When people say they are ravers and then talk about all the festivals they went to. Yeah no. Raves are barely organized, optionally legal, dirty, and you find out where it is at the last minute.
It’s not meant to be gatekeeping, I do feel bad for the people who didn’t get to experience it but a similar experience is available for anyone at anytime with some community building and work, DIY is absolutely essential to the raver experience imo. It’s pretty silly that it’s called gatekeeping when people are just recalling the original, pure experience that has since been ruined by greed. Don’t blame me.
When people say they are ravers and then talk about all the festivals they went to. Yeah no. Raves are barely organized, optionally legal, dirty, and you find out where it is at the last minute.
Abandoned warehouses, land banked office buildings, closed down factories, old docks. 90s parties were great fun
Ok gatekeeper
It’s not meant to be gatekeeping, I do feel bad for the people who didn’t get to experience it but a similar experience is available for anyone at anytime with some community building and work, DIY is absolutely essential to the raver experience imo. It’s pretty silly that it’s called gatekeeping when people are just recalling the original, pure experience that has since been ruined by greed. Don’t blame me.
Well you don’t have too look so far back. Covid naturally forced the raving scene to go underground again.
Be nostalgic, but don’t deny the younglings their fair share of the glory.