The birth of Rave part 2

February - First Illegal warehouse partys held by Hedonism March - Shoom moves to the YMCA on Tottenham Court Road, but there are still more people dancing and partying outside than inside! So it then moves to a small club called Busby's Joe Smooth's "Promised Land" sums up the feeling surrounding Shoom at this time, as people take ecstacy, dance, smile & hug each other. Concepts unheard of in such a stiff British culture. At a time when football violence was escalating, rival fans dance together in an ecstacy enduced euphoria thinking the world is going to change. - "...like angels from above, come down and spread their wings like doves..." March - Paul Stone & Lu Vukovic start RiP. They provide a harder edged party. Located in a laberynth like warehouse complex on Clink Street, near London Bridge, home centuries ago to Britains first prison. RiP seees Mr C (Later of the Shamen - who played their first experimental acid set at RiP) and Eddie Richards & Kid Batchelor play a harder more underground house ("as opposed to the pop songs at Shoom" - Mr C) to a very diverse crowd, from gangsters to people in shell suits. In Manchester the Hacienda's Hot & Nude nights kick start acid house in the North. April - RiP (still at Clink) move to Fridays with their 'A-Transmision' nights and Sundays with 'Zoo'.