As much as i love garage i’ve never been to a garage rave before (think they’re quite a few in london with nu school garage/deephouse etc). But i know they were huge in the nineties/early naughtys, so what kind of tunes did they play?? I was much to young to ever go to any kind of garage rave back when it was really huge, but it does interest me. Weird as it might sound to some, i can’t really imagine a rave with this kind of music. It just seems to chilled out and too downtempo, but hey i’m here to be enlightened! I think i’m just used to the tunes played at the raves where i’m at, being a lot of minimal techno, progressive, hard trance, dark dnb and jungle

@thelog 539499 wrote:

I was gonna say the scene is plagued by bad vibes. I was once pissing myself laughing at a mixmag article where they were trying to claim the exact opposite, saying Oh you would expect to go in to the dark moody club and be confronted by people sizing you up and lots or argy bargy on the dance floor and bar queues but thy claimed to see none of it. I don’t know if they were being paid to write the club a good review or soemthing but I know for a fact that garage nights used to attract the biggest wankers in dance music history. My friends went to a big garage NYE jobbie and ended up leaving really early on because the attitude in there was so tense. There are also countless cases of shootings and stabbings as GL hinted.

I wonder why that is? A lot of garage is pretty uplifting and happy music haha

@General Lighting 539504 wrote:

True, but it has also become townie/drinking music. People these days will fight at any music event, there is a fuckload of sexual tension / competition at any nightlife and on the music scene. Perhaps its something you notice more as you get older/or move away from London where you get desensetised to conflict and violence so in a new location this stands out.

I am aware of people older than me (45+) fighting each other at a indie rock event at a decent real ale pub with bands young enough to be their kids, and someone being beaten to death at a trance/hardhouse event in East Anglia back in the 90s when there was usually good drugs and normally friendly vibes.

Music are marginally safer now but thats because of the feds and Councils keeping an eye on things from above and refusing licenses to those who put on sketchy/moody events, not the scene cleaning itself up.

Ahh i see. I’ve never actually understood violence at partys whatsoever.. it’s just completely unnecessary yet seems so common in the clubs and bars. In Bury St Edmunds late at night i always see 30-40 year old men outside bars arguing about something

@General Lighting 539507 wrote:

there was a Pink concert in Ipswich at Portman Road a while back and they underestimated how many stewards and feds they needed and the atmosphere outside was worse than at the footy! Four arrests as well which is a lot bearing in mind the bulk of the punters were 12 year old girls and their parents..

Some folk round here could start a fight in a empty house…

jesus… at a Pink concert!? Thats just pathetic really. I swear there some groups of people who start fights for no reason other than the excitement of being in a fight :S