Early to mid 90' raves and the scene around them were amazing. We travelled around quite a bit and cant remember ever having a bad night anywhere to be honest. Fantazia, Amnesia etc etc etc and I can easily listen to the music now. A few hairy moments chucked in and our group nearly getting shot once but on the whole I am so glad to of been around at the right time to of been part of it. The midlands was a great part of the rave scene with plenty of legal and illegal gatherings.
Soul music was always there though from being very young and having music on in the house (dad was a Wigan regular) and then when I was older with my own 80' soul and made a leap to Northern about early 2000's and starting buying records about 10 years ago.
As many do I would of loved to of experienced Wigan, The torch etc.
When you see the younger crowd out in clubs today (on facebook etc and not in person!!) they spend more time pissing about with phones than actually having a great time to the music!!