I Lived through all of this! I wasn't involved in any way, but it made the news headlines. There are strong language warnings, but it's sparsely used.
People were content to sweep it under the carpet until a certain point. I never knew the extent of some of the drug use until I saw that series. I do remember hearing of someone who danced at a rave for 13 hours straight and died of dehydration. But people didn't want to know. So older folks stayed in the suburbs, and younger folks went into the centre of town, which was a different world at night. The Olympic ballroom had been owned by a friend of the family. When he died, the place was sold, perhaps 15 years before the rave scene.
I found it absolutely riveting. There's room and material for series 2, but that has been dramatised already. It's called "Kin." What no criminal has the sense to do is take a few good years out of criminal activity, then cut, run, and go legitimate somewhere else. Because none of those guys get to grow old here.
People were content to sweep it under the carpet until a certain point. I never knew the extent of some of the drug use until I saw that series. I do remember hearing of someone who danced at a rave for 13 hours straight and died of dehydration. But people didn't want to know. So older folks stayed in the suburbs, and younger folks went into the centre of town, which was a different world at night. The Olympic ballroom had been owned by a friend of the family. When he died, the place was sold, perhaps 15 years before the rave scene.
I found it absolutely riveting. There's room and material for series 2, but that has been dramatised already. It's called "Kin." What no criminal has the sense to do is take a few good years out of criminal activity, then cut, run, and go legitimate somewhere else. Because none of those guys get to grow old here.
