those extra coppers are already out on the streets anyway...

[DaftFader]

Not wanting to promote illegal behaviour but you could always hijack the train and flee to Mexico. :wink:
i tried to do this from manc to oxford .. they check tickets on that line .. if you want to lock your self in the bogs .. thats up to you haha

[GiantMidget]

i tried to do this from manc to oxford .. they check tickets on that line .. if you want to lock your self in the bogs .. thats up to you haha

Haha is that what you did? Hows tings mate? :wink:

[titch]

First free party was in 1997 i think, a small one at The Geldston Locks in Norfolk, then the following week a wicked pit party in Tunstall Forest...

[binge]

I believe that 2002 one I was talking about was an Environmentalists Titch.............

[DaftFader]

Haha is that what you did? Hows tings mate? :wink:not bad dude .. working alot .. but its all good ... think theres a wee shin dig that a few ppl are going to in london on the second weekend of july .. i'll pm you about it closer to the time when i know whats hapning if your interested :wink:

[binge]

not bad dude .. working alot .. but its all good ... think theres a wee shin dig that a few ppl are going to in london on the second weekend of july .. i'll pm you about it closer to the time when i know whats hapning if your interested :wink:

Ohhh! Me too! Me Too! (please!)

[GiantMidget]

not bad dude .. working alot .. but its all good ... think theres a wee shin dig that a few ppl are going to in london on the second weekend of july .. i'll pm you about it closer to the time when i know whats hapning if your interested :wink:

Sweet go for it dude! :wink:

[coastie]

Mine was Frantic at SE1 in London for a mates birthday. I was 21 and had never done any drugs or been out properly. My mate who was getting into raving at the time bought me a ticket and a couple of pills and I mishioned it down from Swansea. This was a whole new world of not turning up to clubs until I would usually be going home from them! Went to an afterparty at George 1V pub afterwards...needless to say the whole thing was a life changing experienhce that I will always remember as one of my best ever.

[bubblehead]

god, just reading through all this has brought back some memories. My first rave was helter skelter@the sanctuary way back in sept 93. I can remember shitting myself as we got to the door as i was only 15 at the time and didn't fancy the prospect of hanging around MK all night if i got turned away. Got in though and had the time of my life.
Spin forward a few years and my first free party was back in birmingham in an old gym in moseley area. 1996 was a good yearraaa the rest they say is history

[General Lighting]

god, just reading through all this has brought back some memories. My first rave was helter skelter@the sanctuary way back in sept 93. y area. 1996 was a good yearI can remember shitting myself as we got to the door as i was only 15 at the time and didn't fancy the prospect of hanging around MK all night if i got turned away.

back then no one (not even security staff) cared for shit about age restrictions - I get asked for ID more today than I did when I was 16-17..

[richdaws]

was spiral tribe do in malvern....about 1990/91 ish
wasnt alone though !! big word got round and about 40000 showed...

was very messy.....
anyone on here remember speckled doves ?????