Raves

Lorelli! · 07-01-2018 10:50pm #1

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

ger vallely · 07-01-2018 10:56pm

That's fake rave.

soiseztomabel · 07-01-2018 10:57pm

It very much depends who they're run by, I've been to some amazing ones over the years and met some really great friends as a result. It's not all gurning and glow sticks.... although that is part and parcel

For Forks Sake · 07-01-2018 10:57pm

Lorelli! wrote: »

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!

Go find yourself one in a valley below a mountain and report back.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 07-01-2018 10:58pm

The OED suggests

An all-night dance party, especially one at which techno, house, or other electronically synthesized music is played.

nullzero · 07-01-2018 10:58pm

Events at which yokes are consumed in large quantities.

Lorelli! · 07-01-2018 10:59pm

ger vallely wrote: »

That's fake rave.

I know! I said the closest thing! Is this real rave?

:P

ger vallely · 07-01-2018 11:00pm

Spiral Tribe were great back in the day. English new age traveller types, did some good 'raves' up at the Hellfire club. Great music, best outdoors, feeling of unity, full on dancing, not posing but real dancing and seeing the sun come up.

ger vallely · 07-01-2018 11:01pm

Lorelli! wrote: »

I know! I said the closest thing! Is this real rave? :P

I'll not ever hear a bad word utterd against Buddy Holly. Can't decide myself if he was punk or rave. Amazing music. Still play his albums regularly.

The Backwards Man · 07-01-2018 11:02pm

A rave is like power-washing a slatted house or pulling dead lambs from an ewe, only silly useless cnuts yoked out of their heads think it's fun.

Gentleman Off The Pitch · 07-01-2018 11:04pm

There hasn't been a rave in Ireland since the early 90s

Agricola · 07-01-2018 11:06pm

Sorta like the ballroom of romance, only more drugs.

ger vallely · 07-01-2018 11:06pm

Gentleman Off The Pitch wrote: »

There hasn't been a rave in Ireland since the early 90s

Mid 90's at the earliest. They were still going strong in out in Galway fields into 96/97.

Rumpy Pumpy · 07-01-2018 11:07pm

The Backwards Man wrote: »

A rave is like power-washing a slatted house or pulling dead lambs from an ewe, only silly useless cnuts yoked out of their heads think it's fun.

While getting incoherent from drink and posting claptrap here is the height of fun, I suppose?

mzungu · 07-01-2018 11:09pm

Lorelli! wrote: »

What actually is a Rave?

A place where hippies gather to listen to the loading music for random 80s Spectrum games played at eardrum shattering levels.

toptom · 07-01-2018 11:09pm

nullzero wrote: »

Events at which yokes are consumed in large quantities.

Disgraceful carry on at them, We managed to get the raves near Thurles stopped they called them the flog on the bog. Scum from miles around used to converge on Thurles looking for directions to it till the residents and guards had enough.

The Backwards Man · 07-01-2018 11:10pm

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

While getting incoherent from drink and posting claptrap here is the height of fun, I suppose?

Anybody that comes here for fun would need their head examined.

Lorelli! · 07-01-2018 11:12pm

mzungu wrote: »

A place where hippies gather to listen to the loading music for random 80s Spectrum games played at eardrum shattering levels.

That sounds great

Thich Nhat Hanh · 07-01-2018 11:18pm

I went to some great ones in late 90s and early 00s. Anyone go to the Creation ones in Devils Glen? Fantastic. Everyone on pills and happy. No smart phones or selfies. I remember once the Garda drove up and turned back because it just wasn’t worth the hassle. A lot of us stayed back to clean up after too. Good times.

SEPT 23 1989 · 07-01-2018 11:21pm

The world was a happier place when that scene was happening

Tell me how · 07-01-2018 11:23pm

A place where a couple hundred people get to feel the music as well as hear it, the standard greeting is "Got any yokes", nobody gives a crap about getting the shift yet you love everyone there, minding your clothes or makeup is forgotten about, there's more water consumed than leaks from Irish water pipes in 24 hrs and never any fighting amongst the "ravers".

When people say they regret not having fun when they were younger I think, not me. Some of the best times of my life were at night's like those. And I never had any yokes. Just didn't go that route.

ger vallely · 07-01-2018 11:24pm

toptom wrote: »

Disgraceful carry on at them, We managed to get the raves near Thurles stopped they called them the flog on the bog. Scum from miles around used to converge on Thurles looking for directions to it till the residents and guards had enough.

We actually used to call it The Looney Line. Twas unreal. Like Mad Max but far happier! There was no residents living near the place- if it's the same place, it was totally in the middle of nowhere.

SmartinMartin · 07-01-2018 11:30pm

Lorelli! wrote: »

What actually is a Rave?

Anything tweeted by the Donald.

dahat · 07-01-2018 11:31pm

Metroland in Waterford in the 90's were pure class and have many memories good and bad for me.

Lorelli! · 07-01-2018 11:32pm

So what is an example of the music played?

toptom · 07-01-2018 11:34pm

ger vallely wrote: »

We actually used to call it The Looney Line. Twas unreal. Like Mad Max but far happier! There was no residents living near the place- if it's the same place, it was totally in the middle of nowhere.

A few miles past littleton towards Ballynonty On a quiet night the music travelled and lots of residents could hear it
People were afraid of the unsavoury characters floating around trying to find the place.

mad muffin · 07-01-2018 11:35pm

They used to be all the rave back in the 90’s

AnneFrank · 07-01-2018 11:36pm

Coming down was the worst thing

Charlie19 · 07-01-2018 11:37pm

I loved nights out in clubs like the Olympic, Sides and the Asylum.

I was never at any of the outdoor events.

Wibbs · 07-01-2018 11:38pm

mzungu wrote: »

A place where hippies gather to listen to the loading music for random 80s Spectrum games played at eardrum shattering levels.

With others I may have helped organised a couple of "happenings" in my time way back in the day™ and M's take hits a bit close to the bone.

Oh yeah and yippers for all. Dance/chew/hug/grind.

Naughty, naughty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFJdUJg4wOk

For Forks Sake · 07-01-2018 11:39pm

AnneFrank wrote: »

Coming down was the worst thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rYXcmVSeBU

First comment under it is gold:

Lol 0:43 that black guy is my dad Lol he's a immigration lawyer in London now, **** wont even let me go to a bar without an argument haha I'm gonna show him this and kick his old ass

RobbingBandit · 07-01-2018 11:41pm

Sounds like tinkles paid you a visit

Tell me how · 07-01-2018 11:48pm

Lorelli! wrote:

So what is an example of the music played?

Music want about just one track, or a series of tracks played in isolation. It was about how they are mixed and how the general style shifted through the night.
Usually start slower and deep and sped up.
It was all about the mixing!

blade1 · 07-01-2018 11:53pm

ger vallely wrote: »

We actually used to call it The Looney Line. Twas unreal. Like Mad Max but far happier! There was no residents living near the place- if it's the same place, it was totally in the middle of nowhere.

Turn off at the horse and jockey!
Ah the good ol' days!!

indioblack · 07-01-2018 11:53pm

Some years ago I received a letter from the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary claiming that a car with my registration was seen at an illegal rave in a forest in Devon.
I phoned said constabulary and told them I had never been in their forest and my idea of a rave these days was to sit by the fire in me slippers and cardie with a cuppa and a digestive biscuit listening to Des O'Connor.
I was laughingly eliminated from their investigation.

Wibbs · 07-01-2018 11:55pm

Though one of my remembered faves of the time was from Utah Saints, sampling Kate Bush's* Cloudbusting;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixMWhpg0iXU

The '08 version. For the kidz. Well, not really. Really not really, being a decade outa date and all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7MC8Lw5e9Q

Still, those fcukers can dance. Bloody hell. :eek:

Though every so often it might be suggested to throw in a curveball, as our Yank mates say and the DJ would play some oddball stuff. Best of which IMHO was the Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UjvdZm-Tu8

Proto Chemical Brothers, all the way from 1966(laid down in 65)

*she had some cracking tunes in her time. A few touched the face of genius.

Lorelli! · 07-01-2018 11:58pm

My brother talked about a place and if I recall right, it was called "The Apartments" in Dublin. 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?

freshpopcorn · 08-01-2018 12:02am

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.

AllForIt · 08-01-2018 12:07am

Lorelli! wrote: »

What actually is a Rave? I

It's the name of an event when ppl attend to get off their tits, commonly in an outdoor setting rather than an indoor one. Indoor events of the same kind were called 'parties'. I recall attending some of these events in the mid-nineties for research purposes. I judged that to get a meaningful feeling for what these parties were all about I would have to attend them 2 to 3 times a week over the course of a 10 year period, which I did.

A major conclusion I came to about the effects of attending such events in comparison to attending more standard nightclubs where alcohol is commonly consumed is that one's waistline doesn't expand as rapidly, probably due to the lack of calories present in water which is the beverage of choice at raves.

I also found for some reason in the days following attending a rave or party I noticed ppl would 'follow' me around the place and random ppl would stare at me for no reason and talk about me behind my back wherever I went, on the street, in supermarkets, everywhere. I never figured out why this was, it was as if someone put a sticker on my back that stated "I spent 12 hours at a party and didn't pull".

I'm kinda glad the whole scene is not as available as it used to be because I don't look as gaunt as I used too even if I have put on a few pounds, although I kinda miss being the centre of attention wherever I went.

Lorelli! · 08-01-2018 12:08am

Wibbs wrote: »

Though every so often it might be suggested to throw in a curveball, as our Yank mates say and the DJ would play some oddball stuff. Best of which IMHO was the Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UjvdZm-Tu8

Proto Chemical Brothers, all the way from 1966(laid down in 65)

*she had some cracking tunes in her time. A few touched the face of genius.

I only recognized that Beatles connection a while ago and played it in the tunes thread recently

Don't think I'd have spotted the Kate Bush sample even though I know that song!

SEPT 23 1989 · 08-01-2018 12:12am

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.

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

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

Tell me how · 08-01-2018 12:15am

SEPT 23 1989 wrote:

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

True that. Except "got any yokes" has been replaced with "lets take a selfie".
Different times.

Wibbs · 08-01-2018 12:15am

Lorelli! wrote: »

I only recognized that Beatles connection a while ago and played it in the tunes thread recently

You know it makes sense.

Don't think I'd have spotted the Kate Bush sample even though I know that song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pllRW9wETzw

Wibbs · 08-01-2018 12:19am

Tell me how wrote: »

True that. Except "got any yokes" has been replaced with "lets take a selfie".
Different times.

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.

Lorelli! · 08-01-2018 12:20am

Wibbs wrote: »

You know it makes sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pllRW9wETzw

Oh I knew the Kate Bush song not the other one that sampled it

andekwarhola · 08-01-2018 12:24am

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.

Junkyard Tom · 08-01-2018 12:25am

Happy days.

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

Tell me how · 08-01-2018 12:25am

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.

Lorelli! · 08-01-2018 12:27am

andekwarhola wrote: »

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

34

just missed out!

jimmy180sx · 08-01-2018 12:30am

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

For Forks Sake · 08-01-2018 12:32am

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

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