The Asylum/Oldskool thread

tommylizard wrote: »

I'm trying to track down an old tune, from the early 90's. I have an old tape ( well a cd copy of it ) called Sides DC and it's on it - it's mixed in to Vinyl Blair - The Trancespotter. It has a bird singing 'break down and cry' ?? I'm sure someone here knows it - class tune altogether. Any ideas?? Cheers.

Alright mate, its possibly one dove - breakdown

i got an mp3 of it too but first try this, if it is the one then let me know and ill send ya the mp3 of it.......

nearly certain this is it anyway man

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UUXGud4Qc10

Johnnyd1977 wrote: »

Well ppl congratulations on this thread, it's an absolute cracker!!! Between all the moves and chnges i've lost all tapes ive had from back in the day and the downloads are great. I've been following this thread for quite a while now and it's my turn for my view:D...... I never made it to the asylum myself and in some ways im glad and in others im not. I was a big sides head back in the day, every fri and sat night, there will never be a club like it in dublin again! I started going in with mates who lived thru the asylum who had the know how , how to enjoy a good night. The thoughts of "flying" up and down the stairs in there sends shivers down my spine, i'll never forget my first night in there and hearing cosmic baby - fantasia at 4am, thought i was in paradise!. What i did find was a lot of 'asylum' heads chasing a lost buzz????, im not knocking it, i would love to have experienced it. I remember downstairs in sides seeing a needle in someones hands and my mates saying that was the norm in the asylum, not my buzz! From hearing stories etc i know the asylum was not always like that, so when did that creep in? I've one mate who slipped down that road who is now, all i can say an out and out wanker, but the asylum did that to him, as i said, 'that's the norm in the asylum'.

That's dublin for ya mate, no matter how good a scene or a place is, you're more than likely always gonna get dirtbags turning up and ruining it, im from dublin all my life but lets face it, our "legendary" spots are **** all compared to the ones in the rest of europe, especially the uk i.e shelleys, bowlers and the likes, sure the asylum and sides were open really late, so ya used to get hobos and all sorts going in with blankets and paper cups and all, so it doesn't surprise me one bit, if bouncers and doormen get that greedy and they're only after money regardless of who they let in, then sadly your gonna get junkie scumbags and the likes wrecking it for everyone, not the best enviroment to be in when your pilled up, surrounded by junk bags on the pitch black second floor or in the jax or whatever, all shooting up around ya, bad buzz that, think id rather go home myself **** that:eek::eek::eek::eek:

ROBDOW wrote: »

Ye Luke, can ye post up the mp3 for One Dove. I love that track too. Cheers

on the way...

was another top nite put on by ken and dar the place was kicking all the sets were top top sets was a savage nite fair play 2 the lads ken and dar

ROBDOW wrote: »

Ye Luke, can ye post up the mp3 for One Dove. I love that track too. Cheers

Here ya go http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ymxm0o3mdcn

Well Senan, i don't know the ins and outs of where he got the music from but most of it is scattered around the web anyway. May as well have it all under one roof. Theres plenty of people who will appreciate a website like Davesgaff.

knird evol wrote: »

Appolonia

http://www.mediafire.com/?btm3ttz1hcu

oh my god, thank you soooo much mate, i really owe you big time !!

I remember me and me mates doing the Muriel in sides and painting all kinds of mad pictures all over the walls and getting the cartaker John Murphy who looked after sides stoned off his nut at about 12pm in the day. He had kinda of stutter, but after we got him wasted he couldn't even talk let alone stutter. He was a sound man and really funny too ...gas times man

I knew some of the bouncers from sides and they didn't do gear.
I remember when gear did hit sides all concerened parties try to nip it in the bud as best they could.

bmooney wrote: »

i new a gud few of the bouncers in sides and seen them do pills alrite but never gear i remember 1 time off the head and going down stairs 2 the jacks 2 get sum water and seen a bird i worked with banging up man it freaked me out first time i seen it in sides heard sum ****ed up stories from the asylum my uncle was a bouncer in there anyways no 1 puts the needle in your arm the first time u can all always say no any 1 remember when the bloke died out side sides and his family out side cant remember if it was the next nite or next week

Yeah I remember that night the guy died outside sides, he was from Malahide wasn't he ??
I remember the following week when they played that tune, he died of an oversose was played and everyone kinda felt weird over what happened and there was a real weird buzz in sides the following week afer that happened and the place shut real early too. I think that was the beginning of the end.

stephen_n wrote: »

M8 to blame the asylum for your friend getting strung out is at best naive if not a joke. Very close minded view as of the 13,000 or so heroin addicts in Dublin how many went to the asylum? I know a fair few that only went to Sides and still got strung out, sure nearly all the door men on sides were using gear!! The asylum had a bad rep because it was more open in there but really it was only the third floor that you'd see people shooting up on. I went to both clubs and loved both of them the asylum maybe more so because it was so hedonistic and there were no rules but for all that it still felt pretty safe at the time.

Fair point mate, i am not naive as to soley blame the asylum for ppl getting strung out, but if there are ppl openly shooting up, been young and naive, and after a while your couple of doves don't seem to be quite what they used to be, it is a contributary factor..... yes you need to have the cop on to say 'not for me'. Anyway, what im really after is when did all that creep in or was it there from the very first night?. I know it was in sides as well but as far as im concerned it was confined to the bottom floor? stand to be corrected on that! I'm not knocking either club, sure i lived in sides every fri/sat night, but when there's scumbags sellin party packs in dame lane (3 doves and a wrap of smack) it doesn't help.
Think it was pretty obvious that the bouncers in sides were on yokes and dealing, i nearly got the bollox knocked out of me in there one night for handing my mate half a pill and they thought i was dealing.
Fair play to the lads who tried to organise a re-union night for the asylum, pity it got nipped in the bud very quickly.
From what ive heard, the law will never let the asylum open again, not even for a school disco!! As had been said in previous posts, there are clubs all over the uk that attract regular crowds week after week and the scumbags are told to **** off. Liverpool and manchester have some of the best clubs ive been in, yeh there is ppl on tablets but not everyone, theres a strict no scumbag policy and the law generally leaves them be.
Surely Dublin or the right people can open a club in dublin with the same principals, yeh there's tripod, acadmey etc but wouldn't it be great to have another sides, asylum, ormonde etc but run with a stricter policy.
Im sure if its set up thru the right channels, there can be no objections to a licence etc as long as it's run in a more professional manner. It works all over europe so why cant it work in dublin?

I think it's fair to say that the majority of people who post on this thread remember the Dublin electronic music scene in the early to mid 1990's, and they were most definitely very different times. I think the scene was pretty new, and it was an exciting global subculture. But as Francois pointed out, like a lot of subcultures, it became commodified through greed and over-exposure, and eventually lost a lot of meaning, particularly to the original people who were members of it. I do think the 1990's were hedonistic, mad times, and the highly charged atmosphere of clubs like Olympic, Sides and The Asylum is extremely rare to find in any contemporary club, in fact the only club in Ireland that ever had that level of energy was Sir Henries in Cork. I wouldn't agree that the electronic music scene is finished though, I think it has matured to a certain extent, I mean if you look at what some Irish electronic artists have achieved recently (people like Chymera, Stee Downes, Corrugated Tunnel, Donnacha Costello, John Daly, Gavin Boyce, and the like), it has possibly never been a more vibrant scene than it is today. I do agree that the licensing laws as they currently stand, and the rip-off culture of certain promoters has left a sour taste in most people's mouths, but for those of us who love the music and the scene it will always be something we share a passion for. I also think there is a level of thuggery in some clubs, and cocaine has certainly been a factor in creating more aggressive punters, but I've been to gigs in the past couple of years which were the best I'd ever been to, so I do think there is cause for optimism. I do look back on the days in the early 1990's with a certain amount of fondness, but the scene was really underground back then, and I don't think you will ever get that back. Youth musical movements move on so fast, the scene was bound to mature and change, it couldn't stay the same forever. To quote WB Yeats, "all changed, changed utterly, a terribly beauty is born".