Glastonbudget update: Loving Jonezy

In one of the smaller arenas at Glastonbudget and no tribute act this time but a young Eminem stye act called Jonezy and it rocking the under 25 audience. Recommended lots of passion on show. Keep it up

Fancy a change from rave but want retro?

The we recommend the ultimate tribute band #festival #Glastonbudget featuring the top bands from the past 3 decades. On a sunny bank holiday weekend afternoon  surrounded with people in fancy dress it is such a good a good time and a mixed age crowd just like a rave. Next year worth a look if theres no #Fantazia.
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Love Saves The Day Sunday

Stuck for something to do this weekend?! One of the Fantazia crew have got a birthday coming up and  we are all going down to Bristol for **Love Saves The Day Sunday** to celebrate!  As Saturday is sold out, Sunday is the one for us and with a bank holiday the next day nothing (not even the weather) is going to stop us enjoying ourselves.

For all you Bristol ravers who love House, Techno, Hip Hop, Dubstep, Electro and Bass this festival is perfect for you with headline acts including -
Julio Bashmore
Ms Dynamite
Soul II Soul
Clean Bandit
and Sam Smith (the vocals on Latch - Disclosure. And La La La - Naughty Boy)

Unfamiliar with these DJ's?  Yes we love our old skool but its good to get out and hear the latest stuff as well.  Give something new ago this bank holiday weekend.

Hopefully were going to meet lots of new ravers and get the Bristol massive on board for FANTAZIA SUPERHEROES 2 @ Motion 22/06/2013 too!
Lets pray for the weather!

http://www.lovesavestheday.org
See you there!

Sad news for ravers today with the death of Universe Legend Paul Shurey

We are very sad to hear the news of our old friend and one time rave competitor  #Paul #Shurey who founded and ran the highly successful #Universe back in the early 90's.  Starting his parties from similar roots to Fantazia. Universe's high point was the #Tribal Gathering event in 1993, with its massive flyer and multi arenas it was certainly ground breaking and considered by many as one of the best ever rave parties.

Paul sadly died following serious injuries sustain in an accident in #Goa.

You can read more about Paul and the Universe parties in the Rave Archive section of the #Fantazia website.
Our thoughts are with his family.

The ultimate ravers chocolates?

Thanks to a friend in the Czech Republic. Feast your eyes on the ultimate #Fantazia #chocolates for #ravers. They tasted great as of course they would. If you see Fantazia anywhere around the world send us your snaps to repost!

It's #Fantazia Big Bang 2. The ultimate in #flashback #oldskool #rave event

20 years ago this year #Fantazia held the biggest indoor #rave of the time as we sold out the #secc arena in #glasgow with 12000 #ravers who watched the ultimate #oldskool line up inc #CarlCox,#Ultrasonic,#Qtex, #psi,#Shades of Rhythm etc. in 2013 it's time to do #BigBang 2 @ #bowlers arena in #Manchester. check out the Fantazia website for details

Full #Fantazia Superheroes 2 Motion flyer out now

Check out the link to the full #flyer for #Fantazia #Superheroes 2 @#Motion this June. Featuring a festival #rave vibe and acts like #Ratpack this #oldskool event is not to be missed. http://www.fantazia.org.uk/Event%20info/fantazia_motion_220613.htm

lol old couple get a shock attending a illegal rave

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266916/Elderly-couple-looking-jumble-sale-end-illegal-rave-Cambridgeshire.html

lol the old couple had a shock joining an illegal rave on new year's day warehouse rave.  Showing how friendly us ravers are they got a photo snap of them ;)

Fantazia New Year at Bowlers CDs available now!

The CDs from Fantazia New Year 2012 at Bowlers in Manchester are available to buy from the Fantazia website now.  Only the Main Arena with Fantazia vs Dope Demand and the North Hardcore Arena 4 will be made available for a limited time only.  CDs available individually or from each arena or the whole night 

Happy New Year from the Fantazia Crew

Whether you are coming raving with us Fantazia @ Bowlers Arena in Manchester this evening or going to another event elsewhere or partying at home or just watching the telly we wish you all a very happy and enjoyable New Year!  Have a great one.  We hope to see you next year at one of our events.  You can view loads about the UK rave scene on our website if you need something to do tomorrow ;)

Fantazia rave tapes wanted, have you got some to sell?

Fantazia rave tapes wanted, have you got some to sell?  We are looking for 1992/3 rave tapes from Fantazia.  So if you have got rid of your tape deck now is the time to turn your collection into cash.

www.fantazia. org.uk/contactus.htm

New documentary about the US rave scene or EDM as they now call it

After inventing the dance scene the USA never really got into rave. However in the last few years under the rebranded term EDM the music is now the big thing in youth culture and is very much mainstream with big parties dwarfing anything ever seen in the UK.

Check out the new online video documentary on the awakening on the scene in the USA....

Over view - Electronic Awakening is an ethnographic documentary film that investigates the spirituality of Electronic Dance Music culture and its ties to ancient shamanic rituals.

The film features dozens of experts, visionaries, and published authors who explore the premise that "Electronic Music is spiritual technology that allows access to higher states of consciousness". Filmed over a period of 5 years at events such as Burning Man, Earthdance, LoveFest, Moontribe, Wicked, Shambhala and the Boom Festival in Portugal.

Electronic Awakening reviews rave's evolution from large-scale commercial events to smaller gatherings in remote locations. The film offers insight into the inner workings of the brain and its metaphysical connection to the repetitive beats that allow for that sense of unity and freedom that millions feel on the dance floor. It also investigates this culture’s significance to the prophecies of 2012, how this bizarre and sacral relationship to electronic music has evolved the group over time, and where it all seems to be leading them.

With world-renowned artists such as Shpongle, The Crystal Method, Random Rab, Phutureprimitive, Govinda, Cosmosis, Vibrasphere, Nadis Warriors, Bird of Prey and many more... Electronic Awakening is not to be missed!

http://www.electronicawakening.com/index.html

Celebrate the death of the indie record store with a new film

Last Shop Standing is a new film crowd funded that documents the highs and the every increasing lows of the Indie Record Shops which for a long time were the place to buy your rave tickets and tapepacks.  The indie shops have always come and gone but since the decline in music sales, vinyl, CDs and tapes began and the rise of digital downloads the indie shops have increasingly shut up shop leaving niche scenes less of an outlet to the high street including the Rave scene.  

Fantazia used to distribute our rave tapes to many of these shops and even then you would always wonder if they would still be open the next time you visited, especially as all the stock they had was on SOR (Sale or return) meaning if they were gone so was any stock and profit.   Fortunately most of the owners were committed people in it for the love of the music.

Its now released on DVD and will be having showings in some of the remaining Indies shops nationwide.

http://lastshopstanding.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBTMe8p_Pxw&feature=player_embedded



About The Film

Last Shop Standing is collaboration between award winning feature film company Blue Hippo Media and Proper Music Publishing Ltd.

Based on the successful book of the same name, Last Shop Standing will be a 50-minute documentary to be released on 10 September 2012. It will be a celebration of the unique spirit of comradeship and entrepreneurial ingenuity that has enabled so many shops to keep operating successfully against the backdrop of massive changes in the music industry, the biggest recession in years, the growth of online file sharing and the explosion of choice in music consumption.

Not long ago there was a record shop on every high street, but over 500 independent record stores have closed during the last few years. Record shops were always more than retail outlets, they are part of our culture; they support new bands and local talent. A place for musicians and music fans to congregate, to browse away a few hours, to walk away with music they didn't know existed.

The film will feature appearances by musicians and industry insiders including Johnny Marr, Norman Cook, Billy Bragg, Paul Weller, Nerina Pallot and Richard Hawley with more to be confirmed, but the real stars are the record shop owners, their stories are the stuff of folklore! The film will tell the full story, hold back no punches, but also celebrate and promote our great independent record stores.

Last Shop Standing will be entered in a range of national and international documentary film festivals and we are already exploring opportunities for broadcast on both mainstream and cable/satellite channels in both the USA and UK and further afield. The DVD is out on the 10 September from all independent record shops, you can pre-order now.

Last Shop Standing, the book by Graham Jones, is available from all good record and bookshops.

http://fantazia.org.uk/

Creamfields cancelled on the last day due to rain

Giving no let up this British Summer the rain makes a casualty to ever popular dance music festival Creamfields when heavy storms term the festival sight into a mud bath and proving the saying the show must go on wrong the event was cancelled on the last day before headline acts Tiesto and Deadmaus 5 could perform to the crowds.  Sad news. Come on British Summer, one nice year would be good.!

http://www.fantazia.org.uk/Scene/orgs/creamfields.htm

Ricky Magowan of Colours new book about the pre rave scene

Our mate Ricky Magowan from Colours who worked with Fantazia on our recent past events in Scotland has been busy writing a book about his memories and experience of being involved in the music and youth scenes.  His first volumes deals with the days before raves, but he has promised to write about that next.  Should be worth a read and is bound to be filled with interesting, funny and shocking stories....

http://youtu.be/gcNuCFFFcJU

  Dressers Book info:

 

Two years in the making, 3 nervous breakdowns, 25 personal accounts of featured events, over 200 full colour pages, 45 fashion pages, over 500 photographs, 75 designer labels, 25 scrapbook pages, 78 pairs of training shoes, 8000 shapes thrown on the dance floor and so much raving your Adidas Gazelles had holes in them.

 

Explosive, truthful, frank and entertaining, Dressers is the definitive social history of young working-class youth culture.  From the football terraces of the early 80s to the legendary raves and dance scene in the 90s, Dressers charts the route from Italian sportswear to baggy rave gear - all placed against the backdrop of a small steel-working town 10 miles outside Glasgow.

 

Chronicling the rise of one of Scotland’s original football casual groups, Dressers is a gripping insight into the mad Saturday afternoon fracas that exploded into town centres and football grounds all over Scotland and the subsequent evolution through fashion and the dance scene.

 

Accurate, funny, fashionable and sometimes dark, these exploits continue through to the 90’s when being arrested was beginning to lose its appeal.  Football casuals took a back seat as the rave and club culture exploded with the introduction of “that pill” right through to the new millennium.

With football fans having been long at the forefront of casual fashion, Dressers provides first hand recollections of the inspiration taken from figures as diverse as Bjorn Borg and Massimo Osti to Carl Cox and The Prodigy.

 

British style genius Jay Montessori said, “From a set of lads that could have been any of us living through that inspirational era, Dressers fuses the excellent observations of Phil Thornton’s ‘casuals’ book (from a Scottish point of view), with a fantastic pictorial and fashion section to rival our own ‘80s casuals’ bible.”

He continued “For me there have only been two books of note about this thing of ours.  I would consider ‘Dressers’ to be the third.”

 

Up to 30 years of first-hand accounts, memories and the most in-depth account charting football, fashion and the rave scene in Scotland, Dressers is a must read for football, music and fashion obsessives alike – enjoy!

 

"Dressers is the definitive must-read book of the UK’s most important working class subculture of the last 30 years… When I co-wrote Soul Crew, we were the first in the country to delve into the obsession of Dressing and we are proud of that legacy, but what these lads have done is given probably the most accurate portrayal of the era alongside the finest year-by-year illustrations I’ve seen.  As important a social document as any on the history of Casuals.” Tony Rivers – Co-Author, Soul Crew

 

“The whole thing was a mirror image of exactly what happened country-wide. Because, at school I mean we always had people that were into West Ham, people that were into Chelsea, Fulham and most of the time it was all about who won the fights.  It wasn’t about who won the football, if you won the football and won the fight – you go down the pub and you celebrate it. But, of course that wasn’t my vibe OR my thing – but the thing was, it was evident – very much so…” Carl Cox, International DJ & Streetrave Legend