5 of us drove from Middlesbrough to Milton Keynes on nye 1999 with tickets for the last ever Helter Skelter. The queue was fucking massive, queued for 2-3 hours, 4 of us got through the gate only for the last lad to forgot his ID. Bouncers were having none of it. 🤦🏻♂️ Couldn't leave the lad on his own could we, so we jumped back in the car, belted back up the motorway for 4+ hours and got back to boro just before midnight as the pills were peaking and we had a fucking wicked night. Stuck together as a group to this day, we're all tight as fuck and know that we've all got each others back. Things like that make a proper group or break a fake group. Love ya boys 🤪
That’s what mates are all about you should have gone to another rave like die hard or Doncaster warehouse but that said being off your nut the thought process is fucked
@@jamesmitchell5126 mate it was only when we got home the lad driving said 'can't believe we've just drove the length of the country and gone home!!' 😂😂😂 done Donny warehouse, the dome plus others not too far away like the adelphi etc loads of times since. Ended up doing the northern scene miles more as we got older, loved it man 👍🏻
@@christophercharles3426 yeah we ended back up there a few times mate. Was a proper good venue as ya say, quite glad the way it turned out on that night in a weird way coz it makes memories doesn't it. Forgot loads of raves since then but this was kind of special 👍🏻
@@burto3058 Cool... as you say its memories... one of the best raves I went to at the sanctuary was life utopia and elevation... lost count of raves went to years after that but was around 95 96ish started going smaller clubs and got bit bored of the jungle scene reverse basslines n stuff which came about ...and ended up in doos in South London.. proper underground they were... likes of hellraiser etc... extreme hard-core gabber speedcore scene...was mental.. then acid techno doos.. and back to d n b and House music in wharehouses around bagleys.. Kings Cross... some of them nights were not planned went out suited n booted and after a few drinks.. ended up in a dirty warehouse rave.. unplanned nights were sometimes the best.. Shame as now loads of venues are all blocks of rip off priced flats.. now my kids go out and I tell them you woulda loved my day.. 😆 But props to you fella.. would have been a great send off.. last rave ever in a legendary venue.. Kind of jealous 👍🏽
Those were the fuckin dayz,, Unless you lived it, you cant explain nor compare the feeling of unity that we got each time we travelled the country to a hardcore rave, PEACE love n unity,, Feel the rush ECXXXTACCYYY!!!!! Peace out ✌
Was there from Newcastle on the last HS on 1999 NYE, went to loads of raves around the country mainly Rezerections and Judgement Days, Helter Skelter was canny belter
I always wondered what happened to the sanctuary ..?? went to my 1st ever rave there dreamscape 10 when I was still at school back in 94.. was meant to go helter skelter late 93 with some mates where prodigy were a live p.a ... didnt go..still one of biggest regrets of my life..life utopia elevation was one of the best I ever went to there.. then was going to underground gabber speedcore parties in south London around 96 97 98.. then bagleys n stuff kings x with x girlfriends early 2000s.. went there couple yrs ago for few drinks with some mates... all flats now... smh..🤦🏽♂️ Tell my kids how good it use to be them days whilst they go to pubs ... when they open again anyway lol..
Few of my mates told me about A free party in the empty building. I missed the Milton Keynes raves but been into the scene since day 1. 46 year old now love the oldschool. Think IKEA took over the plot in the end.
Cannot believe they turned it into an IKEA. Didn't bunch of ravers go into the IKEA to pay tribute to the Sanctuary a few years later? I sure I read a story somewhere about that?
@@90sOldSkooler yep a free party was due to take place a few of my mates went but as soon as the party started police shut it down. Think they broke into the disused building
This is the video they gave out about the history of Skelter - The Millennium Jam itself was a bit of a let down to be honest. Still a good night out though and I am glad I saw them off after 6 years of events. The closing night that Slammin Vinyl did @ The Sanctuary Music Arena in 2004 was a better closing chapter (after all, thanks to Accelerated Culture and Human Traffic Skelter stuck around a bit longer).
Great you got to see them off. Was gutted that the Sanctuary is gone, what a place it was and in fact what a time it was although the nineties to the early millennium. Halcyon days !!
Top upload 😀 a bit of a long shot but I don't suppose you've got the Energy 99 video have you? I managed to get on it twice and have been trying to find it online for years.
@DaveSafety - If you like this you might like this as well with footage from another Skelter event at The Sanctuary - th-cam.com/video/4V9f9DpXxkw/w-d-xo.html
The problem was the rave scene ran out of years... it was a 90s thing . I was there from 1993 up untill the end of 1998 then the likes of Godskitchen, Sundisessental, Trade and Gatecrasher etc took the reigns of dance music and that was that .....we all went trance and hard house mad Good times where had though 😁👌 forward ever,backward never 👍❤
Nah the problem was deciding to ignore 55% of your loyal ravers and dropping happy hardcore. Decadence the month earlier was the last true Helter-skelter at the Denbigh leisure park, complete sell out. Dave and Penny were greedy charging £100 a ticket for NYE 1999 so it was a massive flop.
I abandoned the hardcore scene because of the lack of new tunes coming out. Tape packs from event to event just had the same old tunes from 96 to 99, plus a lot of the new tunes were just rehashed chart rubbish. Jungle DJs tried to keep it fresh by playing dub plates. The hardcore scene stagnated whilst the dnb scene moved forward. That's my take on it anyway.
Hardcore is extreme music so eventually people get sick of the excess and therefore it has to change. Problem is, it changes too much you just lose ton of followers that think 'that aint hardcore. Its purely for the rush, alot of people dont think theres much music quality sadly
@@BazingaTingit depends on how you look at it. Yes it was a 90’s thing but it went back to the acid house days which started in the late 80’s. Early 90’s to the end of 93 for me. The scene really started to split and thus many people moved to house music including myself, dissatisfied with the loss of breakbeat. Still some amazing times.
5 of us drove from Middlesbrough to Milton Keynes on nye 1999 with tickets for the last ever Helter Skelter. The queue was fucking massive, queued for 2-3 hours, 4 of us got through the gate only for the last lad to forgot his ID. Bouncers were having none of it. 🤦🏻♂️ Couldn't leave the lad on his own could we, so we jumped back in the car, belted back up the motorway for 4+ hours and got back to boro just before midnight as the pills were peaking and we had a fucking wicked night. Stuck together as a group to this day, we're all tight as fuck and know that we've all got each others back. Things like that make a proper group or break a fake group. Love ya boys 🤪
Did you make it back mate..?? Jeez they tightened up their policies then.. I was still at school when I 1st went there in 94... wicked venue..
That’s what mates are all about you should have gone to another rave like die hard or Doncaster warehouse but that said being off your nut the thought process is fucked
@@jamesmitchell5126 mate it was only when we got home the lad driving said 'can't believe we've just drove the length of the country and gone home!!' 😂😂😂 done Donny warehouse, the dome plus others not too far away like the adelphi etc loads of times since. Ended up doing the northern scene miles more as we got older, loved it man 👍🏻
@@christophercharles3426 yeah we ended back up there a few times mate. Was a proper good venue as ya say, quite glad the way it turned out on that night in a weird way coz it makes memories doesn't it. Forgot loads of raves since then but this was kind of special 👍🏻
@@burto3058
Cool... as you say its memories... one of the best raves I went to at the sanctuary was life utopia and elevation... lost count of raves went to years after that but was around 95 96ish started going smaller clubs and got bit bored of the jungle scene reverse basslines n stuff which came about ...and ended up in doos in South London.. proper underground they were... likes of hellraiser etc... extreme hard-core gabber speedcore scene...was mental.. then acid techno doos.. and back to d n b and House music in wharehouses around bagleys.. Kings Cross... some of them nights were not planned went out suited n booted and after a few drinks.. ended up in a dirty warehouse rave.. unplanned nights were sometimes the best..
Shame as now loads of venues are all blocks of rip off priced flats.. now my kids go out and I tell them you woulda loved my day.. 😆
But props to you fella.. would have been a great send off.. last rave ever in a legendary venue..
Kind of jealous 👍🏽
Those were the fuckin dayz,,
Unless you lived it, you cant explain nor compare the feeling of unity that we got each time we travelled the country to a hardcore rave,
PEACE love n unity,,
Feel the rush
ECXXXTACCYYY!!!!!
Peace out ✌
Amen to that mate !
Great memories of Helter Skelter some of the best nights @ Denbeigh leisure park ,still have this on VHS 🎞👌
Was there from Newcastle on the last HS on 1999 NYE, went to loads of raves around the country mainly Rezerections and Judgement Days, Helter Skelter was canny belter
Was there 😎 still only live round the corner.. its a fucking Ikea now 😢
I always wondered what happened to the sanctuary ..?? went to my 1st ever rave there dreamscape 10 when I was still at school back in 94.. was meant to go helter skelter late 93 with some mates where prodigy were a live p.a ... didnt go..still one of biggest regrets of my life..life utopia elevation was one of the best I ever went to there.. then was going to underground gabber speedcore parties in south London around 96 97 98.. then bagleys n stuff kings x with x girlfriends early 2000s.. went there couple yrs ago for few drinks with some mates... all flats now... smh..🤦🏽♂️
Tell my kids how good it use to be them days whilst they go to pubs ... when they open again anyway lol..
Best yrs miss those days
Cheers for the upload
No probs :)
one of the top 2 promoters of that time which set the bar and has never been toppled to this day in 2020
amen !!
amazing memories xxxx
Indeed the Sanctuary was something else !
Thanks for the memories
No probs, what a place the Sanctuary was 👌
Looks amazing !!
You know it almost makes me depressed thinking of the great times I had when I was 18 22 years ago.
Incredible times, never to be repeated 👌
Few of my mates told me about A free party in the empty building. I missed the Milton Keynes raves but been into the scene since day 1. 46 year old now love the oldschool. Think IKEA took over the plot in the end.
Cannot believe they turned it into an IKEA. Didn't bunch of ravers go into the IKEA to pay tribute to the Sanctuary a few years later? I sure I read a story somewhere about that?
@@90sOldSkooler yep a free party was due to take place a few of my mates went but as soon as the party started police shut it down. Think they broke into the disused building
Oh sorry yes the IKEA rave inside blowing whistles and shouting etc while people shopping lol
Wish I was there
This is the video they gave out about the history of Skelter - The Millennium Jam itself was a bit of a let down to be honest. Still a good night out though and I am glad I saw them off after 6 years of events. The closing night that Slammin Vinyl did @ The Sanctuary Music Arena in 2004 was a better closing chapter (after all, thanks to Accelerated Culture and Human Traffic Skelter stuck around a bit longer).
Great you got to see them off. Was gutted that the Sanctuary is gone, what a place it was and in fact what a time it was although the nineties to the early millennium. Halcyon days !!
I was at this rave i remeber the big fuck off skeletons on screen an shabba black and gokd d&g suit lol
Top upload 😀 a bit of a long shot but I don't suppose you've got the Energy 99 video have you? I managed to get on it twice and have been trying to find it online for years.
Glad you enjoyed the upload fella. Unfortunately I don't have the Energy 99 video.
aving it!
mark eg and m zone look smashed
Mark eg most probably but not mzone or Mick Marshall. Mzone was the resident dj of my club Doncaster warehouse he was usually always straight
@@jamesmitchell5126 i mean drunk; apparently mark eg gave up in the mid ninties & m zone has never done any class A's
Need to id that tune he mixing in their
Great upload. I wonder if it would still generate the numbers if it ever came back from the dead?
Yeah it does make you wonder however I am not sure we will ever see anything like those times ever again
@DaveSafety - If you like this you might like this as well with footage from another Skelter event at The Sanctuary - th-cam.com/video/4V9f9DpXxkw/w-d-xo.html
Dave Safety my dad (David) is who ran the raves and over the last few years he’s debated it many times and always gets calls from dj’s all over
Don't give up hope, there's a strong indication we could be getting one more Helter Skelter... 😎
Rave music and culture is huge within the UK now! As much so as the 90s! We need another Helter Skelter! Would go offff!
We hired a minibus from dorset
mitsabishi anyone ????
speckled,,,
@@kellyhunt3958 Double Stacked and Speckled please ;-)
They were like an oasis in a desert when they resurfaced in the late 90's. Cracking pills ;-)
Yes please
Brown speckled. Always thought there was heroin in them as they were relaxing and smacky
Anyone no the tunes mark eg banging out there
Tune on end credits, anyone?
th-cam.com/video/jZkBebvTBJk/w-d-xo.html
Quest - Spiritual Dawn
@@DJEylisium cheers mate
@Thelastmochican77 no worries man, only just noticed you posted that question 3 years ago 😂
It's a belting track though!
@@DJEylisium no probs pal, better late than never. yeah it's a belter...
Anyone know the tune from 24:05?
Here you go mate:
th-cam.com/video/zX4K30O-rOU/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/sXYa_qklKPc/w-d-xo.html
1997 sellout 18,000 at energy. 1999 out of business
The problem was the rave scene ran out of years... it was a 90s thing . I was there from 1993 up untill the end of 1998 then the likes of Godskitchen, Sundisessental, Trade and Gatecrasher etc took the reigns of dance music and that was that .....we all went trance and hard house mad
Good times where had though 😁👌
forward ever,backward never 👍❤
Nah the problem was deciding to ignore 55% of your loyal ravers and dropping happy hardcore. Decadence the month earlier was the last true Helter-skelter at the Denbigh leisure park, complete sell out.
Dave and Penny were greedy charging £100 a ticket for NYE 1999 so it was a massive flop.
I abandoned the hardcore scene because of the lack of new tunes coming out. Tape packs from event to event just had the same old tunes from 96 to 99, plus a lot of the new tunes were just rehashed chart rubbish. Jungle DJs tried to keep it fresh by playing dub plates. The hardcore scene stagnated whilst the dnb scene moved forward. That's my take on it anyway.
Hardcore is extreme music so eventually people get sick of the excess and therefore it has to change. Problem is, it changes too much you just lose ton of followers that think 'that aint hardcore. Its purely for the rush, alot of people dont think theres much music quality sadly
@@BazingaTingit depends on how you look at it. Yes it was a 90’s thing but it went back to the acid house days which started in the late 80’s. Early 90’s to the end of 93 for me. The scene really started to split and thus many people moved to house music including myself, dissatisfied with the loss of breakbeat. Still some amazing times.
Wasn’t Millennium Jam NYE the last ever Helter Skelter ?
Yep but this was the last one @Sanctuary. Not last HS.
Flatliners & Rolex's
Does anyone remember the all nighters at Oscars on Clacton pier in the 90's?