Check these out quick before I repost them on Dangerous Minds with expanded text. They're two different BBC documentaries about rave culture, the first a World In Action special from 1988 (some of this footage has been widely circulated, such as two old cockney ladies talking about flashing lights), the other a BBC North production form 1992 following the set up of a legal rave in a field near Newcastle.
Coming from the BBC, both these programmes contain a typically patronising voice over, but it is interesting to note the difference in tone in both shows. The earlier World In Action special, while coming form 1988, has a more balanced approach, with even a spokesperson for the police admitting that ecstasy use is not that widespread, certainly not as much as the press suggest. The "Rave" programme, even though it is covering a fully legal, licensed rave, is more obviously influenced by an anti-rave/anti-drug press bias that the figures in the show feel they have to counteract.
This being the late 80s/early 90s there are some BAAAD clothes on display, and of course the music is pretty damn aweosme:
WORLD IN ACTION "A Trip Round Acid House" 1988 Part 1
And it's pretty good actually. Well bad in that he is still a terrible cunt exploiting weak people, but this tune is pretty well done:
Seriously though, fuck Jeremy Kyle - he may indeed be the most lovliest person in the world with sunbeams and candy-coloured rainbows shining form his rosy arse, but his brand of TV is repulsive. At least Ricki Lake has SOME SYMPATHY for her guests. Not Kyle, he just rips the piss out of them mercilessly.
Also, I have it on good authority that he has an OCD where he has to lick everything he touches.
