Thread: Significant Memories From Your Raving Days?

Originally Posted by smilodon

Your making it sound a bit seedy mate, luckily there were no back door shenanigans going on. For some unknown reason, we all needed the bog at the same time so me and Stu were waiting
by the stalls for a bog to be free. He didn't know that in the one we were waiting by was a lad who used to go with us called peahead, so I started banging on the door and shouting fuckin'
hurry up etc. Stu was shitting it and screaming at me to stop thinking that some geeza would come out and a load of shit would kick off, then peahead comes out and I think Stu nearly fainted,
I nearly pissed myself laffing

At a club in Blackpool hearing Greenbins drop Rhythm is a Mystery for the first time.

Microdot at Technodrome rave in Ayrshire

Finding 30 e's in a bag dropped at Rezerection

Great post, Gaylord.

One memory that will always stick with me is the first time I walked into The Eclipse..that was a defining moment for me and that's when I became a raver.

It was also the first time I took a full E as well....a Pink Cali.

Parking up in the car park over the road from the swimming baths in Cov and joining the queue outside the Eclipse.

Traveling to (and finding) DiY parties in the middle of nowhere, driving around with the windows open to see if we could hear it on the horizon. Finding it and entering the main dance tent, seeing all the different crusty crews.

Sitting in cars sunday lunchtime, coming down, watching the casualties eaking the last drop out of their party extras, hopping around the fire as they haven't got enough energy to dance any more.
"hop! Kelly hop!"

Phoning people round the country to check how many tix to buy from Selectadisc on tues when they went on sale. Going to Selectadisc to buy the tix 3 times on Tuesday as you were only allowed to buy so many at a time. Every1 turning up at mine on a Friday eve to find we're a ticket short as we've picked up an extra body. Go club, buy xtra tix from the bodybuilder outside, party, back to mine, out to party, back to mine again Saturday or Sunday some time. Now being the good host I am I provided a few trays for people to roll their funny cigarettes on, which nobody ever tidied mid sesh for some reason so when they left there was always a min of 4 spliffs worth on the trays for me after every1 had gone and I tidied up on Sunday

Originally Posted by Curly

Great post, Gaylord.

One memory that will always stick with me is the first time I walked into The Eclipse..that was a defining moment for me and that's when I became a homosexual.

It was also the first time I took a full E as well....a Pink Cali.

Fair enough.

Not a patch on anyone else's stories here, as I was a bit of a latecomer to raving, but my first ever DJ Set I caught was LTJ Bukem in 1994 at Aberdeen's Metro Hotel (was held in a dingy basement, but it rocked!). Anyways, I managed to convince my mate and his girlfriend to come along with us, as I didn't know anyone who liked jungle/drum & bass (this being Scotland for you). I was living at home at the time, and didn't have anywhere to crash, so I had to rely on driving 30 miles into town to catch Bukem.

We all stopped off at a pub for a few drinks before the gig started, and as I was driving I stuck to the 1 1/2 pint rule. We'll it was more 2 pints but I didn't want to get drunk and busted for D&D-ing on the way back. We also passed a spliff around to get us in the mood for some atmospheric D&B and at that time, I didn't smoke, so probably was unable to get any benefit from the toke. Whilst my mate was doing the whole Cypress Hill 'SSSSSSS!!!!!' thing with it.

Fast forward 5 or so hours to the end of the night and I jump in the car at 2am to head home and as I was turning out onto Anderson Drive I get stopped by the Rozzers! I remember the lights flashing behind me and thinking 'I'm knackered with those 2 pints and minimal spliffage!!!'. They inform me that I was going too fast in a residential area, which was bollocks 'coz my mini back then was a claptrap. Musta thought with my hippy long hair I was a rave casualty. They ask me if I had been drinking, so I said I had the 1 and a 1/2 pints 'coz I was driving. The informed me that they would have to breathalise me and asked me if I have been smoking. Red light goes off in my head and I'm thinking 'THE SPLIFF!!! THEY'LL KNOW!!!' and being naive, I confess to the Mary-Jane, which I got nowt from. I get searched (had nothing on me thank feck) and I get breathalised. They do the whole 'you're borderline mate. If you was on the dual carriageway you'd have been charged!!! Don't do it again!' and I'm let off.

I was so sacred of my police encounter, I ended up driving home in thick fog over a back road over a mountain called the Cairn O' Mount, to avoid getting nabbed on the dual carriageway. But I can remember buzzin' from the night, my escape with the Rozzers and from blasting jungle/drum & bass at full volume through the countryside at 3am!!!

Still cringe at 'fessing to the spliff thing!

Originally Posted by stuz74

Not a patch on anyone else's stories here, as I was a bit of a latecomer to raving, but my first ever DJ Set I caught was LTJ Bukem in 1994 at Aberdeen's Metro Hotel (was held in a dingy basement, but it rocked!). Anyways, I managed to convince my mate and his girlfriend to come along with us, as I didn't know anyone who liked jungle/drum & bass (this being Scotland for you). I was living at home at the time, and didn't have anywhere to crash, so I had to rely on driving 30 miles into town to catch Bukem.

We all stopped off at a pub for a few drinks before the gig started, and as I was driving I stuck to the 1 1/2 pint rule. We'll it was more 2 pints but I didn't want to get drunk and busted for D&D-ing on the way back. We also passed a spliff around to get us in the mood for some atmospheric D&B and at that time, I didn't smoke, so probably was unable to get any benefit from the toke. Whilst my mate was doing the whole Cypress Hill 'SSSSSSS!!!!!' thing with it.

Fast forward 5 or so hours to the end of the night and I jump in the car at 2am to head home and as I was turning out onto Anderson Drive I get stopped by the Rozzers! I remember the lights flashing behind me and thinking 'I'm knackered with those 2 pints and minimal spliffage!!!'. They inform me that I was going too fast in a residential area, which was bollocks 'coz my mini back then was a claptrap. Musta thought with my hippy long hair I was a rave casualty. They ask me if I had been drinking, so I said I had the 1 and a 1/2 pints 'coz I was driving. The informed me that they would have to breathalise me and asked me if I have been smoking. Red light goes off in my head and I'm thinking 'THE SPLIFF!!! THEY'LL KNOW!!!' and being naive, I confess to the Mary-Jane, which I got nowt from. I get searched (had nothing on me thank feck) and I get breathalised. They do the whole 'you're borderline mate. If you was on the dual carriageway you'd have been charged!!! Don't do it again!' and I'm let off.

I was so sacred of my police encounter, I ended up driving home in thick fog over a back road over a mountain called the Cairn O' Mount, to avoid getting nabbed on the dual carriageway. But I can remember buzzin' from the night, my escape with the Rozzers and from blasting jungle/drum & bass at full volume through the countryside at 3am!!!

Still cringe at 'fessing to the spliff thing!

We went through a phase of getting pulled over all the time by the local police.. Once got pulled over 3 times in one night.

Originally Posted by Wigs

We went through a phase of getting pulled over all the time by the local police.. Once got pulled over 3 times in one night.

Bloody hell Wigs! They musta been right scumbags in hassling ravers back then! Wish I'd caught the hardcore scene proper but being stuck in the middle of nowhere kinda killed that. Had to make do with watching Altern 8 and Prodigy videos on the Chart Show.

First rave NYE 95/96. All 5 or 6? of us necked our first. Ended up with leftovers on the tube at 7am and just decided to keep going. We ended up dancing around with the Hare Krishnas for about half hour in Leicester Square before being told (really) politely to fuck off.

First and only decent rave. Realised that I'd spent all night in the old skool room, because despite growing up with amazing Music in an amazing time, I'd juuuust about missed all of it.

as someone once said "If you can remember it, you wern't there"

coming back to west london from The Sanctuary Music Arena and going to play sunday league football off my nut while my mates sat in my house and got more cained lol

just having a chat in renegade and i remembered an experiance i was bragging about for weeks...please bear in mind i was 17 at the time

i was at milwaukees with a coach and loads of cars to see our mate dj hardcore massive play his first proper rave. i was behind the decks with him while he was playing when dj rap arrived. she put her tunes down, sparked up a joint then started to talk to me about something..i was mesmerised at this point...sharing a spliff with sexy dj rap??! i remember her saying she was thirsty so i offered to buy her a drink, which she accepted, obviously. like she is gonna crawl herway through the sweaty crowd? i duely scarpered off and fetched her a drink, and when i gave her the beer she gave me a cheek to cheek kiss. for a horny 17 year old that was heaven....for about 15 seconds. she was with a big black geezer and he wasn't so friendly. i stayed for abut 10 more minutes chatting to her and trying to act normally but the eyes this enormous guy was too much and i scuttled off when hardcore massive came off the decks.

i reckon i was in there

Originally Posted by dj Euphoria

just having a chat in renegade and i remembered an experiance i was bragging about for weeks...please bear in mind i was 17 at the time

i was at milwaukees with a coach and loads of cars to see our mate dj hardcore massive play his first proper rave. i was behind the decks with him while he was playing when dj rap arrived. she put her tunes down, sparked up a joint then started to talk to me about something..i was mesmerised at this point...sharing a spliff with sexy dj rap??! i remember her saying she was thirsty so i offered to buy her a drink, which she accepted, obviously. like she is gonna crawl herway through the sweaty crowd? i duely scarpered off and fetched her a drink, and when i gave her the beer she gave me a cheek to cheek kiss. for a horny 17 year old that was heaven....for about 15 seconds. she was with a big black geezer and he wasn't so friendly. i stayed for abut 10 more minutes chatting to her and trying to act normally but the eyes this enormous guy was too much and i scuttled off when hardcore massive came off the decks.

i reckon i was in there

you jammy bastard

I would hazard a guess and say every dj back in the day smashed the granny out of her.....mcmc was knocking her back door in at some point .....so talent was obviously not a prerequisite