Monostereo. Hursty set up the first iteration for this, which started as a replacement for Bedrock, after Digweed shut it in early 2018.

The early days of GU board where proper wild west, no humour too dark, no melter to wild!

NasserAlazzawi When I see massive threads I tend not to even look because its hard to catch up with where one was going 400 posts in so there are only certain threads that catch my interest from time to time.

Your best bet here, is to read non of it and just jump in feet first and have a dig at Ed or Dave, should pay dividends with a few upvotes.

      I joined Bedrock in 2006 aged 18 when I first got into the scene. The rest is history!

      As Homegrove said, when Diggers closed Bedrock, I just googled forums and set one up in a couple of minutes. This was a decent stop gap until mono unleashed this classy platform which is infinitely better and on our own terms.

      I do like this format. Did he build this himself or use one of those off the shelf platforms you can buy? Anywhere he would appreciate donations towards running costs?

      I’m a GU and 4Four refugee. Some surliness and some weirdos, sure. But all in all, top people all around. Good music. Good bants. Just fun, really.

      But, yeah, as Amps said - GU was another level entirely. That place was a riot.

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        jonattonyeah GU was another level entirely. That place was a riot.

        Couldn’t refresh the page quick enough some times. I assume many of those people are now in prison.

            Was on the old bedrock forum since 2001. Was on 4four as well.

            had a lot of good times with a lot of people I have met in this journey.

            The old GU board sounds absolute savage.

              Amps

              Will never happen again. Social media killed the message board for the most part (sans Reddit which isn’t really the same) and no brand would ever let the hijinks that occurred on GU fall under their name. Oddly, it seemed to police itself quite well. But that might be rose-colored memories.

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                  Dubman Huge influx of people / traffic, at exactly the right place and time regards the internet and dance music. No prisoners where taken. Met a few people in the industry around that time who actually said ’you go on there? Fuck that, it’s mad’ 😆

                      Think we’ve all perused the GU/Bedrock/MS forums at some point in our life. Not sure about others, but I did so mostly in hunt of tracklistings. Always found some very knowledgeable (about the music scene) people on all said, previous platforms, so it’s kept me looking out for the new iteration. Seems like there’s some decent people on here to boot, but some of the chat does feel like panto from time to time. Famous 5 minutes etc… lol

                      When did the GU board finish?

                      Speaking of all this - I’ve been meaning to ask this for years :-

                      who is Mate Green ? Is this the same person as Flares? Who was doggy ?

                      And not unlinked to these questions where is Dermo -the only other Leeds fan on this board ?

                      Doggy owned Hannu and Bedrock, that’s a fact.

                      I think GU ended in 2010.

                        I kinda cringe a bit at the concept of a “legendary message board” but if such a thing can exists, GU:Life was surely that.

                        Was mental how much traffic there was and massive feuds and arguments. Fadas and Dusted were total legends in my eyes. I think a lot of folk really hero-worshipped Marko in particular. There were several actual serious producers going “what the fuck”, getting shown minimal respect amongst the piss taking, mad dramas & alias wars, but most of the board were pretty clued up and went to a lot of good gigs.