- The Observer, Sunday 17 September 2006
Lee Parsfield
40, charity fundraising team leader
I went to a squat party last weekend called 'Fuck Reading Festival'. The stuff I go to doesn't have any so-called dance music - it's anarchist punk and metal, so you don't really get people jumping up and down blowing whistles and dressed up in Day-Glo. Rave music's not my kind of music - it just sounds like noise.
Sarah Gray
23, trainee architect
I really want to go to a rave, but I always hear about them afterwards. I'd be up for it as long as everyone wasn't in fluorescent, furry boots. In London, something like the Secret Sundaze club is meant to be a bit like a rave thing, but really, it's more about what you wear and how you look than it is about the music.
Stephen Molyneux
28, arts director
I don't think I've ever been to a rave with glowsticks and people on acid and ecstasy. It's not an attractive prospect for me - messy kids and not very political in any way. Culturally, it doesn't interest me one little bit. New rave just sounds like a music industry tool to push a type of band and a whole new market.
Charlene Ronflard
25, textile designer
I've never been to a rave, but I'd definitely try it for fun. The idea of it has always put me off, though - the wildness and drugs. I don't really like taking drugs and so it's quite hard being around people who are on them. My friends in France used to go to raves, and there are still loads of free parties in Brittany.
