SNIPPETS
"I was looking around the car trying to make sense of it all and all I could see was a coat on the backseat. Where the fuck was Gemini?"
DJ Phantasy
"I approached the customs gate and once more these two guys I had first seen in Ibiza were there. They were only undercover police officers! I was taken to a room where I was questioned and strip-searched."
Trevor Fung
"People had machetes and all I could think was 'Fuck that, I'm off!' The security staff were nowhere to be seen."
Micky Finn
"So there I was, in the booth sorting my records and ready to start playing. My set started and after only one record someone came up to me and in a booming German voice told me I was in the wrong club."
DJ Dimitri
"I had nothing to wear for the journey home, so I had to steal the bathrobe from my room and wear it all the way back to Amsterdam."
Crazy Shaun
"I started to think this couldn't be a jail but an asylum, perhaps, with a beautiful blonde dishing out lines."
San Proper
"We had to walk down this lane, which was next to a prison. I could see the prisoners in their windows with their arms through the bars, all screaming at me. It was a bizarre situation."
Melon
"And get this, the tour's sound guy, who had previously toured with Thin Lizzy and Led Zepplin, was actually deaf."
Billy Nasty
"We were coming towards a corner when he started to doze off again and there was a truck heading towards us. He didn't see it..."
Aron Friedman
"Sometimes we did shit our pants, but the nerves always made us work harder and we always rocked it. There was the thrill of it, too, as we never had a plan. What's next? We never knew."
Darren Emerson
"He gets out of his car, swinging his gun in the air and shouting out to the dealer over the garden fence."
MR C
"Because we were so young, Ron used to tell us when we were in the Music Box not to drink the water or eat the fruit, because there was acid in the water and acid on the fruit."
Paul Johnson
"I simply didn't give a fuck. I told them all, to their faces, that if they wanted to stop the party they would have to shoot me."
Monde
"Perhaps it was our death sentence; we really had no idea. In broken English, we were then told we would be thrown in prison if we didn't sign."
DJ Diablo
"There was a tent on the site staging a sweaty lingerie party and you weren't allowed in unless you were dressed accordingly. My mate bought us some lingerie to change into. I was going to wear it naturally, but I had to put my boxer shorts on underneath because my balls kept popping out."
Boris Werner
"I was in prison a few times as a kid. Do I wish I had never been sent to prison? Of course I do, because I wasted three years of my life. My life turned around when I started to DJ...earning a pound note legally. I loved raving and I loved playing music."
Micky Finn
"On the Monday morning we were taken in a van to Gravesend Magistrates court to face the music."
Carl Cox
"What the fuck was going on? I was stood in the DJ booth and I had to take my computer apart while I was playing from a drum machine."
Saytek
"Guns were on show, tempers flying - it was a very scary moment to say the least."
MR C
"The morning after the first gig, when I was feeling a little worse for wear, two customs officials came to my hotel and escorted me off to immigration."
Dave Seaman
"They managed to get my records to the Melkweg, with water gushing out of the box and saturated sleeves."
Billy Nasty
"It all became a bit crazy and at about 6am I went back to the decks to collect my records. I found the open crates but just one problem, they were completely empty. Somebody had stolen all my records."
Jimpster
"When we did actually perform down south, especially London, we were always told to 'Fuck off back up north,' and not in a friendly manner, either."
Altern-8
"The police pulled us over as we were speeding. The club was only around the corner, so I decided to make a run for it. the policewomen chased me and stopped me."
Darren Emerson