The Asylum/Oldskool thread

ormond wrote: »

for people who dont know how it all started:)
The Olympic Ballroom, a very popular and infamous venue for dancers
in the 50's and 60's. Owner Liam Ryan didn't need much coaxing to
realise the potential of refilling the Olympic with dancers of a new
generation. The first rave was held there in April 1990, the night was
called Orbit and Dave Hales, Johnny Moy, Mark Kavanagh and Niall
Comiskey took control of the ones and twos that night. Shortly after
that Marcus O'Neill took over to run a night called Dance Crazy which
ran for six weeks before passing the reins back to the owner. Ryan got
Mark Kavanagh back on board, who remained as head resident until a
series of raids in '94 which led to the venue losing its license.

Even two years after the biggest culture explosion had occurred, the
Irish media still hadn't really cottoned onto the fact that it was going
on in their own country and continued to copy scare stories from the UK
tabloids. It wasn't until promoters started staging events in the
Mansion House that the press really sat up and paid attention. They made
sure to cover one particular night when TD Tony Gregory and a select
committee lined the balconies of the Mansion House to determine just how
drug fuelled these raves were. They gave it the thumbs up. Unknown to
them at the time the very reason the night was bereft of any trouble was
the full-scale use of Ecstasy rather then the naively presumed lack of.
The Mansion house staged big extravaganza's rather then weekly regulars,
featuring state of the art sound and light systems, and acts such as
Shades of Rhythm, Altern8 and the Ragga twins. UK legends like Jumping
Jack frost, Grooverider and Tin Tin joined Dublin regulars like the
Banana boys, Brenda Morrisey and members of the the DFC, (Dublin funk
Collective) Speedy D, DJ Noel and DJ Bass.

What was it like then? Firstly, it's fairly important to paint a picture
of the dance scenes status in society back then. It hadn't much
representation in the media, no TV programmes, no books, no club
listings in evening papers and a far cry away from any full length
movies. Undocumented, unknown, underground. So to walk into a crowd of
1000+ nutters dancing like no one's watching, with lasers flying
overhead, music from the next century and strangers instantly becoming
best friends was an exhilarating slap in the face, like walking into
another dimension, let in on one big secret. Even buzzing about town on
a Saturday afternoon and catching the eye of someone similarly clad
would warrant a knowing smile. This is where the real magic lay, what
created such a gargantuan atmosphere, everyone on the same level, going
through that initial honeymoon phase together.

Just before the ballroom closed down, a new three level, all night club
called the Asylum opened and that's exactly what it was. It bore witness
to the first batch of E casualties, burnt out ravers desperately chasing
that initial rush, the dawning realisation that nothing this good lasts
forever painted across their jaded faces. However, a fresh batch always
arrived to fill the void and this new crowd kept the balance in check.
The Asylum also welcomed in a new batch of DJ's. Dilly, the then
Northern Ireland mixing champ, took residency in the Asylum along with
Dublin's Ed case, Warren K and Pressure. The clubs eventual downfall was
its very open display as a drug haven and was soon shut down.

The Temple of Sound opened soon after and was in complete contrast to
the Asylum. Along with G1, another legendary club in Phibsborough and
the later to come Kitchen, it had a full bar. By then many clubbers
re-embraced alcohol as the drug of choice, laughing off the days of
chastising the demon liquid. Manager Ken Kane gave a new home to Scurry,
Moy, house maestro Mark Dixon and introduced Stephen Mullhall and Paddy
Gallagher as well as top class international gues

knird evol wrote: »

Theres the lot for ya......

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theasylumdublin wrote: »

Nova I these tunes in my record bosca ! just need do the bizness on them , mooboom is playin in my flasbox on www.bebo.com/theasylumdublin if you want a quick fix , its Liam dollards track , ****in cracker !! Im gonna giv it a soin in the vaults on halloween night , sounds amazing on a good sound system !!