There were loads of all of those people there, it wasn't web designers and bankers, it wasn't now. Our generation had its priorities right and gleefully fucked off school, college, work for a weekend. Turned up spangled and blotchy if really, really necessary.
Summer of Illegal Raves Expected
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I got nostalgia from that vid and I was born in the late 80s, riding in the boot to get to raves (or getting back from them) because only a few people had managed to get a car/license, spending half the week scrambled and then doing it all over again. Main difference being the raves mostly being in the hundreds not thousands and mostly playing terrible music.
sufi
lala
the last heady days of the last tory regime in some ways similar to now but things were different in many ways - everyone was on housing benefit for one thing
and the choices for nights out or narcotics was way limited and uninspiringbut it was the contrast with what went before, way way less repressed than the previous era - things was still grim back then but it was a big huge step
luka
Well-known member
I don't know anyone who doesn't have a weapon in the car except my mum
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Do a Rocky with it.
Get down the abattoir and pulverise some carcass ribs. Be prepared, just not with a neckerchief sininging Ging Gang Gooly all Baden Powell-like round a camp fire. Camp fires in westerns are myths, this is Britain where fire draws fiends.
Get down the abattoir and pulverise some carcass ribs. Be prepared, just not with a neckerchief sininging Ging Gang Gooly all Baden Powell-like round a camp fire. Camp fires in westerns are myths, this is Britain where fire draws fiends.
Are you lot really tooled up? All we have is a dog that jumps around and barks at the postman.
I wasn't there I was born in 1988, I can't speak from experience, but I do believe there was a certain difference in the culture.
But I also think about my own experiences. I've done the classic Sunday morning rough shift after a night touring clubs and afterparties and it's fine if you can get away with it. But I've seen and heard many people not.
I grew up in a council estate and lived in a town just far away enough from any major city that the cost of taxis etc was prohibitively expensive from me enjoying nightlife and culture the way I wanted - I could see it was there to be explored but even with a student loan I didn't have the money for tickets, taxis and substances every weekend.
I was looking after my younger brother in my late teens and early 20s. I was making sure he was fed, both in terms of logistics and in terms of money, and if I hadn't been working and dealing with stuff then we would have been fucked.
As a gay man, there are certain environments I just don't risk, I don't know how comfortable I would have felt arriving at a woodlands site alone in the late 80s and early 90s. Call me a snowflake if you like but it's me who still has to self-police their effette mannerisms when walking home alone.
However much I wanted it to be, it simply wasn't a world that was available to me, and it doesn't take a great stretch of imagination to think that there were plenty of people in the country who felt unable to participate - people bound by their lack of privilege and opportunity to participate.
I don't think it takes away from the magic that people experienced at that time to say that... maybe it wasn't completely the egalitarian utopia it gets portrayed as. Do you ever notice there's never any women on these documentaries about the second summer of love?
But I also think about my own experiences. I've done the classic Sunday morning rough shift after a night touring clubs and afterparties and it's fine if you can get away with it. But I've seen and heard many people not.
I grew up in a council estate and lived in a town just far away enough from any major city that the cost of taxis etc was prohibitively expensive from me enjoying nightlife and culture the way I wanted - I could see it was there to be explored but even with a student loan I didn't have the money for tickets, taxis and substances every weekend.
I was looking after my younger brother in my late teens and early 20s. I was making sure he was fed, both in terms of logistics and in terms of money, and if I hadn't been working and dealing with stuff then we would have been fucked.
As a gay man, there are certain environments I just don't risk, I don't know how comfortable I would have felt arriving at a woodlands site alone in the late 80s and early 90s. Call me a snowflake if you like but it's me who still has to self-police their effette mannerisms when walking home alone.
However much I wanted it to be, it simply wasn't a world that was available to me, and it doesn't take a great stretch of imagination to think that there were plenty of people in the country who felt unable to participate - people bound by their lack of privilege and opportunity to participate.
I don't think it takes away from the magic that people experienced at that time to say that... maybe it wasn't completely the egalitarian utopia it gets portrayed as. Do you ever notice there's never any women on these documentaries about the second summer of love?
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
I guess it's a myth now as much as a reality (except for those who were actually there, and even for some of them) – it's become part of the collective national unconscious, like the Blitz and the Game of Thrones finale.
Even if it wasn't as inclusive as its made out to be, it represents a sort of inclusivity in our minds that you could say really counts for something.
Like the Blitz, where there were apparently a lot of burglaries and rapes going on in London at the time, but which has come to represent something noble and egalitarian in our heads.
Even if it wasn't as inclusive as its made out to be, it represents a sort of inclusivity in our minds that you could say really counts for something.
Like the Blitz, where there were apparently a lot of burglaries and rapes going on in London at the time, but which has come to represent something noble and egalitarian in our heads.
Hundreds gather at Castlefield Bowl 'rave' in city centre
Hundreds of people have gathered at the Castlefield Bowl this evening in what appears to be an impromptu rave
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
william_kent
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And it's over...
