What was your pre-rave "scene" association?

[onetwothreefour]

I've been lots of things, but essentually they're all the same; short skirts, long stockings and too much kohl. Tarten with ladders, Punk; black with white lace petticoat and sleek black corset, Goth; crochet with mismatched stripy socks and a few mirrors, Hippy; glowsticks, glitter, tricolour socks, reflective, black light responsive, with optional drug related text, Raver.
I think deep down, I'm a culture slut.

omg, i think i want to stalk you tartan, petticoats, stripy socks omg omg! :D

 

[RustyBickie]

undeniably metal head!!

So many saturday nights drinkin VB cans listening to Metalica, then getting stoned off our titties... good times!

 

[haste]

song names? i wanna check them out, PM me or something, cuz this is a little off topic!

Check out anything from S.U.N Project - orginally the members intended to play pure metal, but instead merged both metal and psytrance - and having seen them live, they are amazing

 

[Raz]

okay well originally I guess I was a dorky little fat kid that had no friends and was WAY too into reading etc...

Then I realised that it was okay to have a social life, and it was all about Nick Cave, Concrete Blonde, PJ Harvey, anything else kinda pseudo-gothy/intellectual....

Then there was the acoustic/hippy/folky period...Tiddas, Things of Stone and Wood, Indigo Girls, stuff like that...

Then the weird shit phase: Tiny Tim, Yoko Ono, the Shaggs...

Then hardcore punk/industrial/anything heavy sounding: Sex Pistols, Babes In Toyland, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein etc...

Now I'm discovering hip-hop and rap, but I've discovered that I actually like all types of music as long as the music itself is good. So I wouldn't really call myself a raver, though I love a good doof too.

--Raz--

 

[doofqueen]

Check out anything from S.U.N Project - orginally the members intended to play pure metal, but instead merged both metal and psytrance - and having seen them live, they are amazing

you bastard! they are just about my favorite in psy!!! *jeolous*

skinlab...i'll get a list for u and pm you ...one more though is 'skazi' ....its rocking my world!

off topic? yeah sorry i tend to do that

 

[syntech]

well.....i'm still new to all this. been a yr and i still consider myself a rookie. but b4 all that i used to really be into rap and hip hop. all that snoopy and dre stuff. b4 that it was slipknot. how does that work hey?

 

[Flea']

Used to be heavily into the aussie/american, grunge/punk/ska scene

I lost all my old mp3 cd's sad...

 

[Innocuous]

omg, i think i want to stalk you tartan, petticoats, stripy socks omg omg! :D

i'll try not to wear all three at once then

 

[[electrobot]]

I'm ashamed to say it I was a big underage metro and chasers a.k.a ZOS girl OMG I even liked Andy Van back then *shudders*

 

[haste]

I'm ashamed to say it I was a big underage metro and chasers a.k.a ZOS girl OMG I even liked Andy Van back then *shudders*

it could be worse, you could still be that same person

 

[panick]

Let me see, I was really into rap when I was younger(PE, NWA etc), then for years I was into the punk/hardcore scene (my Fav band is and will always be Propagandhi), I used to go to the Arthouse a lot, and before that cheesy FREEZA punk nights in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
When I turned 18, I started going to gay clubs and bars(like 3 faces, the Peel-eeeeeww), but that didn't last as I hated the cheesy House/Kylie music, and the fact I bumped into my year 12 History teacher at the peel the night before an exam which wasn't really fun.
Then I was invited to go to an Earthcore (Toolangi '96)with some friends, and that's where my love of Techno began (I think it was the Source Experience I saw). I still listen to a bit of punk stuff, but now it's mostly minimal techno that I listen to.

 

[Hypnotic]

I had no idea there would be so many metal heads here!

I started listening to Metallica and Pantera when I was about 11, started listening to heavier stuff such as black metal around 15.
Started playing synth and joined black/gothic/thrash metal band Veil of Anguish who I still play for now (Melbourne/Geelong area).

Went to the Big Day Out (Forget which year, Chemical Brothers headlined), took my first pill and started listening to trance.

Moved onto techno, hard NRG & trance, now mostly like break beats and d&b.

Still love metal though, but don't like the typical 'metal-head' mentality...

 

[Cohaagen]

well, if you can call being an anti-social computer nerd a "scene" then that was my scene.

after doing that until the age of 23 i was tired of it... but during that time i had done lots of stuff (nothing mega tho, i cannot say i've ever committed myself to one pursuit only, except computers)

my first rave was Two Tribes 2002, and it changed my life!!!

i honestly feel that i'm having my adolescence now, but with the extra income that a stable career (if such a myth exists in today's world) brings.

Still yet to find my passion and my true "scene". I think i mite just have to create my own.

Its never too late to change who you are.

Cohaa.

 

[wazza]

I started listening to Metallica and Pantera when I was about 11, started listening to heavier stuff such as black metal around 15.
Started playing synth and joined black/gothic/thrash metal band Veil of Anguish who I still play for now (Melbourne/Geelong area).

Oh wow, you must know Emma (gorno) then? I'll get her to contact you as she knows you guys and stuff. I went to one of the members (birthday??) party a couple years back in Geelong with her.

 

[Raving Loony]

Well I spent pretty much all of youth as being a pretty angry kid. Up until I was 22 ('96), all wanted to listen to was whatever reflected my torchered soul at the time. Be it alternative to represent my disgust at the world, a flickering of pop to help get over guilt and the rest of the time it was Metallica. After I turned 22 I stopped drinkning for a year and I started hating all the things I were and loved. Discovered Techno and it helped me mellow out my anger. It eventually became virtually the only genre I was interested in for years, got into raves in early 2001 after going through a year long love affair with Happy Hardcore .

 

[El Scorcho]

I was a rocker...!!! Fully in a band, doing the Sydney pub circuit, and all. Me boys are still rockin' it out - check out Six Pocket Theory if ya's get a chance...!!!

Yeah - fully over that now, though. Still into all sorts of music, but totally over my dreams of the famous rock band thing. Now just wanna be a SUPERSTAR DJ...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Hardicus]

Punker, through and through.

Still listen to the music, still love it. Would go to a gig if any of my fave bands came down.

ahhhh memories.

Seeing Pennywise and NOFX on pills was faaaantastic.

 

[Raving Loony]

Bump again.

 

[Shuba]

Is it just taken for granted that everyone here is a raver, or somehow involved in the rave scene?

Because I'm not, at all. I'm here because I like drugs.

 

[diegoblunt]

Is it just taken for granted that everyone here is a raver, or somehow involved in the rave scene?

^not at all ... i hope.

I was an african american who lived in the South Central ghetto .. i mean i liked gangsta rap. Nowadays, I wouldn't call myself a raver though, I'm still that same old ghetto thugster that your mother warned you about.