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WIINDY WINTER WEATHIER MAKES RAVERS DU'CK INI

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Following a summer of discontent during which thousands of RAVERS were dissappointed. by party closu res and the underhand DEALING of cowboy promoters ravers are returning to GRASS-roots sweatboxing and a winter of

LOVE.

This summer we saw the party scene go into an overdrive that ultimately ended in overkill. By the end of it

all we had seen more hype than Batman what with fun-fairs, lazer-liqht ShOWS, 50,000,000 K Turbosound,manned space flights to Mars. We had "The one rave, the only rave!!!" every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night and with it the movement became an easy target for the gutter-press. While we raved, they ranted and the constant scandal mongering of the tabloids began to attract the wrong kind of attention to a movement of young people devoted to nothing more sinister than all night dancing.

Ultimately the derogatory nature of the media coverage acted as a national invitation for drug-dealers, rip off promoters and gun wielding maniacs to head straight for their nearest rave. This in turn, caused concern throughout society and the Police were called upon to intervene. Although Police methods can be brought into question they cannot be blamed for all that has happened as they have simply tried to stop a mass hysteria originally started by an ignorant and misinformed press. We can Simply see this situation as a battle between police policy and press irresponsibility with the perplexed partygoer acting as the battleground.

But there is hope. With the arrival of Winter the big. out of town raves are no longer possible and the controversy is dying down. The scene is being forced back underground leaving the commercialism and the cowboys behind, 10 where it all began-A bunch of kids with a P.A and the desire 10 dance all night. The sweat-box is back (not that it ever went away).The only question we have to ask is "Why is London the only major city In the World where you can't dance all night 7" Even Islamic countries allow that

OUR HI-tech In,ternatlonal communications netwo.rk. Ibrlngs you, the raver the latest senses shattering acid news, as it happens Remember;

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ACID DEBATE BBCI Tuesday 17the October at9.20 am saw an open debate on the subject of 'acid house' parties on Kllroysshow.

On one side of the studio sat Tony Colston-Hayter (Sunrise) Jeremy Taylor (Energy), Jarvis Sandy (Biology) and a host of party-goers and pro-partyists, including 'Yurn- Yums' Pauline, whose youngest daughters help on the food van she pulls up outside raves, whilst her elder daughters go inside to enjoy the party.

On the olher side sat two senior police officers, a council for for civil liberties representative and a host of general public who have either been disturbed by or worried about the trend 01 the parties.

Amidst the rabble of shouting, few could make their point without being interrupted, but main topics that were covered were the positive aspect of the parties being a place where cultural and class barriers are removed and people feel free and safe to dance ail night without restriction. The fact was raised that the dramatization by press has encouraged the public fear of these being 'drug dens' and indeed could encourage drug dealers to attend

tory MP for Hillingdon

The police officers present did not end the debate adamantly opposed to the ongoing of raves- they made itclear that they felt a need for advance notice in order that they may properly police the events. They suggested that promoters go through the proper channels and apply for council permission on proposed sites. When one of the promoters stated that whenever this theory was tested events were stopped the reply was 'try it-and see' As tory MP for Hillingdon was also present and his council have licensed a venue in their constituency for a November date let's all see.

?An enormouslly successful rave took place on Saturday 16th Septemlber from '1 am until 3 pm on Sunday in a diisused warehouse lin Homerton iHligh Street. IButthe question remains, whose rave was it?

-.'t'_" It was

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by Labrynth, Weekend World tickets were welcome the security appeared to be taking the money and ever since all enquiries have beenl referred to NOW

""hose rave ""as

UPDATIE; No party happened at Hillingdon due to a change of heart by the owners of the

venue ... what a surprise.

STOP PRESS:'Our commiserations to Tony Colston Hayter who has Just had to shell out for a £i500 noise pollution fine on a Sunrise party in August.

'The lowest form of jDurna/ism as high Art

IPromotions.

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Billions of Blistering Blue Blethering SkatesJJIII

Chelsea Rave Rocks'til Bust

GOSSIPGOSSIPGOSSIPGOSSIPGOSSIPGOSSIPGOSSIPGOSSIPGOSSIPGOSSIPGOSSIPGOSSIPGOSS HOUSE: THE MOVIE

The Kings Road, once a mecca for everything individual In fashion design has recently become a rather drab "Eighties desrgner chic" cemetery. Apart from one or two exceptions it resembles a rather tacky and ridiculously expensive high street shopping centre.

THE GARAGE looks set to change all that. As the press release reads:

THE GARAGE. "The New Arena" for directional fashion WI be unleashed on the Klng'S Road. Chelsea. for 27th October 1989. rtns fantastic Venue will revitalise the whole of the King's Road. Chelsea, calling London's youth from all four corners of the city.

This prime location, once known as the Ambulance Station operates on 44.000 sqft and sets a dramatic scene for a hybrid of fresh young designers to reta from sei ng everything from anginal olotn.nq. accessooes, jeweuery, collectors' records. anginal auiomobua and much much mere."

In order to celebrate the opemng a few thousand of us were invlted down to it's cavernous first floor With It's vast skylit areas for a party on the 27th of October. The venue had a good warehouse feel and the crowo, who consisted more of trendy rneo.a types than hard Core ravers ,had a good party attitude. As Ihrngs got gOing and the free beer flowed the house sounds came in but for me, sometnlnp was missing, .. llracked down .Jarnan, a hardcore raver from Bethnal Green. and he soon cleared things up for me' "It lacks the deep bass surge that you expect, It 'asn't got the volume.you know. you want It to really go through you .. I had to agree, we ended up deciding that the P_A was too good (us only bemq used to naff ones by comparison) and that after several beers It didnt matter anyway. " I mean, you cant knock it" said Jamati "I'd expected a little nightclub but this place IS huge, It's rockm' and there's free beer and food everywhere !"

There wasnt much In Ihe way of colourful acid gear being worn but WIGAN was there and he's responsible lor a great many of the sweats and T's being worn around town, he's got astall at THE GARAGE and has over 50 deslg ns 10 choose from so check him out now (more about Wigan later in this issue). Other attractions Included an awesome rainforest made out of scrap metal in a flooded corner of the house complete with metal masks and metal

man neqinns. It was made by a bunch of geezers called TECHNOTRIBE and they're well sound .1 can tell you Coming to a club near you soon.

We also met REACTIVART the truly wonderful envrornental art group who have got us all thinking about what we can do to save this dYing planet of Ours. We also spotted both ASTRODOLL and EXOGENESI S, both of whom are featured on our arts page. and the excellent OAVID LlTILE the well known house artist who we hope to be working With soon. PATSY KENSIT and her soffspoken husband DAN had dragged B>A>D out lor the night and MICK JONES 1 he's the guy who was In some punk band called the Clash) managed to coax DAVID UTILE dawn from the rafters to have a chat (he was gomg completely mentaJ at the time). EM MA RIOLEY was also there but we wouldnt have recognised her if we had seen her anyway.

Gossip aside, Jamati's final analysts was ·If they can do this In the Kings Road, why cant they do rt fifteen miles out in the countryside r

Labrynth had their first all oaver at Silver City Nlte Spot (Wood Green) on Sunday 12th November. They raved Friday night. Saturday night and all day Sunday. Looks like Silver City's a regular

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Imagine the opening scene of a movie- a close up shot of a hand holding a nozzle pumping lead free into a petrol tank. the camera pulls back to reveal a garage forecourt jammed with hundreds of cars full of ravers, stereos pumping out house, a convoy on its way to a massive rave.

The film is called' RAVE' and it's being made by Phil Smith, owner of KAK records. exmanager of Adamski and in his own right an extremely innovative video maker. Having parted company with Adamski (after getting him an excellent record deal) the 'Rebel without a Clause' as he is known has leapt straight into his next project with the help of some people at Palace Pictures and definite interest from CBS records amongst others. The film is being made on small budget but Phil feels that it will avoid interference by money-minded backers, • When I sat down with them the reaction I got was 'Great !, we'll make it like a documentary and follow the story of a rave up until when it gets raided' but I said thai It had to be more. it had to have spirit 1". Phil managed to convince the backers to do II his way which was to get closer to the subject and not to take an outside viewpomt which a documentary would have done ... We're doing it in the way that people can go to the cinema and watching the film will make them feel like they are at a rave," he says" We're aiming to capture the feeling of ecstasy and the manic flow of energy you get at a good house gig ". The film will include such delights as a rave In a plane (an AIRAVE) and a 'videobox' filmed one night at the Electric ballroom with a wide variety of people giving their views on the whole scene.lt will also feature the music of most of the top artists on the house scene and a giant rave on the set of a sel-f movie called 'Hardware' at the Camden Roundhouse. Allin all it looks like it will give an honest and exciting view of a scene which could do with a little fair representation for a change.

The League of Manic Individuals, part one. David little stood amidst the biker chic clad denizens of the(mega trendy)Garage(maaan)on Its opening night and mused over this rnostmachotponcey more like) of fashion trends As desrqner for Bomb the Bass. SExpress Spectrum. Man Machine and a million or so other groups and clubs on the scene he has also an ovorweatrnmq passion fpr claSSIC bikes 'Its easy to stick on the boots and jeans.qet on a Hog ra Harley Davidson motorcycle) or some other old bike and think you're the bus-ness but to really handle a bike you've g0110 lest yourself I don't see thrs lot doinq tnat I want to take biking into the runetres: .. ' In order to do so Dave.tas he's known to hrs pals)plans to ride across the Sahara Desert lor was It the entire length of Africa?). Well done David, we admire your bottle .or, around the World In 80 Raves .eh, Dave?

FOREVER FREE .... ?

For anyone who remembers Twilight Zone who had some success during the summer with small raves and the excellent Ferry Lane bash with the LABRYNTH and then had FREE closed down there is a rumour that the promoters. Bonnie and John. have oissapoeareo. It would appeared that they have succeeded in dOing what is known in the promotions biz as a ROAR and are now sunning themselves on a beach in Acapulco. In memory of the lads we have dedicated the underlay illustration on the back page to them. It's called The Dancing Fools' and features a remarkably acurrate rendition of their likenesses. Another story IS that they're running gigs In Southend but that Just is'nt good gossip so we're sticking with our first story.

(R.OAR. by the way. stands for Rip Off And Run ... )

On our travels around London we were dubiously lucky enough to meet up with Space Gadget, a hardcore raver who put out his own photocopied fanzrne entitled "THE ACEED TRIP" back in the early days of house when the term "acid" was still hip in the West End clubs (going back a long way there ..... Ed).

We managed to coax Space Gadget back into the creative world of literature, and he put pen to paper (or rather. digits to Mac) to write his exclusive view on the future of ravedom ....

'Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, ACID is back. Arisen once more. but this time on a mission of conquest. Admittedly Smiley has gone but only to be replaced by a new symbolic guardian to look down upon its children.

THE HEAD OF FURY and with total commitment. fuelled by the media and political propaganda. the children of this upsurge can shake off the hassles of hostilities under the guidance of FURY and this time space gadget to heaven without the grief encountered on the last mission.

SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND HEAVEN! UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF "FURY".

Good luck children the FURY be With you.' From spACE gadget

Congratulations to RAVE magazine for making it into regular production. We, however will not be coming out at anything like the same regularity because we're far too busy going out dancing all night.

Rave Revue its absolutely

Radio Rentals

"'Thlis is a f~ck~ng serlous letter frem a Ilawyer, righlt'!"

Dr. Art 4.11.89

I am a, solicitor. though retired from practice" On Saturday 30 September I was invited to a so called "acid house" party, as a legal adviser and observer. This was to be held in a huge old warehouse, In respect of which the organisers held a writen licence for a substantial consideration from a property company purporting to represent the warehouse owners.

The organisers were an established promotions company with considerable experience of such events. On arriving I was shown the crowd control and security aspects, handled by a private firm with restrained efficiency. Everyone was searched for weapons, obvious drug taking and dealing was not In evidence and alcohol was prohibited. One entire wall of the warehouse was a sliding door, locked but to be guarded constantly during the night by persons with keys and in the unlikely event of fire the entire building could have been cleared within a minute. I say unlikely as there was nothing inflammable in the warehouse but the sound and light system, which appeared to be properly wired and operated by experienced engineers. The event was unlikely to cause disturbance to local residents due to its location and the organisers Indicated that their policy was to reduce sound levels in the event of complaint.

guests were invited by letter in advance and no money taken on the door, thus the venue could not be considered a place of public entertemmern warranting a local authority licence, Also, it is important to remember that the term "acid house" refers to the style of rnusrc and not the use of hallucinogenic drugs

Nevertheless he police arrived in considerable 10Toe at about 0100 hours and forced entry, USlngl hammers and crowbars, through the fire exit, despite protestations that they were trespassing on private property 01 which the organisers had authorised use. Their reasons tor raiding the party ware a spurious jumble of public order, possible drugs and alcohol offences, prevention of conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace, Fire Brigade Acts and various other comnon law powers: all of which reasons could equally be used to raid most parties In private houses and virtually any other gathering of young people. In tact the only danger of a breach of the peace arose as a direct result of the raid frightening and angering the guests.

The inspector m charge, who initially claimed to have a letter from the solicitors for the landlord denying authority for the event to take place but could not produce this, became very sheepish when presented with

the organisers letting agreement and eventually admitted that his only" purpose, presumably under some higher instruction, was to prevent the event from taking plae. Needless to say, he achieved his purpose; the sudden arrival of thirty police officers in the mood for battle is not conducive to a peaceful Saturday night out for most young people.

The net result was a considerable financial loss to the organisers, their guests and the taxpayer and incalculable further alienation of the police from a large section of society which has turned its back on conventional clubs, pubs and discos and chosen to gather with like minded people simply to dance to their preferred form of music for a few hours.

These events will not stop, there is too much money involved and too many people actually want this type of entertainment. The cost of such police operations is enormous, genuine criminal activity may well succeed while large numbers of police are engaged in such raids, the civil liberties questions are profound and unless the subject is addressed rationally rather than reactively society runs a serious risk of criminalising a farge section of an entire generation.

The event was run as a private party, all

Is it Nal·Naf ,0,. just naff ?

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cultu ra on

Being the first in a regular feature devoted to exiting unique, international and often weird artists and

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the phone and dial today!.

designers, any interested weirdoesshould contact the RAVE REVUE right away, without delay, just pick up

THE MASTERIS MESSAGE

"Respected F,raters and SoIilOrs Gr,eetings.

What Is though THOUGHT! ! !

What Is thought? and how does It affect our Minds.

The Mind lis not something within us, but rather, we are within 'It. That portion of you and I that stands within the Hall of the Mind, and surveys It from within is able to see the sum total of All we are. All that Is embraced by us [5 a part of the furnishing and colour of it.

H we would welcome friends within this hall, surely we must first clean and furnish it with all that is Beauty.

As we unfold Inl IBeauty by ou., thoughts, 'Deeds, Actions and Words, so too will the Hall grow in size and grandeur, so too will our Aura and Its colour glow In brilliance. And in time we will all become a HALL of many Halls a reprica of "Our F,at·hers House"~

Let us remember that "Small Minds make Small Men"," our mind Is but an ATTICK IS THIS NOT TOO SMALL TO HOUSE MANY? Would we be able to invite Beauty into such a place, and could it remain and be Happy?

EXOGENESIS

Exogenesis are set to bring classical art and literature into the 'House' through the use of New Beat and pertormance dancing.

Dance music already has a seemingly limitless amount of influences and if these two Climax FM OJ's get their way a whole new world of possibilities will be opened up ....

Anthony and Dean (or DJ's Random Access Memory and Micronaut) met at school and Immediately began exchanging their interests in poetry, dance art and science. After working in various government schemes they formed their own project known as "The face 2000 Collective'" and began expanding their talents by working with a varied pool of artists whose talents ranged from photography and design to fashion and music.

The public interest shown in "Face 2000" and the ensuing commercial success led them to develop EXOGENESIS in 1987 with the Intention of releasing a book, a record and a series of artworks based on the same concept.

"My personal motivation for the project stems from the awareness that a spi ritual world does indeed exist" says Anthony "from my earliest existence I have become increasingly aware that I have the ability to transcend energies of mediums which are mainly self expressive in the format of my poetry".

Much of the influence in the poetic work of EXOGENESIS stems from their experiments with crossing Egyptian mythology with science. The

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marriage between science and spiritualism has been explored by artists for centuries. EXOGENESIS cite such artists as William Blake (a 19th century multHalented artist) and Quayle (author of Paradise Lost) and have brought their work methods up to date with modern technology and pop culture.

EXOGENESIS express these high art ideas through poetry which they then mix and cut onto their own backing tracks and choreograph their own dance pertormances to ' SHASS DANCING (African dancing) which is their chosen style here. Anthony and Dean are adament about working at every leve I of the project "we want to produce Exogenesis as independently as possible to allow ourselves complete creative control. We work in the same way that for example PRINCE does, In the sense that we work with a creative pool of friends and associates and get involved with everything from sleeve design right through to the music, the pertormance and the clothes that we wear".

This attitude filters into their working methods where they only scratch and sample their own work.

Exogenesis are currently seeking a record deal for their most recent recordings which have strong 'new beat' influence Where this music differs from most 'new beat' is in its lyrical content. Dean says "the song is about the Similarities between Babylonian and Egyptian mythology and spiritualism ..... it requires an appreciation of the arts and sciences to understand its content".

Exogenesis are attempting to bring together a wide variety of influences, methods and media and put them into a popular danceable product. If they succeed they will, without doubt, be a force to be

Caaan yooou 'eeel iiif?

reckoned with.

EOYPl'OLOG Y

I communicated within And chus Powers were revealed Unto me

In fifty three cubits and six Unto the Egyptian stones.

I communicated witlun and thus The ma.thematics of man appeared Before me.

1000 x 1000 x 3 scores of 9.

I communicated within forming TIle Egyptian equation

Ten x 10 ' 696.

I communicated within 5x5x5x55

And thus the fragments

of the blue skys Parted before the magus To show forthe the Universal Stars wmcn Deus had placed As from the beginning Unto Alphat Omega

Transcending the Eternal Essence Of the Universe

And the true meaning of the Eternal Sun God Ra, within the Tree

of Eternal Life

Which is the Universe within the Soul Energy the power welding light.

Raile Rellue

ASTRODOLL, as her name suggests, is a pretty far ./

out chick. Originating, / Jj

in this lifetime. ,from /, Sweden she is a /. stunningly ~ beautiful big eyed blonde whose aura sparkl'es

with astral energy. She works as a "MultImedia artist" which is to say that she cannot limit her creative expression to one particular

field. Her main interest lies in the astounding arena of fine art, and she creates through the use of the popular Mexican mind stimulant Tequila. By using this method she is able to link up to her spirit guide and guardian; The DREAM TIGER, and enter a trance like state which rap'idly expands Into a veritable whirlwind of creativity. This powerful force carries her through the night,

scalpel in hand, sampling and splicing images from the world of visual Images thet she surrounds herself with, cutting, painting and

pasting them together to form kaleidoscopic panoramas of her superconscious world.

Recently Astrodoll has been engaged In the task of creating space age fashion for her "Asphalt Queen II collection, an array of ultra sexy body armour for sci-fi sirens and superheroes. She has exhibited with

It may seem weird but its all completely tl1le

Reactivart at the Submarine Gallery in Kings Cross and her clothing creations were met with great enthusiasm at the Reactivart "Animal, Vegetable, Minerai" fashion show at the same venue( Some of the music for this wild event was kindly supplied by

Adamski and a good time was had by ali,. Reactivart, for those of you who haven't heard the word, are a rapidly expanding art group who are greatly

concerned with the promotion of recycling and the enviromental Issues which concern us all. Their main attraction Is that they are having a damn good time doing it all.

Astrodoll is cur,rently hard at work preparing a collection to be

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previewed a.t, an upcoming fashion! art! musiC extravaganza at the Empire in Leicester Square(12th Dec). She is also currently compiling a book of her biuare cut-up poetry and developing a "top secret" musical ,project. Look out for a set of Astro

photos by a top photographer (whose name we are not allowed to mention) coming soon. All this and a burgeoning publi.c image will soon see

Astrodoll well and truly lin the limelight. For further information, checkout "The Astrodoll Information Pack No 1" which comes complete with a full colour print of her painting "Baby's g.ot a gun.", a cutout Astrofa.hion doll, poetry, factfiles and photographs. The pack is a limited edition collectors item and Rave Revue has managed to acquire a few to give to you for the meagre cost price of £2.50. Contact us now to reserve a copy before they're all gone!

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the league of manic individuals part two

Th·s main is

dangerous! his name is ADAMSKI

theW\mgard and he is c.urnnllY mA~nes

I ;Cug~ tg~ENE

he DON E working with

CHESTEIR THE TOASTER the master mind of words he opened AND closed AMNESIA

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Eaoer trus year

he s gned a recording CONTRI\CT ceputea to be worth around

S 1,00U,000 Inllllllllil

ADAMSKI a.k.a S 1, ,000,000 !!!!!!!!!!!H

seven dayweekend

They may just seem to last one short night, but for us the rave goes on forever. Where the sweat flows free and the drinks are iced. Where 'neath the shelter of the mighty warehouse roof the sound is always turbo and the lights never cease to strobe, Home, Home on the rave where the deer and the antelope play ... (snip!) Thats quite enough of that ... Ed.

CLUB GUIDE being the first of our regular feature which acts as a guide to clubs

phone 4 times

MONDAY

Land of OZ Heaven 839 3852 Scope The Brain 4377301 Destination Unknown

Camden palace 387 0428

TUESDAY

InThe Name of LOVE Dingwalls 267 4967

Soul Underground The Brain 437 7301

WEDNESDAY

Shoom 38 Kensington High 8t 938 1078

Knowledge The Brain 4377301

THURSDAY

High On Hope Dingwalls 267 4967 Hell The Fridge 326 5100

Rage Heaven 839 3852

Wave The Brain 437 7301

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FRIDAY

Soul II Soul (D.J.} The Fridge .326 1500

The Raid 8haftesbury Ave 434 0572 Second Bass Dingwalls 267 4967 Garage Heaven 839 3852

Trax Camden Palace 387 0428

Gold The Brain 437 7301

SATURDAY

Boom The Fridge 326 1500

Sin Astoria 4340403 BrainStorm The Brain 437 7301

SUNDAY

Talking Loud & Saying Something Dingwalls 2674967

Eclipse The Brain 4377301

CHECK OUT: Inspiration-Fridays at 157 Charing X Rd-Phantasy-8aturdays, call 0898-88-28-27.-Crazy Club-Sunday lunchtimes at Busbys (only £3,11 am-

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THE R'ISING COST OF

!FREEDOM

On the 9th September this year I went to the Twilight Zone Promotions "Free" rave, which transpired to be held en route to Elstree at the "Spur Road roundabout. Having lead a convoy of cars to the event we parked up with several hundred others. We joined a crowd being directed to climb over fences and make their way towards the lights across the fields as the police had roadblocked the only access route to the site. A helicopter circled menacingly above and took this opportunity to demonstrate its high power spotbeam capabilities - lighting the path, and creating an atmosphere reminiscent of

Old warmovies, me only thing missing the spatter of machine gun fire as youngsters from all over the country clambered through barbed wire and ran headlong for the bright lights ahead. No it wasn't a frontier outpost, but a funfair! Helter-skelter, bumper cars, big wheel and all, everything you ever read about on a flyer, was actually here - Huge marquees loomed in the distance, surrounded by darkness - not a house in sight.

The helicopter had hardly been a subtle sign that the police interest in this event was not confined to an objective observatory role - as we rushed with joy in our hearts towards what looked from this distance like something close to a heaven for ravers, we were greeted by alsations with policemen at the end of them - riot shields and abuse.

Conclusion - the now gathered crowd of thousands were herded gradually away from the area and the organiser arrested. I asked one of the constables on road block duty why the people were being turned away. He replied that he had no idea and could see no reason himself. But we might as well go home as the party would not be taking place. I found no substance of legal reasoning in his reply - another one for STUGLY I

think. The vast expense gone to by the area police - one would assume at the cost of the taxpayer - to mount the elaborate operation in order to stop the event seemed disproportionate to the threat posed by those present. I don't know what the promoters legal position in regards to the land were - but it looked as though they had put a spectacular show together for everyone's benefit.

I wish Twilight Zone all the best in every other venture. 10 out of 10 for effort.

ROCK'N FLOWERS

"We bop to the rhythim of your favorite music, humanoid speech, or in fact any sound-we dance, we groove, we're the ORIGINAL Rock'n Flowers!."

AS WELL AS STRIKING FEAR INTO THE HEARTS OF UNIFORMS CREDO FROM TOTAL SAFETY UNIT HAS VISIONS OF THE FUTURE.

AND WE ARE IT ...

Earthdate 2nd August 2099, meeting point, Elizabeth station, all the moon ravers are on the lookout for the signal to move on, into the warehouse, What a venue, it's called the 'houses of commons', It's on the rumourwave that Maggie and Dougie will be making a special appearance. Maggie was the worlds best raver with Douqie closely following behind .. This buildi.ng years ago was, I'm told, a place where politicians would go to have a chat and a quiet drink.

Anyway, we're all waiting - and it's a flash I Yes, there it is, Momty has dropped his strides - Yes, you can guess it's not a pretty sight - It's not a pretty sight at all!

(Spy in blue) - Yes sir, No sir, the ravers have received the signal to 'spurt' onto the venue, I'm not sure if it IS a legal one or not, I'm thinking I may have to investigate a bit closer, Oh my God, I can't believe it, no it can't be, Oh no, no. I'm sorry sir - but I've just seen your wife - Prinoess Bea.To Be Continued .....

THE LIVING BOOKMARK The leaf can be leftfor several weeks within the pages of a

book during which time it will produce several shoots on Its edges. The resulting plant will grow to approximately 2 feet and produce white flowers

(not to be ~mokl'd)

"They're eight of us in the band-all equaly entertainingand as you would imagine, we each dance to our own style!. "

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In the summer of '89 three of our friends, .Jonni Kray. Paul 'the doctor' Crippen and Nikki Meinhof blitzed Europe on their way to Amnesia In lbtza This page presents selected highlights from their letters home.

Date Line Napoli

This place must be the craziest town we've ever visited. All the streets are so thin you can only drive one way at a time and there are no pavements so the whole city is a never ending war between buses, scooters, and pedestrians. In order to create even more chaos on the streets the Italian housing situation has evolved in such a way that all the ground floor apartments have sliding garage type doors that open directly into the inhabitants Living and Bedrooms. So there you have Mum, Dad and Granny sitting

on the bed watching T.V in full view of the street while the kids bounce footballs off the house opposite running in and out of the manic traffic that constantly screams past the open plan living room. With an environment as mental as this we expected any bashes we could find to be O.T.T,

In terms of partying we certainly got more than we bargained for. Whilst driving cautiously through a decidedly dodgy part of the old town warily swerving to avoid gangs of knife wielding youths (sporting the standard Italian uniform of long hair and sportswear) we clocked a nightclub that looked like a good crack but turned out to go horribly wrong. The venue was a disused church whose sub-cellar vaults had been converted into a an all night trance dance mecca for the ravers of Napoli.

"Sweet mate!" said Jonni "A rave in a cave, we'll go deaf !" We piled in ... to Hell. We'd heard about places like this; the entire underneath

of the city is riddled with countless miles of catacombs that spread like a labrynth (deliberate spelling mistake) carved by some vast unmentionable worm. It was deep within this arcane maze that the party was held. We were led by a couple of flaming torch carrying security guards to a

English and had decided en masse that it was high time for a. little 'sport' and had begun to unsheath their switchblades that looked more like chainsaws than anything else.

It was about the time that we were desperately writing our wills that the raid happened. Yeah, yeah we've all seen raids but what you've got to remember is that the ltallan Bill (the Benito's I suppose) carry machine guns and being particularly 'Mussolinio' they like to use them. Half of them are out of their heads on coke that they've mugged off dealers at Micheal Jackson concerts,( no, actually ,all of them are out of their heads) and before we had time to beg for mercy 2000 ravers had fled into the darkness in a desperate bid to make it to daybreak with a one-piece skull. Daybreak was one thing that this panic stricken trio was not going to see for quite some time, we wandered for days periodically bumping into other desperate ravers babbling even more incomprehensibly than they usually do and wandering off witlessly in the direction in which we had just come, probably towards some pathetic lonely doom in the pervading darkness that drove us to the brink of madness. The situation seemed hopeless but just as we thought we were destined to become 'The Molemen of Napoli' or the 'Wandering Jews of the Catacombs of Carinthia' we stumbled upon an exit and found ourselves in the Italian countryside and once again most firmly on the road to Ibiza and! the closing night of Amnesia in it's last year as an open air venue .....

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cavernous charnel chamber. The walls were lined with shelves piled high with the bones of pilgrims (This is true, they have the same thing in Paris ... Ed). We rapidly hid ourselves in a corner and watched in awe as more ravers arrived at high speed on skateboards and motorbikes. They even had half pipes in there on which the thrashers and the bikers performed amazing feats of insanity on .. at the same time !l! There was absolutely no law in there, it was an 'anything goes' situation with hundreds of club happy kids right on one and ready rock. The music (fer chrissakes !) was standard house hits with, wait for it, thrash metal guitars sampled onto iit. It was played at twice the normal speed and the whole situation proved with no doubts that the Italians are totally macho and aggressive

As things got going we overcame our primal fears and, scarcely aware of our actions, we were drawn into the tranced out crowd by those all too addictive rythyms. It was amazing out there, dancing: in that surging crowd of...uh-oh .... knife wielding youths sporting the standard Italian uniform of long hair and sportswear who had just realised that we were

Not Bad For a First Issue!

: DIARY OF AN UNDERCOVER i,AGENT

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I'd just like to start by thanking you (again) for giving me this assignment - I've been under cover now all summer; I must say when I graduated from the training school I had no idea that the uniform I would don could possibly be flourescent orange and pink bermuda shorts, and a collection of the very latest NAF NAF sportswear - I got a lovely mauve and pi n k t r acksu It the other day at one of the parties, I met a guy who's a sales rep for them, he had dozens of snts in the back of his car, and he let me have it for the trade price, less than half the retail pr ice don't understand how they can do It I did receive your memo about clothing expenses - I do realise that 6 new pai rs of footwear ina month could be construed as a little excessive, but jf my

disguise is to be convincing I must have some 'Wallabees' and some 'Kickers' not forgetting the Reeboks and Hi-tec's, what I mean

is sir regulatlon footwear

would be a little

conspicuous ..... don 't you think. I will, however make sure that from now on I respect your observation that without the ability of my fingers with which to spend H.O.s much coveted cash I would most certainly be likely to become as you put it ... a much less fashion

co nsc iou s creatu re

Enclosed is my diary of events for the month. Oh by the way - please apologise on my behalf to Insp. Leak for calling him a "facist bully boy" out there the other night - just maintaining my cover you understand. Anyway, I've only written entr ies for days on which something relevant ocurred.

Yours Ron

Next: The Diary begins.

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Found it in my car

KNOWYE THE HALLOWED LINGO OF RAVEDOM

Safe - Alright, O.K. cool Sweet - Alright, O.K. cool Mental: - Mental:

Radio, Rentals -see Mental Safeway - a sweet shop On one - Having a jolly nice time

Rave - An 'Acid House' party Warehouse- possible venue for rave

Sweat Box - as above but smaller (name says it aU), Blindin' - A sight for sore eyes

Co'ke - a soft drink popular at raves

Ecstacy - Nina Hagen LP not popular at raves

Chill out - relax R.O.A.R. - Rip Off And Run T. T~B,. - Titanic True Bel!iever K.O.F. - Keeper Of the Flame

KNEECAPPERS;

The column that will get us killed

ITEM! +++ from +++ says that it's O.K to pull one over on ++++ from +++++++++++ because he isn't protected by the +++. He also says that he's a ++++++++ ++++++.

ITEM! ++++ of ++++++++ promotions tells us that +++++ of Whitechapel will supply you with a +++ +++++++ and the ++++ to go with it if you ask him for a "special"

ITEM! The afore mentioned ++++++++ have noticed a sudden rise in their takings at ++++++ ++++ despite the fact that they have had no increase in the number of ravers through the door.This could have something to do with the fact that +++ +++ +++ who previously handled the money has recently been sacked.

Items censored on the advice and pleas of our solicitors and girlfriends.

Editors note: Thanks for reading our first ish. We're double glad that It ever got it tinished. The whole magazine was put together on a budget of £50 which paid for some photos .Everybody worked for free and in their own time so we'd like to put out a warm thank you to all our contributors particularly 'Mr O'Brien, our long suHering Mac man for his patience and help.Dr Art and Atomandala would like to say a special thanks to Jane for making it all happen and Tommy for his support.Finally thank you all for buying it.Live long and Love your planet.

You may not have known where you were but we didlYes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, it's you, yes YOU!Our

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