Flashback : Drugs and Dealing in the Golden Age of the London Rave Scene (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: rave club culture. Ethnography. Theoretical foci. Introductory chapter and book content. Defining the terms. The UK rave club culture: an overview. Drug use among clubbing populations. Rave club drugs markets. Theorisations of rave club culture. My entry into studying the rave club culture. Key character introductions 2. Organisation of the London rave club scene. London rave club venues and events. Research sites and venues. Club London: a commercial rave dance nightclub. Lush: a small venue club night. Tylers: a small venue club night. Venus Group parties: a moving dance party organisation. The Pace Bar: a pre-club/DJ bar. Thrash parties: a free-party group. Summary 3. Friendship network drug-use styles. Joe's free-party group and poly-drug use. A group of young Australasians and heavy ecstasy use. Andy: a sustained drug user. Tom's group: an older group of clubber's drug use. Extended clubbing sessions and drug taking. Clubbing and increasing cocaine use. Rave club lifestyles and health problems. Mental ill-health and drug use. Summary 4. Drug selling in London rave clubs. Drug selling in nightclubs. Andy and Joe as organisers of club selling. Summary 5. Social network drug selling. Robin as a social network dealer. Joe as an example of a social network dealer. Mick as a social network dealer. Summary 6. The role of women in drug selling. Women and front-line drug selling. Women as assistants in nightclub drug selling. Drug selling practicalities and assistance. Women assisting in social network selling. Women as free drug recipients. Women as instrumental free-recipients. Women rejecting drug selling partners. Summary 7. Scaling-up and moving out of drug selling. Drug purchasing on behalf of friends. Convenience purchasing and subsidising recreational drug use. Funding habitual drug use. Naive recruitment Drug selling as a money-making enterprise. Looking after friends' drug selling businesses. Obstacles to moving out of drugs dealing. Summary 8. Later lives and conclusions.Later lives. Recreational drug use and 'cultural normalisation'. Ecstasy and enterprise. Social network drugs markets and friendship. Rave drug market organisation. Drugs in clubs and security. Late-modern lifestyles and multiple identities. Where are we ten years on?