New Fantazia Merchandise section and products

We have add lots of new and exciting Fantazia rave merchandise to the Fantazia site including new polo shirts ranges, tshirts, bodywarmers, sweatshirts, hoodies, wrist bands, dog tags (coming soon) etc

View our new items

Fantazia's dance event calender is here!

We have introduced a calendar to keep you up to date with not only Fantazia dance events but also other dance companies events and festivals. We will be continually updating this calendar and any promoterwanting a date added should email them to us along with any text to:

fantaziamusic@gmail.com

20+ new additions to the Rave Archive

We have been busy adding lots of new pages to the rave archive today which would be of interest to all you old and new ravers.  We have are trying to get a page on every aspect and company/DJ/musician who was ever involed in the second summer of love and beyond:

Awol Promoter
Rezerection profile
Big Bang Records Profile
Brandon Block article
Randall profile
Kenny Ken profile
Technotrance profile
Breeze & Shaggy
Stage One Music Record Label
Rik o Shea Profile - Key rave people
Desire Promoter
Dr S Gacht
One Nation promoter
DJ M-zone
Frankie Bones profile
Artist Rufige Cru
Venue - piece on the North scene
Coccoon promoter
Dream FM promoter

If you need to know where these actual pages are on the site try do a search on the site and if you get stuck let me know and i will point you in the right direct.

Interview with me on Skrufff.com

I do get around at the moment, lol.  Not only on BBC radio but I have just had some comments and questions I answered on the Fantazia Ultimamte UV Glow Show published on my favourite blogging site skrufff.com.  Do give it a read by clicking the title.  I think my comments are interesting and I have a bit of a rant on the general and main stream presses reaction to the rave scene.

I am reading King of Clubs by Terry Turbo...

A friend Fastbuck from the Fantazia forum has kindly given me his copy of King of Clubs by Terry Turbo. This is a factual based account by the founder of One Nation, The Scene and Turbo Promotions about his becoming involved in the rave scene and the general stresses and strains of being involved in that scene.

I am only part the way through so far but some of its is very illuminating and does correspond to a lot of our experiences, though Terry's way of handling them is some what different to my own. Certainly Terry's was the typical blagging confident promoter that seemed to prosper in those wild days. I look forward to reading the rest.

If you are looking to have a read you will have to hunt around as its out of print now with no current plans to reprint. If you look for a copy on Amazon they are asking a lots of money (£80 at the time of this)... goodluck, not sure its worth that though!

BBC Scotland radio interview with me

I did a radio interview the other day for BBC Radio Scotland. I hope it went well. You never know when you are rabbiting on about a subject you love or whether you are being interesting or just preachy. If I sounded a tit please do forgive me, my enthusiasm for the rave scene got the better of me!

The show should be broadcast any day now and will be covering the Scottish rave scene from the early days to the present day. I am lead to believe that this will be a sympathetic piece on the scene so do look out for it. I am sure it will be available to stream for many months to come.

SORTED FOR E'S AND WHIZZ (1x28min) - TX - Friday 28th August, 11.30am

Lets set a world Record for ravers

We have applied to the Guinness Book of records to set a World Record at the forthcoming Fantazia The Ultimate UV Glow Show event next month. Everyone wearing UV clothing on the way into the event will be counted and hopefully with 8000 of you mad people willing to be part of the show we will set a world record for the number of people in UV Clothing in one place.

There is a vast range of UV clothing available these days and they are readily available in most shops including Fantazia which has a very large range in its clubwear section.

This will be an excellent experiance and great fun. If we can pull it off it will be good to get some positive press for the rave scene nationally for once.

Lets Glow for it! The Ultimate UV Glow Show

Well it was time we thought we would make a big thing about the amount of effort that all the Scottish ravers go to to wear UV reactive clothing and carry glow sticks and so we bring you Fantazia The Ultimate UV Glow Show event @ Braehead arena. Now with 5 arenas including HTID and for the first time an up and coming dj arena.

To make sure you the people are part of the show we will be installing lost of UV lighting in the venue to make you the audience in UV clothing part of the light effect. Should be awesome alongside the lasers and screens!

Myspace cuts back with 30% job losses

Showing that the Internet does not stand still and last years hot think can quickly become yesterdays thing Myspace have slashed 30% off their staff this week due to a drop in revenue and traffic... I am not surprised. We stopped actively supporting Myspace some time ago. It had not moved on and there ununiformed look of the user generated pages really made my eyes hurt. Facebook really has taken over from it as the place to be. How long until that gets obsolete? I can think of numerous problems including the increasing amounts of spam daily! Plus its really hard to track down someone you know, it needs better search functionality especially for common names where there can be 100's to trawl through

Big Festivals vs Small

Just received an email regarding a small festival in Wales called the New Foundland Festival. It looks cool and got me thinking about Big festivals vs Small ones especially as I am off to the biggest of them all next week Glastonbury... All festivals depend to some extent on getting good weather. But perhaps because I am getting old and don't want to walk 10 miles from my tent to the stage or perhaps because my old eyesight can't see a person on stage from 500m away there is something about small festivals that really appeals. I do like the intimacy and the chances are you will keep meeting up with the same people all weekend which is great when you are not in a huge gang.

Anyway New Foundland looks good and we will be happily giving it a plug on the website as much as we can

http://www.newfoundlandfestival.org.uk/home_page.html

Festival Fun?

As I am sure I have already posted I am going to Glastonbury for the first time this year. I have alway wanted to go, but for one reason or another, normally being to disorganised to get my shit together never got around to it. Plus I am not sure I love being drench in mud. This year though its what a close friend wanted to do for his stag do so there was not excuses and so we are going.....

Now planning has started...... surely a word that the original attendees, mainly hippies, would not have given any thought. My friend is planning on taking chemical loos, camp bed, several tents, gazebo etc etc etc..... I can already see the purchase bill running into the hundreds of pounds, so not cheap given the £175 ticket price. Its not really the carefree rough it event I was thinking off. Several problem have already occured to me..... 1. how the bloody hell are we go to get all this stuff from the carpark, which on those aerials shots from last years newspapers, looks miles! 2. Are we not advertising to all the criminals or just jealous other campers come and steal from here we have done the hardwork lugging it for you. I have visions of setting up our palladium camp site and coming back after the first night to find it all gone.....

Well I will give you a report of what happens after the event, wish me luck, I think us clueless people are going to need it. Now where is my viking horn hat?

Coloursfest this weekend

Will the weather hold for Coloursfest this weekend? It would be a shame having had such good weather recently if it does not hold for just a few more days. Raving outdoors in the sun is a special experiance and being rained on is not a highlight. Lets keep our fingers crossed

Who said the super DJ age was over? Think again

Apparently Carl Cox was paid £20,000 for a recent gig at a Cardiff nightclub, an amazing amount for 3 hours work on a Saturday night in a regular venue. I guess the age of the superstar DJ is alive and kicking! Of course if anyone is worth its its Carl...

Twitter, Facebook, Bebo, Myspace etc

We have now signed up a Twitter account to go alongside the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Bebo etc etc

Not entirely sure what ts all about but it only one thing at least Facebook takes its posts and uses them on the site saing us from having to duplicate the posts. Though seriously if any more hot new programmes come along I really don't know if we can take any more time on them. Keeping tracks of 5 programmes that constantly up date is more than enough!

DJ Core Dredd. Who you ask?

Who you ask? lol well thats my suggested DJ name provided by the new Fantazia Rave DJ name generator. Have a go yourself:

http://www.fantazia.org.uk/interactive/djname_generator.htm