1986
Pete Tong compiles The House Sound of Chicago, Vol. 1, Britain’s first house music compilation.
1987
Ibiza-inspired house clubs Sch-oom (later Shoom) and Project, and warehouse party Hedonism, appear in London.
1988
The second Summer of Love heralds a cultural high for the acid house generation and a moral tabloid panic.
1989
Raindance is held at a circus tent on September 16 in Beckton, East London – Britain’s first legal all-night rave.
1990
The Public Entertainments Act is used to bring an injunction against a rave in Norfolk, giving rise to superclubs.
ACCIEEEEED! SHOOM!
dressing down
Spectrum THE HACIENDA
HOUSE
1997
Gatecrasher buys the Republic venue in Sheffield. Daft Punk make their UK bow at the Glasgow Arches. The Haçienda closes.
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1998
Clubs become festivals: Cream does Creamfields; Ministry of Sound vs Gatecrasher staged near Leeds.
1999
Human Traffic documents a weekend of fun in UK clubland. Fabric nightclub opens in London’s Charterhouse Street.
2000
Ministry of Sound’s huge, free NYE party in the Millennium Dome in stark contrast to failed superclub bashes in 1999.
2001
UK garage apex at FWD» at London’s Velvet Rooms. Fatboy Slim attracts 60,000 to Big Beach Boutique in Brighton.
2002
MBE for services to music for Norman Jay. Second Big Beach Boutique attracts 250,000: one person dies, over 100 injured.