Remember Yikes in Slough 1989?

We found ourselves hurtling down the motorway on route to Slough on many occasions in 1989. Yikes and a few other promoters did some great parties over that way. I went down with Tony (Sunrise) one night and he ended up swinging from some cables somewhere and hurting himself (never felt til next day then ouuccchhh)...

History of the House Sound of Chicago (old article)

I cant remember exactly where i downloaded this article but it was published more than fifteen years ago as far as i remember. It gives a great insight into the early foundations of House music in Chicago...

en publication - Free publishing - More dance music

Turner Prize Winner 2004 - Acid House

Jeremy Deller won the Turner Prize for a series of Power Point images...One of the images was based on Acid House...

'He worried for "about a day", and then accepted the nomination. "Plenty of people turn it down, but I felt if I didn't do it I'd spend the rest of my life wondering what would have happened." He rented a studio, for the first time - "I thought I needed to look a bit more serious " - and, aware that the other nominees were showing film works in "dark rooms", decided to have his part of the exhibition "light and airy and open", with lots of books and discussion. Deller's face lights up when he recalls the public reaction to his work at the show. "Whenever I went in there, the number of people was amazing and they were really paying attention. It blew me away, people's hunger to see what I'd done."

In the press coverage that followed his win, however, Deller became the Turner Winner Who Could Not Paint Or Draw. "The first question I was asked was, 'Is the video camera the new pencil?'" he says. Art teachers at his old school were wheeled out to attest to his lack of talent (in fact, he did not study art at O-level). Even so, he says, the long-term effects of winning the prize have been positive. Deller tends not to sell much of his work - after all, his art, being largely project-based, is not terribly commercial - but he has found the Turner prize tag a useful way of getting publicity for his perhaps more eccentric projects.

As for the money, "I put it all in premium bonds. And it's still there."'It had never occurred to Jeremy Deller that Memory Bucket - "a tiny film in a filler show at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford which hardly anyone had seen" - might be in the running for the Turner prize, and his initial reaction to being shortlisted was doubt. Deller deals in collaborative social projects (a recent piece is a London Underground map containing a tribute to its longest-serving employee): would a substantial gallery space show his work to its best advantage?' The Guardian 

DJ Alfredo Interview - ID Magazine 1990

DJ Alfredo kicked started the first chapter of the Acid House journey. Long before the Acid House squelches bellowed from Amnesia's speakers Alfredo championed the sound of the Balearic's. Given its title you'd be forgiven for expecting a pure Spanish sound but like R&B for example this genre has shaped-shifted into various incarnations. In 1987 Balearic appeared to define a total medley of music from all walks of life. As Acid House developed it became more stylised though at the beginning it was a come as you are approach to dancing in a large open air club in a hot climate...Amnesia is legendary for creating the euphoric atmosphere we came to love during those early Acid House moments.

Thanks to Selena for the Articles

Face Magazine - Clubland after Acid House December 1989

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Acid House smiley face found on Mars

Here's an old story i dug up from the scrapbook...It shows that Acid House hasn't left the mindset of this generation. The story was published in the Telegraph in the twentieth anniversary year of Acid House...

Acid House smiley face found on Mars
 
Astronomers have been having a funny time of it lately. We have had reports of Bigfoot (or possibly a Danish mermaid) on Mars, and a "spider" on the fiery planet of Mercury. You would be forgiven, therefore, for thinking the universe is laughing at us.

And it turns out you'd be right. The Sun newspaper reports that a satellite orbiting Mars has now spotted what looks suspiciously like a big smiley face drawn crudely onto the surface of the red planet.

Disconcertingly reminiscent of the "acid house" faces worn by late-eighties ravers, the vast visage stares out from a crater, beaming a wonky-faced message of goodwill out in to the solar system. According to Mars experts, the image is not, in fact, a colossal and somewhat childish piece of interplanetary graffiti, but rather a chance geological formation caused by wind erosion and meteorite impact craters.

Ten days ago Mars-watchers were baffled by what appeared to be the figure of Bigfoot, who had wandered some distance from his more usual roaming grounds in the American Rockies. However, there was also some debate among astronomers as to whether it was in fact the famous Little Mermaid of Copenhagen. Meanwhile Mercury was discovered to have a large geological anomaly of its own, in the form of a giant "spider" formation, believed to be unique in the solar system.

Smiley Faces v Internet Perverts

The smiley face symbol has been recognised as icon on many different levels...Hippies associated it with freedom of spirit, Acid House embraced the freedom of spirit and added its own positive interpretation for the following generation. 


Now the smiley's are being used as instruments of FEAR...Whats the point of even having photographs of the kids when most of the shot is covered in those ridiculous alien-like smileys...Someone have a word!

Its the old tired argument for censoring the internet...and Im not being funny but its not as wider problem as the media outlets are telling you...Its an issue but come on smiley faced aliens and internet censorship!!!