A Serbian missile started falling on the rave when we were in it.

Suddenly all the lights went off and because everyone goes, ooh!

What's going on? He goes, there is an air raid.

Serving missiles are falling a mile away.

Any field or aircraft hanger was fair game.

We used the M25 or the magic roundabout, as we called it,

to be able to move 20,000 people around.

One of our ravers was a Mossad agent, right, a secret Mossade agent. And he had the keys to a secret telephone exchange underneath Mariliban High Street. So he'd go in there, and we would use that. But in a rave, when you lose your mate and you're in a field in the middle of nowhere, you've never been to before. That's the best feeling. Everybody was the same the same what was a light coming up on the knee and i wasn't so much dancing to the music but i was

the fucking music you know we were the music we constantly finding myself in situations and i'm out

me depth i don't know what the hell's going on everything that could go wrong went wrong and there was

one time when oh i shouldn't be tell him you drag this out of me

someone says to me what's the wildest party you've ever thrown and um it was

welcome to the eventful lives podcast I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth

Sevens the world's largest sport and music festival on this podcast I speak to proper characters of all lived eventful lives. Do us a favour and hit that follow button and be sure to check us out on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok at Dodge Woodall, where we've now had over 100 million views. Kurt, welcome to the show, mate. It's great to finally be here. It is, isn't it? We've been talking for a while.

We've had a couple of false starts, but here we are.

We're finally here, fantastic. Let's roll away back. How did you get the nickname, the raving reporter? That's a good question. There was no job application that I actually applied for. I was working at the race behind the bar, selling water and Lucas Aida at a quid a time, and I had no aspirations to become a journalist or reporter, but what I saw the press and the and the tabloids writing the lies about the parties I was at, I wanted to set the record straight, and so I'd just be two fingers in the truth, that's all you need, like three chords in the truth,

just two fingers in the truth, and I typed out something on my girlfriend's old Olivetti typewriter and sent it off to about five different places, and Mick SMAG picked it up, and I became their

raving reporter because I would go, and I'd go to the race as a raver or as a barman, and I'd

participate in every single way that was possible, but then I'd write it up afterwards, so I'd go to the race as a raveer or as a barman and I'd participate in every single

way that that was possible but then I'd write it up afterwards so I guess it was early

days of gonzo journalism and where did that where did that lead you to all over I mean I just

said yes to everything I mean that's one of the things in the book rave new world it's about

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