Rave, Hardcore, Old Skool & House scene

Fantazia is just a part of a huge dance scene covering a large amount of time and musical styles, from Hardcore to Drum n Bass or House to Techno.   It is open to discussion as to when this all started in the UK, generally speaking around 1987/88 Acid House was born and grew up into  Clubs like the Hacienda, Heaven, Shoom & Hedonism, from there the rave scene flourished with initial illegal raves and later license ones like Fantazia. 
 

Rave Timeline	Dance Promoters	Acid House/Rave Music Timeline	Rave flyer Library
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Press Cuttings	Rave Jargon	The venues	Raver Manifesto

Features on the UK Rave/Hardcore club scene

Press Coverage	Class of 88 Read the book (PDF Format)	Rave's Commercialisation  Dissertation	Rave Game
An long article on the National Presses attitude to the raves of the early 90's	An indepth look behind the running of the Genesis Parties	An indepth look at rave Culture	You've been to the party, now play the game.  Pictures & rules of this classic
Rave club wear Fashion Article	What Sort of Raver are you?
An article on fashion & club wears history

Useful Rave Services

DJ Agencies	Rave Production Companies	Rave Tape to CD Conversion Service
Raving Eye Magazine	The Core Magazine

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At the height of the Acid House boom, musician Dancin' Danny D released a record under the guise of D-Mob entitled "We Call It Acideed".  When it got television coverage on Top Of The Pops, parents jammed the switchboard with furious complaints about the word "Acieed" - meaning Acid / LSD.  This led producer Brian Whitehouse to ban any record with such a word in it from being played on the show.  The TV censorship of this type of House music was  then followed by a radio ban.  Naturally, the tabloid press followed suit, and added to the media panic by implying rave culture was all about drugs.  Their intention may have been to destroy this growing scene for the good they thought they were doing, but in fact, all they really did was add fuel to the fire:  each time they associated it with drugs, the more the scene grew and grew into large scale rave events like Biology, Energy and Sunrise.

We will be adding new sections as soon as we can.   But there is lots of information to look at anyway.   If you can help with flyers, articles, reviews etc we would love to receive them........