From memory things started going tits up for people with Mitzi’s. Don’t remember many casualties prior to them. There were ones with speckles at the time that were largely lauded as being heroin/scag . Round our neck of the woods it was doves, Dennis the menace, rhubarb and custards, New Yorkers, then Mitzi’s. There were ones in 92 called M25’s that you were supposed to break in half but fuckers didn’t and lots cockled it on them. I remember going to a club called Kinetic in Stoke and people were dropping like flies on them.

    Heroin in pills fkn hell, I’d say a lot of the pills the last 10 years are laced with K or Valium.

    Snowballs were a decent hit too back in the day.
    After the doves and before the Mitsis iirc 😂

    Cankles-McJeggings From memory things started going tits up for people with Mitzi’s. Don’t remember many casualties prior to them. There were ones with speckles at the time that were largely lauded as being heroin/scag . Round our neck of the woods it was doves, Dennis the menace, rhubarb and custards, New Yorkers, then Mitzi’s. There were ones in 92 called M25’s that you were supposed to break in half but fuckers didn’t and lots cockled it on them. I remember going to a club called Kinetic in Stoke and people were dropping like flies on them.

    Mitsis were my era. It wasn’t the Mitsis IIRC, it was the slew of fakes and ultra-strong ones that followed.

    The popularity had gone stratospheric - even Mixmag had a Mitsi cover at one point.

    Everyone wanted Mitsis so any old shit was just being stamped as a Mitsi and people would buy it.

    As for brown in pills - I always felt this was a long-running urban myth (what would be the point of cutting with something that was valuable and could be sold in its own right?)

      Also, Kinetic was one of the first clubs I ever went to. Around 97. Some lad’s birthday I vaguely knew, everyone piled down on a coach. It was absolutely grim as fuck, proper mental happy hardcore nonsense with real nasty looking Stoke/Derby/Wolves lads everywhere.

        So, were better off just getting MDMA crystals then instead of pressed pills..

        Can’t believe Dave hasn’t mentioned seeing Oaky week in week out in at the height of his Courtyard residency yet.

          I’ve kept half a dozen absolute bangers aside over the years for that special moment when I need to gurn my tits off, tell everyone that tune is Emerald, not remember a fucking thing the next day and get a bollocking for the next 48 hours from the missus for the ‘fucking state of me’

            Along_the_Wire I’ve bought 15 punishers( love the name) a few weeks ago just to have for that reason! You would want to see the size of the bastards! Fuckin huge with loads of corners on them look like they will definitely punish me!

              bosstrabs

              Haha you went on the Saturday then hardcore night. Firdays was the decent night. Although by 97 kinetic was a shit show. It ended in 93 in real terms there.

                I know. He shoehorns The End into every single thread.

                I’ll tell you what would be funny. If someone chucked Ed Smallman into the Thames.

                “I’m Headwand Smallman, and I went to see Layo & Bushwacka every week at a time when there were at least 6 better line-ups every week in London”. What an absolute clown.

                All I envisage now when smalls mentions The End is him standing out like a sore thumb in chinos, slip on shoes and a Ben Sherman shirt. Intentionally rubbing himself up on the passing biceps of real men wearing those Morales type black string vests 😂

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                  Smallman “front and centre”, being a sex pest around the dj booth.

                  “Kitchen sinking it” = on the prowl for plumbers.

                    The green eyes on the lads that I got to spend over 10 years ledging it at the greatest club in the world.

                    It was absolutely sensational tbf!