steewith2ees
Bluelight Crew
Ive always been obssesed with electronic music since pacific state (808
) hit my walkman in the late 80's. I was 2 young to participate in the golden age of rave music but finally cut my teeth at the age of 16, i come from Wolverhampton and during the early to mid 90's it was one of the best towns for hardcore music with 2 of the best nights in the country,pandemonium and quest (where i popped my e cherry. 1996 finds me permenantly installed at the sanctuary in milton keynes, didnt miss a helter skelter for nearly 4 years with a few dreamscapes and pure x's thrown in for good measure..
Moving with the times i started getting into the superclub sounds of the millenium, from homelands to slinky, gatecrasher to cream to passion at the emporium, house trance and techno become the order of the day, living on birminghams doorstep i was like a pig in muck with my regular visits to godskitchen puctuated by the occasional atomic jam and sundissential, nights that were going off like a week old jam rag in 90 degree heat. by 2003 id started using smack to cope with the weekly pillwhizz hangovers and as i slipped into my addiction it was almost as if id burst the bubble myself, and by the time of the great piperizine pill plague it was almost game over. Between ourselves and nearby shrewsbury, we managed to keep a healthy dnb scene going and during a long clean spell i managed to co promote a sucessfull old scool night in wolverhampton for 2 years (we managed to book grooverider on his first nye after leaving prison in dubai), but of course im once again back on the smack with no regular access to decent md or whizz, dancing shoes covered in dust.
Whats brought this mornings rant on? the local press has reported that gatecrasher birmingham is to be no more, and while they never hit the heights of their sheffield parties its sad to see the last of the (now) old guard dissapear from the high street. yes i know your all going to tell me that its all about europe and free parties but i never saw the rise of the superclub and the mitsubishi revolution as a bad thing as at the time dance music ruled the uk, and in terms of youth culture the uk ruled the world. I guess the main problem is that im a hopeless smackhead hurtling towards middle age and that i should finally grow up.
Saying that tho one more good night at the old boogey woogey would go along way towards blowing away a few of the thicker cobwebs. Im just a hopeless sentimentalist at heart.
RIP uk dance scene - 1987 -20XX or whenever
Stee (with two ees as one was never enough)
) hit my walkman in the late 80's. I was 2 young to participate in the golden age of rave music but finally cut my teeth at the age of 16, i come from Wolverhampton and during the early to mid 90's it was one of the best towns for hardcore music with 2 of the best nights in the country,pandemonium and quest (where i popped my e cherry. 1996 finds me permenantly installed at the sanctuary in milton keynes, didnt miss a helter skelter for nearly 4 years with a few dreamscapes and pure x's thrown in for good measure..
Moving with the times i started getting into the superclub sounds of the millenium, from homelands to slinky, gatecrasher to cream to passion at the emporium, house trance and techno become the order of the day, living on birminghams doorstep i was like a pig in muck with my regular visits to godskitchen puctuated by the occasional atomic jam and sundissential, nights that were going off like a week old jam rag in 90 degree heat. by 2003 id started using smack to cope with the weekly pillwhizz hangovers and as i slipped into my addiction it was almost as if id burst the bubble myself, and by the time of the great piperizine pill plague it was almost game over. Between ourselves and nearby shrewsbury, we managed to keep a healthy dnb scene going and during a long clean spell i managed to co promote a sucessfull old scool night in wolverhampton for 2 years (we managed to book grooverider on his first nye after leaving prison in dubai), but of course im once again back on the smack with no regular access to decent md or whizz, dancing shoes covered in dust.
Whats brought this mornings rant on? the local press has reported that gatecrasher birmingham is to be no more, and while they never hit the heights of their sheffield parties its sad to see the last of the (now) old guard dissapear from the high street. yes i know your all going to tell me that its all about europe and free parties but i never saw the rise of the superclub and the mitsubishi revolution as a bad thing as at the time dance music ruled the uk, and in terms of youth culture the uk ruled the world. I guess the main problem is that im a hopeless smackhead hurtling towards middle age and that i should finally grow up.
Saying that tho one more good night at the old boogey woogey would go along way towards blowing away a few of the thicker cobwebs. Im just a hopeless sentimentalist at heart.
RIP uk dance scene - 1987 -20XX or whenever
Stee (with two ees as one was never enough)
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