Howitzer, post: 6376 wrote: I think you hit the nail on the head there mate. While I enjoy modern clubbing, I am yerning for a sense of community.
You have nothing to be sorry for man, its merely my own experience.
Off topic maybe, but I think this is a sign of the times.
When I first went to a ‘night club’ the music was all top 20 chart hits with a cheesy DJ on the mic. If you didn’t have shiny shoes and a pair of ‘dress pants’ on you weren’t getting in. There was a good chance that there would be violence involved at some point of the evening.
My first experience of an alternative to this were illegal warehouse parties in Blackburn, followed by visits to clubs such as Konspiracy in Manchester or Quadrant Park in Liverpool. This was all very underground and the sense of community was all about being in the know and doing something different to the mainstream.
Nowadays, that culture IS mainstream (albeit a watered down version) and we’re back to where we started in a lot of respects. There are still clubs that foster a sense of community but they are few and far between and more the doing of indy promoters putting on underground nights.
History tells us that these counter culture movements occur periodically, I wonder what the next one will be… ?
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