but it's true that i went through a heavy drinking phase after my dad died and got fat and miserable on it. it lasted for 4 or 5 years. i regret it and im angry with myself about it.
I'd say that's a fairly lonely Venn diagram.
i came of age during this period
I was saved by a delayed jungle scene.
What did you lot do when the hot girls invited you clubbing in 1997? Grimace about Doc Scott being past his best and say that you were staying home to listen to your older brothers' Kool FM tapes?
What did you lot do when the hot girls invited you clubbing in 1997? Grimace about Doc Scott being past his best and say that you were staying home to listen to your older brothers' Kool FM tapes?
See this cracks me up but also makes we slightly sad. The Jungle Jihad on here maintains that the music became crap on a wet Wednesday in 1994 but none of them were actually raving to it at the time. In parallel to this they have all sorts of weird complexes about what was going on in their youthful wild days.
What did you lot do when the hot girls invited you clubbing in 1997? Grimace about Doc Scott being past his best and say that you were staying home to listen to your older brothers' Kool FM tapes?
I had a wicked time at Formation and nights by Tru Playaz and Ram Records AND Dead by Dawn at the 121 Centre AND reggae nights AND gigs by Tortoise and Belle and Sebastian around this time.
It's much better to be honest and say that your first gig was Howard Jones with a smile on your face than this weird protestant purism. I'm supposed to be the po-faced serious one here, remember?
i do think the music is very very very bad but i was more indulging in a rant about the cultural moment. the effect of a dedicated, organised pushback against rave culture bearing fruit. from the Criminal Justice Bill, to alcopops, to Britpop, to the (then) new beer barns, to Loaded magazine etc etc etc it was, in a very real sense, a counter-revolution. progress was rolled back and that ground has not been regained. we are still behind 1992 culturally speaking.
a rant i would have thought eden (and reynolds for that matter) would be sympathetic towards.
I'm not sure how Big Beat was part of an attempt to destroy rave?
I just don’t see those things (all of which I objected to at the time and some of which I actively protested against) were synonymous with getting mashed up on a Friday night and dancing to things with breakbeats in.
LOL. I was going to say to Firefinga yesterday that there's more chance of Skrewdriver being recuperated into the canon than Big Beat.
I'm not sure how Big Beat was part of an attempt to destroy rave? Unless you seriously thought Spiral Tribe were going to lead the revolution.
the chemical brothers were just a dance-rock version of Baddiel and Skinner.