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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brixtonite" data-source="post: 393920" data-attributes="member: 3206">Rave...No doubt I reiterating what has been said by others... I was a couple of years too young to get to any of the first wave 'raves' down South... somewhat gutted me as a kid, but I was still into the music."Rave" for me used to reference the orbital and warehouse parties round London, Essex, Kent and the Home Counties... never really heard too much about the scene in the North of England, but it was just as wild as down here by all accounts. Guess that was cos the pirates would only advertise what was local.As a few others have said, the term became over-used and a by-word for 'drug taking, peace-disturbing criminal activity' by the Press. Then, of course, the phrase was abused by the commercial end of the music industry to sell loads of crap compilations to kiddies that didn't have a clue.I only went to a few old school raves... Telepathy, Eclipse, blah blah - the majority of my 90s were spent clubbing...though the hardcore and drum and bass scene carried the term through for a good few years.Oh, but the free party scene still uses the term down here sporadically, if there's a party  involving a fook off sound system (or five - hehe) and lots of spangle-heads dancing in the middle of nowhere, paying £2 for a can of Red Stripe.</blockquote>

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