Dave Swindells new book celebrates a pre-smartphone era of carefree hedonism during the 'second summer of love'.
era in 1990. “The events in 1988 were a kind of template for that, not in scale but in spirit, and some of the most influential events aren’t included in this book because either I couldn’t get to them or, more significantly, because they had a ‘no photos’ policy.”and the drugs and the moment, unselfconscious and removed from the now ubiquitous phone cameras that dominate nightclubs and parties.
Back in 1988 though, the impact of acid house was felt not only at the parties themselves but also in the social shockwaves that reverberated from the second summer of love, channelling the distinctly 60s ethos implied by the phrase. “Admission into most clubs had previously been determined by what you wore and how you looked,” says Dave ahead of the book’s release.
“Suddenly divisions based on clothes or class or colour, or based on where you lived and which football team you supported, hardly seemed to matter.”
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