Party promoter George Hull says today’s ravers are boring
George Hull of Bloc wrote a feature piece for ‘Spectator’ where he attacked ‘modern day hipster ravers’, and shared that he is done with modern day dance music.
His piece echoed the tone that is generally used during 3am ramblings on the way home from the club or while doing lines on some random’s couch at an after party.
“… raves are too safe and boring now”
These thoughts, which make him sound like a grumpy and outdated man was perhaps better reserved for personal conversation.
George Hull talked about his decision to drop out of college at nineteen to promote raves and start a record label. After more than ten years he claims that they have “regretfully decided to close down” and raves are “too safe and boring now” and that “young people these days just don’t know how to rave”.
Dusting off your hands and announcing that you’re done with the scene gets you attention for all of five minutes, then after that people forget about you and move on.
There will always be ravers, clubbers, cool kids, fads, trends, and sheep. The cyclical nature of music, style, and fashion continues to evolve in this pattern. By getting mad at young people for partying differently than you used to and generalising the scene in one fell swoop, you isolate and corner yourself in.
George Hull reminisces on the 80’s and 90’s (which is a very fashionable thing to do by the way)…
“The late 1980s and early 1990s were the heyday of commercial rave promotion. That generation is now middle-aged. Instead we have hipsters — a subculture so spineless that it had to borrow its name from its parents. Hipsters are an uptight bunch. They like dance music, but they lack the sense of abandon that made raving so much fun.”
He also gets mad at early bird tickets, day parties, ‘safe spaces’, sensible drinkers, vegans and more.
<h4> But his partner is not done yet
His friend and Bloc co-founder, Alex Benson has a different view. According to Benson, Bloc is not done throwing events either…
“I knew that he wanted to pursue a career in freelance journalism and I knew that he was going to write a cantankerous old man piece for the Spectator, which he intended to be sort of funny and provocative. It wasn’t particularly funny. We discussed it and I said that it wasn’t something that was going to go up via Bloc, but I respected his right to publish his own views under his own name.
I was fucking livid. I thought it was totally boneheaded, all of the stuff in it. I thought that it didn’t really reflect what George felt, and it certainly didn’t reflect what Bloc felt. I just wanted to wring his neck, really. It was a very, very frustrating period in our professional and personal relationship.” said Alex Benson co-founderof Bloc to Factmag.
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