Those of us who were lucky enough to be teenagers in the 90s know just how good it was. If you were at a night, you knew everyone else there had to put the effort in to be there. Not a single social media bellend in sight, just party people enjoying the moment and all there for the love of the music. It was pure, not vacuous and shallow like it is today. No phones, no fakeness and no dickhead influencers.
Your spot on there, all done without social media to. I'm not a fan of Facebook and similar social media platforms, and I don't use them. The downside of not using them, is that I do miss out on some of the parties that are arranged for old school heads via those platforms now. I like that clubs like Bargain/Panorama bar in Berlin don't allow people to take pictures on their mobile phones, clubs should be a private space to party in, and kick away the troubles of the world for a night or two.
@@gcostanza2115 Social media has its place. But there was something about being part of something that you and a few hundred others strangers put the effort in to be part of. Hard to explain, something you had to experience to fully understand. There was a single shared objective and it was always about the music. Never about finding the right lighting for your Instagram post or only being there to promote yourself as something you're not. It was far simpler and genuine. When I see some of the Boiler Room sets for example, the majority of people are stood still with their phone recording the moment instead of being part of it. You can't do both. Times change, I get that, I'm just glad I got to be part of it when it wasn't so vacuous.
I agree, and you’re right about the Boiler Room shows, most of them look like they are there because they think they should be there. A lot of the music can be quite bland on Boiler Room to. Back in the late 80’s and early 90’s the music was varied, and some of the best tunes all stood out as individual pieces.
First went to Sterns in 1992, when I was at Solent University. Went with a few raving friends. The Underground room in the basement was the most amazing place, with an amazing vibe and light show. Coming down those steps and feeling the heat hit you along with the bass, with the condensation hitting you like rain. December 1992 I met my partner on the dance platform in the Underground, we're still together 30 years later! I'll always have love in my heart for that place xx Thank you Sterns Crew
I first went to Sterns at 11, a chance to dance, not inter-dance, those days set the foundation for a lot in my life, we were very lucky to be a part of it.
@@djb3488haha yeah it was the under 18s event on the Friday, think you were supposed to be over 15, not like they can really ask an 11 yo for ID tho, whats he gunna do? pull out a pube?
Fantastic film. Privileged to have been able to go to Sterns every weekend. Very special club. 58 now! I hope all the ravers from back then are still enjoying the music today. RIP Mensa. 🐐
So glad I was born in 74. We were the luckily ones. 17yrs old spending every weekend in that house. Never really appreciated how iconic Sterns was back then
This was, in all senses of the word, magic, for me. As a 20 year old, I was in the midst of all this just down the coast in Bournemouth at Madisons, and a few other places, but Madisons at this time came the closest to the peak times when rave went into clubs, and the word Sterns had a power that nothing does in the 30 years since. The music, the lights, the sounds of the club in the background of the footage put me right back there then - joy, delight, chaos, sweat, an uneasy frission of paranoia about the old Bill, only just getting away with things - the music getting faster and the crowds getting bigger, and everything getting out of control. Of meeting thousands of people in the tribe, those jammered conversations in the toilet, the high speed walk around the clubs for no reason, with weightless legs and endless things to say to everyone about it all. That massive tune that you hear echoing down the club to you, heading back to the dancefloor in the most serious way possible, a bloom of strobe and you catch someone's eye across a sea of arms and smoke, and for a 1/10th of a second you make a timeless connection, it's easy to believe you're all psychic - what's happening to all our souls all at once is expressed in all of it - the music, the dancing, the attitude, feeling this moment in history turn around us, feeling its impermanence, feeling gratitude and comfort and reassurance that there is this love and all these magical people in the world, all here in this scene, taking a great leap forward. That's the gut punch of joy and liberation and submission to this huge fundamental ancient energy we felt in the music from the sweetest piano riff to the alien bleeps, the tribal rhythms and jazz and roof-shaking sub-bass, it was like the entirety of human culture and musical art was being gathered and reworked and delivered in a way that was only possible now, in this scene, with this new technology, to all of us. It was a privilege, it was messy, we did it for as long as we could, careers abandoned, plans and personalities gone by the wayside, it was a new world - it felt like the global future we craved - connected to people around the world. The same basic human desire that created this internet, to share art and meaning and make sense of the separateness that comes baked into our humanity. To have drunk from that well of love and expanded experience and joy and transcendence even just once makes it a life worth having lived. To have been at a place where that whirlwind sucked you in and up and into the stratosphere is a magical legend that beats any grand tales of fiction, and having been so high and so far and so loved makes the life after difficult to incorporate; it's alien and cold to reengage as a striving consumer of trinkets, to commit 24/7 to a strict and joyless strategy of mornings and meetings and commuting and so little music. Having to be enclosed and to isolate and use music as an escape from the over-connection we swim and drown in now. But, that wide-eyed raver is still in us, and whenever we can it is possible to have some inner-raver therapy; talk to yourself across the years, listen to them - they know that anyone who has seen and felt and been to the places they have can never be lost or alone or overrun with saddness because we've seen the top of the mountain, we've touched the clouds, we known that above and beneath this, and after this and before it all, we really are connected to each other, we are each other, and nothing can unprove that, no grief or despair can make it untrue - we need to live that truth and show it and be it to everyone in our lives, as strange as it seems to not be in those clubs anymore, to not be surrounded by our tribe - we are out in the world now, on our missions - the music is still ringing in your ears, you've only just got dry clothes on. xx
astounding commentary, one of the best things I've read on YT. Encapsulates all that I feel about Rave culture and its history and the small sample sized experience I had of it too, coming through a bit later but experiencing all this at that time too. Maximum respect, you should write a book about it, I would buy it :)
Stunning post and extremely eloquent. We were in the Soton Crew and were good mates with the Lost it Crew from Bournemouth. Spent many a night in Madisons and Sterns. Southampton had no hardcore club, so we travelled. I remember many after club parties in the New Forest. The Adrenalin Nights at Southampton Uni were excellent too. There's a couple of videos on youtube of Adrenalin 2.11 and 2.12 in the Uni student union. Such great days, never to be repeated. It was magic. Maybe we met, maybe we exchanged eye contact in the moment. Rave on brother....
@Foster Twelvetrees Could have been our gaff? Who knows, such a long time ago and hazy memories. We certainly went to Maddies on many, many, occassions. Stu J was a Southampton legend and was resident DJ at Madisons. One time when we were pretty skint and my car was broken down we jumped the train!! Can't remember how we got back..there were alway spaces in cars of newly made friends!
I remember me and a mate bought an old cub 90 off some old blokes drive to get here once, we had to pump up the tyres and it hardly moved. But some bastard stole it from the car park and we had to walk back to Brighton. We left at 2am and didn't get back until 9am. We went all the way along the seafront but for some reason we was not tired at all and ended up back at carl coxes old flat up by Brighton station through a couple of girls we new. The zap and concord had some good nights back then, Brighton was an amazing place to go to uni, the partys around that area are legendary. Tazmania on Hastings pier was another good night and of course the rhythm station in aldershot. Origin at Brighton corn exchange was another one. Man i loved that city, its been over 25 years since i was back there though. R.I.P MENSA THE MEMORIES WILL LAST FOREVER. CANT FORGET MURRAY FROM DREAMSCAPE WHO DIED IN THE SAME TRAGIC WAY.
the after Parties were the highlights of the raves in the UK. going to a nice country house was awesome and then walking back to pick up your car to drive home the next day. no mobiles, no violence just dancing
🎛🎵WOW. F***IN BRILLIANT DOCUMENTARY. JUST CRIED MY WAY THROUGH THE WHOLE THING; NOSTALGIA & GRATITUDE FLOODING THROUGH ME; SO GLAD TO HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS. I'M 50 THIS YEAR AND IF YOU HANDED ME A DOVE, PINK CALYPSO, DISCO BISCUIT ETC I'D DROP IT RIGHT NOW (IT'S CURRENTLY 6AM IN A WINTERY UK). NEVER STOPPED LOVING THIS ERA OF MUSIC (89-94), LOVE LOVE LOVE TO ALL YOU OLD RAVERS OUT THERE; THE BEST. 🤪🙏🎛🎶
The best times for me where them times. i loved the dark and dingy no dress code no trouble just love. All together sweating and gurning. 88 2 92 the best music. Love this. A time machine is needed.
It's absolutely scandalous that this is only one of a very few documentaries on the rave scene, for such a massive movement that it was to a lot of people as us the rave generation, it was just as culturally significant and iconic as the the birth of rock and roll in the fifties and the sixties hippie revolution yet it is hardly documented and written about in book form, we need more documentaries like this HARDCORE for LIFE and beyond.......
@@adriantroalic9298There are many about the music and a few BBC misaligned alarmist shows. Good one's about the rave scene and how it came up to be are not as plenty as that....
I was lucky to grow up near Coventry so was in the eclipse from 91. I feel extremely proud to have been part of the movement. We were so lucky. I truly miss those days 😊
Amazing documentary. Time for this 45yr old ex-raver to head off to work, safe in the knowledge that we once had everything, if only for a few years in the early 90s.
I was so lucky to have been a part of this. Raving and rave culture is in my blood. I'll never stop raving, It's not the same anymore but I still enjoy it. Why don't all raves have a tea room? Sterns tea room was legendary. Chatted so much shit over cups of tea, that's something I still miss! Silly but true!
So many memories there’s me at 25.46 I used to dance at the bottom of the stairs to the underground or in the garage room- spent nearly every weekend of 91/92 @ Sterns, along with White Sugar, Bentleys, Fantazia etc etc then onto The Manor, Zap, upto Moneypenny’s & Wobble in Brum - had a blast - still love to dance now think we were so lucky to be part of it!!
The most sikest documentary ive ever seen. Bring back Sterns and take us back to our days of love peace and unity. Big Up to the Crew and the Raving Fam!!!
Massive impact on my life in 91 and 92. Only as the years and life experiences pass does one truly realise just how good this really was. A monumental moment in time, a special moment. What happened was the UK Gov realised there was a real organic movement of unity and love, even football firms were hugging in clubs - and their age old trick of divide and conquer was getting smashed. So, they flooded the scene with moody Es, and the music got darker and splintered. Then the super clubs and Ibiza et al took over, and money, greed, and sanitisation came. Sterns lives on through this movie - and that feeling of freedom and love lives on in each of you mf warriors who sweated on the Underground 💜
@@waykiwayki Oh, that sounds like PMA or PMMA or just a mixture of chemicals they had at hand. Just like when cannabis was replaced with synthetic cannabinoids. Sometimes I wonder if the system is just trying to hurt people.
I was lucky enough to DJ at Sterns on one occassion in the very top floor where they showcased up 'n' coming DJ's trying to break into the scene but unfortunately they closed soon after. However, my first memory of Sterns was in 1991 as a raver and after me and my mates went in and hung around the top dancefloor before we explored and found what I remember as a chill out area with a cafe or bar, no music playing. The place was weird because it was like a maze trying to get around. I got split up from my mates and found my way the the middle floor where I remember seeing a VW Beetle as part of the DJ booth, not sure if I was hallucinating? The music there didn't do it for me and I soon heard bass rumbling from nearby. Like the bisto kids, I followed the 'scent' and soon found myself at the top of a staircase looking down into the underground, it was mesmerising and so I ventured in. Only about an hour or so from closing I wandered off back to the top floor and eventually found my mates. They were like "Where the fuck have you been? This place is mental." I said to them "Where the fuck have you been?", told them I'd been in the basement and that it was awesome but they knew nothing about it because they had stayed in the same place all night. I led them downstairs and they couldn't believe what they had missed out on and we spent the rest of the night there until closing time. Needless to say that whenever we went back we always headed for the underground.
@@stevenkenyon678 Yes, The Gallery! When I played there I think the room had kinda turned into a chill out area, no one was dancing and only sitting around the edge of the room. I was a Techno DJ which didn't go down very well with some of the people and probably contributed to not being booked (as well as not being the best on the night) :( I still have my record case with the tiny Sterns sticker on it
always remember on my 18th birthday 5th october watching prodigy in the underground,double dropping 2 cali splits and next thing i remember was being sat in the garden not knowing how i got there and how i managed to climb up that skinny spiral staircase everyone used to fall down lol,great times
I'll never forget those days! We were a lucky bunch. So many memories, so much fun and so glad to be a part of it! Oh what I'd do to relive it all again.
Bought a 52yr old some very nostalgic feelings , a little tearful for the huge huge amount of people now past. So happiness but sadness too..but great docu. Thankyou.
The beauty of this documentary is that it was happening in every industrial town in the UK at that time,all of us of a certain age now have a story like this wherever you lived. Great documentary,really enjoyed it 👏🏻💊🎶
It wasn't just the UK. In the early 90s I was going to a club called The Paradox for a 7 hour party called Fever every other Thursday in Baltimore Maryland. Two DJs named Scott Henry and Charles Feelgood threw the party's on. They were magical. ✌️
@@Suddsy. Same here in a smaller town in Florida. We had several places that would stay open til sunrise and some mornings those parties would continue on at someone's house. So many great nights!
Yeah granted, but not like this. This man and those around him, it was them that broke boundaries and took risks that built a scene so unique with a massive fuck you that's so strong you can only search this documentary if you heard from a mate about it, not cos it's been advertised on loose Women. Makes sense, no?
What made this so good was it felt like you was partying round someone's house...loads of rooms each with its own feel....thats why it was packed every week you just couldn't get bored with the place...im on the documentary a few times but its the faces I recognised that I have no idea who they are that makes my heart jump...prey you've had a good life ❤
We got coaches from Weymouth, the place was mind blowing, nothing like it. I remember looking down into The Underground and not believing what I was seeing, incredible. So glad to have been part of an era when things were fresh, good, new -
oh man loads of memories!! Lenny Dee in the underground ripped everyone a new one, we hadn't heard anything even close before! And Mr C mixing psychedelic shit in VW beetle booth was also one of my lifetime memories! Great film guys.
Jesus, this took me back to the best part of my life. I remember Toppers, Empire (Stenners you mad man!!) and Sterns (the best club in the world). I grew up in Bognor Regis but moved to London in the 2000's but miss the old days as there is no club or event that's ever come close to what we experienced back then. I've been lucky enough to travel the world and been to sooooo many clubs yet I always hanker for the good old days. The music in this video is very well chosen and it even gave me goosebumps!!! Well written, well directed and the content is outstanding. Give yerselves a pat on the back guys for a job seriously well done!! Peace
Did you go to that Empire Easter all dayer on the pier in 1990? It was mental I think it was right before Mensa peeled off to start inter dance. Anyways good times.
Just hit 17 in 1991 and we hit our first club in Adelaide, Australia 🇦🇺 Le Rox. Then progressed to the underground clubs and then Raves. Musically the best years of my life. Take me back to watching Carl Cox play Fact 1 in the club. Flying high memories. 1991 to 96.
What a time to be alive.. so happy i saw myself in this.. the rave scene owes so much to mensas memory.. i have nothing but lovely memories of John.. i hope your up there causing chaos.. we will see you again.. interdance and sterns forever.. massive love to all the sterns ravers and family 💜💜💜💜💜💜
Remembering the drive's there, Southampton to Worthing in the works van , fully packed with my best friends , buzzing .... Techno in the underground where it rained sweat.
Never went to Sterns but was out and about 89-92 .. We took it for granted at the time but I would go back to it in a heartbeat if I had the chance.Best times and the best people.
Its was like this everywere in the 90s. I had so many great night all over the place. The one thing that made it the best was the pills. They were just the best back then.
Thank you everyone for all your( HEART WARMING) comments few facts missing still very moving tribute to Mensa my best friend who I miss every day I took care of London & surrounding boroughs Mensa run the south coast I no he his smiling on us all so proud to be his right hand man & partner in RAVE MEMORYS i WILL TREASURE FOR EVERY SHOOM ;-)
Here are some of the featured tracks for you ravers: 12.01 - D Shake - Technotrance 14.00 - Mental Cube - Q 18.45 - Golden Girls - Kinetic (Frank De Wulf Remix) 20.44 - Joey Beltram - Mentasm 21.54 - Set Up System - Fairy Dust 24.31 - Spectrum - Brasil 33.09 - Dj Carl Cox - Let The Bass Kick 45.00 - Beltram - My Sound 51.29 Beltram - Energy Flash 56.42 - 20hz - Capricorn
About the same time, maybe slightly later than Sterns, was a huge house on Fitzjohns Avenue in Hamstead that turned into an illegal venue. It had no name from what I remember and went on for six months.
I loved the place.. happiest times of my life .. I lived across the road I was there every time it was open .. .. rip sterns ❤ love to mensa and all associated with the FARM
Enjoyed this 🙂 Great unforgettable times for those that lived it , gutted I went many places but never made it to Sterns, I didn’t realise it was such a big place..
I consider myself very lucky that by complete chance my local clubs were Sterns in 92/93 and Labrynth in 93/94/95. Two absolutely amazing raves, everybody just absolutely on it, from the second they opened to the last tune. Two very special places that I had the privilege to experience (a few too many times than was strictly healthy hahah). I met many amazing people, some I never saw again, a few I am still friends with to this day and for that Mensa and Joe have my respect and sincere gratitude. Thank you.
12 dalston lane rushing through your brain, who wants one more ! The lab was my fave place and the roller express was very special too especially elevation 👊
Sterns/Labyrinth/AWOL at the Paradise was the circuit for a while, as I recall. I didn't do clubs that much as there was loads of free stuff going on but they were the big 3 deffos.
As the main incubator of UK breakbeat, Labs had more cultural influence and impact than the Hacienda or any club you wanna mention. Best nights of my life. RIP MC Ruff and the Stevie Hyper D.
Really enjoyed this, tells the story well from all the important angles, great memories 😀 No club experience has ever come close to being at Sterns in 92, privileged to be part of it 🔉🔈🔊❤️
Synonymous for me for hearing Rhythm Warfare - Two Notches on the very top floor in the chill out room…..not exactly a chill out tune but it was for that place……amazing place…..amazing documentary…….good memories…….RIP…….thanks for those memories.
Brilliant documentary. Never went to Sterns myself, bit far south for our crew but this captures such a magic time in British Youth Culture. RIP Mensa.
I've been waiting for this . Lord of the dance. I was 16 from bournemouth. 1992 . My brother took me on my 16th birthday . Mad bastards. Went a few times .
Me and my pals used to drive from London to go to sterns if we weren't hitting Labyrinth at Dalston Lane, great atmosphere, and a truly unique setting. We drove home to London one morning in the winter in 1991 with no heater in an old Ford Escort, all of us freezing cold from sweating our cods off . We never complained once, just couldn't stop talking about how good the night was.
So many goose bumps watching this. Sterns was a movement and culture in it own right, from the legendary tapes and flyers everyone collected to the experience of walking down stairs to the underground with green laser and a 25k sound system staring at you. Such a privilege to be a part of it, even at the age of 11 going to ‘A Chance to Dance’. Was all about the dancing in those days, egos left at the door. Nice to hear The Three Deck Wizard talk about Sterns! Good work chaps!
I'd travel down from London with a few mates, amazing nights on the underground, I'll never forget them. Remember going out into the courtyard for a breather and a drink, chatting to strangers, everyone was friendly, never saw any trouble. Who remembers getting 'lost' on the dancefloor and then suddenly the lights came on and everyone had to leave, and thinking- where did the last four hours go? Outside in a field some guy would pull up in a Transit and throw the backdoors open, booming music, we'd keep dancing as the sun rose. Absolutely magical times, glad I was part of it.
It's shameful that the authorities wouldn't allow a private screening of this superb documentary to mark 20 years since Mensa sadly passed away. Well done for making this documentary and allowing us all to look back at a wonderful time in our lives. I wasn't lucky enough to go to Stern's, but I went to plenty of parties and clubs with the same vibe around that time in the South West.
Awesome 🤘, I always remember the Stern's flyer's being edits of popular brands. Was bit young at the time for going out. But still collected the flyers and tape packs. Till I looked old enough 😆
I grew up in chichester and spent many nights in sterns, I new it was special back then and even more so now. Great video thanks, it brought back great memories that green laser rolling your eyes back into trance. RIP mensa and indeed interdance ,respect
So many great memories blurred in to a period of time, it used to take until Thursday to recover from your Saturday, then you'd do it all again the next weekend. Big love to all those that made it to Sterns, and raided the garage for rizlas on the way home!!
Best nights of my life were in the underground at sterns …thank you for taking us all back to those timeless banging fun days …we knew how to party back then …Mensa your always in our hearts …thank you and see u on the other side …hopefully heaven is sterns and we’re all go back there and rave for eternity ❤️❤️❤️
wawww. 1990 17years of age, football casuals, then white dove;) and the birth of love underground house music arrived.second summer of love. timeless:)
What a fabulous documentary. I never went to Sterns - my club years were really 92-96 as a student in Birmingham. But I remember long, loud bights out on the dancefloor where promoters and DJs were Gods. Long live the club scene.
What an epic documentary thanks to all involved and for the soundtrack. Never got that far south. 5 in a 4 speed mini metro with a strap around the roof holding the doors in would just about get us from North Wales to Stoke normally. Like Sterns, some of the most mental places were smaller venues in the North West which rest of the UK didn't hear about). What an unrepeatable era.
Well done Dave, A wonderful tribute to the man who created heaven on earth all under one roof for the pleasure of so many. It was always a pleasure to drive for 5 hrs from Sheffield all the way there & another 5 hours back, the best 10 hrs of time l ever spent in my life. & was an honour to of played there for Mensa & The Underground Crew.... The best place l ever played & number 1. Nothing like it since & no one will be able to match. Much love - The Mu The Mu The Music Maker 🎶 🥰
Sounds like a great guy I loved that era all the traks on this bring back so many memories what a time and a pity his life was cut short feel sorry for friends and familie R.I.P. Mensa Rave on! x
This is amazing!! Giving me the chills. And the sound track is taking me back like crazy.. Fairy Dust.. Q.. Capricorn 20Hz.. Energy Flash.... ahhhh.... those days all feel like a mirage now.. an indescribable magic carpet ride :) in my excitement I wrote this before I got half way through but having got to the end this is a beautiful eulogy and a fantastic memoir of forgotten days and experiences that cannot be described, only felt. Fabulous doc TYVM.
Sterns was my first rave. Late summer 92. I’d heard the story’s, I had the flyers. Had a mate that just passed his driving test. All the ingredients, well nearly” Just remember getting pulled into the underground by some dude I’d never met before wearing dungers and bucket. What an eye opener! I also remember the tunes being hard as fuck that night. Went there as much as a jobless 16/17 year old could afford till it closed. Even back then we knew that place was quite special. On the last night you could feel Mensa speech was from the hart.😢
Someone needs to do a film on Dungeon in East London...good to see rhythm doctor....great dj....bumped into him in love vinyl record shop in London. Top guy...
Amazing seeing this and recreating those wonderful memories. I lived very close by with my parents on the Maybridge estate in Goring - our nearest station was Durrington, could never fathom why 😆 anyway, Sterns was literally a walk away from home so became my local club. You’d see the flyers in Rounder Records for the following week. Magical, beautiful time. Thanks for sharing 😊
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Those of us who were lucky enough to be teenagers in the 90s know just how good it was. If you were at a night, you knew everyone else there had to put the effort in to be there. Not a single social media bellend in sight, just party people enjoying the moment and all there for the love of the music. It was pure, not vacuous and shallow like it is today. No phones, no fakeness and no dickhead influencers.
bet the x was elite quality too
Your spot on there, all done without social media to. I'm not a fan of Facebook and similar social media platforms, and I don't use them. The downside of not using them, is that I do miss out on some of the parties that are arranged for old school heads via those platforms now. I like that clubs like Bargain/Panorama bar in Berlin don't allow people to take pictures on their mobile phones, clubs should be a private space to party in, and kick away the troubles of the world for a night or two.
@@ItsRainingSteak It was. Cheap too. £3 a pill and they were damn good.
@@gcostanza2115 Social media has its place. But there was something about being part of something that you and a few hundred others strangers put the effort in to be part of. Hard to explain, something you had to experience to fully understand. There was a single shared objective and it was always about the music. Never about finding the right lighting for your Instagram post or only being there to promote yourself as something you're not. It was far simpler and genuine. When I see some of the Boiler Room sets for example, the majority of people are stood still with their phone recording the moment instead of being part of it. You can't do both. Times change, I get that, I'm just glad I got to be part of it when it wasn't so vacuous.
I agree, and you’re right about the Boiler Room shows, most of them look like they are there because they think they should be there. A lot of the music can be quite bland on Boiler Room to. Back in the late 80’s and early 90’s the music was varied, and some of the best tunes all stood out as individual pieces.
First went to Sterns in 1992, when I was at Solent University. Went with a few raving friends. The Underground room in the basement was the most amazing place, with an amazing vibe and light show. Coming down those steps and feeling the heat hit you along with the bass, with the condensation hitting you like rain. December 1992 I met my partner on the dance platform in the Underground, we're still together 30 years later! I'll always have love in my heart for that place xx Thank you Sterns Crew
Love this story
I first went to Sterns at 11, a chance to dance, not inter-dance, those days set the foundation for a lot in my life, we were very lucky to be a part of it.
@@DJDaveParks 11 years old ? ffs 😂
@@djb3488haha yeah it was the under 18s event on the Friday, think you were supposed to be over 15, not like they can really ask an 11 yo for ID tho, whats he gunna do? pull out a pube?
I met my husband in the Garage room at Sterns in 1992 and still together ❤ a very special place was Sterns.
I feel so privileged to have been part of the rave scene. 88-93 best times of my life
Yep, same here. The very early days as it was starting in 88-89 were really special. I lived life to the full.
ditto 88 to 93
Fantastic film. Privileged to have been able to go to Sterns every weekend. Very special club. 58 now! I hope all the ravers from back then are still enjoying the music today. RIP Mensa. 🐐
So glad I was born in 74. We were the luckily ones. 17yrs old spending every weekend in that house. Never really appreciated how iconic Sterns was back then
This was, in all senses of the word, magic, for me.
As a 20 year old, I was in the midst of all this just down the coast in Bournemouth at Madisons, and a few other places, but Madisons at this time came the closest to the peak times when rave went into clubs, and the word Sterns had a power that nothing does in the 30 years since. The music, the lights, the sounds of the club in the background of the footage put me right back there then - joy, delight, chaos, sweat, an uneasy frission of paranoia about the old Bill, only just getting away with things - the music getting faster and the crowds getting bigger, and everything getting out of control. Of meeting thousands of people in the tribe, those jammered conversations in the toilet, the high speed walk around the clubs for no reason, with weightless legs and endless things to say to everyone about it all. That massive tune that you hear echoing down the club to you, heading back to the dancefloor in the most serious way possible, a bloom of strobe and you catch someone's eye across a sea of arms and smoke, and for a 1/10th of a second you make a timeless connection, it's easy to believe you're all psychic - what's happening to all our souls all at once is expressed in all of it - the music, the dancing, the attitude, feeling this moment in history turn around us, feeling its impermanence, feeling gratitude and comfort and reassurance that there is this love and all these magical people in the world, all here in this scene, taking a great leap forward. That's the gut punch of joy and liberation and submission to this huge fundamental ancient energy we felt in the music from the sweetest piano riff to the alien bleeps, the tribal rhythms and jazz and roof-shaking sub-bass, it was like the entirety of human culture and musical art was being gathered and reworked and delivered in a way that was only possible now, in this scene, with this new technology, to all of us. It was a privilege, it was messy, we did it for as long as we could, careers abandoned, plans and personalities gone by the wayside, it was a new world - it felt like the global future we craved - connected to people around the world. The same basic human desire that created this internet, to share art and meaning and make sense of the separateness that comes baked into our humanity.
To have drunk from that well of love and expanded experience and joy and transcendence even just once makes it a life worth having lived.
To have been at a place where that whirlwind sucked you in and up and into the stratosphere is a magical legend that beats any grand tales of fiction, and having been so high and so far and so loved makes the life after difficult to incorporate; it's alien and cold to reengage as a striving consumer of trinkets, to commit 24/7 to a strict and joyless strategy of mornings and meetings and commuting and so little music. Having to be enclosed and to isolate and use music as an escape from the over-connection we swim and drown in now.
But, that wide-eyed raver is still in us, and whenever we can it is possible to have some inner-raver therapy; talk to yourself across the years, listen to them - they know that anyone who has seen and felt and been to the places they have can never be lost or alone or overrun with saddness because we've seen the top of the mountain, we've touched the clouds, we known that above and beneath this, and after this and before it all, we really are connected to each other, we are each other, and nothing can unprove that, no grief or despair can make it untrue - we need to live that truth and show it and be it to everyone in our lives, as strange as it seems to not be in those clubs anymore, to not be surrounded by our tribe - we are out in the world now, on our missions - the music is still ringing in your ears, you've only just got dry clothes on.
xx
Beautifully written. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🎵🎶
astounding commentary, one of the best things I've read on YT. Encapsulates all that I feel about Rave culture and its history and the small sample sized experience I had of it too, coming through a bit later but experiencing all this at that time too. Maximum respect, you should write a book about it, I would buy it :)
@Foster Twelvetrees and remix at the time then the manor later on
Stunning post and extremely eloquent. We were in the Soton Crew and were good mates with the Lost it Crew from Bournemouth. Spent many a night in Madisons and Sterns. Southampton had no hardcore club, so we travelled. I remember many after club parties in the New Forest. The Adrenalin Nights at Southampton Uni were excellent too. There's a couple of videos on youtube of Adrenalin 2.11 and 2.12 in the Uni student union. Such great days, never to be repeated. It was magic. Maybe we met, maybe we exchanged eye contact in the moment. Rave on brother....
@Foster Twelvetrees Could have been our gaff? Who knows, such a long time ago and hazy memories. We certainly went to Maddies on many, many, occassions. Stu J was a Southampton legend and was resident DJ at Madisons. One time when we were pretty skint and my car was broken down we jumped the train!! Can't remember how we got back..there were alway spaces in cars of newly made friends!
I remember me and a mate bought an old cub 90 off some old blokes drive to get here once, we had to pump up the tyres and it hardly moved. But some bastard stole it from the car park and we had to walk back to Brighton. We left at 2am and didn't get back until 9am. We went all the way along the seafront but for some reason we was not tired at all and ended up back at carl coxes old flat up by Brighton station through a couple of girls we new. The zap and concord had some good nights back then, Brighton was an amazing place to go to uni, the partys around that area are legendary. Tazmania on Hastings pier was another good night and of course the rhythm station in aldershot. Origin at Brighton corn exchange was another one. Man i loved that city, its been over 25 years since i was back there though. R.I.P MENSA THE MEMORIES WILL LAST FOREVER. CANT FORGET MURRAY FROM DREAMSCAPE WHO DIED IN THE SAME TRAGIC WAY.
the after Parties were the highlights of the raves in the UK. going to a nice country house was awesome and then walking back to pick up your car to drive home the next day. no mobiles, no violence just dancing
🎛🎵WOW. F***IN BRILLIANT DOCUMENTARY.
JUST CRIED MY WAY THROUGH THE WHOLE THING; NOSTALGIA & GRATITUDE FLOODING THROUGH ME; SO GLAD TO HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS. I'M 50 THIS YEAR AND IF YOU HANDED ME A DOVE, PINK CALYPSO, DISCO BISCUIT ETC I'D DROP IT RIGHT NOW (IT'S CURRENTLY 6AM IN A WINTERY UK). NEVER STOPPED LOVING THIS ERA OF MUSIC (89-94), LOVE LOVE LOVE TO ALL YOU OLD RAVERS OUT THERE; THE BEST. 🤪🙏🎛🎶
The best times for me where them times. i loved the dark and dingy no dress code no trouble just love. All together sweating and gurning. 88 2 92 the best music. Love this. A time machine is needed.
It's absolutely scandalous that this is only one of a very few documentaries on the rave scene, for such a massive movement that it was to a lot of people as us the rave generation, it was just as culturally significant and iconic as the the birth of rock and roll in the fifties and the sixties hippie revolution yet it is hardly documented and written about in book form, we need more documentaries like this HARDCORE for LIFE and beyond.......
I think you need to do a bit more research on the subject mate, there are plenty
@@adriantroalic9298There are many about the music and a few BBC misaligned alarmist shows. Good one's about the rave scene and how it came up to be are not as plenty as that....
@@Underground-Electronic-Music Thanks for sharing :)
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Ah memories my Dad was the security guard pictured during the raids. Rest well dad and thank you Mensa
I was lucky to grow up near Coventry so was in the eclipse from 91. I feel extremely proud to have been part of the movement. We were so lucky. I truly miss those days 😊
Nipper and Sasha days!
i want 2 cry still love the choons still got poster lifestyle 2000 dj sacha ❤
Happy Days! Happy Times! Lived it and Doved it 😵💫
Amazing documentary. Time for this 45yr old ex-raver to head off to work, safe in the knowledge that we once had everything, if only for a few years in the early 90s.
I was so lucky to have been a part of this. Raving and rave culture is in my blood. I'll never stop raving, It's not the same anymore but I still enjoy it.
Why don't all raves have a tea room? Sterns tea room was legendary. Chatted so much shit over cups of tea, that's something I still miss! Silly but true!
So many memories there’s me at 25.46 I used to dance at the bottom of the stairs to the underground or in the garage room- spent nearly every weekend of 91/92 @ Sterns, along with White Sugar, Bentleys, Fantazia etc etc then onto The Manor, Zap, upto Moneypenny’s & Wobble in Brum - had a blast - still love to dance now think we were so lucky to be part of it!!
This place changed my life. I loved Sterns. Even the name brings back life-long memories!
I was 16 walking in to the quadrant park up the stairs and I always remember the song it was metal cube Q…never looked back since
The most sikest documentary ive ever seen. Bring back Sterns and take us back to our days of love peace and unity. Big Up to the Crew and the Raving Fam!!!
Massive impact on my life in 91 and 92. Only as the years and life experiences pass does one truly realise just how good this really was. A monumental moment in time, a special moment. What happened was the UK Gov realised there was a real organic movement of unity and love, even football firms were hugging in clubs - and their age old trick of divide and conquer was getting smashed. So, they flooded the scene with moody Es, and the music got darker and splintered. Then the super clubs and Ibiza et al took over, and money, greed, and sanitisation came. Sterns lives on through this movie - and that feeling of freedom and love lives on in each of you mf warriors who sweated on the Underground 💜
I couldn't agree more with everything you said!
Great story. I experienced the same feelings at the same time with a few raves here in Sweden. Only one question, what is moody Es?
@@johanhallgren ones where people fainted or felt a little dark and heavy... More head than heart...
@@waykiwayki Oh, that sounds like PMA or PMMA or just a mixture of chemicals they had at hand. Just like when cannabis was replaced with synthetic cannabinoids. Sometimes I wonder if the system is just trying to hurt people.
I was lucky enough to DJ at Sterns on one occassion in the very top floor where they showcased up 'n' coming DJ's trying to break into the scene but unfortunately they closed soon after.
However, my first memory of Sterns was in 1991 as a raver and after me and my mates went in and hung around the top dancefloor before we explored and found what I remember as a chill out area with a cafe or bar, no music playing. The place was weird because it was like a maze trying to get around. I got split up from my mates and found my way the the middle floor where I remember seeing a VW Beetle as part of the DJ booth, not sure if I was hallucinating? The music there didn't do it for me and I soon heard bass rumbling from nearby. Like the bisto kids, I followed the 'scent' and soon found myself at the top of a staircase looking down into the underground, it was mesmerising and so I ventured in. Only about an hour or so from closing I wandered off back to the top floor and eventually found my mates. They were like "Where the fuck have you been? This place is mental." I said to them "Where the fuck have you been?", told them I'd been in the basement and that it was awesome but they knew nothing about it because they had stayed in the same place all night. I led them downstairs and they couldn't believe what they had missed out on and we spent the rest of the night there until closing time. Needless to say that whenever we went back we always headed for the underground.
Welcome to THE GALLERY One of my many tasks was to choose the best DJ from the Gallery who then got a booking & £50 squid ;-)
I remember the VW Beetle!
@@stevenkenyon678 Yes, The Gallery! When I played there I think the room had kinda turned into a chill out area, no one was dancing and only sitting around the edge of the room. I was a Techno DJ which didn't go down very well with some of the people and probably contributed to not being booked (as well as not being the best on the night) :( I still have my record case with the tiny Sterns sticker on it
Interdance masive Sterns underground Worthing basement crew you know what to do. E nuff respect.
Best ever allnighters.
RIP MENSA .one love 🤘🏼
always remember on my 18th birthday 5th october watching prodigy in the underground,double dropping 2 cali splits and next thing i remember was being sat in the garden not knowing how i got there and how i managed to climb up that skinny spiral staircase everyone used to fall down lol,great times
I'll never forget those days! We were a lucky bunch. So many memories, so much fun and so glad to be a part of it! Oh what I'd do to relive it all again.
Bought a 52yr old some very nostalgic feelings , a little tearful for the huge huge amount of people now past. So happiness but sadness too..but great docu. Thankyou.
The beauty of this documentary is that it was happening in every industrial town in the UK at that time,all of us of a certain age now have a story like this wherever you lived. Great documentary,really enjoyed it 👏🏻💊🎶
It wasn't just the UK. In the early 90s I was going to a club called The Paradox for a 7 hour party called Fever every other Thursday in Baltimore Maryland. Two DJs named Scott Henry and Charles Feelgood threw the party's on. They were magical. ✌️
@@Suddsy. Same here in a smaller town in Florida. We had several places that would stay open til sunrise and some mornings those parties would continue on at someone's house. So many great nights!
Yeah granted, but not like this. This man and those around him, it was them that broke boundaries and took risks that built a scene so unique with a massive fuck you that's so strong you can only search this documentary if you heard from a mate about it, not cos it's been advertised on loose Women. Makes sense, no?
At last! What a place this was. !990 - 1991 were the best times at Sterns.
‘91 was the best time everywhere mate.
Absolutely brilliant documentary, Lenny Dee is a Character! Just as wild as his sets
Hardcore Will Never Die
What made this so good was it felt like you was partying round someone's house...loads of rooms each with its own feel....thats why it was packed every week you just couldn't get bored with the place...im on the documentary a few times but its the faces I recognised that I have no idea who they are that makes my heart jump...prey you've had a good life ❤
True Story ;-)
I was thinking that, loads of familiar faces
We got coaches from Weymouth, the place was mind blowing, nothing like it. I remember looking down into The Underground and not believing what I was seeing, incredible. So glad to have been part of an era when things were fresh, good, new -
oh man loads of memories!! Lenny Dee in the underground ripped everyone a new one, we hadn't heard anything even close before! And Mr C mixing psychedelic shit in VW beetle booth was also one of my lifetime memories! Great film guys.
So glad I've got I've got the paintings done by Rufus in my summer house ,keeps my Micheal with me ❤️❤️❤️
Jesus, this took me back to the best part of my life. I remember Toppers, Empire (Stenners you mad man!!) and Sterns (the best club in the world). I grew up in Bognor Regis but moved to London in the 2000's but miss the old days as there is no club or event that's ever come close to what we experienced back then. I've been lucky enough to travel the world and been to sooooo many clubs yet I always hanker for the good old days. The music in this video is very well chosen and it even gave me goosebumps!!! Well written, well directed and the content is outstanding. Give yerselves a pat on the back guys for a job seriously well done!! Peace
wtf i was born in bognor rigis. cheers take care, nice comment
Did you go to that Empire Easter all dayer on the pier in 1990? It was mental I think it was right before Mensa peeled off to start inter dance. Anyways good times.
Toppers.....IYKYK........ that was a lush tiny deep House/Acid sweatbox ,you could touch the ceiling,wall to wall mirrors..... HaPpY DazE
I don’t know but Eddie past away a couple of years ago
I have been to a lot of clubs over the years, all round the world, but Sterns set the bar very high.
Good to be apart those Pioneering days! We set the bar with Sterns! Nothing compared to the atmosphere of the place!
Just hit 17 in 1991 and we hit our first club in Adelaide, Australia 🇦🇺 Le Rox. Then progressed to the underground clubs and then Raves. Musically the best years of my life. Take me back to watching Carl Cox play Fact 1 in the club. Flying high memories. 1991 to 96.
What a time to be alive.. so happy i saw myself in this.. the rave scene owes so much to mensas memory.. i have nothing but lovely memories of John.. i hope your up there causing chaos.. we will see you again.. interdance and sterns forever.. massive love to all the sterns ravers and family 💜💜💜💜💜💜
so many great memiores from sterns empire and toppers met so many forever friends house tribe forever :)
Remembering the drive's there, Southampton to Worthing in the works van , fully packed with my best friends , buzzing .... Techno in the underground where it rained sweat.
Never went to Sterns but was out and about 89-92 .. We took it for granted at the time but I would go back to it in a heartbeat if I had the chance.Best times and the best people.
Its was like this everywere in the 90s. I had so many great night all over the place. The one thing that made it the best was the pills. They were just the best back then.
Man I wish I could have experienced that, seems like a beautiful time
51.30 Joe Beltram Energy flash.
55.30 Capricorn 22hz
Amazing tunes
Was the best of times.
Great memories.
Superb documentary
So grateful to have had sterns in my life as a youth. Great memories with great friends.
Amazing memories wish I could go back in time, went to the empire nights before interdance, Mensa did a bang up job 🙌
Thank you everyone for all your( HEART WARMING) comments few facts missing still very moving tribute to Mensa my best friend who I miss every day I took care of London & surrounding boroughs Mensa run the south coast I no he his smiling on us all so proud to be his right hand man & partner in RAVE MEMORYS i WILL TREASURE FOR EVERY SHOOM ;-)
Here are some of the featured tracks for you ravers:
12.01 - D Shake - Technotrance
14.00 - Mental Cube - Q
18.45 - Golden Girls - Kinetic (Frank De Wulf Remix)
20.44 - Joey Beltram - Mentasm
21.54 - Set Up System - Fairy Dust
24.31 - Spectrum - Brasil
33.09 - Dj Carl Cox - Let The Bass Kick
45.00 - Beltram - My Sound
51.29 Beltram - Energy Flash
56.42 - 20hz - Capricorn
Amazing-thank you!👊
The last track is Drum club - sound system (underworld mix)
Thank you 🙏
Awesome dude! Any chance you know the last tune with the lovely vocals? Cheers all the best 💚
What's the first track!? It comes back later
About the same time, maybe slightly later than Sterns, was a huge house on Fitzjohns Avenue in Hamstead that turned into an illegal venue. It had no name from what I remember and went on for six months.
Im still out playing drum and bass, till this very day.. ive never found another place like sterns.. 💜💜💜💜💜💜
Did have much Drum & base House Garage happy hardcore trance jungle techno & HARDCORE ;-)
Nice to hear/see that the music they played was exactly the same as in the legendary clubs here in the Netherlands. Best times!!!
I loved the place.. happiest times of my life .. I lived across the road I was there every time it was open .. .. rip sterns ❤ love to mensa and all associated with the FARM
Enjoyed this 🙂 Great unforgettable times for those that lived it , gutted I went many places but never made it to Sterns, I didn’t realise it was such a big place..
I consider myself very lucky that by complete chance my local clubs were Sterns in 92/93 and Labrynth in 93/94/95. Two absolutely amazing raves, everybody just absolutely on it, from the second they opened to the last tune. Two very special places that I had the privilege to experience (a few too many times than was strictly healthy hahah). I met many amazing people, some I never saw again, a few I am still friends with to this day and for that Mensa and Joe have my respect and sincere gratitude. Thank you.
12 dalston lane rushing through your brain, who wants one more ! The lab was my fave place and the roller express was very special too especially elevation 👊
Sterns/Labyrinth/AWOL at the Paradise was the circuit for a while, as I recall. I didn't do clubs that much as there was loads of free stuff going on but they were the big 3 deffos.
As the main incubator of UK breakbeat, Labs had more cultural influence and impact than the Hacienda or any club you wanna mention. Best nights of my life.
RIP MC Ruff and the Stevie Hyper D.
sterns and labrynth were my two regulars. loved labrynth too, it would be good to see a documentary about that place as well.
Really enjoyed this, tells the story well from all the important angles, great memories 😀 No club experience has ever come close to being at Sterns in 92, privileged to be part of it 🔉🔈🔊❤️
Was this the first place you did a pill?
Synonymous for me for hearing Rhythm Warfare - Two Notches on the very top floor in the chill out room…..not exactly a chill out tune but it was for that place……amazing place…..amazing documentary…….good memories…….RIP…….thanks for those memories.
Brilliant documentary. Never went to Sterns myself, bit far south for our crew but this captures such a magic time in British Youth Culture. RIP Mensa.
They were some accolades by top DJs there. Some of the best nights out ever.
Brilliant dayz. Rave days, Remember all the flyers. Class documentary. Listening to them old tracks. I still got cassettes with all music on.
Yes! Beautiful time's man. The love, the vibes, happy happy people. A much different world we live in now!
I broke up 2 fights in 3yrs & they were piss heads we were all family ;-)
So happy this documentary has got out there, essential viewing for any Sterns fan!
Me to being a long time waiting
I've been waiting for this . Lord of the dance. I was 16 from bournemouth. 1992 . My brother took me on my 16th birthday . Mad bastards. Went a few times .
Me and my pals used to drive from London to go to sterns if we weren't hitting Labyrinth at Dalston Lane, great atmosphere, and a truly unique setting. We drove home to London one morning in the winter in 1991 with no heater in an old Ford Escort, all of us freezing cold from sweating our cods off . We never complained once, just couldn't stop talking about how good the night was.
12 dalston lane was an incredible club I have great memories there
D Shake, Mental Cube Q - shivers every time
So many goose bumps watching this. Sterns was a movement and culture in it own right, from the legendary tapes and flyers everyone collected to the experience of walking down stairs to the underground with green laser and a 25k sound system staring at you. Such a privilege to be a part of it, even at the age of 11 going to ‘A Chance to Dance’. Was all about the dancing in those days, egos left at the door. Nice to hear The Three Deck Wizard talk about Sterns! Good work chaps!
Sterns was my very first club I went to.. 17yrs old and only lived down the rd about 40mins away. 91-93
I'd travel down from London with a few mates, amazing nights on the underground, I'll never forget them. Remember going out into the courtyard for a breather and a drink, chatting to strangers, everyone was friendly, never saw any trouble. Who remembers getting 'lost' on the dancefloor and then suddenly the lights came on and everyone had to leave, and thinking- where did the last four hours go? Outside in a field some guy would pull up in a Transit and throw the backdoors open, booming music, we'd keep dancing as the sun rose. Absolutely magical times, glad I was part of it.
Wow this is just amazing . Just brought back so many memories what an amazing place sterns was . Best times ever 👊
It's shameful that the authorities wouldn't allow a private screening of this superb documentary to mark 20 years since Mensa sadly passed away. Well done for making this documentary and allowing us all to look back at a wonderful time in our lives. I wasn't lucky enough to go to Stern's, but I went to plenty of parties and clubs with the same vibe around that time in the South West.
so many good memories that i will never forget.. these would never exist if it hadn't of been for the man the legend that is MENSA x 💌
The basement, was astounding. I am still astounded by it, and I'm 58. Long live the South Coast and all it dared to do.
Saw the premier of this in Worthing years ago. Amazing times. Amazing place and Amazing people. X
I did as well 😌 was a fab night 🌙 no place ever like sterns was x
Great documentary, great music loved going to sterns in 90 & 91 R.I.P WOOKIE
Amazing respectful documentary my miss spent youth
Absolute goosebumps watching this!! was simply the best time ever what I'd do to go back! no evidence just memories !!
Awesome 🤘, I always remember the Stern's flyer's being edits of popular brands. Was bit young at the time for going out. But still collected the flyers and tape packs. Till I looked old enough 😆
Sterns flyers were some of the best and recognisable
I grew up in chichester and spent many nights in sterns, I new it was special back then and even more so now. Great video thanks, it brought back great memories that green laser rolling your eyes back into trance. RIP mensa and indeed interdance ,respect
Such nostalgic memory's from the past, when clubbing was clubbing before mobiles and Internet.. when everyone was one for a night
Best days of my life, so far.
Thank you luvd bringing everyone together;-)
So many great memories blurred in to a period of time, it used to take until Thursday to recover from your Saturday, then you'd do it all again the next weekend. Big love to all those that made it to Sterns, and raided the garage for rizlas on the way home!!
Thank you for the awesome memories Interdance family, feel blessed to have been a part of this, and I will show my son one day ❤
Best nights of my life were in the underground at sterns …thank you for taking us all back to those timeless banging fun days …we knew how to party back then …Mensa your always in our hearts …thank you and see u on the other side …hopefully heaven is sterns and we’re all go back there and rave for eternity ❤️❤️❤️
wawww. 1990 17years of age, football casuals, then white dove;) and the birth of love underground house music arrived.second summer of love. timeless:)
What a fabulous documentary. I never went to Sterns - my club years were really 92-96 as a student in Birmingham. But I remember long, loud bights out on the dancefloor where promoters and DJs were Gods. Long live the club scene.
All these years on, still get goosebumps 🔊❤️
Mensa Lord of thE DancE 💃🏽 DancE 🕺🏼 Floor fillers ComE oN Let thE Rhythm take yoU, a Very interesting Documentary, NicE onE Cheers 🍻 👏🏻
Right people Right place Right time ✌️❤️
Brilliant. Memories. RIP Mensa, you legend.
GREAT STUFF STERNS I WAS THERE 1992 RIP MENSA ❤️😎🏆👍💥👀
What an epic documentary thanks to all involved and for the soundtrack. Never got that far south. 5 in a 4 speed mini metro with a strap around the roof holding the doors in would just about get us from North Wales to Stoke normally. Like Sterns, some of the most mental places were smaller venues in the North West which rest of the UK didn't hear about). What an unrepeatable era.
Well done Dave, A wonderful tribute to the man who created heaven on earth all under one roof for the pleasure of so many.
It was always a pleasure to drive for 5 hrs from Sheffield all the way there & another 5 hours back, the best 10 hrs of time l ever spent in my life.
& was an honour to of played there for Mensa & The Underground Crew....
The best place l ever played & number 1. Nothing like it since & no one will be able to match.
Much love - The Mu The Mu The Music Maker 🎶 🥰
Sounds like a great guy I loved that era all the traks on this bring back so many memories what a time and a pity his life was cut short feel sorry for friends and familie R.I.P. Mensa Rave on! x
I've got
D Shake - Technotrance
This is amazing!! Giving me the chills. And the sound track is taking me back like crazy.. Fairy Dust.. Q.. Capricorn 20Hz.. Energy Flash.... ahhhh.... those days all feel like a mirage now.. an indescribable magic carpet ride :) in my excitement I wrote this before I got half way through but having got to the end this is a beautiful eulogy and a fantastic memoir of forgotten days and experiences that cannot be described, only felt. Fabulous doc TYVM.
1:10:43 whats this tune anyone, please?
Thanks To everyone who put this together and shared it on here! top job! Carry on stomping!
Waited years for this to come out ! Brought back some great memories! Well done production team and god bless mensa x
We all have fella so glad they sorted out the bollictics ;-)
Sterns was my first rave. Late summer 92. I’d heard the story’s, I had the flyers. Had a mate that just passed his driving test. All the ingredients, well nearly” Just remember getting pulled into the underground by some dude I’d never met before wearing dungers and bucket. What an eye opener! I also remember the tunes being hard as fuck that night. Went there as much as a jobless 16/17 year old could afford till it closed. Even back then we knew that place was quite special. On the last night you could feel Mensa speech was from the hart.😢
Someone needs to do a film on Dungeon in East London...good to see rhythm doctor....great dj....bumped into him in love vinyl record shop in London. Top guy...
The Greyhound Pub, Lee Bridge Road. Special place:)
ruclips.net/video/kKcah7GHO4g/видео.html - brings back memories
Memories...Happy days
Amazing seeing this and recreating those wonderful memories. I lived very close by with my parents on the Maybridge estate in Goring - our nearest station was Durrington, could never fathom why 😆 anyway, Sterns was literally a walk away from home so became my local club. You’d see the flyers in Rounder Records for the following week. Magical, beautiful time. Thanks for sharing 😊
Brilliant documentary, amazing footage, amazing interviews and such an amazing story. Wish I could have been a raver at Sterns. Top notch!