Weekender!

[Booldawg]

Someone I know was (pardon the pun) raving about a film not long out called Weekender. Its a historic piece about the rave scene of the early 90s.

Got me thinking how this whole scene just passed me by, even though I was the right age to 'indulge'. In some ways I wish I'd experienced it as I consider it to be the last youth culture movement of any substance (mostly illegal!) we've witnessed in the UK.

LOL, I recall going to Ibiza in 1988 with my mate, both 19. We were totally oblivious to what was going on and went out for a night out at 7.30pm like we would back home up the working mens club! We did wonder why people were 'dancing funny' and why someone was passed out by the pool until at least 3pm the following day.

As I grew up in Hampshire and there were loads of raves going on near us it wasnt an accessibility problem. Remember that rave where the girl went missing and that Peter Tobin got charged for recently? About half mile from my house that was.

In all honesty I've never been one for the old 'persian rugs' so maybe I wouldnt have got on with it. Were you involved in the rave scene - back in the day?

[Ankou]

where i grew up we had a big rave scene called raindance. i went loads and was mostly off my face getting up to no good with a bunch of mates whose sole purpose in life was to get mashed every weekend. and we did.

its not really something i look back on with fondness, but i do get reminded of it occasionally and feel some sense of nostalgia. when i moved away from the area my mates were stil going but the appeal for me dwindled really. probably just as well cos i reckon most of them damaged a few brain cells in those later years - you know, the sort you'd see on jeremy kyle.

i would dread the thought of my daughters going to a tent in a field for a rave, remembering what we got up to in them with girls! but they'll need to find their own path in life, hopefully with a large does of streetwise common sense.

[mccfluff]

yup, good times although how i survivied without injury i'll never know

[mccfluff]

but its better to look back fondly eh trigs

pipe, slippers and early to bed now :-)

[Ankou]

just had a nostalgic moment, having looked at this i remember going back to the labyrinth in tottenham! flip me, scrap what i said above, it were brill!

http://www.fantazia.o...ne/orgs/raindance.htm

[mccfluff]

and just how long does it take you recover though.....

[China Doll]

In 1988 I was 10 so I wasn't too involved then! I did catch the tail end of it all in the mid-late nineties I guess but I don't think it was at its best then and had probably had its day.

[mccfluff]

mine were mainly random events that just happened, usually on a beach somwhere

[barb1314]

I've never been to a rave but was a very regular Hacienda girl! At least twice a week but we never took drugs. I was actually oblivious to the fact that everyone around me was probably stoned off their faces but I just danced the night away and loved it. Those were the days..You'd be lucky to find me awake after 10pm now :-)