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*PREVIEW* Britainology 9: UK Rave Culture feat. UKRaveComments

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Good lord, the Gen Xers of Britain are a special bunch. And man, do they love to reminisce in the YouTube comments. To discuss this phenomenon, and the culture surrounding it, we brought on TF techno expert Riley--as well as George, the creator of the @UKRaveComments twitter account--to discuss. If you want to get the whole thing, sign up to Patreon at the $10 tier -- you'll get access to all our bonus content, plus an extra Q&A or Britainology each month: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46883951 We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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0:00.0

You just get these like a hundred word comments on YouTube with no punctuation.

0:22.1

They're just a sort of radiating ecstasy energy.

0:24.8

They're just amazing to read.

0:28.1

Like what if James Joyce but now and just like absolutely addled by pingers?

0:32.8

Well actually, George, I was just scrolling through the UK rve comments Twitter feed just to grab an example.

0:38.6

And I just, I found a perfect one just now.

0:42.4

I'm in there somewhere.

0:43.8

I always remember ripping my t-shirt, getting through the window in the toilets, lull.

0:47.6

I had the exact same G-Force trousers as the black guy on stage.

0:51.3

Mad as fuck days.

0:52.3

Good set list, too.

0:58.6

Love it. Hell yeah. Love the trash. black guy on stage mad as fuck days good set list too love it hell yeah love the trousers that's a vintage i love it when they mention yeah the cloves that's always fun yeah so riley you

1:05.9

wanted to talk about the overall culture of raving in the UK and to to me, as the person who originally Britain was getting

1:12.4

explained to, the only thing I know about it is sort of like slightly related in the sense that,

1:18.9

you know, I know about stuff like the Hacienda in Manchester and the two big things that I,

1:24.9

you know, obviously like that club and factory records and some of the

1:28.0

acts that came about from that and then also um the late 80s I think it was 1988 they called

1:33.7

the second summer of love uh and just like rave culture going mainstream in the UK but it seems to

1:38.0

me like it's very much an 80s thing and so the people who would be the most invested in this

1:42.2

sort of nostalgia are and and I'm asking Riley but but George, please feel free to jump into that this is Gen X thing.

1:49.5

Like, hardcore. All of this nostalgia is basically Gen X reminiscing about, you know, 35 years ago.

1:57.5

Yeah, what I was going to say is what I know about this is I've seen the film 24-hour party people

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