In your yooooof

[MadWorld74]

oh me God!!!!!!!!!!

Swifts- Brighton

The Escape Club -Brighton

Pink Coconut - Brighton (also known as Busbys)

Zap Club - Brighton

Top Rank Suite - Brighton (later known as The Event)which hosted Mantra, Voodoo and Storm raves (oh my God)

Funky Budda Lounge - Brighton

STERNS interdance......I hear you RATTY!!!! Infact DJ Ratty was my favorite DY ever!

The Velvet Underground (which is now the Mean Fidler in Charring X Road)

.....I'm re-living the past. I must calm down.

Choon.

[MadWorld74]

oh and like Asset, not forgetting....

Turnmills

Various illegal warehouse dos

:)):)):))

Where you come from, what's your name, what you....

[woodie]

club uk haha! crazy place.

Caribbean club oxford

the Dug out Bristol

dingwalls high on hope

warehouse parties kings x

Shoom

Confusion

Megatripolis

Heaven

Misery of sound (1st 2 years then outta there)

Bass clef/blue note

Lost

the drop (plink plonk parties)

Dance wikid

milk bar

Feel Real (gardening club)

Brixton academy all nighters, energy+

Metalhedz

crazy parties in the mountains of europe for snowboard competitions.(dj'd at those, learnt to board for free! yay)

voltaire road and valencia place, various gaffs brixton.studio parties.

90's kicked arse. mind you 80's did deffo generally for me.

lotsa motorway drives

[Mark]

Various free parties and associated shenanigans around the West Country for me:

Spiral Tribe

Castlemorton

Letchlade

Parties in farms, warehouses, quarries etc

The Swamp Club in Bath

Tribal Gathering

Big Love

Glastonbury (when it was free to get in)

People from Bath, Bristol and Stroud

Dennis the Menaces

Solstices in lovely places

DiY

Californian sunrises

Nice

[MadWorld74]

Don't forget MW74 the Milton Keynes Bowl for DREAMSCAPE, FANTASIA.....

and Lydd Airport for WORLD DANCE...... ha ha ha..... did I really do all that...Oh ya you betcha.

[lozzyloz]

Many of the above but even before that (showing my age):-

Crackers - Wardour St

Gossips/Billys - Dean St

The Venue - Victoria

The Embassy - Mayfair

Gullivers - Mayfair

Sands - Luton

Red Lion (Robbie Vincent) - Harrow-on-the-Hill

Hammersmith Palais

Goldmine (Chris Hill) - Canvey Island

Cheeky Pete's / Brolleys - Richmond

Subterranea - Ladbroke Grove

The Arena - WGC

[ratty]

NYE 1992 I am in there somewhere!

[????]

Lozzy - I was a soulboy way before a Raver so can remember almost all of them. I'd add the Royalty (southgate), The Brix (didcot), Flicks (Dartford) and, of course, the twice yearly trek to Caister

[spadetownboy]

the ashburn, lurgan

the stables,lurgan

studio 5 at the seagoe, portadown

the shebeen,acton

the redback,acton

the swan,stockwell

and too frequently for my own good all day sunday sessions at the church and onto backpackers kings x.

[ontheedge]

anyone ever at the library deptford round 93, or someplace on effra road.

[spadetownboy]

oh forgot the venue, and the amersham arms.

[RosieH]

no northerners on here?

the legendary Hacienda man - every Saturday, unless I was going to:

Sankeys Soap - Manchester

Quadrant Park - Liverpool

Shaboo - Blackpool

Konspiracy - Manchester

then I came south to uni, and all my friends were rockers - hard times indeed - was a semi-regular at the Milk Bar though and Bass Clef

I was very sad recently to see the disgrace they have made of the Hacienda, turning it into very cheap looking flats

[SeanMacGabhann]

relive that youth Rosie

24 Hour Party people

[BJL]

Soul clubs at the Moonlight Rooms (West Hamstead) then Rock Garden (Covent Garden)

Wigan Casino

The Venue (Victoria)

Marquee (Wardour St)

Red Cow (Hammersmith)

Gossips (Soho)

Hope & Anchor (Islington)

Nashville Rooms (West Kensington)

Greyhound (Fulham)

Wag Club (Soho)

Scala Cinema (Goodge St)

Dingwalls (Camden)

Music Machine (Camden)

Dublin Castle (Camden)

Roundhouse (Camden)

Ace (Brixton)

Rainbow (Finsbury Park)

Old Queen's Head (Stockwell)

Lyceum

100 Club

101 Club (Clapham)

...and on and on...

[RosieH]

ahh, brought a tear to my eye - brings back heady memories of dancing with Barney Sumner at the Hacienda

[woodie]

ah yeah ace cinema. One place I used to go a lot was in victoria. was it 'the venue?' sound right? saw beefhart, grace jones,alan vega amongst others there. v early 80's. ice cream for crow time, beefhart. was a cool place. I saw mick jagger and lou reed sitting together there onetime. they were mashed. First time i ever saw blixa out of bad seeds/einsterzende neubaten he was hanging off that glass pained front door waiting for a friend or something. He looked part cool part nuts.A few years later i saw them a lot and cool and nuts is about right.

I was outside the hacienda very recently. very weird. I too used to bug out occasionally there. For me music started young, black sabbath was the first and got instantly hooked on gigs. 74. Next after that is one of the best shows I ever saw, John Martyn solo at the Marquee wardour st. The audience sat on the floor! on that manky beer soaked carpet they sat. Frank zappa at hammersmith 75 was amazing too. eno and 801 at reading a stunner. One thing that im pissed about still now is, a bunch of college m8s then went to see bob marley and mum wouldnt let me go. I missed bob marley at the rainbow! aaagh. silly mum.

birthday party at the lyceum. joy division at the moonlight club hampstead.could go on and on. shaddap! nm

to quote tom waites.."I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."

[Keef]

Just remembered another one,which a google search has revealed is still going

Whirl-Y-Gig

When I used to go (approx 93) it was a bizarre night. It was unlisensed, but you could take drink in. Everyone was on a real mix of drugs from smoke to pills, to acid, it was dancing all night, but the thing it was known for was the "parachute dance"at the end, where everyone would sit / lie on the floor, and a huge parachute would be held over them, with everyone round the edges waving it up and down. Ambient music would be played, whilst a light show would be projected on to the parachute whilst you were undernieth it tripping off your nut!

Happy Days indeed >:D<

[Asset]

Yes, I know someone who went last weekend.

[ratty]

OMG Forgot about the WhirlyGig parachute.

Also used to do one in Bristol called Vibes Alive. I remember at the end of one night being half way up a ladder, 3 acids down, preparing to lower a laser into a huge cooling tank. When my mate saw what I was doing he nearly fainted!

[benjaminty]

Wow so many there have sparked some great memories... (hazy they have to be said)

A group of us back in '89 started a radio station called LNO radio and went on do pretty well in pirate terms..... started the same time as Centreforce and Sunrise etc.... LNO went on to become Dream FM and is still going online I believe. Meant that we ended up doing a lot of parties and clubs all over the joint.

Energy (The Edge in Coventry and fields in Cambridgeshire)

Sterns (always good fun trying to get your car out of the mud)

Astoria (Crazy Gang night - inflatable castles on the stage and ridiculous lazers)

Wag Club and Brain in Soho..

Tasco Warehouse in Plumstead

Orange at the Rocket Holloway Road

Heaven under the arches Charing X on a Thursday night (hmmm my first full strip search in the back of a police van)

Subterrainea

Velvet Underground

Bagleys

Battersea Film Studios

Escape in Brighton for all dayers

And many silly long distance jaunts to airports, fields .. and one ridiculous New Years Eve in a WH Smiths Warehouse in Bow...

I still have a hell of a lot of flyers from late 80s early 90s put into a huge frame back at family home... I'm sure my mother looks at it with pride!

[benjaminty]

and didn't whirly gig used to be at Happy Jax under the arches in London Bridge? Very odd ... cant believe it's still going!!!!

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

In Birkenhead there was a skanky dive called the Pleasuredome I frequented, and some other equally skanky dives in New Brighton - Penny Farthing and others I've forgotten.

Then I came to London and went to a load of squat parties which were actually less skanky than my previous places of entertainment.

Got into the Warehouse thing a bit cos a mate of mine called Charlie owned one and used to have mad fire breathing people and stuff performing on pedestals for all the people dancing their tits off below.

That got me into acid thing which I used for my aerobics classes and messed people up cos it was soooo fast! Didn't go clubbing much tho, did Oxygen and a few west end places that I can't remember. I even joined a couple of convoys for raves in obscure fields and woods.

Then I got into Jungle, drum and bass - used that in my aerobics classes too - total meltdown!

I am old and still go raving but prefer places that play a mixture of Bashment and the dance anthems I used to love so much!

Temple bar in Walworth Road is always good for a larf, The Rising sun in Catford before it closed down, Yates in Lewisham, and countless other back street raves!

I've got a bad back now, so can't take too much shaking of the booty, so may finally hang up my dancing shoes!

[ratty]

Yates and The Rising Sun - are you sure you are not involved in Gun Crime???? :D

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Haha not any more!

(i.e I work for an immigration solicitor now not a criminal one any more!)

[Asset]

oh yes, Brain and Subterrania - forgot them