Club Culture: Do Ravers Dream of Electric Beats

The Lapsed Clubber project

Dr Beate Peter is a social researcher at Manchester Met who wants to find out what it means to grow up and grow old with rave culture. Having tested the dance floors in Berlin during her undergraduate studies, she has settled in Manchester, a city whose relationship with raves and club culture she continues to explore. She is senior lecturer in German at Manchester Metropolitan University

She will join radio presenter and DJ David Dunne, music journalist and author of Mars By 1980 David Stubbs, and head of  PR agency Urban Rebel Vass Lauricella. The panel will be chaired by Dr Disco, AKA Louder’s (non DJ) Dr Simon A. Morrison, who recorded his own stories for DJmag in the collection Discombobulated.

The Club Culture panel, entitled Do Ravers Dream of Electric Beats, will be taking place at 8.15pm - 9.30pm at Principal Hotel Manchester. You can book tickets on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/do-ravers-dream-of-electric-beats-louders-annual-club-culture-panel-tickets-50137400314 

30 years since the infamous Second Summer of Love, an esteemed panel of writers, DJs, academics and radio personalities come together to revisit the dancefloor and review and assess where we are now at with Electronic Dance Music Culture.

So… how smiley is the famous Smiley Face of acid house culture in 2018? Let’s find out…

Beate has been working on the Lapsed Clubber Project. The Lapsed Clubber Audio Map, funded by Heritage Lottery Fund, provides an opportunity for members of the rave community that helped shape the rave scene of Greater Manchester between 1985 and 1995 to archive their memories. Find out more and view the map for yourself here: https://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/map_home/the-lapsed-clubber-audio-map