I'm feeling really old
I think the thing that worries me is that kids aged around 12-14 were too young to remember "trance" music the first time around - and it seems it might all be coming back.
The UV / glow stick thing is particularly sad, much like Heavy Metal fans head banging with long greasy hair and denim jackets plastered with hand drawn band names (or worse, huge sewn on patches) and vaguely S&M studded belts - these things should remain UNCOOL.
Dancing round like a monkey, making box shapes with your hands was never cool.
(, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 15:22, Reply)
you feel old?
god - i was singing 'ebeneezer goode' in the shower and realised it's now older than most hoodies are.
age is a bitch :-(
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the_log_knows ..to pay cheeses, to the leopards in your head, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 15:25,
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lordy
remember when effects like that blew your mind?
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the_log_knows ..to pay cheeses, to the leopards in your head, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 15:38,
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yes
especially when UV light magically made ladies underwear stand out under their clothes - it also made your teeth yellow and all the fluff on your clothes stand out.
Just heard that "lager lager lager" Underworld Born Slippy song in the cafe on Radio 1 - that's 12 years old that track, at least.
Off for an afternoon nap now, its all too much.
(, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 15:43, Reply)
it's when you make an involuntary 'ooof' when you get up or down.
-that's the sign that you've reached slippers and radio 4 age.
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the_log_knows ..to pay cheeses, to the leopards in your head, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 15:51,
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I felt that the day I realised I was old was when
I started noticing how loud the music in trendy clothes shops is.
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boyo81 was laying down his ordinance on, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 16:08,
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I see your hyperreal and raise you
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvpbm37OLiU&feature=related
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boyo81 was laying down his ordinance on, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 16:06,
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Haha. I laughed at that.
Then I nearly coughed up a lung, sat back down in my comfy chair, put a blanket on my knee and reminisced again about the good old days.
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Evil Prof. Pixel Masher I made this!, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 15:42,
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I beg to differ
Dancing round like a monkey, making box shapes with your hands was always cool. I look great dancing like that, though some have suggested that I am all elbows.
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redazril I LIKE DRUGS!, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 15:51,
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i had one of those fluffy bra tops
and an awful lot of lycra.
Now I buy things for funtion and practicality.
Sigh
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the_log_knows ..to pay cheeses, to the leopards in your head, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 15:54,
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Did I get off with you at Dreamscape event in Milton Keynes in the late nineties?
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redazril I LIKE DRUGS!, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 15:55,
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nah - I was Leeds/Scotland sort of region
Pretty much every girl wore those though.
That and the knotted Bjork style hair.
God - it's all coming back to me now!
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the_log_knows ..to pay cheeses, to the leopards in your head, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 15:57,
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I miss those events!
Spending all day Sunday in bed cos I'd be dancing the night away the previous night. You were allowed to smoke in those places too!
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redazril I LIKE DRUGS!, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 16:02,
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true
and it made you thin, and everyone was dead happy - even tamed the football hooligans as they say..
(, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 16:05, Reply)
you ever go to the Pleasure Rooms or Club 66 in Leeds?
Them were the days...
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boyo81 was laying down his ordinance on, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 16:12,
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Sadly not
Just a few Dreamscapes and Helter Skelters. I had the green bomber jacket and everything! Later on plenty of Prodigy and Chemical brothers sets.
EDIT
I have GIGS and I mean 8GB of old skool tunes. Interested gaz me ;)
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redazril I LIKE DRUGS!, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 16:32,
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i never made it to dreamscape
me and my mates were going to go to #22... but then the promoter died in a car crash (selfish cunt).
went to many a helter skelter though.
we used to order tickets on the day from ticketmaster, which meant we had to pick them up on site... from the vip entrance, meaning you skipped the 3 hour queue. dunno why more people didnt do it, oh well :D
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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 16:56,
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Coming back?
Err.. it never went anywhere.
I'm 36, still djing & clubbing. :D
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SleeplessAndy SleeplessAndy, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 16:35,
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is it still any good though
Isn't it a bit like my older sister still going to see The Damned / The Stranglers now?
(, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 16:52, Reply)
haha
well actually you are quite wrong. Trance the "first" time round consisted of goa trance and acid fueled hippies, no gay attire in sight.
Trance has never gone away and is growing in popularity all the time ;) It's also allot better now than it was back then thankfully.
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 16:51,
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I loved & totally agreed with your comment about Heavy Metal..
"The UV / glow stick thing is particularly sad, much like Heavy Metal fans head banging with long greasy hair and denim jackets plastered with hand drawn band names (or worse, huge sewn on patches) and vaguely S&M studded belts - these things should remain UNCOOL."
I've been telling this to my friend for ages, who sadly is the press officer for Municipal Waste. Burdened with the unnenviable task of spending the last 2+ years trying to make this lot look cool & 'bring back Thrash'...
radmusic.tblog.jp/images/municipal_waste.jpg
(, Wed 8 Oct 2008, 0:29, Reply)