adelaide scene

Does anyone here know much about the early adelaide scene? Living in Melbourne at the time I remember hearing a fair bit about it being good back in the day, and I know Juice records was founded there in '91, does anyone have any tales of partying in Adelaide, prior to 95???
i know a lot about the early melb scene, but keen to hear what it was like in SA in the early nineties... venues, type of punters through the door, etc.

i'm equally curious, cr.

i'm definitely no expert there are others on here that would know more than me but here's what i can remember, from anout 95-96..

lots of parties were in warehouses, like the old Balfours site in city, Old Adelaide Gaol, the unis were used a lot (the cloisters at Ad Uni, Flinders Uni refec & E building at the old Uni SA underdale)...

there was some cool outdoor parties called AdRave

DJs doing the rounds were HMC, SystemAD, Brendon, Uzi, the Juice guys, Josh when she was Guru Josh, Angu$, Noddy, Bof, MPK, madcap, Agent 86

Core was the main street mag...

from what i recall there was a good party at least every second weekend, promoted mostly through flyers on your windscreen or at Central station.

Adrave and the collapsing hippy dolphin at mylor in 99 FTW !

a mate who used to promote that hole of a place which was known as 'the synagogue' has shown me some footage of brendon + a few others playing a new years eve party at the entertainment centre, which i reckon was the early 90s... looked fkn awesome... Another he showed me was a party he organised at the night train complex, with both levels cranking. I think it was gary from derringers playing. Another great looking show. No idea what year it was though!
That Club Axis show on that free to air tv station (i forget the name of it... used to be ACE tv) used to show some of the old raves and parties; the last time i watched it they showed Carl Cox playing techno @ the Arkaba in the early 90s.

saw richie hawtin play his first adelaide set @ synagogue in '94.
unfortunately for y'all, the accompanying audio recording of
the set has gone awol.

atleast i have my (fractured) memories...

i have a core from '94 (funnily enough it reviews said hawtin gig),
i'll dig it up and post the 'what's on' section.

Been checking out the scene since 93 myself (showing my age ) and I still think the best party venue Adelaide has ever had was the old Le Rox warehouse in Light Square. That venue was unbelievable. Now it's Breakers poolhall (is it still called Breakers?). Went to a few parties there. My first one Fantasia was there. Great memories....

Do Not Ask me.


Can't remember jack.


Dare I suggest, that if you can remember, then you wasn't 'really' there.

How bout all the glorious Dirty House parties and the golden period round '94 ish when Hmc and Agent 86 would play @ the Sceptre every sat nite til the sun drove us home !!

^ yeah the crown n sceptre before there was a beer garden... there used to be a wall there?? or am i tripping...?

a few selected highlights as taken from The Core magazine December 1992:

Thursday:
The Ark. Brendon, X-citement, Glscia, GTB
Club Luna: Nigel (Agent 86), Madcap & Ph.D
The Zoo (Proscenium, i think): HMC, Hugh-Z, Anthony & guests.

Friday:
The Ark: X-citement, ATB & The System AD
Astor: Nigel
Cargo: Groove Terminator
Tribe Cafe: Pvoy & 618

Saturday:
Le Rox: X-citement, Nigel & Ph.D,
Finger Lickin Good live, Madcap & Nigel

Wednesday:
Cargo; Groove Terminator, JK & MC Scott T

that week, disco @ 69 light square opened (HMC/Groove Terminator)

Top 5 from central Station:
1. Subterfuge ep - Sybterfuge
2. 313 Detroit lp - various artists
3. i Believe - Reese Project
4. innersanctum - Rob Hood
5. Work That Motherfucker (rmx) - Steve Poindexter
(4 out of 5 trax being from Detroit - go figure)

and finally, on NYE 92/93 the metro operated
for the last time. dj's HMC/Groove Terminator/Juice live.
as the hype says...

the feelings are strong, we will treasure the memories and look to the future.
relight the fire, celebrate the dance.... metro

there was a also a massive 6 room warehouse party at le rox
that nye also..

or it could have been quite pretentious and too cool for school while everyone else partied at the gog. maybe, not sure, can't remember.

Now I remember the birth of house in Adelaide.

Adrian, George, James and myself all seemed more than happy with our love of eurobeat, and then,

James rocks in to the Underground for a set one night bursting at the seams about a couple of new tracks. I was sceptical until we heard them start pumping through the EV's. They were 'Jack your body' and 'Love can't turn around'. And our lives were changed forever...


Well that's how I remember it anyways.

I remember going to a few warehouse parties in and around Port Adelaide, Night Train being the only legal one from memory?

McMahans at Salisbury used to have some awesome hard nights & we made our way to Tonlsey one night but can't remember what that one was like!

The Synagogue, Le Rox and The Ark in the City all were also good nights out.

- 'Future' techno parties in the concrete basement of Lerox circa 1993-94 (HMC's sets were incredible)

- Derrick May @ Lerox in 1994 (I hadn't seen anyone dj like this before, pretty mindblowing at the time)

- Richie Hawtin and HMC at 'Carnivale De La Faq' (sp?) for the Fringe in 94 , outdoors on Rundle St opposite the Exeter until it started raining. Richie blew some minds that night - started off with 'Preacher Man' and things got crazier from there. HMC's warmup was great too - pre his trip to Europe (after which he started playing much harder).

- Some great nights at the Synagouge: Thursdays were good (Claude Young resident dj around 1994), also plenty of great one-off parties there.

- Disco (light square) was good when it first opened.

- Spent every Saturday night/Sun morning at the Crown & Sceptre for about a year during HMC's residency there (95?). Best clubbing times in Adelaide for me without doubt, although the music/crowd kind of went downhill towards the end.