The Eighty Eight Podcast Hosted by Wayne Anthony

Acid House NFTs | Genesis’88 NFTs | NFTs FutureWayne Anthony discusses the option of digitally archiving EDM history including The Second Summer of Love in 1988. Wayne is internationally recognised for staging some of the biggest illegal Acid House (Rave) parties in history. It was the effort of his organisation Genesis’88 and a handful of other large scale party promoters that

Fantastic Ibiza | Jungle Splash | Ibiza RecordsPaul Ibiza has been kicking off doors since he was fifteen. He began staging soul parties from an early age and continued staging events for over 3 decades. In that time he has founded a new genre of music which he called Jungle. Launched the biggest Jungle record label on the planet. A label still very active today which presses vinyl

Creator of Banned Board Game ‘Rave’ 1990Patrick Treloar of The Wow Lab is the creator of a interactive board game called RAVE. The Second Summer of Love had come to pass and Patrick like countless others was caught up in the cultural shift of the moment. In 1990 he hatched a plan to produce said board game and within a relatively short period the completed boxed RAVE game was s

Acid House Sound & Lighting Guru | Eskimo NoiseRoger Nell was an emerging DJ, sound & lighting technician during the formative years of Acid House in 1988. As a DJ his initiation was at Clink Street, a seminal Acid House venue owned by Mr C and partners. He quickly seized upon the opportunity to provide sound and lighting rigs at Clink Street. In a word-of-mouth industry, R

Curating The Largest Database of Online Flyers Dave is the founder of the network PhatMedia which houses the largest collection of online flyers on the planet. Stored in his man cave is a larger collection of flyers. Dave has a personal collection of twenty thousand individual pieces. The PhatMedia network allows visitors to search through the huge database and even add new edition

Behind the Scenes with Genesis’88 | Acid House 1989Genesis’88 staged three illegal parties in Ferry Lane, North London. The first epic party was on the 11th February 1989 and the last a few weeks later. Numerous waypoints worthy of note have been documented including fronting two police captains, standing up against two police riot squads, and staring down the barrel of a robbe

Behind the Scenes with Genesis’88 | Acid House 1988Genesis’88 established their name as top flight promoters in the warehouse on Leaside Road, Hackney. They transformed a large dirty illegal warehouse into a winter wonderland. Staging three events over the Christmas period and then a News Years Eve party with the legendary Sunrise. The Genesis’88 partners spent many days deco

Hm Government vs Acid House 1988 - 1990The third in a series of podcasts deep diving the printed media’s reporting on Acid House and the people attending events. The sensationalised headlines were mostly written by anonymous journalists, although the named journo’s were just as ferocious. The style of reporting we’ve since witnessed when the state moves to shutdown a national

Government Confidential Files Released Nearly Thirty Years After Acid HouseWayne Anthony deep dives the declassified Acid House files released by the National Archives in 2016. Contrary to popular belief the Tory government headed by Margaret Thatcher appear more concerned with noise pollution than health and safety. Confidential memos even state that ‘drugs are not the main issu

Acid House Trashed by All News Outlets 1989 OnwardsIn the second part of Wayne Anthony’s analysis of news stories published by media outlets between 1989 and 1990. Hundreds of news articles are printed during this period. The sensationalised headlines were targeting parents and voters. The aim is to change the law, further restricting the movement of people. The news stories were