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I remember TFI being delayed by a couple of minutes after Shaun Ryder swore on it. Maybe 15 Minutes. But also, I remember watching myself on it (I looked terrified) so it couldn't have been live. I did have a video of it so maybe it was that. I don't remember it being a Wednesday, but then - I can't remember much from that period really. And not in a mildly amusing way. Bits and bobs from those days are up on Youtube, but not that.
I remember TFI being delayed by a couple of minutes after Shaun Ryder swore on it. Maybe 15 Minutes. But also, I remember watching myself on it (I looked terrified) so it couldn't have been live. I did have a video of it so maybe it was that. I don't remember it being a Wednesday, but then - I can't remember much from that period really. And not in a mildly amusing way. Bits and bobs from those days are up on Youtube, but not that.
Matt_N said:
The 90s, inparticular the late 90s was a brilliant time for dance music?
The house and trance scenes went massive on the back of the baleric sound and many new genres really established themselves.
Some came and went but they layed the foundations to many of the genres heard today.
Have to agree with this, I started getting properly into it around 98 when I started uni for the second time. I ended up messing around with decks but it never went anywhere, I still have probably/easily over 100 12" singles knocking around. Must have been 2000 when a few mates and I piled into my crappy Escort and drove from Birmingham to Leeds for the first Love Parade, no accomodation or anything sorted. Town was a mess, rubbish, piss and messed up folk everywhere... we slept in the car / car park elevator.... silly, silly lads. Another random mid week excursion to Nottingham, the Renaissance student night. Forget who was DJing but we ended up staying at the YMCA. Silly, silly ladsThe house and trance scenes went massive on the back of the baleric sound and many new genres really established themselves.
Some came and went but they layed the foundations to many of the genres heard today.
Ah the wonders of random royalties. Been keeping me going for many years. Somewhere there is a video of me and Finley, very, very much the worse for wear, on the Glastonbury TV show playing an acoustic set. After a big gig on the pyramid. He bet me a considerable amount of money that he would sing "burn baby burn, disco inferno" just randomly during this important live performance and, to his eternal credit, he did. I just lost it because I was flying on very strong acid. Nearly, very nearly, fell off the guitar. Those truly were the days. We then stole many bottles of Champagne from The Jules Holland hospitality and set off on the binge to end all binges. It was a binge so heavy that we had to blow out Roskilde. Lunacy.
Penny-lope said:
JRewing said:
Having my Blur - Parklife tape getting chewed up in the tape deck in my mother's Rover 827. That was a bad day.....
Felt the same when the day came that I had to say goodbye to my M&S mens cardie…it had taken years to get the holes in the sleeves just rightAnd I wasn't especially bothered that the V6 at 100mph was probably drinking at about 15mpg. We were all drinking at that rate
W124 said:
He bet me a considerable amount of money that he would sing "burn baby burn, disco inferno" just randomly during this important live performance and, to his eternal credit, he did. I just lost it because I was flying on very strong acid. Nearly, very nearly, fell off the guitar. Those truly were the days.
I think that pretty much describes the decade for me.Sundays getting smashed on Merry Down Cider in a friends's back garden whilst they were writing songs like this. (They later wnt on to support John Otway at Peaches Night Club in Stockport! )
House parties 4 nights a week, epic basement conversions into 'night clubs'. Drug availability to the point where it was like choosing a fine wine.
One party sticks in my memory. At sunrise someone winched out a chess board on the end off a fishing rod from the bathroom window two floors up. The board held a 6" papermache model of Stonehenge, Spinal Tap were being pumped out from a 1K rig to about 50 people watching from the garden.
Strangely not a single complaint from any of the neighbours.
As fesuvious says, give me a time machine and I'd go back there in an instant!
Serious question though - given the opportunity to trip or pill on the drugs that were available then, would you do it now in the environment you are currently in?
I don't think I would.
TheExcession said:
W124 said:
He bet me a considerable amount of money that he would sing "burn baby burn, disco inferno" just randomly during this important live performance and, to his eternal credit, he did. I just lost it because I was flying on very strong acid. Nearly, very nearly, fell off the guitar. Those truly were the days.
I think that pretty much describes the decade for me.Sundays getting smashed on Merry Down Cider in a friends's back garden whilst they were writing songs like this. (They later wnt on to support John Otway at Peaches Night Club in Stockport! )
House parties 4 nights a week, epic basement conversions into 'night clubs'. Drug availability to the point where it was like choosing a fine wine.
One party sticks in my memory. At sunrise someone winched out a chess board on the end off a fishing rod from the bathroom window two floors up. The board held a 6" papermache model of Stonehenge, Spinal Tap were being pumped out from a 1K rig to about 50 people watching from the garden.
Strangely not a single complaint from any of the neighbours.
As fesuvious says, give me a time machine and I'd go back there in an instant!
Serious question though - given the opportunity to trip or pill on the drugs that were available then, would you do it now in the environment you are currently in?
I don't think I would.
I miss the days when you could grow your own shrooms.
P-Jay said:
OllieC said:
hate to be the 'music was better' brigade (we've all heard it from our elders) but I do believe it was.
Hip-Hop / rap was better, that's a fact
'Guitar' based bands, many more decent outfits, and lots of variety from the likes of Suede or Pulp at one end, through Oasis blur stereophonics etc to grunge and acts like RATM
Dance / Electronic - easily better imho.
/old git
I'm still not convinced - dance music was especially appalling in the 90's - yes you had Voodoo Ray and Café Del Mar, but the charts were awash with terrible 'dance music' which was any old crap sample with a 'house beat' attached to it.Hip-Hop / rap was better, that's a fact
'Guitar' based bands, many more decent outfits, and lots of variety from the likes of Suede or Pulp at one end, through Oasis blur stereophonics etc to grunge and acts like RATM
Dance / Electronic - easily better imho.
/old git
And the 90's really was the era of the Novelty record.
There's good and bad and we all know what the music industry is like - money is to be made and they will milk all types of music/trends for what its worth.
Novelty records were just as bad in the 80s.
Disco probably had it worse: over-commercialised and a massive backlash in the late 70s. It died and had its revenge in the next decade in Chicago.
In the 90s the charts still meant something, people were still watching TOTP and the threat of MP3s was around the corner.
Dance music like some other genres rewards you the deeper delve into it. 90s was brilliant because it wasn't 4/4 house and techno, things were changing at a rapid rate. Breakbeats were making an impact. I grew up on tape packs like Dreamscape, etc. '93 would be a pivotal year as hardcore splintered off to happy hardcore, jungle tekno, jungle, drum and bass.
I loved The Prodigy but they were accused of making 'kiddie rave' and commercialising the rave scene and started doing their own thing.
Chemical Brothers doing their own thing which spawned Big Beat - blatantly needs a revival! - and relaunched Norman Cook's career.
Not to mention Leftfield, Orbital and Underworld, etc, who could perform to festival crowds.
There was the much hated Criminal Justice Act which banned raves but turned into the era of superclubs, superstar DJs, handbag house, fluffy bras, Ibiza, trance, glow sticks, spiky backpacks...
Garage, speed garage, UK garage/2step which would spawn dubstep and grime. By this time D&B was supposed to be dead by crap journalists and trendy types - was it ever! 20 years and now still going strong! Oi, oi! Whistle posse!
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I think that pretty much describes the decade for me.
Sundays getting smashed on Merry Down Cider in a friends's back garden whilst they were writing songs like this. (They later wnt on to support John Otway at Peaches Night Club in Stockport! )
House parties 4 nights a week, epic basement conversions into 'night clubs'. Drug availability to the point where it was like choosing a fine wine.
One party sticks in my memory. At sunrise someone winched out a chess board on the end off a fishing rod from the bathroom window two floors up. The board held a 6" papermache model of Stonehenge, Spinal Tap were being pumped out from a 1K rig to about 50 people watching from the garden.
Strangely not a single complaint from any of the neighbours.
As fesuvious says, give me a time machine and I'd go back there in an instant!
Serious question though - given the opportunity to trip or pill on the drugs that were available then, would you do it now in the environment you are currently in?
I don't think I would.
I DO have the opportunity - all the time as I still work in the business - but, one disastrous stag night aside, I've not even smoked a spliff since 2001. It's all or nothing with me so totally on the level I remain. I thank my lucky stars when I look at those of my peer group who couldn't ease off.
I do miss it though. No question. I've got some incredible memories.
I think that pretty much describes the decade for me.
Sundays getting smashed on Merry Down Cider in a friends's back garden whilst they were writing songs like this. (They later wnt on to support John Otway at Peaches Night Club in Stockport! )
House parties 4 nights a week, epic basement conversions into 'night clubs'. Drug availability to the point where it was like choosing a fine wine.
One party sticks in my memory. At sunrise someone winched out a chess board on the end off a fishing rod from the bathroom window two floors up. The board held a 6" papermache model of Stonehenge, Spinal Tap were being pumped out from a 1K rig to about 50 people watching from the garden.
Strangely not a single complaint from any of the neighbours.
As fesuvious says, give me a time machine and I'd go back there in an instant!
Serious question though - given the opportunity to trip or pill on the drugs that were available then, would you do it now in the environment you are currently in?
I don't think I would.
I DO have the opportunity - all the time as I still work in the business - but, one disastrous stag night aside, I've not even smoked a spliff since 2001. It's all or nothing with me so totally on the level I remain. I thank my lucky stars when I look at those of my peer group who couldn't ease off.
I do miss it though. No question. I've got some incredible memories.
TheExcession said:
Debaser said:
Trainspotting.
Good call!Also The Pixies (see what I did there?) at the 1991 Reading Festival....
Gosh... this one brings back some memories too...
Did a lot of growing up in the 90's.....eventually. Got into thrash, dived off stages, almost got killed at least twice, met the missus and moved to London..
The best set ever, Top Buzz 1992 New Years Eve..
Just fantastic.. every time this takes me back.
Click and listen....
Just fantastic.. every time this takes me back.
Click and listen....
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