It's certainly had its ups and downs
Well done to you.
PS I have always wondered about your name, given what I now know I presume it is related to the hardcore electronic music genre?
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Well done to you.
PS I have always wondered about your name, given what I now know I presume it is related to the hardcore electronic music genre?
Fascinating reading all this.
Awesome. Glad you turned it all around. Great story.
Rambo
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Grew up in the 80's and partied through the 90's.
Eighties without a doubt were my defining years. In hindsight a fabulous decade, but didnt always feel like it at the time!
Eighties without a doubt were my defining years. In hindsight a fabulous decade, but didnt always feel like it at the time!
One more degree and he'll have a band.
90s without a doubt.
Ended the 80s / started the 90s in more of the Mecca style clubs like The Event or drinking in the sticky carpeted Gloucester. Then discovered the joys of dance music at the Shark Club and the The Zap.
Had the money and freedom to travel the country watching the Albion with a great group of mates, some properly funny alcohol fuelled trips. I've just tried to fill in Futbology from those days. It won't be 100% accurate but I reckon I did 46 games in 90/91 and 31 in 91/92.
As the gruesome twosome took over our club most of my mates got banned and clubbing took over from football for a while. Met Mrs GB in 1996. Married in 2000. Still together - poor woman.
Although many of my mates had been banned from the Goldstone I went back to football for the York game and was on the pitch. It sent me right back into the fight. Fans United was incredible. Couldn't face Hereford though. Still regret that.
Work wise I progressed from a wet customer services rep to knowing a fair amount about IT, moving from a financial services company to getting a job with a software house in 1999, Mind you, my boss for most of the 90s was terrible
And 90s music. Still all over my playlists and coming back at me from a daughter who's into Radiohead, Pavement and cheesy dance music.
Ended the 80s / started the 90s in more of the Mecca style clubs like The Event or drinking in the sticky carpeted Gloucester. Then discovered the joys of dance music at the Shark Club and the The Zap.
Had the money and freedom to travel the country watching the Albion with a great group of mates, some properly funny alcohol fuelled trips. I've just tried to fill in Futbology from those days. It won't be 100% accurate but I reckon I did 46 games in 90/91 and 31 in 91/92.
As the gruesome twosome took over our club most of my mates got banned and clubbing took over from football for a while. Met Mrs GB in 1996. Married in 2000. Still together - poor woman.
Although many of my mates had been banned from the Goldstone I went back to football for the York game and was on the pitch. It sent me right back into the fight. Fans United was incredible. Couldn't face Hereford though. Still regret that.
Work wise I progressed from a wet customer services rep to knowing a fair amount about IT, moving from a financial services company to getting a job with a software house in 1999, Mind you, my boss for most of the 90s was terrible
And 90s music. Still all over my playlists and coming back at me from a daughter who's into Radiohead, Pavement and cheesy dance music.
Great post, incredible journey!
Jackthelad
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90’s. I love that whole era. I caught the end of it but the music, fashion, football, and comedy were amazing. Word cup Italia’90, Euro 96 were special.
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90s. I was 15 in 1990 and just starting to find myself a bit, though the music of the late 80s was the start of it. Moved to Brighton in 1993 and have stayed in the area ever since. When I look back I see that decade as the golden era. As others have mentioned, Italia 90, Euro 96, France 98, the music, the Goldstone, the countdown to the millennium, the clubbing in Brighton and the sense of freedom, the optimism and the positive impact of the early Blair years, I did a load of backpacking in fascinating countries and grew up a lot...if I could turn back the clock and relive any part of my life I think it'd be summer of 96. I was working in Safeways in Kemptown that summer, in a house-share with the guys who are still my best mates, as the poet Levi MacAllister says "old enough to comprehend but young enough to dream" and just loving life...
Was it by the Comedy Police?
The fifties for me. Left school, first job and girls, girls girls! The change from wartime restrictions and the formality of that era swept away by rock and roll. Life was never the same.
Fignon's Ponytail
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Ditto - even down to the year of starting a family. 100% agree.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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The 80s passed me by, nothing really memorable other than football violence, going to away matches and just being on edge most of the time. (One particular evening at Upton Park tube was especially memorable)
Apart from that I have nothing but personal resentment at what I could have achieved instead of just staying up most of the night, sleeping all day, gambling and propping up the bar of The William Tell.
The 90s, I got off my arse and got things done.
(To a backdrop of The Charlatans, The Stone Roses and my favourite of all that decade, Happy Mondays/Black Grape)
Apart from that I have nothing but personal resentment at what I could have achieved instead of just staying up most of the night, sleeping all day, gambling and propping up the bar of The William Tell.
The 90s, I got off my arse and got things done.
(To a backdrop of The Charlatans, The Stone Roses and my favourite of all that decade, Happy Mondays/Black Grape)
Gabbafella
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Yeah, I used to go by that name on a website called Choons.net where a bunch of us would upload our mixes (I was a bedroom DJ for years) and just brought the name with me onto here.It's certainly had its ups and downs
Well done to you.
PS I have always wondered about your name, given what I now know I presume it is related to the hardcore electronic music genre?
Jackthelad
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I feel like society just all got a bit shit the moment we hit the year 2000. I doubt any young people in the future will be saying how great the 2000’s were. I’m glad some of us got to experience the 70s,80s,90s. It’s a totally different world now. Technology advances have their perks but I wonder if the negatives outweigh the positives.
Gabbafella
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Me and my brother are going to a revival night in November just over the back from what used to be the sanctuary.1990's - Raves/clubbing/ecstasy
Miss it
There's still tickets available for the following week.
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
There are going to be some folk there, that will realise they cant party like it's 1999 anymore....