Posts Tagged ‘Brighton Rave’

[ September 12, 2009 11:00 pm to September 13, 2009 6:00 am. ] Fuck me! Positive Sounds are 17 years old! If you’re a Brightonian, or from around Brighton, you will at some point have come across the Positive Sound System. Be it in a club, a field, the sea front, or any other place they have been able to infiltrate.

At recent Brighton Festival fringe literary event Grit Lit, Tim Lay read an extract from his second novel Rats with Wings, which tells the tale of a London copper – Lewis – who is dragged down to Brighton by her sinister patrol partner Letch for an unknown and dodgy pretext.

There was a time in Brighton when nightclubs were at permanent capacity, thanks in part to the big beat popularity and the city’s reputation as a party town, but underpinning the thriving night scene was the sweaty, pulsating free party scene that took over fields, beaches, mansions, vacant buildings, warehouses, coastal strips and sea archways.