Went to the library a couple of days ago. Picked up an amazing book…
Firstly a quick run down on the authors Push and Mireille Silcott
Push is the former editor of Muzik, Britians most respoected dance music magazine. He edited Muzik for three years from its launch in 1995. Prior to that, he was a journalist with Melody Maker for 10 years, initiating the paper’s first dance music section in 1990.
Mireille Silcott is a Montreal-based journalist and broadcaster. In 1996, she was named the ‘top authority on dance culture and clubbing in this country’ by Radio Canada. She is the former music editor of the Montreal Mirro and has converted pop music for the CBS and Much Music TV networks. She is the author of “Clubland America: New School Dancescapes”.
Ecstasy has made people dance in fields
Ecstasy has sparked gang wars
Ecstasy has topped the charts
Ecstasy has caused uproar in parliament
Ecstasy has gone global
Ecstasy has built the careers of tabloid journalists
Ecstasy has gotten pop stars into trouble
Ecstasy has been taken legally
Ecstasy has made people happy
Ecstasy has killed
Ecstasy has shaped a generation
Through interviews, anecdotes, extracts and the analysis, this book documents the massive cultural impact of the drug Ecstasy. From maverick scientists to millionaire club promoters, from Texas discos to the Houses of Parliament, the book of E debunks the myths and cuts through the bullshit surrounding “the chemical generation” and their drug of choice.
…are the words on the back cover.
This book which was written this year and published recently, I borrowed from the Frankston Library and read over the course of two nights. It is basically a timeline of Ecstasy usage from its early early beginnings in the USA, to its crossover to Europe and Ibiza, onto the UK and the back to USA. It includes articles from science magazines, tabloid news articles, academics, users, police, community workers, nightclub owners, pill manufacturers, users. etc etc…
The issues it talks about are varied, from pharmaceutical to social. From the spread of E across the scenes, to the changing the scenes, to the introduction of chill out rooms to gang warfare, from early acid house to superclubs. From the earliest users to the US’s candykids. One of the best articles in there was written from the viewpoint of the police chief of the main drug arm of the UK. In one raid on an illegal rave they arrested 836 people, the largest mass arrest in the UK since the year 1819.
This book is a must read for anyone remotely interested in the beginnings of E and the culture it has created through to today. You WILL be enlightened when you read this and I recommend you do so.
Firstly a quick run down on the authors Push and Mireille Silcott
Push is the former editor of Muzik, Britians most respoected dance music magazine. He edited Muzik for three years from its launch in 1995. Prior to that, he was a journalist with Melody Maker for 10 years, initiating the paper’s first dance music section in 1990.
Mireille Silcott is a Montreal-based journalist and broadcaster. In 1996, she was named the ‘top authority on dance culture and clubbing in this country’ by Radio Canada. She is the former music editor of the Montreal Mirro and has converted pop music for the CBS and Much Music TV networks. She is the author of “Clubland America: New School Dancescapes”.
Ecstasy has made people dance in fields
Ecstasy has sparked gang wars
Ecstasy has topped the charts
Ecstasy has caused uproar in parliament
Ecstasy has gone global
Ecstasy has built the careers of tabloid journalists
Ecstasy has gotten pop stars into trouble
Ecstasy has been taken legally
Ecstasy has made people happy
Ecstasy has killed
Ecstasy has shaped a generation
Through interviews, anecdotes, extracts and the analysis, this book documents the massive cultural impact of the drug Ecstasy. From maverick scientists to millionaire club promoters, from Texas discos to the Houses of Parliament, the book of E debunks the myths and cuts through the bullshit surrounding “the chemical generation” and their drug of choice.
…are the words on the back cover.
This book which was written this year and published recently, I borrowed from the Frankston Library and read over the course of two nights. It is basically a timeline of Ecstasy usage from its early early beginnings in the USA, to its crossover to Europe and Ibiza, onto the UK and the back to USA. It includes articles from science magazines, tabloid news articles, academics, users, police, community workers, nightclub owners, pill manufacturers, users. etc etc…
The issues it talks about are varied, from pharmaceutical to social. From the spread of E across the scenes, to the changing the scenes, to the introduction of chill out rooms to gang warfare, from early acid house to superclubs. From the earliest users to the US’s candykids. One of the best articles in there was written from the viewpoint of the police chief of the main drug arm of the UK. In one raid on an illegal rave they arrested 836 people, the largest mass arrest in the UK since the year 1819.
This book is a must read for anyone remotely interested in the beginnings of E and the culture it has created through to today. You WILL be enlightened when you read this and I recommend you do so.
