The Asylum/Oldskool thread

Heroditas

Is mise le key wrote: »

Yep tis a great track alright, only got the name of it from aceberg on here a couple of months ago meself & it is on this mix from the Waterfront/UFO,

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=66064890&postcount=8873

A UFO mix from March 1995?
You've just made my year! I would have been there that night.
Now this'll bring back some great memories.

Is mise le key

Heroditas wrote: »

A UFO mix from March 1995?
You've just made my year! I would have been there that night.
Now this'll bring back some great memories.

Could have been there meself, perhaps i scabbed a smoke off you downstairs for a spliff that night:D:D:D

Heroditas

Is mise le key wrote: »

Could have been there meself, perhaps i scabbed a smoke off you downstairs for a spliff that night:D:D:D

There's a very high chance that could have happened!

Is mise le key

Heroditas wrote: »

There's a very high chance that could have happened!

Well thanks again for it if thats the case.....took ages to get it together but it was worth it in the end:D

Is mise le key

Its hitting about 8:30 & your have sorted you three of four Doves

4 cans of beer for refreshments with a couple of spliffs to tide you over betweeen 9:00pm & 12:00ish until you go for the last bus, walking down the road towards the bus terminus at midnight full of life & just now ready to go out. The anticipation rising in you as you are sitting on the bus waiting for it to pull out getting another spliff together or two between three or four of ya's.
Bus pulls out & you are the only ones on it, reason being you are on your way into the city where as everyone else that hasnt discovered the Rave & Ecstasy are already mid way or at an end to their night (what a waste of time you feel).
Travelling down through rathmines & the butterflys are doing overtime in your stomach as you are half way into town & you know it wont be more than a half hour until you are there as you watch all the garglers fall around rathmines stuffing kebabs into them.
Time to swallow a dove we reckons:pac:

Just passing over portobello bridge & one dove chewed with that extremely bitter taste that you would be disgusted with if it was any food you put in your mouth is telling you the Doves are good:cool:
Passing by the old haunt (the OLYMPIC) you never thought you would ever find anything in the world that could compare to but now glance up plesants street at the Queue & say to yourself (your wasting your time, the ASYLUM is where its at). Same as you pass SIDES which you only frequented & couple of times after the OLYMPIC until you heard about the ASYLUM.
Hop off at Trinity about 10-15 mins later & that walk across O'Connell bridge! Only slighty feeling any effects of the dove but beginning to come up you float across the bridge like a homing instinct has just been triggered in you, then you turn the corner to see how many people are outside & hear the bassline:D Holy sh.it - here we go:)
You approach the bouncer gerry you were given the heads up to from the first time you were there, He will let 4 of you in the emergency doors straight into the Skag room (second floor at ground level) for £30 which is a little less each than the tenner a head they are looking.

He pulls up the shutters & bang:eek:, the heat, the humidity, the smell of hash, Olbas oil, vicks & the pounding bassline & beat!!!!!

OH FUC.KIN YE!!!!

Down the lenght of the skag room with your jacket being taken off as you walk, heads everywhere absolutley mad out of it, temperature soaring you walk down the back stairs to put yer jacket in in the cloakroom at the end of the hall behind the DJ box, you can feel the coolness almost outside the emergency door onto middle abbey street & you just want to get your jacket in as you look back down the short hallway to the entrance to the bottom floor where its banging out proper pounding tracks.
Jacket in & straight into the strobes, lasers, smoke machine & 8 foot speakers at your back, the dove is almost if not fully up now & you do a quick walk around the bottom floor to check the place out, just hitting after 1:00am & the place is fuc.king rocking to some seriously good hard trance.
Fully up on the dove & loving the tunes sure time to do another one to overlap the first. Man the feeling hitting you as you stand up the front with the tunes pulsating out of the huge speakers, the bassline complimenting every beat & surging the ecstasy up through your very being, Ecstasy, the very meaning of the word is being experienced right now, then a break in the music, you dont know the name of the tune but you find out later in the week its called 'Two full moons & a trout' , the break send a wave of adrenaling rising up in the entire crowd, the lack of motion in your body allows you really feel how the Doves are taking effect, but that break/build up is absolutley unbeleivable!! You feel every octave of the girls voice as it resonates around the Rave producing adrenalin in your body as the build seems to last an eternity.
All around you the crowd are jumping, hopping, shouting with enthusiasm for the beat & that bassline to tear into the place again, slowly it builds & builds until eventually it is literally unleashed on the place & the whole Rave erupts!!!!!
This is why it was given the title Rave music, the uncontrollable energy, ecstasy, joy, life created by the combination of it all coming together is profound to say the least, this is something that touches your very being with Joy & elevates you to a place that is not attainable in everyday existence.
6 hours of this amazing feeling & its hitting 7:00am & the doors to the outside world are open on the second floor, no way you are leaving until the very last tune has stopped as this is the ASYLUM (A safe sanctuary for the insane), far from feeling insane you feel like this is a new discovery that will stay with you forever.
Eventually long after the music has stopped you do have to leave the place 8:00am or after & out onto sackville place sunday morning, line of Taxi's outside as this is the only place open with about 1000 people in it & back to greenhills to flake with a few spliffs & wait for the offo to open.
Cant forget that feeling when 'Two full moons & a trout' built up to unleash the Ecstasy on the place a few hours before & now just time to wind down until the coming week of work & nothing but thoughts of the ASYLUM on your mind for the entirety of it.

I truly beleive that experiences such as this have only occured twice in the history of music, the genuine feeling of love & unity at woodstock shaped a generation that had knock on effects for the entire world as in terms of how we have evolved mentally with our perceptions of each other. The experience that was generated in the rave i have described i would argue just eclipsed woodstock & was the most profound influence on how any generation has ever chaged their view of the world & each other for the better. I certainly have become the person i am because of it a feel it was without doubt the most positive influence in my life to make me the person i am.

Peace, Love, Unity, Harmony, Respect to you all.

DUB33

Is mise le key wrote: »

Its hitting about 8:30 & your have sorted you three of four Doves

4 cans of beer for refreshments with a couple of spliffs to tide you over betweeen 9:00pm & 12:00ish until you go for the last bus, walking down the road towards the bus terminus at midnight full of life & just now ready to go out. The anticipation rising in you as you are sitting on the bus waiting for it to pull out getting another spliff together or two between three or four of ya's.
Bus pulls out & you are the only ones on it, reason being you are on your way into the city where as everyone else that hasnt discovered the Rave & Ecstasy are already mid way or at an end to their night (what a waste of time you feel).
Travelling down through rathmines & the butterflys are doing overtime in your stomach as you are half way into town & you know it wont be more than a half hour until you are there as you watch all the garglers fall around rathmines stuffing kebabs into them.
Time to swallow a dove we reckons:pac:

Just passing over portobello bridge & one dove chewed with that extremely bitter taste that you would be disgusted with if it was any food you put in your mouth is telling you the Doves are good:cool:
Passing by the old haunt (the OLYMPIC) you never thought you would ever find anything in the world that could compare to but now glance up plesants street at the Queue & say to yourself (your wasting your time, the ASYLUM is where its at). Same as you pass SIDES which you only frequented & couple of times after the OLYMPIC until you heard about the ASYLUM.
Hop off at Trinity about 10-15 mins later & that walk across O'Connell bridge! Only slighty feeling any effects of the dove but beginning to come up you float across the bridge like a homing instinct has just been triggered in you, then you turn the corner to see how many people are outside & hear the bassline:D Holy sh.it - here we go:)
You approach the bouncer gerry you were given the heads up to from the first time you were there, He will let 4 of you in the emergency doors straight into the Skag room (second floor at ground level) for £30 which is a little less each than the tenner a head they are looking.

He pulls up the shutters & bang:eek:, the heat, the humidity, the smell of hash, Olbas oil, vicks & the pounding bassline & beat!!!!!

OH FUC.KIN YE!!!!

Down the lenght of the skag room with your jacket being taken off as you walk, heads everywhere absolutley mad out of it, temperature soaring you walk down the back stairs to put yer jacket in in the cloakroom at the end of the hall behind the DJ box, you can feel the coolness almost outside the emergency door onto middle abbey street & you just want to get your jacket in as you look back down the short hallway to the entrance to the bottom floor where its banging out proper pounding tracks.
Jacket in & straight into the strobes, lasers, smoke machine & 8 foot speakers at your back, the dove is almost if not fully up now & you do a quick walk around the bottom floor to check the place out, just hitting after 1:00am & the place is fuc.king rocking to some seriously good hard trance.
Fully up on the dove & loving the tunes sure time to do another one to overlap the first. Man the feeling hitting you as you stand up the front with the tunes pulsating out of the huge speakers, the bassline complimenting every beat & surging the ecstasy up through your very being, Ecstasy, the very meaning of the word is being experienced right now, then a break in the music, you dont know the name of the tune but you find out later in the week its called 'Two full moons & a trout' , the break send a wave of adrenaling rising up in the entire crowd, the lack of motion in your body allows you really feel how the Doves are taking effect, but that break/build up is absolutley unbeleivable!! You feel every octave of the girls voice as it resonates around the Rave producing adrenalin in your body as the build seems to last an eternity.
All around you the crowd are jumping, hopping, shouting with enthusiasm for the beat & that bassline to tear into the place again, slowly it builds & builds until eventually it is literally unleashed on the place & the whole Rave erupts!!!!!
This is why it was given the title Rave music, the uncontrollable energy, ecstasy, joy, life created by the combination of it all coming together is profound to say the least, this is something that touches your very being with Joy & elevates you to a place that is not attainable in everyday existence.
6 hours of this amazing feeling & its hitting 7:00am & the doors to the outside world are open on the second floor, no way you are leaving until the very last tune has stopped as this is the ASYLUM (A safe sanctuary for the insane), far from feeling insane you feel like this is a new discovery that will stay with you forever.
Eventually long after the music has stopped you do have to leave the place 8:00am or after & out onto sackville place sunday morning, line of Taxi's outside as this is the only place open with about 1000 people in it & back to greenhills to flake with a few spliffs & wait for the offo to open.
Cant forget that feeling when 'Two full moons & a trout' built up to unleash the Ecstasy on the place a few hours before & now just time to wind down until the coming week of work & nothing but thoughts of the ASYLUM on your mind for the entirety of it.

I truly beleive that experiences such as this have only occured twice in the history of music, the genuine feeling of love & unity at woodstock shaped a generation that had knock on effects for the entire world as in terms of how we have evolved mentally with our perceptions of each other. The experience that was generated in the rave i have described i would argue just eclipsed woodstock & was the most profound influence on how any generation has ever chaged their view of the world & each other for the better. I certainly have become the person i am because of it a feel it was without doubt the most positive influence in my life to make me the person i am.

Peace, Love, Unity, Harmony, Respect to you all.

Brilliant peice of writting & i agree wit u totally in years to come people will look back @ the cheamical genearation (early 90's/rave culture) will be known as 1 of the best decades ever & will be rembererd as shapening a generation as u said

SteoL

DUB33 wrote: »

Brilliant peice of writting & i agree wit u totally in years to come people will look back @ the cheamical genearation (early 90's/rave culture) will be known as 1 of the best decades ever & will be rembererd as shapening a generation as u said

Same here. Have a lump in my throat just thinking about it. How I'd love to go back and experience it just one more time.......one more time.....:pac::(:mad::p

holy_macaroni

very detailed description that for just 1 night at the asylum on drugs ha,it was a drty kip with some of the madest fukers in dublin,one in particular as i passed by him on the 1st floor not far from the staircase,shouldered me hard,i turned to see him take from his jacket a big fukoff machete with a nasty look on his face,i was stone sober, so i wasnt seeing things,i ran 2 the 2nd floor and told a mate, to my surprise he believed me,and he described what he was wearing, a grey bomber jacket,coz he did same to him as he passed by,i seen oul ones with their kids in buggies,approached by prostitutes,a mate of mine said he seen a girl being raped,and i seen the nut running down the stairs with a gun screaming"get the fuk out of the way"on the last nite of the asylum.the night that guy was shot,im 35 now,asylum was great when i was a teen, but i wudnt dream of goin bk 2 that if it was to reopen.wud u?

Is mise le key

holy_macaroni wrote: »

but i wudnt dream of goin bk 2 that if it was to reopen.wud u?

In a heart beat:D:):cool:

SteoL

holy_macaroni wrote: »

very detailed description that for just 1 night at the asylum on drugs ha,it was a drty kip with some of the madest fukers in dublin,one in particular as i passed by him on the 1st floor not far from the staircase,shouldered me hard,i turned to see him take from his jacket a big fukoff machete with a nasty look on his face,i was stone sober, so i wasnt seeing things,i ran 2 the 2nd floor and told a mate, to my surprise he believed me,and he described what he was wearing, a grey bomber jacket,coz he did same to him as he passed by,i seen oul ones with their kids in buggies,approached by prostitutes,a mate of mine said he seen a girl being raped,and i seen the nut running down the stairs with a gun screaming"get the fuk out of the way"on the last nite of the asylum.the night that guy was shot,im 35 now,asylum was great when i was a teen, but i wudnt dream of goin bk 2 that if it was to reopen.wud u?

Never made The Asylum, I was thinking of my raving days in general. Would I go The Asylum today, f*n right I would Was one place I was ragin I missed.

holy_macaroni

lol.well if ur still in2 ur Es,good 2 have as a memory tho,but it wudnt be same if it were 2 reopen now,

Is mise le key

holy_macaroni wrote: »

lol.well if ur still in2 ur Es,good 2 have as a memory tho,but it wudnt be same if it were 2 reopen now,

Ahh it will never be the same as it was without a doubt but i would love to be there just at the front of the DJ box with a load of heads like yourselves from here that have a real love for it with the tunes pumping till the early hours.......wouldnt be as it was but just great to be in that place that was so amazing for a few hours all having a buzz.

Heroditas

Is mise le key wrote: »

Could have been there meself, perhaps i scabbed a smoke off you downstairs for a spliff that night:D:D:D

Sorry to pick holes in the mix but how can there be a mix from the 5th of March 1995? That date was a Sunday! UFO was always on Friday nights.

The reason it sticks so vividly in my mind was because of the awesome St. Patrick's night two weeks later. That was the night when some nasty stuff went down in the place - different bouncers were on duty that night and some of the Sheriff Street lads created loads of trouble, fights on the main dancefloor, Francois was threatened apparently and a few people were mugged by the bouncers in the jacks.
I was blissfully unaware of all this because we were all downstairs having the craic in the chillout room and by the time we went upstairs, all the trouble had stopped. Great night! A load of the Drumcondra lads from college who used to go to Sides all the time went to the UFO that week and were blown away by the atmosphere and music. Possibly one of the best nights for the UFO when it was based in the Waterfront.

Only a few weeks later there was the event in Club USI in Temple Bar on Easter Sunday that was a disaster. Far too many tickets were sold and the guest list was huge so, as a result, hundreds of people didn't even get in.
Then loads of people were searched by cops inside the event and had their stuff confiscated and nmes taken.

Yetagain, I was blissfully unaware of all this because I was upstairs on the <ahem> dancefloor .... or maybe I was on top one of the pool tables at that stage.

Downstairs they had Andrew Wetherall and Alex Patterson, maybe Johnny Moy too.
Upstairs they had Billy Scurry and then Billy Nasty. Unreal night.

holy_macaroni

yep, ya cant beat them tracks that were played in there alright, have u pressure wanted on ur pc? if so do u know the tracks playing at 1:02 1:20 1:27,

Is mise le key

Heroditas wrote: »

Sorry to pick holes in the mix but how can there be a mix from the 5th of March 1995? That date was a Sunday! UFO was always on Friday nights.
.

Couldnt tell ya why it has that date, it came from Mr. Springs website originally that mix who also played in there a lot?
Maybe it was given the wrong date or maybe it was fater 12:00 midnight when that was recorded giving it a sunday date?

Heroditas

Is mise le key wrote: »

Couldnt tell ya why it has that date, it came from Mr. Springs website originally that mix who also played in there a lot?
Maybe it was given the wrong date or maybe it was fater 12:00 midnight when that was recorded giving it a sunday date?

We demand answers!
Get Francois on here to explain!

Is mise le key

Heroditas wrote: »

We demand answers!
Get Francois on here to explain!

No disrespect to francois but he couldnt even ID the tune off his own mix when i asked originally never mind about the date:D:D


http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=66058744&postcount=8869

(Sorry Francois only buzzing)

Heroditas

I made that same mistake too. I was almost sure it was a Union Jack tune! There's quite a few similarities in style.

holy_macaroni

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSSM_YpxfBY

holy_macaroni

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHk8TsYz0u8

francois

Heroditas wrote: »

We demand answers!
Get Francois on here to explain!

Mr Spring recorded it on the friday night-he was always recording different gigs, that is definitely a set of mine

francois

Is mise le key wrote: »

No disrespect to francois but he couldnt even ID the tune off his own mix when i asked originally never mind about the date:D:D


http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=66058744&postcount=8869

(Sorry Francois only buzzing)

blame my pickled brain

Heroditas

francois wrote: »

Mr Spring recorded it on the friday night-he was always recording different gigs, that is definitely a set of mine

Was he playing after you that night or am I thinking of the night when Mark Kavanagh played there?
Think Kavanagh played there in February '95.

Is mise le key

Heroditas wrote: »

Was he playing after you that night or am I thinking of the night when Mark Kavanagh played there?
Think Kavanagh played there in February '95.

Couldnt tell you when Mark Kavanagh played there but Mr. Spring was a resident also along side Francois, used to buzz with him every week in there as he only lived a stones throw from me & his old man was our family doc.

holy_macaroni

pressure wanted........1:02 1:20 1:27,??

tdv123

holy_macaroni wrote: »

pressure wanted........1:02 1:20 1:27,??

1:02 is "Luxor - The Big Bang"

1:27 is "Bionic Boom - The Ride"

pretty sure I know the other one aswell can't think of the name at the moment.

holy_macaroni

thanks buddy, yea i have the big bang, just didnt recognize it there, thanks for the other

tdv123

think the other one might be something of frankfurt beat. not sure doh. i'll have a proper listen later.

holy_macaroni

cheers man

holy_macaroni

i wonder if i had 1 of them phones that identify music,wud it pick it up? for them sort of tracks?