RAVING 89

[maybealover]

children of the cannabis, a healing group connected through the natural organization of tao in within the plant world, which acts as a method of communication, plants speak, the dryad world is real, and the fairy world, they are not seperate worlds, but one world,

[balearicsoundwave89]

this is a fucking brilliant book.

[davh1231]

slough was cool, friday nights, even if it did stop at 3am and the tall black bouncer had my gear away a few times, good nights, top sound system and a even better lightshow.

[shivatemple]

Hello John just reconised your face in the video @ Slough Centre... Do you remember us Colin & Gail.. If so please reply.. would love to hear rom you .....

[ExoticBeatzEnt]

0:21 = snoop dog??

[pistolpeeroy]

@ExoticBeatzEnt OBV NOT.

[canegang]

Slough Centre...Standing outside In some Car Garage opposite waiting to go in..Music starts bloody hell the bass..Big smile on face as we enter

[chelcee2010]

Oh those were the days......

[Slight22wi]

Im sure that is Slough Centre it made me take a second look straight away. Mad nights in there! Wasnt there always a guy in a top hat hanging around outside watching the que?

[BeanyBeanyBeanster]

@Slight22wi Definitely the Slough Centre, check the windows 1.34. I remember nipping out to get something from the car and seeing the steam/heat/sweat/condensation coming out of the chimneys as I walked back. Mental, mental, transcendental! Oi, Oi Saveloy! Aye, aye Chicken Pie! Stunning to think we blew the effing doors off! England 88/9 = best time to be alive, everyone jacked their jobs in to party heeeh!

[Slight22wi]

@BeanyBeanyBeanster Thanks!! I remember one night in paticular when they made a little tunnel out of what looked like white sheets that led from the front door into the main arena. Was commin up just as I walked into the place. Just stood there and smiled looking at everyone going mental. Respect to you Beany and all the others who made this THE time of my life. Sad it all had to stop but Im chuffed to have been part of it!! I guess I should be happy there are no pics of me gurnin my face off!

[BeanyBeanyBeanster]

@Slight22wi Hahaha! I had to check too. Respect right back mate.

Slough gets a lot a stick - that shot of Brunel Bus Station at start of 'The Office' still transports me back to the grim days of catching the bus to school - but I had a lot of good times there. Whoever booked Danny Rampling to DJ at the Slough Festival (89/90?) was a genius.

We'd go to straight to Queens Nightclub in Colnbrook after Raving in 89/90 to carry on with Andy Weatherall DJing quite often. Good, but hazy, memories!

[chris99140]

1.34, looks like the slough centre.

now that takes me right back to 89.

[ChaosandGaming]

I would have dropped my left nut to go to an oldskool rave in the late 1980's.... too bad i was born in 93 :(

[discoverydavid]

@ChaosandGaming Don't believe the hype...lots of people cashing in on collective nostalgia. I was going/doing a lot of the raves around Bath, Bristol, Cheltenham...going to clubs like Rage, Troll, Zap etc...it was great fun, but it's the past and it gets me down that people of a certain age (including myself!) go on and on about it...it makes the future depressing. Go out and make it happen that's what it was/always should be about.

[firehehe]

@discoverydavid Well said my friend. I try to resist waxing nostagically for the "good ole days". As I get older, it gets harder and harder but I keep trying to remind myself that what made days past so special was that I was moving forward in the moment. To young folks everywhere, I beg you, please think outside the box and shine in your own way. This is YOUR time now.

[laddamz]

love it ,,im back there!!

[SilverShamrock71]

Were any of these taken at Slough Center?

I recognize quite a few faces who would have been in the Crown in Marlow and at Slough Center, '88 '89.

Thanks for posting this "TRIP" down memory lane....

[franktalisman]

yeah, all the pictures are from Gavin's book. RAVING 89. Lots of familiar faces in various states.

[SilverShamrock71]

Ordered it off of Amazon, along with the Boys Own Fanzines album, used to have a few issues, but I think my old dear chucked em out years ago, when I moved out, along with a few copies of Fiesta & Razzle. LOL

[LordArsehat]

@SilverShamrock71 Went to a few dos at Slouth Centre. Remember YIKES? If memory serves me correctly Saffron did a live PA.

[dippadaws]

@SilverShamrock71 I spent my Jazzfunk/soulboy days in The Crown Marlow and Windsor Safari park disco early 80's and then late 80's in Raves in Slough Center and warehouses around M25.

Can't wait to get the book!

[midnightstepper]

Paul Rutherford - Get Real (Happy House Mix)

[ahuntfortheyeti]

what track is this?

[ahuntfortheyeti]

nm got it

[midnightstepper]

Nice vid, this book looks great!

[djhistorian]

Yeah baby.

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