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COMPANY

DECEMBER 7 — 2:30 P.M. & 7:30 P.M.
Centennial Theatre, North Vancouver
TICKETS: $12 (matinee) & $15 (evening)

984-4484

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Learning to crave the rave

WOULD you buy a
ticket to an event
where you wouldn’t
know the location until
four hours before it
began?

Well over a thousand peo-
ple did last Saturday. I know
because I was one of them.

In fact, over 1,300 tickets
were sold for last Sarurday’s
rave, somewhere in Burnaby.

When I read the ticker T
had just bought, it read
“ADMIT ONE,” and that
was about all it said. It had a
phone number on the back
for more information, which.
! was supposed to call after
six o'clock thar evening. The
recorded voice on the
machine told me the place to
be and the time to be there.

Once my friends and I got
to the location, a school bus
came by and picked us up.
This bus ran back and forth,
driving people from the loca-
tion, to the rave, from 10 in
the evening to one in the
morning. No cars were
allowed, so once you were
there you were trapped, and

the buses didn’t start to take
people back until 6 in the
morning.

Fortunately, no one want-
ed to leave until about six in
the morning.

The rave took place in a
big studio or warchouse, it
was hard to tell. There were
six huge screens that played
computer graphics, ions of
black neon lights, and lasers
everywhere. Water (among
other things) was being sold
in the next room.

There was also a smaller,
cooler room with some
couches, where you could

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just take a break and relax.
Ten hours of non-stop danc-
ing sounds a bit harsh, but
somehow people managed to
do it.

Some people might be
concerned that fights might
break our, however, raves are
much safer than you’d think.
Evervone’s usually too stoned
to get into fights.

The most popular drug
seemed to be MDMA, berter
known as Ecstasy. This drug
is approved in the States by
the F.D.A. for medical pur-
poses, however here in
Canada, Ecstasy still remains
illegal.

Ecstasy is both a stimulan:
and a psychedelic drug. It
was once used in psychother-
apy, until it was banned. It is
stil often used illegally for
romantic purposes, or in this
case, raves.

Ecstasy has a mild hallu-
cinogenic effect on visual per-
ception. This would magnify
the intensity of the lasers, and
distort the images on the
screens. This drug is also sup-
posed to make people feel
close to one another (nor
necessarily sexually).

Ecstasy stimulates the cells
that use ceratonin; it acti. ates
the pleasure centre of the
brain.

Some dangers of this drug
include damage to nerve cells
in the brain, short term’
depression, and addiction.
It’s also suppose to affect the
jiver, heart, and lungs.

This rave was pretty
packed. When I asked Derck -
Junck, who’s been to about
seven raves, how many peo-
ple were usually at raves, he
said somewhere between 500
to 3,000 peuple. Summer
Love (a rave held last
August) had somewhere
around 4,500 people.

When I asked him if he
thought niost raves were sim-
itar, Derek replied “You never
know what to expect. The
music at this one (last
Saturday) kept stopping. At
most raves it’s seamless and
non-stop throughout the -
night.”

He went on to say that
raves start 2s early as 10 in
the evening and usually end
at around 8 in the morning.

Eight o’clock in the
morning was about the time’
we left. Coming out of the
building with about 300
other people to meet broad, .;'”
daylight was one of the
strangest experiences that I’ve"...
ever faced. Everyone seemed |
so burnt out and shocked
that it was light our.

Some people were still
jumpy, while others were just
about sleeping on their feet.

My guess is that about a

‘thousand people went home™ ‘

on Sunday morning and

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