Big Reunion 2004

[Reloaded]

Me and some mates have bought weekend tickets for this, a dance event being held at the Butlins Complex at the end of November. Admittedly I don't know many of the acts there, but i've been wanting to get into this scene for a long time and thought this would be the perfect opportunity. I'm particularly looking forward to the Helter Skelter arena with all the oldskool stuff- Ratpack, Baby D and Altern8, and also Micky Finn and Leeroy Thornhill, but yea, i've never been to an event like this before.

I was just wandering if anybodys been to this event in the past few years its been running, or similar to this...what should I expect? Do the people involved with this (such as Helter Skelter etc) generally put on a good show? Whats the security like when it comes to drugs?

Is it like a normal festival, where you can walk around and stuff, grab soemthing to eat, or will I find myself stepping from one stage to another and dancing all night long?

Also, will I feel like a total fool around everybody else due to not being too experienced at raving and all that, or do people geenrally just not give a shit if you're new to it all.

The line-up is here (http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/cgi/asp_events/event_info.asp?event_id=180038C3B3045E1D&category=Music) if anybodys interested, and the official site here (http://www.thebigreunion.co.uk)

Any tips and suggestions of people I should check out are much appeciated.

[Makoto]

No never been myself but the HSO arena looks quite good, Evenson Allen and Lipmaster Mark of the Ratpack would be best along with Baby D. Also wouldn't mind taking a look in the Good Fridays arena as well. Hope it's a good one.

Just make sure you go see Rebekah because she is a honey!

[DG]

My friends from London are hiring a people carrier and going!!

I assume a lot of people are going there to pull??

[Martin_Bashir]

i gotta admit, it looks good on the face of it.

S'another example of the dance scene as a whole becoming closer maybe's :confused:

[Martin_Bashir]

actually im a little put off by how 'polished' the site looks. Dance events need to be seedy, underground :D

well the ones that i wanna attend anyway, but i gotta admit the lineup is good for this time of year.

[budda]

Line up's dont always make a good night though.

I've seen Baby D live before, good, but not really hard enough for my liking.

[Reloaded]

Originally posted by DiamondGeezer
I assume a lot of people are going there to pull??

Aw, damn, I was hoping it wouldn't be that sort of event. And yea, I know what you mean about it being 'polished', but as a bit of a beginner i'm sure it will do me nicely. Cheers guys.

[**sugar**]

Quite a few people i know are going to this, they were advertising it in Zante when i went away there in August for alot of people who went away with 2wentys etc to go to that for a reunion thing, atleast i think its the same thing your talking about? i wanted to go to it myself but never got round to sorting it out.

[Reloaded]

Thought I may aswell give some feedback about it ..Got back from Skeggy yesterday and had a pretty good time. Ratpack were fucking amazing except the heat was pretty hard to hack. Altern8 were cool, also enjoyed Micky Finn.

Was a shame about all the fucking pissheads there, a suprising amount of the lager lout types which I didn't expect there, but apart from the knobs it was pretty good. For my first event it was cool, although dissapointingly I found most people to be pretty unfriendy... although thats probably becasue I wasn't wearing some skimpy outfit waving my ass and boobs infront of everybody. It seemed a shame that a lot of people were solely there to pull, dampened the atmosphere a bit, but oh well.

But yea, the Helter Skelter arena was good fun... all the costumes and glowsticks and that. I could do with getting my dancing skills up - but can't wait for the next one :D

[budda]

I think the harder the music, in the main the better the crowd, I've found some Old Skool crowds to be a bit arsey, just quite a lot of drunks.