C_J Queuing up at Don Valley Stadium for NYE was an experience and a half. Still can’t get over how those Crasher kids looked. One guy with spiky green hair was sucking a dummy, had a see through backpack with a little teddy and a little bed, presumably for when teddy got tired.

When did you start experimenting with pastels, Dave?

    Millsy Pastels were dead the minute Rhouses and Smallman hopped on.

    I’m doing royal blue and Kelly green nowadays - bold colours for a bold new era!

      Them cruncher kids really were bellends. I had some good nights in there, none of them were due to them cunts.

      I think what happened was that a couple of people started doing it and they got a load of positive attention (i.e. sex) so others started trying to emulate them and then it started escalating as they competed to outdo one another. I guess it’s just another example of peacocking, ultimately.

      C_J Should we feel shame because of things we did when we were young and experimenting with different identities?

      Are you calling me gay or something?

      I went to one of those so called legendary PVD 6 hours sets. I don’t care what anyone says he cannot put a coherent set together to save his life. He was all over the place. I thought that it was just me, but then Dave Haslam wrote a whole chapter about him in his Wheels Of Steel book.

        Dry-Tinder Yes, I also thought 2 hours of PvD was more than enough.

        The 1st hour was always the same bpm and same crescendo-ing formula as the 2nd hour.

          bosstrabs

          I saw him a couple of years ago at Gods Kitchen at Crane and he was shocking.

          Dry-Tinder agree. Never ever got the hype with him. A couple of great remixes admittedly, but not a great dj. He won the dj mag award one year didn’t he (when it meant something)

            hugopal @LT42 called someone a “melt” in the RIP thread only a few weeks ago.

            Just to fuck with your ASSBURGERS I did a search in that thread and can’t find myself ever writing this word, because I wouldn’t. So dragging me into this conversation must mean your ASSBURGERS is out of control. You fuckin ASSBURGER cunt.

              LT42 Just to fuck with your ASSBURGERS I did a search in that thread and can’t find myself ever writing this word, because I wouldn’t.

              I falsely mentioned what thread it was in, but:

              LT42 …swing voters don’t vote every 4 years based on how good or bad clips are, you fucking melt

              Oh dear… 🤔

              bosstrabs But I did, shamefully, wear Acupunctures

              Loved my Acunpunctures back then.

              Only broadly similar pic I can find. Deffo a guilty pleasure….

              Dry-Tinder

              Yeah I did one of these. Got a coach over from Liverpool. Ashley Caselle on warm up.

              PVD waa doing his album launch and played Another Way 4 times ffs lol

                Old-Dutch I had to endure Bullet In A Gun 3 times. If anyone can ID the girls in dog collars it would be nice to know of they still do the trick with the chain in the bum.




                  Mitsi tattoos! Forgot about those.

                  Wonder if the many people who had them kept them or covered them up.

                  bosstrabs I’m doing royal blue and Kelly green nowadays - bold colours for a bold new era!

                  Lol!

                  Dry-Tinder I had to endure Bullet In A Gun

                  Not even RITM could save that track. I detest it so much

                    BlainSA I wanted a dub of the RITM remix. Thought they did a pretty good job with the underpinnings, but couldn’t get past the grating vocal…

                    Dry-Tinder he cannot put a coherent set together to save his life

                    I’ll argue his corner here. post Oakey we’d have him on in the Courtyard maybe twice a year, three to four hour sets, and he always delivered. Driving trance. Everyone loved it. Boss vibes etc.

                      The first Crasher Kids AKA Cyber Kids borrowed thier style from Cyber Goths. They where harmless enough, apart from a couple of hardcore wonds.

                      Around 01/02 Simon Raine attempted to tilt the line up towards Prog as a monthly night, the likes of Sander Kleinenberg, Parks and Willson, Dave Seaman etc etc. That didn’t go down well with a few of said wonds, hense the sitting on the floor thing.

                      Never bothered me, but anyway it was around that time that Raine lost control of his own club. The bouncers where running the show (and the lucrative drug trade) as part of a crime gang. In an effort to gain back control Raine ended up teaming up with South Yorkshire police to raid his own club.

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                        They made it more colourful than these lot for sure

                        mono-stereo Raine ended up teaming up with South Yorkshire police to raid his own club.

                        Menthol. Also, big kahunas on him, takes some nerve that.

                          gcw Never saw him play, because why bother, but his seven ways album still sounds good to me.

                          Amps Dave Seaman was playing at the time of the raid. He ended up locking the door on the booth and continued to play until the power was cut off. Pills scattered all over the floor.

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                            In the couple of years I was into that sound, I thought Scott Bond was a decent DJ. First to play many records, dug deep with his choices and was the first to bring over many of the Europeans that went on to become huge names. The weekly crowd loved him

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                              Dry-Tinder If anyone can ID the girls in dog collars it would be nice to know of they still do the trick with the chain in the bum.

                              Let me guess, you met them outside a train station bogs, shared some ket with them, then they brought you back to a bedsit and you all tried the human caterpillar. It was just you, but there was 12 girls. There was a ginger cat shaking in the corner. I’m paraphrasing of course.

                                alistair his EM from that time is not the worst thing I’ve heard. Him and Matt Hardwick seemed to just drop off the circuit completely

                                mono-stereo Pills scattered all over the floor.

                                Yeah, we got raided once. Same. Pills, cash, all over the place. Cops didn’t seem interested, think they where on a tip off of some sort, but can’t remember. Fuckin hundreds of police in riot gear though.

                                LT42 Let me guess, you met them outside a train station bogs, shared some ket with them, then they brought you back to a bedsit and you all tried the human caterpillar. It was just you, but there was 12 girls. There was a ginger cat shaking in the corner. I’m paraphrasing of course.

                                Lol!

                                6 days later

                                Pvd’s final 6hr set before the fire was one for the books.

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