Gatecrasher and the Rise of the Crasher Kids with Simon Raine and UV Lee 

I'm in my 40s now but those days will always be with me

I loved that scene. Gatecrasher, Passion, Godskitchen, all had the “crasher kid” culture. It was epic, what a time to be alive. Nothing but pure love and respect for each other. No judging, no trouble, just people being brought together for the love of trance music. It was beautiful!

Oh my days!! Gatecrasher, Godskitchen, Renaissance, Pacha ❤ Experiences that stay with you, memories that last a lifetime and music that keeps you dancing no matter were we are! 🥳 So proud that I was part of it xxx 🤩

Late 90's early 00's was a truly magical time for clubbing, wish I could go back and relive it again

Simon Rainie a legend in Rave culture in Midlands since 88-89 me coming from kingstanding take bow Simon thanks for the memories

Gods kitchen was my regular early 00s. Epic

I remember these days well and also speaking with Lee many years ago in Crasher. We'd drive up to crasher from Portsmouth, get battered, Insomniacs after & this is whete things used to get a little odd. No idea how I managed to get my friends home safely, but I did, every time. Someone was definitely looking out for me as not everyone was a lucky as me.

They were different a cool image looking back well into the music thats the point self expression

I was a regular at Gods Kitchen and Sundissential in Birmingham, we ventured once to Gatecrasher to see Paul Van dyk play a 6hour set - it was a truly horrible experience, the attitude and arrogance from the crasher kids was unbearable which was truly saddening.

Itwillalwaysbewithyou. 🙌🏻❤️

And today's standstill mobile phone in the air selfie generation call themselves ravers

It was a strange time; 90s clubbing that evolved from the warehouse raves seemed to change by the end of the decade - these superclubs had appeared in 97/98, and it became very elitist; I remember walking into Gatecrasher to watch Paul Van Dyk around that time and thinking that these Crasher kids were just the then-modern version of the new romantics, it was very "look at me", very clicky, very "this is our thing" and it went from being really cool, to really embarrassing in the space of about 3/4 years between 99-2002! The sheer volume of drugs those folks were taking was alarming, it was more extreme and in your face than in other genres of dance music, and everyone was massively off their tits, I remember the paramedics were always outside GC helping people.

Im gonna kick myself when I find out, what was that tune playing again?......it's been a while

Tune is ralphie b - massive

TAKE ME BACCKKKKKKK

Clubbing will never be this good again. The whole experience is finished now. Shit drugs, overpriced tickets, "raving" in old dirty factories, mobile phones, no pride in dress sense!

The crasher kids annoyed the 💩 out of me. I was at crasher in Sheffield most weeks in the late 90s, and you'd have to sit and watch them walk around like they owned the place. Don't even get me started on young adults walking around with baby dummies in their mouth, sucking on them. I remember my buddy dating one of them. She was actually alright, especially when she wasn't following the herd. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some kind of killjoy. I was a full on raver, who travelled all over the uk going to all the great venues. I even spent the season in ibiza and met some truly fascinating people, but those crasher kids were something else. To say they irked me would be an understatement.😂

What was the main difference between this type of crowd and the ones that would go helter skelter etc with all the horns and whistles?

Then on Sunday mornings they'd all be wandering around the dead town centre in sideways drizzle looking really grey...then Gatecrasher mysteriously burnt down...twice...like a lot of other places in Sheffield at the time.

The crasher kids looked quite annoying 😉🤣

I used to love The Republic, but always seen them as absolute whoppers. They thought they were better, more hardcore clubbers because they dressed like clowns.

Someone give us an ID on the tune??

Didnt like them at the time probably jealous really lol

It was cos of these lot clubland died a death… they infiltrated the scene

The eyes said it all 😂