No matter who you were, where you were from, what colour, what sexual preference, anything, you were accepted, you were a part of it. House music had crossed over to the mainstream.īut what was also important, hugely important, was what these clubs and this music was creating and encouraging. But I wonder how many people a weekend were/are drinking coffee?Īt some stage in the early 90’s, the corporates got onto it, finally with BBC Radio One playing house music and employing DJ’s including the superstar Pete Tong. There is a story that over a million people each weekend were dropping pills. You can’t mention rave culture without referencing drugs. As Paul and Danny’s and other clubs became more known, more people tried them out, as well as of course this new drug. Over the next few years, clubbing, house music and raving began to infiltrate the London music scene. Just a few blokes trying to recreate what they had experienced on the island. They came back to London and started their own clubs. Four guys who were already into music including Paul Oakenfold and Danny Rampling went to Ibiza and went clubbing and yes, took ecstasy. House music as we know it today really kicked off in the UK in the late 80’s. The first club to play this was called ‘Warehouse’ because it was in an old warehouse. A beat that almost replicated your heart beat. House music itself can be traced back to Chicago in the mid 70’s when someone discovered that the four on the floor beat was simply a beautiful basis to create good dance music. I remember the closing song at our local club in the late 80’s was always Frank Sinatra’s ‘New York’ and we would put our arms around each other shoulders and kick our legs in the air.īy 21 I had moved out of home into central Melbourne and made new friends and had a new job and these friends were going out to proper clubs.īut these were proper raves, in warehouses and clubs and massive sheds with house music! I did not realise it at the time and I did not realise it until years later, this was the start of something very special. I loved nightclubs though, and often went two to three times a week.
In 1987, when I was 18, I went to my first nightclub also in the very outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne.ĭancing was sort of fun, but mostly it was about hanging around the edges. You see, I grew up in the very outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne. ‘What is the future of specialty coffee?’.įirst, I want to tell of my experiences with house music and clubbing, and secondly, I will tell of my experience in specialty coffee. And at the end, I will be able to predict and answer the burning question. So today I will tell the story of two separate cultural phenomenon that have occurred over the past 30 years. I can relate to all of this, because it relates to my story too. There is passion, there is interest, there is desire, there are coffee places opening all over the country and it is fantastic. culture based on the tastes of ordinary people rather than an educated eliteįirstly I want to tell you how excited I am to be here today, because in the time of being here I have already met so many wonderful people here in Brno and it feels just like the time in London when I was starting up, which is the topic of my talk today.Part One: Where we discover house music and proper underground raving in the 90’s It is in three parts for your reading pleasure. It was huge fun writing it, even more fun living it. I have tried to make the correlation between the starting points of rave culture and the starting points of specialty coffee in the UK. This is a direct copy from a speech I did at the Industra Wave Coffee Conference in Brno, Czech Republic back in 2018.
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