Following on from the 'most arse twitching club' thread, I think there's an important point here about received history and OSA has an important part to play in preserving a true version of events. As Orwell pointed out, once those who were there have gone what is written down becomes 'the truth'.
You could be excused for thinking from club culture historical texts that clubs were this big happy place where everyone danced as friends with strangers etc. As those who were there know this is utter bollocks. It might have been close to the truth in the early days when everyone was popping Es but certainly by the early to mid 90s, with the commercialisation, super clubs, introduction of alcohol and particularly the move away from E as the drug of choice into coke, clubs weren't that much different in the friendliness league from your average nightclub. Certainly not where I lived up north. And that's the house scene, other genres were even harder and downright dangerous in many cases unless you went out mob handed.
This is the actual truth as told by those who were there. The second summer of love bollocks was at best a fleeting period when the scene was mostly underground in the early days. By the time most people were into dance culture it was very far from being a luvvy place to spend an evening. Not saying it was shit, it was great, but let's record history as it was, not how we would maybe like it to have been.
You could be excused for thinking from club culture historical texts that clubs were this big happy place where everyone danced as friends with strangers etc. As those who were there know this is utter bollocks. It might have been close to the truth in the early days when everyone was popping Es but certainly by the early to mid 90s, with the commercialisation, super clubs, introduction of alcohol and particularly the move away from E as the drug of choice into coke, clubs weren't that much different in the friendliness league from your average nightclub. Certainly not where I lived up north. And that's the house scene, other genres were even harder and downright dangerous in many cases unless you went out mob handed.
This is the actual truth as told by those who were there. The second summer of love bollocks was at best a fleeting period when the scene was mostly underground in the early days. By the time most people were into dance culture it was very far from being a luvvy place to spend an evening. Not saying it was shit, it was great, but let's record history as it was, not how we would maybe like it to have been.
