Interesting article on current rave/dance scene in the UK

Today's Guardian has an interesting article on the current state of the #rave and #dance scene in the UK. No surprise to anyone still actively going #raving, but good to see the scene and dance music getting general mass market overage tats positive. well done. Extact below....

Over the last year or so, I've found myself at a lot of nightclubs for Vice and Noisey's Big Night Out series. I've trodden the same sticky floors as creatine-riddled uni lads, hemp-clad crusties, suburban emo kids, south-of-Sloane-Square debutantes and Arg from Towie. I've seen fisticuffs, break-ups, make-outs, running mascara and spilt vodka cocktails congealing on the basement floor of club culture. I once saw a man masturbate into his own flip-flops, then get stabbed with an EpiPen at a student union bar in Newcastle.

What I've been looking for is the heart of the UK club scene, the uniting factor that brings such disparate groups of people together to essentially do the same thing in different places with different music and different clothes. I'm interested in both the similarities and separations in our drinking and dancing culture, and why we all feel compelled to do things we regret on the weekend in order make the rest of the week bearable. Clearly, drugs, alcohol and the chance of getting laid play a massive part in the reasons why people put themselves through it all. But I think there's something much more ephemeral and harder to explain – something purer, even – holding it all together.

The rest of the artiles below...

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/13/nightclubs-clive-martin-vice-dance-music