Old Skool

22/02/2025

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It was 1989. We didn’t have social media, we had a phone card, a travel card, a Fila jacket, our music and our friends. We connected via British Telecom, We’d walk for miles and miles for days and days. We’d sit and plan and go out. Two of us. A few of us. A hoard of us. We had each other’s backs. Nobody was left behind. If you had £1 or £100-we were all equal in this game called House.
We shared everything. Our chips, our trainers, our clothes. We chipped in. If someone needed to bunk the tube- we all bunked the tube. We sat in the park. We sat in our bedrooms. Playing the same tunes over and over while we waited for our call sign - our brothers and sisters from the record shop, from the next postcode, from the girls loo in that club last week. We had been given our key: A flyer, a work of art: Cherished at 3am, trampled on at 9. We waited all week. We jumped into his/her Fiesta/Peugeot 205, darted over Battersea Bridge, stopped for petrol/fags/a twix/a wee, then like teenage dream queen bees to honey...we all converged at that weeks promised land. A field, a farm. Where the grass would be damp but the atmosphere would be fire. Climbing out of that car, hearing that thud thud thud bass bass bass of 10000 of your kindred bip bip bippety bopping to the sounds of you, calling you in. Your friends. Everything that mattered in those hot, hot, beautiful days that never seemed to end. Those hugs. Those sounds. Those laughs. Those people. That communal heartbeat of understanding, of family. Of people who got you with just one look for 8, 12, 24 hedonistic hours. We made friends. We fell in love. We all
fell into Peace, Love, Unity, Respect.
Then dawn broke and the music stopped. We gathered each other up, we snuggled up, we drove home, then we grew up. We straightened up and we buckled up.
But for those who were there. It doesn’t go. It never will. That itch is still there isn’t it? One track to take you back back back. That summer of love is well overdue. We’ll all be rich in paradise, again. Sometime soon 💜
© Sue Davey

20/12/2024

26/08/2024

30 years ago today... Dreamscape XII

Check out the superfresh dubs on Slipmatt's set.. rave history 📜

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01/05/2024

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Old Skool Hardcore Jungle Ravehttps://www.facebook.com/TheRaveStallMiltonKeynesMarket94-08Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, a...

03/06/2023

https://youtu.be/zOK8_nCUKp0

old school love doves

21/04/2023

*GIVEAWAY *

As a thankyou for helping promote
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We have a pair of tickets to giveaway for Flashback Festival, Manchester 20/05/23.

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09/03/2023

This set Goes out to the one the only Dj Apache Jefferson Vandike RAVE IN PEACE BROTHER

After my recent gig at Tekknozid in Berlin and hearing some proper early 90s Techno tunes that I'd not heard played out for years, I've been inspired to have a dig through my music collection to do a new mix for you all... Time to go back... way back... back into time... 😃❤️🎵🎶 http://ww...

12/02/2023

A film about the legendary promoter of Sterns, Mensa. You couldn't have a passing interest in rave music in the nineties without coming across a Sterns flyer

Enjoy...

01/02/2023

A really special one this is!!

Not exactly old skool because it was recorded last weekend but here's DJ Sy playing a classic Jungle set.. heavyweight!

DJ Sy takes it back to the old school with a wicked jungle set mixed and scratched live & exclusive at the Kings of the Jungle special Friday 27th January 2023

26/12/2022

Thanks Maxi ❤️

20/12/2022

Catching up on last minute shopping from teefortremendous.com

Awesome rave flyer shirts!!!

05/11/2022

https://youtu.be/oxJLEjt4N5M

the band 'Shut up & Dance with a track called 'The Green Man' 1992.Philip Anthony Johnson (PJ) & Carlton Nevile Hyman (smiley) Smiley, PJ, DJ Daddy & DJ Hyp...

04/10/2022

Random tune for a grey tuesday, shouts to the oldskool out there

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30/09/2022

Just been sent this amazing story from David Pratley - Helter Skelter to share with you all.

33 years ago today, 30th September 1989 we had waited until the Thames Valley Police unit, The Pay Party Unit had flew over Oxfordshire in an helicopter looking for illegal Acid House Parties setting up, Then as they flew off into the Distance, All the Lorry’s, Artics , Fairground Rides, Circus Bigtops and Crew Left our Family’s Fairground Depot and headed at Pace to Walkers Farm Adderbury, There was 2 Police Cars sat outside our gate waiting to serve me and Keith Hopkins with an injunction to ban us from being in Oxfordshire that weekend, ( they followed the convoy 😵‍💫)I’d been parking 10 minutes away and getting home over the fields through the back way.

We got set up and opened slightly late. Thames valley police turned up with their Barristers to stop the Party, we had hired a Barrister ( Who prosecuted the police as a career ). Who filmed the police when they came and threatened them with being unlawful in their actions ( we have never seen the video ) we told them it was a private members party and proudly gave the police our membership list of 3000 members ( we had taken the Banbury Phone book to a lady where we live and she had typed up 3000 names addresses, and phone numbers in the same order as the phone book ) Thames valley police and barristers inspected the list and accepted it 😎
The Party was allowed to go head 🕺🏿🕺🏿🕺🏿

We had a great party, but never got the numbers we needed , ( everyone that put money into the event lost it! ), A London Event called Phantasy was on the same night, the police turned up in force and tried to stop their event and the security fought and CS gased the police untill the crowds got in, so the police backed off for fear of affray and let the party happen. And many years later Inspector Burrell of the Thames Valley Police, Pay Party Unit told me at a Film Premier about the Dance Scene-in Soho , it was him that had turned up with Thames Valley Police Barrister’s to stop our event and he had been impressed with our Strategy for the event, We had laughed and discussed that time in general, I told him of the Phone book membership list and could not believe they hadn’t picked up on it, everyone on the list was from Banbury and surrounding Villages. He Confessed he hadn’t realised and they didn’t have the confidence to stop the party legally as our Barrister was well known to them and he was filming their actions, So Thames Valley Police left the Party and laid out all the Helter Skelter road signs they had made, Diverting lots of traffic away from the event. ( I told him I would next see him in court 😋)

At 21 years old our initiation into the Dance Scene…….

Happy 33rd Anniversary Helter Skelter!