I love clubbing. This is a Wednesday nighta called Dirty Burger. It’s predominantly childhood and tribal Eden transmission stella overdriver jam n spoon with a lot of hard hands and sloppy wonka thrown in on the overbeat – pretty mainstream, I suppose. Alexei Sayle’s Merry-Go-Round e5, BBC 1998
Pop culture has met the microchip and a strange new creature has emerged. At the heart of this techno trip is a drug called Ecstasy. But the pleasures of Rave have their price. Ecstasy can kill. But despite dangers known and unknown, this heady mixture of music, drugs and technology has created a brand new experience. Equinox: Rave New World, Channel 4 1994
Midsummer in Kent: an airport hangar is being turned into a beach. A quarter of a million pounds’ worth of lights will sear eyeballs with lazers and strobes. A hundred thousand watts of sound will hammer ear drums. ibid.
It all began in 1988, the so-called second summer of love. ibid.
The new dance music arrived at the same time as a new drug called ecstasy. ibid.
Over 3.7 million over-45s go raving once a week in the UK. And there has been a 518% increase in over-60s being treated for cocaine-related issues since ten years ago. High Society: The Geriatric Ravers Still Smashing Drugs: Gravers, Youtube 22.25, Vice TV 2022
What effect does this lifestyle have on an ageing body? ibid.
Dorset police block a main road to stop new-age travellers out of a seaside resort. It’s just one of hundreds of confrontations that’s take place this summer as a growing band of nomads takes to Britain’s roads. World in Action: New Age Travellers, ITV 1992
New-age travellers claim they are peaceful free-spirits wrongly condemned by a hostile society. ibid.
They are joined by thousands of ravers out from the towns for a weekend of non-stop dancing to loud electronic music. ibid.
The police are using controversial tactics first employed during the miners’ strike. ibid.