My Love For STERNS - The Greatest Rave Venue In History 

A great night was had at Sterns, I'm caught on video outside in the cafe area in "Mensa Lord of the Rave (Sterns) - full documentary" wearing a Chippie t-shirt. We used to sort Mensa out so no need membership required lol. God bless all the people who went raving and made that time so special......love to you all.

Was never a big fan of techno but when Lenny Dee played the Underground it was something else, he tore the arse out of it, had to be seen/heard to be believed.

I concur that Interdance at Sterns was a very special place. The excitement on the way with my Brother and mates in the car, a stomping good evening, meeting like minded people, feeling the love and the comedown in the car park with all the different sound systems. We still reminisce to this day.

Great story jake of the club back in the days. Was a regular at the club. Before mensa there was nights called purple haze. They where good but mensa was the man who put sterns well and truly on the map the hype of the club was something else across the southcoast party people from all over the country to party all under one roof. The vibe was always spot on. My friend used to run a lazer on the top floor as you first walked in. Every weekend. Curtain as a back drop. What nights we had, would love to see some off the faces again. Djs for me that played some great choons where from that era was Dr. S Randall pig bag. My track would be zero b lock up. Thank you jake. RlP Mensa interdance. Rip Eddie Stenner empire.

Much needed if!! If only we could go back!

Thanks for taking me back to an absolutely wonderful time in life,big love to all us real oldskool ravers

What a moving tribute to Sterns mate. Respect to you and all the fellow ravers who frequented, not only Sterns, but any rave venue here in the UK. Ah, the 90s. What a time to be alive, partying with like minded people who just oozed love. And sweat! It's good to see Sterns has been put to good use and not some corporate office block or student flats. Going there MUST have brought a tiny tear to the eye, what with all those (hazy) memories that would have come flooding back. Huge love and respect to you Jake and every fellow raver watching this. Big ups guys ❤️👊

I grew up 2 miles from Sterns. Too young to go raving but used to hear 2nd/3rd hand tales of what happened there at school the following week and wish I was older 😂 My mum used to take me to the gardens and tea rooms there and now I do the same with my kids! Hardcore will never die ❤

What I love about this Jake, is that you've just done what we'd all love to do about our own special regular raving venue. With passion, personal special memories and the tunes.....it so nearly almost brings it all back! If only huh?! For me,Camden Palace carries the same amazing memories, so I feel your love for those days. Great video. Great tunes. Top bloke.

Every tune a Sterns banger😎🤙

I’m in my early 20s so there’s something bittersweet about watching this, whilst there is a rave scene now that I do enjoy - I find it hard to believe there’s anything about these days that will inspire memories like these. Hopefully time will prove me wrong but man, the people who got to experience venues like these in the early ‘90s are unbelievably lucky.

Rest.In.Paradise Mensa🌹UK🇬🇧

Awesome video. An era I miss greatly.

Sadly missed, we used to get coaches over there from Weymouth, off dial. Feel privileged to have been involved in the scene when it was fresh, hard and new... RIP to the lost soldiers x

Love this so much. Well done mate. I was a member of the Sterns family and always will be. Terrorize “It’s Just A Feeling” that still gives me goosebumps to this day. That tune, a time and a place ! Unreal x

Loved that place.. Best nights of my life.

Lived in Worthing all my life and used to goto sterns before acid house came along. I can remember going to the very first rave called Purple Haze which was put on buy some friends of mine. Then along came Mensa and completely changed it. All though I went to loads of parties up there, being a local. We used to use it more of a back up and travel all around the country to different raves Sterns was rammed every single week. I still miss those days now as it was truly life changing although that could be those little white birds.

I temember meeting people there who later helped me score some smoke, on christmas day. Who else would do that. Plur

such a real memoir serious tunage, some of which I don't think I have heard again since those days. one of the best Sterns tributes I've seen. Subbed and cant wait to watch this again and again. I'll never get that feeling of standing on the precipice of those stairs for what lay ahead nor the exit on a frosty morn.

Absolute banging Video mate ✌️✌️👍👍Never managed to go there,Our club we used to got to was a club called Milwaukee’s just north of Bedford on a place called Souldrop Turn ,It was run by a rave group called Equinox, open on Fridays from 10pm - 6am we had the pleasure of Dj,s like Fabio,Dougal,Ellis Dee,Grooverider,Carl cox,LTJ bookem the list was endless. The mc was normally The Fat Controller, This place had a Banging Cerwin Vega sound system your ears still buzzed days later from this place, used to get our gear at the local boozer then head off in a couple of cars to the venue, drop a bit of speed 20mins before we arrived then most of us had Roos trainers which had a secret pocket in the toung which we hid our gear in 😂😂Bouncers didn’t have a clue 👍 This club was amazing,unfortunately now gone 😢 love you channel mate brings back so many good memories. Ps if you type in Milwaukee’s Bedford I’m sure there is some picture of the club in a bad state after a fire on the net 👍👍👍Also there quite a few vid on RU-vid of mixes played live at this venue enjoy 👍👍

Colin Dale & Carl Cox Interdance, Sterns 28 04 1992 One of the most legendary recordings you will ever hear. 🙌

What a great tribute. We all had THAT club. Mine was Kelly's in Portrush, Northern Ireland. I started going in the summer of '91. At that time the war in Belfast was going crazy and people were getting shot every other day. Kelly's was about 30 miles outside Belfast and was an oasis of calm. Everybody was too wrecked to care about sectarian nonsense and the love was flowing. Great vibes and great choons.

Brilliant , the underground was the best part for me! Think I'll have a visit there today to bring back all those fantastic memories! 👌

Aw Jake! What a fantastic watch! I could really feel your love a passion for Sterns. I never got to experience Sterns but I have the same love a passion for my old club - Diehard in Leicester. Brilliant time, brilliant video! Please keep them coming

still get flashbacks, spent a couple of hours dancing with mummy's from Egypt once.

Can’t wait for this mix mate, killer tunes! ❤ from the Netherlands

Fantastic video, I lived 5 mins away from the place and it was just the best! it’s only years later that you truly realise.

Quality Jake.... takes me back to the early 90's would have love Sterns..... but being a northerner it was Hacienda, Middleton hippodrome, Oz, Millionaire Club, Shellys, Eclipse/The Edge etc for me ! Respekt to us, we were all lucky to experience that..... nothing will ever be like that time ...... 👌👌👌

Caned Sterns ‘91 to ‘92 legendary.

I went to hundreds of places throughout the 90s. Shelley's in Stoke Eclipse in Coventry Quest in Wolverhampton the Sanctuary in Milton Keynes and loads more but I never went to Sterns. I wish I had a time machine so I could go to Sterns. Love your passion bro. You know the score HARDCORE

Lovely little video you've done there! nearly makes me cry!

Classic club, classic tunes, classic video !! THEIR FLYERS WERE SO FRESH !!!!

This is great stuff Jake - normally I get notifications, so am a little late. I do not recall going to Sterns, but I did hear about it. Lovely opening tune, I will enjoy this. Great format mate!

Such a good video, even though I never went it sounds amazing and brings back so many memories of my own little raving Mecca called Tiffany's in Great Yarmouth, the dance paradise nights there were fantastic and though we will never get those times back, people like yourselves will make sure the scene never truly dies, fantastic mate, respect 🤘🏻

Great video and awesome track selection, so many good memories 😊

Amazing Jake, you captured it perfectly, I started going mid 91 all the way through to the last night in August 93. I also used to do the journey down the A24😂. This video brought back so many memories, still got all the flyers the monthly news letters and my membership cards. I visited early this year, it took me a while to get my bearings, was chatting to a couple on the next table to us turns out he was a bouncer back in the day. Loved that place, so many good nights. Got the mix saved in favourites now. Anyway thanks for this video.

Do you know a track from early 90's that had a blokes voice constantly saying...I don't know why we haven't heard of this before. It's quite a mad one when it kicks in.

My friend DJ TIMMY MAGIC told me about that venue,didn't know him then but remember being up in a London record shop and seeing a flyer for sterns and when I checked where it was I said no thank you! Picked up Carl Cox vinyl grooverider stern cassette from a secondhand shop years ago still got it Late 90s and finally,I'm in Empire in Bognor filming and that started my 10 year trips down to West Sussex,we were there last week for the voodoo festival in Chichester

I wish I had the words to properly express my gratitude for your videos mate. We both value the nostalgia of these years and, although we didn't really know it at the time, sort of knew it was always going to stay with us. Special times, magic even! Just the way you describe your nights at Sterns (I never went, but had my own regular haunts in London, Roller Express, Astoria, Camden Palace, Rocket etc..) and drop in the not so subtle nods of our state of being (staring at something on the wall for 10 minutes!!! haha) just fill me with joy and invoke long forgotten memories. Jeez, i used to be in a state some nights! All this interspersed with the soundtrack of our youth, which was what it is all about, just cranks up up my nostalgia to 11. Keep them coming please Jake.

Awesome selection of tunes !!! For me there was 3 legendary clubs/raves of that era Sterns Eclipse and Astoria all of them had insane queues, the buzz of making it through the front doors never got old.❤🕊

Jake, another video you've knocked out of the park. Never personally went to Sterns (proper gutted about it too), but the vibrations across the land which that place spun were legendary. RIP Mensa - gone but not forgotten.

I’m watching this sitting on my sofa practically in the shadow of Sterns… amazing place - Also in its next incarnation as Mansion House, however, the Sterns days were THE days ☺️

Nice one for the sterns tour mate, much appreciated

Loved that club, it was the perfect place. Coming out to find the car at the end of the night was a bit tricky though 😂

So many memories....thank you Jake - The Hypnotist! 'The shadows of happy ravers', you have a great turn of phrase.

Quality selection of tracks. Great memories.

What a fantastic tribute to a truly memorable club and time of our lives. You've also captured the music perfectly from the sterns era with the selection of tunes representing the best of hardcore before the jungle l/hardcore split. Brilliant and respect mate 👏

I only went to one night at Sterns which was an under 18 event as I was quite young but when it re-opened as the mansion house I was a regular. I was the driver most nights in my Vauxhall Nova SR and I remember the endless dual carriage ways driving down from Crawley but when you got close you could see the laser they would point up in the sky like a religious beacon calling all followers to gather. The underground room was always a sweaty mess but had some of the best nights down there sometimes went Friday and Saturday.

Still have the Holsterns, Pure Genius & Never Mind the bollocks flyers on my wall :D - cant find the Prodigy PA charlie says flyer where I spent my 21st birthday @ I Doved the 90's so much great vid.

Devotion. Goldiggers in Chippenham was my happy place. Nice selection of tunes. ( discogs want list just got a bit longer😁) the tune that most takes me back there is Our tribe, I believe in you. Looking forward to the full mix.

Great selection Jake! Few of my favourite tracks in there

Jake I love your passion for the oldskool and hardcore. You take us to nostalgia nirvanna. Read a random comment on YT like 15 years ago now that I sometimes use to describe it. "Once you have had a chemical rendezvous with music the door is always open and never fully shuts." Pretty much sums it up for all us old ravers.

Love the channel. Cracking video and banging vinyl, obvious to see the love you put in to making this one. Unfortunately I never made it to Sterns but I am so grateful to have been a 92 raver. My local venue was flattened for housing, got to DJ there a couple of times as well

I bought a VHS tape of an all-nighter we went to in 1991. I think they used to sell them for about 20 quid. Unfortunately I didn't live in the house we had at the time when it was sold in 1999. It got lost when the house was cleaned out. I think it was different to the Sterns vids you can find online but I might be wrong. Still gutted to have lost it.

Love this mate ❤

I saw that Mensa documentary back when it first came out, the first thing I noticed is that Carl Cox has been EVERYWHERE. Second was how wild, and different, most peoples relation to electronic music is compared to mine. I'm sure there were raves about for people cooler than I was but all of my stories involve laying on the carpet in a dark room with my brother listening to a bunch of wild tracks nobody else in Albuquerque, NM would dare attempt listening to. Of course I'm a few years younger so it wohldn't have been this banging rave stuff in 98/99.

thank you thank you thank you, had many good times up there (and Empire in Bognor) not to shabby on the mixing either sir! looking forward to listening to the set.

What an amazing tribute to Sterns & Mensa you bought back so many memories vividly mine are hazy at times so is nice to hear & see them clearly again, the roundabout is another vivid memory that’s never left me. Very emotional beauty this one nice one Jake ❤️

Oh man I missed out on so much, but thank you for bringing it to me and several others through your memories and anecdotes!

Aaahhhh mate, that is a superbly put together video, loving the tune selection too. Your choice of vocabulary is always spot on but this goes up a notch!One of my memories is getting a fist pump on the underground stairs from MC Conrad ❤️. Wonderful STERNS tribute 👌

Absolutely loved Sterns, and had many mental, lost it nights there. Always in the underground, or in the tea room talking lost it to random strangers. Best club, best people, best DJs and best of times. The night Prodigy played was off the hook.

A heart warming tribute and great tune selection mate. Its so good to see Sterns getting the recognition it truly deserves as the greatest rave venue. Some really good detail about the place and the experience in here. Who knows, we could have been on that dancefloor together? Nice one..❤

Thanks for sharing so much Jake brilliant to hear you speak so passionately about a place which is very special to you and the tunes are belters

Wicked insight into your formative years, never ventured to Sterns but it was always mentioned in high regard by everyone who went there and you've honoured it well in music and visuals. I think we all had our 'Home Venue' that we hold dear that has a special place in our memories and heart, but like Sterns (and I would imagine most places) they are just that, memories as they have either been repurposed or closed never to accept the pound of beats and feet of days past. Thanks for all the posts you do, they certainly take you back to a simpler but exciting time, keep em' coming sir.....☺

This is a great selection of tunes. I went regularly from 1991 onwards and you've absolutely nailed the music. My brother used to do illustrations for the Interdance newsletter and some of the flyers (I think he did the one on the wall in the background). He did the 12 days of Christmas flyer. What a club, walking down those stairs and into the underground for the first time changed music forever for me.

Love this mate❤…great addition to the hard work you are doing on the channe!! Brisey… big love mate x

Our crew were Sterns regulars from 1990. I remember the first ever allnighter. 1991 was the Year Of Sterns. So many epic nights of insane messiness.

Really Good mate 👍

Well done Jake,loved this one.Another ex-raver who never made it down there but heard at the time is was a mental place.Watched the Mensa youtube film last year(wicked and the drum club tune at end is a superb emotional one) went down and visited the site last summer.The table garden was packed so still a popular place !

What a brilliant video-it truly does justice to the club you love, will listen to the mix next

Awesome vlog Jake..i think you have nailed your passion for Sterns with this mix. Great memories & music.Look forward to when the full mix drops. Much Respect to ya bud 👊🏻

Absolutely wicked vid, so many memories, so many good times and now so many goose bumps watching this!💯❤🫠🔥🔥🔥🤪

Sterns was definitely my favourite ever club in the UK. Only Tresor in Berlin beats it for me. That epic night in Sept 92 with Lenny D set me on my path of harder styles and promoting in London and Germany until 2017. Rave to the Grave 🤟

Another sublime video! Appreciate the love you have for the music and the time you take to share tunes, labels and your personal memories. Very impressive ❤

What a flashback, cheers. Underground in front of the far corner speakers you'd always find me, top off, avin it.

The house on the hill many happy nights at Sterns.

Does anyone remember the night the sound system failed? Everyone ended up sitting on the floor in the underground - every 10 mins they got it going but kept failing again? that was the biggest rush ever when they finally got it going

lost down memory lane with Track 9 ;)

Another amazing video…

Use to go when it was mansion house grew up getting flyers from rounder records back in the day its was special to me growing up

Was there every Saturday night between the Easter All-nighter ‘92, and pretty much when it closed. No place like it ❤, and feel privileged to have lived it. Cheers for the video 👍… Top tunes ❤. Underground Confusion still gives me goosebumps over 30 years on 😂🥰

Always heard about Sterns never got to go, My best memories was Wonderland arena, Telepathy and the Sunday Roast we're a few. 1991 Wonderland Arena World Party on Christmas Day was probably the best night Still have the flyer too

Had may a 3rd degree gurn here, and when it became the mansion house, another was empire club in Bognor, gators in Bognor that was run by Eddie and Lorraine, the manor in ringwood, absolute memories ❤️❤️

keep goin mate! another abs smashing video! and even tho i was both too young to attend and lived on the other side of the pond, i know of the special place this club holds in the collective memory of ravers worldwide!

Great memories. Great channel.

Awesome video mate, some top tunes and memories ❤

Some memories there.

Wicked club I once did the warm up in the vip room 91 ! Do you remeber dj Aubrey he was bangin 🙏🏻😎

Get The Message such a quality rush bit of tunage. The ready-to-move followed by the simple kick drum is such a great part. I still haven't figured out how to consistently mix that bit as it goes off the grid

Good memories, stopped going in 91 when it got serious commercial with the queues. Gotta say the doors were always good if you had tickets though and let you jump in.

New subscriber thanks to the algorithm, great video mate

Jonny L, sick tune ❤

Well done Jake! that really took me down memory lane - im sure i met you at Sterns a couple of times . im 48 now . I was surprised you whipped out "get the message" and "bach to basics" - i thought these were random obscure tunes i had bought when record shopping in Brighton and Soho in the early 90s!! i will email you as im sure we may have a few tunes each that we have been looking for and we might have between us!! im from crawley - used to drive down the A24 when i was 18 to this unforgettable place. Maybe your intereseted in finding a small venue to put on a night or 2 ..? house and hardcore .. i have an amazing RCF pa system , lights, music and public liability license.. im just getting back into the mobile djing game .

Thank you for this sir , Perfectly put together

You experienced the dream, i did go to raves early noughties because of my age but early 90s looks awesome. Its reminds me the sterns venue of a vibalite rave i went in brighouse 02

The Orbit in Morley will never be beaten for me.

Amazing vid Jake, incredible choons. I love hardcore but at the same time cannot cope with it if that makes any sense, five hardcore's would have sent me to the Garage room with the True Faith lol. Did you ever like the more blissed out stuff like Soul Odyssey Rapture or Perfect Motion??? Lemon D Something I Feel is a choon I am drawn to these days also LTJ Bukem, did you always stick with hardcore on your journey or did you evolve??? A perfect night definitely has some hardcore though, I do love your output.

Sterns alnost set tje scene in uk. But also the illegals, the travellers and spiral tribe etc. i love this video, thank you

Great video mate...in Newcastle we had the Mayfair and Bentleys both sadly long gone...very impressed you never said when u were Off ya nutt once! Lol

Indeed.🙂