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Lorelli!

What actually is a Rave? I think the school disco may have been the closest thing to a rave I've been too

:pac: unless you count outdoor concerts!

I know everyone "hates" Maniac but that's what they played. I don't mind it

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razorblunt

Isn't it Jonathan Ross signalling hello to someone?

Hector Bellend

nullzero wrote: »

Events at which yokes are consumed in large quantities.

with plenty of bangers thrown in for good measure

Discodog

seamus wrote: »

Ah raves are still going on. Spoke to a Garda last year who had a rave appear out of nowhere in a field behind his house.

He didn't really want to bother the local station about it because it was so late and 2 lads in a squad car trying to break it up would be a nightmare. Plus he said he liked the music.

So he wandered over to have a chat to the guys on the "door" to find out what the story was.

Whole thing had been arranged on Facebook/Eventbrite. As a result, you had busses full of wealthy teenagers and expensive SUVs with parents dropping kids off at what they thought was an "official" event in some muddy field in the arsehole of nowhere. He said it was clear the kids were way in over their heads, expecting toilets and food and all that.

So he listened for a while and went home to bed. When it didn't end until 4:30am, he decided that the organisers needed an ASBO. He said that if they'd closed up by 3:30 he wouldn't have bothered

The legendary raves on Newquay beach in the UK became so yuppy that the rail companies offered special tickets from London.

seamus

Ah raves are still going on. Spoke to a Garda last year who had a rave appear out of nowhere in a field behind his house.

He didn't really want to bother the local station about it because it was so late and 2 lads in a squad car trying to break it up would be a nightmare. Plus he said he liked the music.

So he wandered over to have a chat to the guys on the "door" to find out what the story was.

Whole thing had been arranged on Facebook/Eventbrite. As a result, you had busses full of wealthy teenagers and expensive SUVs with parents dropping kids off at what they thought was an "official" event in some muddy field in the arsehole of nowhere. He said it was clear the kids were way in over their heads, expecting toilets and food and all that.

So he listened for a while and went home to bed. When it didn't end until 4:30am, he decided that the organisers needed an ASBO. He said that if they'd closed up by 3:30 he wouldn't have bothered

Doniekp

K.Flyer wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w1tdOuRkLU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLr3dSekkIY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke8jkogx63M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDZ9HYCAknc

And if you heard this next one you knew it would be wrapping up soon and you would be stepping outside blinking into the glare of the morning as the rest of the world started out on their day and you were going home to try get some sleep. :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGYmSnZ5f0s

one or two of those tunes spark up some good memories....

buried

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Accompanied by a few regular, non disco, biscuits I pressume:D

Coconut cream Twisty melon cakes!

sbsquarepants

Accompanied by a few regular, non disco, biscuits I pressume:D

buried

I had a great time in the 90's at local shindig raves about the place. Love techno music. Still attend the odd rave a couple of weekends throughout the year nowadays, those modern days raves be on in my gaff as I stick on a few electronic music LP's and have a good few cups of tae while lounging on a couch. The modern day raves are the best ones

sbsquarepants

Strangely enough, although I was an avid explorer of the chemically altered state and came of age more or less at the start of the whole rave scene - I was never much of a fan of raves.
I wouldn't be the biggest fan of techno music in general, I like some bits here and there, but hours on end of it I just find draining and repetitive - it rapidly gets to the point where I just loose the will to live!

For me ecstasy and drugs in general are far more enjoyable in a more intimate setting. I'd rather pop pills and talk shíte to a few friends at a house party than run around an industrial unit trying to find a bottle of water. I'd much rather do my lines off a sexy ladies ass in my nice clean bedroom than a dirty toilet cistern in a manky sweaty nightclub!

Cleanliness is next to godliness kids:D

I think the people who got the most out of the rave scene where the ones who approached it holistically and got off on the whole spiritual communion aspect of it. That shít never floated my boat, I was usually there for the drugs and the craic - the crowds and the largely shítty music were just the price to be paid.

Also - just copped the comment above - that is probably moreso what I'm talking about in fairness. I never went to a proper underground rave.

#Saynotodrugs

Gentleman Off The Pitch

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I would have always associated raves more so with London and locations just off the M25 in the 1980's! There was even a band called Orbital because of it.

Indeed, a lot of people here talking about post rave era dance events that occurred in the early Irish dance music scene in my opinion.

K.Flyer

Lorelli! wrote: »

So what is an example of the music played?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w1tdOuRkLU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLr3dSekkIY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke8jkogx63M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDZ9HYCAknc

And if you heard this next one you knew it would be wrapping up soon and you would be stepping outside blinking into the glare of the morning as the rest of the world started out on their day and you were going home to try get some sleep. :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGYmSnZ5f0s

[Deleted User]

pgj2015 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpDJw7fThU

love chase&status
love their new stuff too even if it's not to all their fans taste

[Deleted User]

I wish I was a few years older to have been around for those sessions:p

doubt i'd be here to brag about it though, because i'd probably have raved myself into an early grave

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I love raves and have never taken a yoke in my life

Sephiroth_dude

Sweat in sir henrys cork.

Tigger

A rave is when we used to hold private parties in vacant buildings with door staff and little bars selling water and gum and fizzy drinks and bud and bulmers and e
I miss the 90’s

pgj2015

Arghus wrote: »

I would definitely need drugs to enjoy that song.

And even then I might struggle.

Great song.

Arghus

pgj2015 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpDJw7fThU

I would definitely need drugs to enjoy that song.

And even then I might struggle.

pgj2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpDJw7fThU

Ralf and Florian

I went to a few in co cork mid 90's. Think the last one would have been 97. You'd always hear of them through word of mouth, one got raided by the guards despite the amount of secrecy around the location etc .

Lorelli!

Wibbs wrote: »

Yeah, I get that S. I have argued elsewhere that the "counterculture" is largely missing from current times. Where once it was a fixture of adolescence since the 50's(and before). Maybe it's because of two(at least) things: People in that age group today have way more choices and have way more pressures on top. That's a sh1tstorm of "choices" to make. And because of social media of all sorts, these are choices that could haunt them for life.

Getting away from the op but I completely agree with this. There is too much choice! While I think choice has its good points, you only have to look at TV as an example. I wouldn't have chose to watch Countdown or 15 to 1 with my Dad but we watched those together and I enjoyed it. It's become boring because there's too much choice and "nothing to watch" even though theres a gazillIon channels! I think TV use to be an enjoyable social thing for the family unit but now it's each person chooses their own stuff and a lot watch it in isolation

jbt123

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

We were a few years behind but I believe E was a great thing for the youth in this country

Probably did as much in ending the violence in Nothern Ireland as any political intervention.

Wibbs

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

What is this generations vibe Wibbs?

I have a teenage daughter and all she does is look at a phone

No rebelling at all

Part of me is happy she is giving me none of the terrible carry on I gave my parents

The other part of me is saddened at the way technology is leaving them in a coma like state

Yeah, I get that S. I have argued elsewhere that the "counterculture" is largely missing from current times. Where once it was a fixture of adolescence since the 50's(and before). Maybe it's because of two(at least) things: People in that age group today have way more choices and have way more pressures on top. That's a sh1tstorm of "choices" to make. And because of social media of all sorts, these are choices that could haunt them for life.

Rebelling is easy enough. When it's not forever and can't fcuk up your life and "kids" now that all too well. Their parents may lament the loss the old rebellion, but they have to deal with it.

Mostly they're trying to keep apace with getting on in the world and that's hard enough without thedropping out and tuning in stuff. So called "millennials" get bloody awful stick from all corners, but they're just our younger selves trying to navigate an increasingly difficult, even hostile, but defo divisive world, that older folks, though we/they had their trials, didn't need to deal with to nearly the same degree.

SEPT 23 1989

Wibbs wrote: »

Different times and just as much of a buzz for those into it at the time. Like any vibe that hits in a generation. Is one better than the other? Not really. It's all about which one is yours.

What is this generations vibe Wibbs?

I have a teenage daughter and all she does is look at a phone

No rebelling at all

Part of me is happy she is giving me none of the terrible carry on I gave my parents

The other part of me is saddened at the way technology is leaving them in a coma like state

For Forks Sake

andekwarhola wrote: »

I doubt anybody (under the age of 35) would even use the word Rave now

It was just off Fleet Street and was a standard teen disco place, at least in my day anyway.

In the late 80s to mid 90s, the dance clubs in Dublin would have been McGonagles (early acid house nights like Voodoo around 88-89 and later a rave club called System), Asylum, Sides, Olympic Ballroom, Columbia Mills, Temple of Sound etc.

Never went to open air ones (not in Ireland anyway) but you'd get ones put on in places like derelict buildings, of which there was a lot more then. Remember some good all nighters in squatted old buildings around Benburb Street which are gone now.

Columbia Mills was some kip of a spot, great times in there though.

Speaking of the Asylum......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqFzmXpXSiQ

jimmy180sx

SEPT 23 1989 wrote:

The following generation could do with a summer of it they seem so uptight with all their isms

They're all into horse tranquilizers now

Lorelli!

andekwarhola wrote: »

I doubt anybody (under the age of 35) would even use the word Rave now .

just missed out!

Tell me how

Wibbs wrote:

Different times and just as much of a buzz for those into it at the time. Like any vibe that hits in a generation. Is one better than the other? Not really. It's all about which one is yours.

Not 100% sure about that with respect selfie culture.

A group of girls at a table near us for over an hour one night and they were definitely kind of quiet, not having a great night, small chat amongst themselves. Which is fine. And normal. Couple of times though they did the selfie thing and pulled fake smiles and thumbs up for the camera before shrinking back in to themselves again.

That's a broader discussion but I agree in general each generation thinks there's was the best. My mother still talks about my father dancing on a table at an Irish music session in the early 70's.

Junkyard Tom

Happy days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BU1ZStBb3M

andekwarhola

I doubt anybody (under the age of 35) would even use the word Rave now

Lorelli! wrote: »

My brother talked about a place and if I recall right, it was called "The Apartments" in Dubin. Not sure if it was a kip or good place to go to. Not even sure if my brother got to go to it or if it was the rave scene but just a memory I have that he mentioned it. Anyone remember that?

It was just off Fleet Street and was a standard teen disco place, at least in my day anyway.

In the late 80s to mid 90s, the dance clubs in Dublin would have been McGonagles (early acid house nights like Voodoo around 88-89 and later a rave club called System), Asylum, Sides, Olympic Ballroom, Columbia Mills, Temple of Sound etc.

Never went to open air ones (not in Ireland anyway) but you'd get ones put on in places like derelict buildings, of which there was a lot more then. Remember some good all nighters in squatted old buildings around Benburb Street which are gone now.