How Clubbing changed the world

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Just looking through the tv guide i saw this advertised for Channel 4 tonight

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/idris-elbas-how-clubbing-changed-the-world

Actor and international DJ Idris Elba counts down the defining moments of the greatest cultural phenomenon of our generation in a programme featuring some of the biggest names in dance music.

Twenty-five years after the birth of rave, a new generation of British DJs and producers are at the forefront of a global musical revolution.

From trance to dubstep, the sound of British producers has now become the most sought-after commodity for the biggest pop stars on the planet.

Reaching far beyond the sweaty dance floors of the Hacienda and the Ministry of Sound, this programme reveals how British nightclubbing transformed our nation and influenced societies across the world.

With personal insights and club-raising anecdotes from David Guetta, Armand van Helden, Paul Oakenfold, will.i.am, Nile Rodgers, Goldie, Pete Tong, Katy B, Skream and former Home Secretary Michael Howard, amongst many more, this entertaining and thought-provoking film celebrates the British success story that has conquered the world.

From sun-kissed holidays on the party island of Ibiza to the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, and from illegal warehouse raves to Labour's 1992 adoption of D:Ream's Things Can Only Get Better, clubbing has touched everyone's life whether they know it or not.

This is an international story, going beyond the music to look at clubbing's influence on everything from real estate to drug use, fashion, politics and the drinks industry.

How Clubbing Changed the World explores how clubbing went from a counter-cultural movement that defined a generation to a multi-billion-pound business, and reveals how, 25 years on, Great Britain is still king of the underground.

And just so this doesn't look like a 'heads up' topic :p what are your favourite clubbing moments / years?
 
Similar to a few that have already posted, my best years were the ones at uni up in Aberdeen 1998 - 2002. A couple of big events at the Aberdeen Exhibition Centre were Glam and Slinky in 2000, and Homelands Scotland 2001 (still got the tags with the lineups somewhere).

Also worked at a few bars / clubs during my uni time so quite often saw some decent folk for free while 'working' Seb Fontaine, Lisa Pin Up, Anne Savage etc etc

Seeing Sasha and Digweed at Homelands was magic, just a shame they weren't on together as Sasha was playing down in Liverpool later on that night.

A couple of years later, I did get to see 2manydjs down in Edinburgh which was decent. dropping deacon blue dignity was superb :D

Might have to dust off my decks and get some mixes on the go again :D

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Just seen that theres a 6 hr 'house party' nonsense after it :eek:
 
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anyone catch any of the house party after it? Watched Grandmaster Flash. Preferred it when he went into his comfort zone and played a more typical set of hip hop but it was mental with the style of records he was dropping in in the first half of the set. Crashed out about 15 mins into Annie Mac but got it all recorded so will watch it later on.
 
For the documentary to bang on and on about garage and dubstep and not to mention trance is a complete FAIL. It was trance that made the UK superclubs so massive and its trance that we all feel in love with in the late 90s.

Gatecrasher didn't even get a mention...... WTF!

and shortly after gatecrasher slipped into a garage club it shut ;) maybe thats why they mentioned it :p
 
Random bump of this one. I'm clearing out stuff for moving on friday and found an old newspaper of me and my mate snapped on the front cover of the Aberdeen Evening Express at Xmas Glam at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre 29th December 2000. There was a couple of foot of snow, the airport only just opened to allow all the Djs to fly in........onto youtube and theres a video!


I make a couple of appearances in the clip as well :D Magic night that one!
 
nah but i was a massive fan of oakenfold 96-02. unfortuanetly (imo) he sold out to the US but in his hey day, he was untouchable, even if he couldn't mix! never saw him live. you were lucky, in 2000 he was spinning some incredible stuff.

94 goa mix, still my all time favourite ;)

got a load of his perfecto stuff on vinyl, Bunkka was the last stuff of his that i bought though.

Found a site where you can listen / download to various mixes so listened to a few from across in the states. Was a bit disappointed that i missed the chance to see him in Vegas last year at his residency though. 27hr flight time, settle in then up at 6am for a tour wouldn't have worked with a night out to see Oakey in between! :o
 
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