The pairing unwittingly signal the big change in current times when they host their "Late Summer Ball" in a desolate field somewhere near Oxford, Oxfordshire. With the party scene going through a transitional phase - leading to full-term legality and some form of commercialism, this will be the last illegal pay party by any of the so-called "big six".
September 29th - London: Spiral Tribe
The emerging free party scene in London moves up a gear as an another coalition is formed.
The original members [ Mark and Alex Harrison, Debbie Griffith and Simon Feeney ] decide on their name after Mark had an inspirational thought whilst looking at a prehistoric creature. The quartette picked an abandonded school house in Brent, noth-west London for the unlikely scene to send their first round of guests to "Detension" - to celebrate the first coming of the "Spiral Tribe".
October
October 13th - Coventry: The Eclipse
Just outside Coventry city centre in the west Midlands... A tired Granada bingo hall in Lower Ford street is about to be inducted into the holy trinity of rave, entrepreneuring local business partners Stuart Reid and Barry Edwards "Invite you to a new beginning" by launching their brand new venture - the "Eclipse" to become the first dedicated all-night rave venue in the United Kingdom.
Reid and Edwards played their cards and took advantage of the "un-used" membership loop-hole... Much to the annoyance of our friends at Coventry City Council. In order for the Eclipse to succeed [ and as a legal requirement to avoid having to purchase a license ] any guests will have to apply to be members at least twenty-four hours before any party is due to take place and no alcohol is to be served.
For this special first night of Eclipse, Amnesia House's resident Dobbo, London's Evil Eddie Richards, Fabio and Mickey Finn and finally... Manchester's Sasha and Tony Ross played to a very rowdy first night crowd which thankfully saw with no reports of sporadic violence or substance abuse.
Also on Eclipse's first teamsheet was 808 State's MC Tunes - the temperamental rapper blew his top and stormed off stage during his set complaining about the soundsystem and told the organisers to "get the sound sorted out" - he was never invited back to perform again.
October 27th to 28th - Skegness: Energetic Weekender
Energy are not left standing around as after just one month from their last pay party in Oxfordshire and another three months after their first travel rave, the six-day "Rave Festival" on Rhodes Island in Greece and just a few weeks before their second visit to Bristol... The London outfit are looking north again to present their latest party venture.
Karma's Jeremy Taylor and Quintin Chambers
are back on the road, hosting the first of their "Energetic Weekenders" at Funcoast World in sunny seaside town of Skegness, Lincolnshire. With tickets for their weekender selling well and a bumper crowd expected, Energy had everything covered even to point of giving out axonometrics just in case you got lost within the vast holiday-camp complex.
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