Rave: Hardcore Heaven 3

Date: Saturday, 12 April 1997

Production: M & M productions, The Hardcore Alliance & Teknosis

Venue: Centennial Stadium, Redfern Rd Minto

DJs: Jen E (QLD) vs Spellbound, Cloud 9 vs Crisis, Paul Holden vs Daydream, Geoff da Chef vs Chuck, Tymez II vs 911, Subzero vs Shade

Description: Kids + Hardcore + Kids + Thump + Thump + Thump = Hardcore Heaven 3. The rave was FULL of people about the age of 14. I have never been to a rave that was so young before. I felt really old. Maybe I am. Ok, I’ll start with the good things, or should I say, the one and only good thing. The lasers were Awesome! Heaps of them, multicolored and you were allowed up on a viewing level, and the lasers came up into that too. One of the best laser shows at a rave. Now for the bad bits. Minto. I think we are all sick of it. Personally it’s the 4th time I’ve been to the same place for a rave – it’s a sign of a lazy promoter, or a promoter who only gets bodgy venues which cancel at the last second. 2nd Kids – enough said already I think. 3rd Music. The name “hardcore heaven” was true to its name. The music was so much towards the hardcore end of stuff that I couldn’t stand it. And I’m not the only one. I heard heaps of other people saying the same thing. It was just repetitive bang, bang, bang, with nothing else in the background except the occasionally screaming swearing of someone. No feelings, no emotions, no deep music at all. I’ve been to parties with “hardcore” in their name before, and none of them have been anything like this one. If you’re under 14, and you like listening to trains going past, then this is the rave for you. Otherwise it was crap. It gets 2 for the lasers.