Raves

thebull85 wrote: »

raves happening still every weekend here in Dublin, i was at one two weeks ago in ballycoolin in a warehouse. Plenty of action in the city centre too, old tenement building on blessington street has some serious raves on, mostly bank holiday weekends in that spot though.

RDM_83 again wrote: »

Being on pills doesn't automatically make people nice, seen enough fights between people yoked off there heads to know that's a myth-did the earlier scene just have a complete lack of scumbags (and if so why did they flock to the dance scene later)

RDM_83 again wrote: »

It all just sounds like the standard, everything was great in my youth thing particularly as I would imagine the proportion of young people doing stuff like ket and mdma or research chemicals is probably higher now than the early 90's and there is still semi-legal all nighters still happening anyway

Stab*City wrote: »

No the one and only difference between late 80's early 90's were the yokes. For a period there from 88/89-92/93 and maybe a bit later there was certain types of E that really did change scumbags into friends. Although when people came down the following few days it was business as usual. These pills (Snowballs, Mad Bastards, Rhubarb&Custard, The first White doves, Dennis the Menaces etc) were totally different to what came later. It really was a love buzz. I mean there will always be some who are just pure scum but trust me i seen enemies turn into friends over night after a snowball. And they simply don't make E like that anymore or even after 94-95. Some people say the doves of the mid-late 90's were similar and they were but were not a patch on what came before them.



Yes but the big difference back then was the emergence of Dance Music. It was like nothing heard before and that mixed with the love buzz created a vibe that was magical. Right place right time comes to mind. Im sure the original summer of love was similar but ours was more full on and alot stronger.

I went to my first rave back in those days, from there i started djing, since i have become involved in the scene heavily. I gave up drugs and drink years ago but my last rave was a couple months back (although these days they are in much trendier surroundings) I cant remember a thing from 90-2008 but i can remember everything since. These days i enjoy the clubs/events for the music as opposed to the buzz. Its different but still enjoyable.

Sir Henrys, Theatre Royal, Prodigy in the point 1992, Club UK, Fantasia, Tribal Gathering Uk, Creamfields, The System, The Asylum, Sex Kitchen, La Locomotive Paris, My Gaff all to name but a few. I loved every minute.

By the way the E was so good that if you handed me an original snowball right now id drop it right here at my corporate desk.

pgj2015 wrote: »

how do you find out where and when they are on?

Big Nasty wrote: »

I don't see how any chemically produced drug could be described as safe when you've no idea what's gone in to it.

How is someone in a club supposed to get their pills tested before they pop them?

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

D8 is a very cool spot if you're into the scene - I'll echo another poster however in that the crowd's been a bit young the last couple of time's I've gone. Suppose it depends on who's on.

In general I'll disagree with a lot of what's been said of the current state of the scene - I'm 23 and all I'll say is ecstasy use is exploding in the youth bracket. People I know that generally wouldn't have been seen even touching a joint are now double dropping three days in a row at the likes of Electric picnic.

This is where the problems start - drug education in this country amounts to "don't do that you'll die"; and just like preaching abstinence as the only option in sex ed classes people overwhelmingly ignore it.
Problem is nobody has a clue about harm reduction; I'm a pharmacologist so I'd know better than most at my age but honestly the amount of disinformation going around is staggering.
MDMA is a very safe drug if used correctly and can be an absolutely incredible experience...life changing I'd say even - but in my experience almost nobody knows how to treat it with the proper respect. Routinely hear of people (generally in the context of festivals) ingesting dangerous amounts and often in tandem with ketamine, drink and cocaine (which the eejits don't realise actually physically stops the MDMA high).

It baffles me that people ever take drugs without having researching them thoroughly beforehand but it'd be naive of me to expect the youth at large to behave in a reasonably responsible manner. I'd advocate including harm reduction classes as part of the SPHE curriculum for the seniour cycle but of course there'd be war from the small minded folk who'd see it as condoning use of "dangerous" drugs which they invariably know nothing about and have never tried while they drink their glass of wine oblivious to the irony.

What these people don't realise is that people are going to do the drugs anyway - it's the ignorance of proper usage that makes many of them dangerous in the first place. Near to 100% of deaths from "MDMA" for example would be entirely avoidable if people knew about the importance of testing your stuff, taking breaks from dancing to prevent overheating etc etc.

For those of you interested in learning about harm reduction wrt ectasy use: https://rollsafe.org

Never stop dancing the night away folks, but be safe.