> God, I remember the first ever rave there. when it was still a roller skate > rink. > it seemed like the whole school went. I thought hmm, f**k that. >
Was it a roller skate rink? I went to Dreamscape 2 or something and remember there was a huge roller skate rink next door, but the rave was just in a huge dusty big empty warehouse space. Think this was before it became known as the sanctuary? I never went back, so i always assumed that the Sanctury was this building and not the rollerskate joint next door. Not that I actually care in any way shape or form at this point in my life so please feel free to completly ignore this musing. > HAPPY HARDCORE! Ha ha ha. No wonder I turned out like this. Never quite grasped the concept of something being both happy and hardcore at the same time to be honest. Never got into all those happy piano breaks myself too much and much as I didnt really get into the whole gabber thing either I did chuckle when Lenny Dee came to town for the first time and ruined the party with a 200bpm 2 hour set of angry noise! The looks on the faces of the happy hardcore brigade was priceless! > It's weird, but when I think back, early on going to raves was quite a > universal thing, alot of different people went. I remember the first signs > of people splitting off was when all the birds I knew wanted to go to > loveranch, and loads of lads wanted to go to, say, labyrinth. Thats the > first time I noticed things splitting off into smaller genres. Its true. I guess it was around late 89 when I started going out and I remember DJs like Grooverider playing Nu Groove, Transmat, Trax, Warp. House one minute, techno the next, then some acid, then some Italian piano number etc... There didnt seem to be any boundaries becuase all the music was new to everyone. > I remember sometimes the only oasis for us was Eddie Richard's crew would > occasionally put something on in say Bletchley, they were always good. > otherwise, it was the eclipse in coventry, or london... The Eclipse rocked! Although my regualar haunt was Sterns on the South coast. Anyone ever go there? Stu
