Records - 1988



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October 20th - London: Rage

Time waits for nobody - Danny Rampling and wife Jenni open their latest venture, "Rage" at Heaven nightclub in Central London.

 

As with their previous functions, Rage had a strict music policy with funky and acid house been spun in the main room and the traditional fayre of balearic been played upstairs. Guests for the first night of rage was Shoom and RIP resident Colin Faver, Donagh O'Leary and Simon Hobart.

 

 

October 22nd - Sarrat: Sunrise

Could it be second time lucky for Tony Colston-Hayter and Dave Roberts as they attempted to host their next chapter of the sunrise story?. Through the grapevine Sunrise had described that their latest party was going to be a "Mystery Trip" and they didn't dissapoint as they led their paying guests to Sarrat Equestrian Centre near Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.

 

Full of ideas and inspiration, Sunrise's production team had pulled out all the stops to create a virtual wonderland of lasers, dry ice machines and bouncy castles at very short notice. For Sunrise's first major gathering without any interference from the authorities - Colston-Hayter, Roberts and their motley crew attracted a very good debut crowd in excess of a thousand people.

 

Sunrise had taken Hedonism's lead and delivered acid house from the cramped, dingy nightclubs and the abandoned warehouses to the beautiful outdoors and to the UK masses. Sunrise's actions would inspire an exciting new breed of entrepreneurship and event organisation for years to come.

 

 

 

 

 

 

November

November 1st - Loughton: Janet Mayes

The commuter town of Loughton in Essex gains the attention of the national press by recording the second Ecstasy realated death in the United Kingdom. On that weekend, twenty-one-year-old au pair Janet Mayes collapsed after taking two tablets at an illegal party at a pub near Hampton Court in Surrey.

 

 

November 1st - National: The Times

A national newspaper reveals that high-street clothing chain Top Shop is one of the companies caught in the crossfire of current fads, trends and public opinion. Bosses at the retail giant are left red-faced and with a new shipment of smiley t-shirts that could be glorifying drug use.

 

 

November 2nd - National: The Sun

Twenty-four hours after reporting Janet Mayes death, acid house's favourite newspaper sharpened their knifes and declared war on the movement. Radio 1's Simon Mayes, Phillip Schofield, Matt Goss and Karen from Bananarama voiced their opinions on the impending doom for the scene.

 

The tabloid totally abandoned their "hip and trendy" policy of giving clubbers tips and cool phrases like:

 

 

To ask their readers to send in an s.a.e to receive one of their frowning acid house badges denouncing the party movement. On the quest of a wave, newspaper editiors spelt out the dangers by commissioning their popular cartoonist Stanley Franklin to portray the horrors of acid house in graphic detail.

 

 

 

 

 
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