What was YOUR best year for raving?

[JACKG]

Would have to be 1995 for me. Would ave loved to been out between 88-92 but bit to young - When I 1st went to the Hacienda in 1994 it was dying and its glory days were long gone

In 1995 I know for a fact that I went to a rave every single Satday that year and quite often 2 or 3 more in the same week. (Most often went to Retro @ Angels on a Friday, then Life @ Bowlers Satday)

Was also my 1st Holiday to Ibiza... 2 Weeks on nothin but H20 and Discobiskits

 

[dods]

91 - enter the Orbit and those amazing Sasha sets... going to whooley edge services afterwoods till the early hours of the morning - wicked times
eh if only you could go back eh people

 

[silocybe]

this is tough.. but I would say for Raving ,as in every week and during that would be 91 , I remember doing quite a few shelleys friday nights , then workin Saturday , then heading out to Legends (couldnt keep this up for to long) Does anyone remember legends doing mid-week bashes ? think it was thurdays , went a few of them. So i'll go for 91 for the fact of hours on dance floor , mileage in cars and the obvious other usage ...but my fav all time year for music would be 89 and this was my first time at the Hac.

 

[oldskoolkidder]

im only a youngun, i went timeless last year and thoroughly enjoyed me sen, gona try get me sen to a lot of oldskool events in 05!

 

[brixtonite]

I was too young for the first wave of music... anyone under 30 these days would have had to have looked a lot older than me back in the day to get into any licensed gigs in Essex. I looked fresh faced (no joked about how fresh-faced I may or may not look these days you b'stards) Never got to any of the original raves - I am somewhat displeased about that

All I could do was rely on the pirates and the local record shops (which, thank the lord, were run by true underground bods)... 1990 I was working the shelves at the local store - the older lads would come straight from the raves on a Saturday morning for the paperboy stock-up shift - totally out of their skulls lol, asking me if I had my personal stereo and speakers so we could have some music on the shop floor. Haha, how jealous was I... grrrrr.

1991-94 for me... I caught the tail end of the decent early techno/breaks n bleeps when out bopping away, got a grounding in the pre90 classics from the pirates - the Essex and London clubs from 92 onwards (Oscars Clacton, Monroes Southend, Elevation, AWOL, UK, Lazerdrome, Labyrinth, Tyssen St, Telepathy, Desire, too many to mention - 94 holds a special place in my heart as that's the cream of the proper 'club' scene, before it went all pear shaped in London and promoters forgot the old school vibe - which was what it was - sorry, IS all about...

No wonder there's a strong undercurrent of old school revival in club land at the moment - and long may it continue.

...Onward Old School Soldiers. Your Country Needs YOU.

(flipping ell, that bottle of wine got to me didn't it)

 

[AB45]

Oscars Clacton,

lol i was the resident dj pretty much every week in the Techno room and House rooms for them
The Destiny all nighters were summit else Huge line ups

 

[sgt.lead]

1990The summer of love without a doubt,when I was`nt at monroes I was in a club in hamburg or hanover in germany all the best music was played in the gay clubs lol aye I `m talkin blue oyster bar shit ere but with oldskool blastin out cos the dj`s were english,one of the only clubs in germany at the time that played that sort of music everywhere else was techno which we did suffer a couple of times when there was nowhere else to go lol 6 squaddies off their tits ina gay club we never bothered them they never bothered us we were there for the tunes,saw some fuckin sites tho I`ll tell ya but yeah defo 1990, had many other great yrs clubbin but 90 is special.........

 

[danny.f]

1993-1994 I SERIOUSLY CARNT BELIVE THEY DONT MAKE MUSIC ANYMORE LIKE THEY DID IN THESE TWO SPECIAL YEARS phones: phones:

 

[sweet sensation]

Lol I still cant choose between 91 and 92

 

[cutter]

i spose 90-91 for me. at that time i met a lot of freinds up n down the place had a wicked laugh and saw some right sights then u have the 93-94-95 and the spiral and exodus partys in some weird venues with even weirder endings....... ( police driving thru walls in jcb's!!!!!). but the music for me is all about the 88-89 ........... smiley,shiny,happy,caring,sharing ravers

accccccccccccieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeddddddddddddddddddd!!!!!!!

 

[italianjunkie]

for me have to be 94,first discovered bowlers and zone and thost little white things-they certainly helped the night!!!!!!!!!!!11
i think im like mostpeeps on here if we all had a time machine id go back 11 yrs to when i discovered the clubbing dream

 

[butty]

holy macaroni. this post is 2 years old and is still going strong proper old skool postage thats stood the test of time. nice swan :d

mines stll 98 coz its when i first got into the kinda sound. altho the past couple of years have been a crazy buzz playing here n there n everywhere

 

[GaryBaldi]

I Agree With Lastnightadj 1989 Was The Bestmclosely Followed By 1991,,
All Good Times

 

[sunshine]

91 or 92.. I cant really decide.. both fantastic years really.. there were so many amazing clubs in Berlin at the time.. it all started on a friday night in TRESOR.. satdee nights in PLANET and then the sundays WALFISH.. we always used to leave the Planet at 6 in the morning and go straight down the Walfish til 3 sundee afternoon... :S ... How I survived I dunno...

 

[DJFINK]

92

 

[Man Alive]

'91 for me, big tunes, big atmosphere's, happy people
only 'cos I was too young for 88 & 89 though

 

[captinweestain]

Nahhhhh

Buttts got it right
for me anyway it was when trance was just comming mainstreme oh and lets not forget the ketamin being arrived into the middlands
proper messy nights bad year for tony de vit what a fucking god
but it had to be the hands in the air symphonys of god old trance belters
check this out:ARTIST-BRAINBUG TITLE-RAIN[PERPETUAL MIX]
FOOKING CHECK IT OUT

 

[captinweestain]

mitsys

I FOR GOT TO MENTION THE DOUBLE mitsubishis
eyes falling out with each other god there where loads of makes in 97

 

[Lozzie]

I only started goin out in '99, but every year I have done summat different, and every year I have a TOP bloody buzz. There is no way I could choose. I live in the now, all my memories sort of blend together anyway, I quite like my life at the miniute anyways!!!!

 

[Jiglo]

1991

I'll have to go for 1991 as it's the time that I became totally hooked on the scene and the music