In the first episode of Big Night Out, journalist Clive Martin heads north to Glasgow in search of a 'big night out' in the UK Gabber scene. To do this he must endure 200 bpm tunes, scores of shirtless men punching the ceiling, hockey mask wearing hardcore fiends, and a man with a rather unusual tattoo.
In the second episode of new Noisey series Big Night Out, journalist Clive Martin ventures into the little-understood world of Psytrance. He stumbles across a forest rave deep in the English countryside, and finds himself dodging swinging dreadlocks, hula hoops and evil clowns.
Following his recent explorations into gabber and psytrance, journalist Clive Martin travels to the suburbs to investigate the age-old phenomenon of drum n bass, trying to understand how it goes beyond music, and starts to inform the entirety of British youth culture with it's white trainers, gun fingers and amphetamines.
After investigating gabber, psytrance and D&B, Noisey's Clive Martin takes on a university Rugby team in the ultimate student night out. To do this, he must endure the pre-lash, the dirty pint, a club playing 90s classics, a 10 shot challenge and the Macarena. Can he be a big man on campus, or will he be the first man down?
Having finally recovered from his investigation into the drunken student disco, Noisey's Clive Martin heads to the dark side to investigate the shadowy world of the UK Metal scene. In a club with an enormous Satan behind the DJ booth, we meet all the stock characters; from grungers, to goths, to overgrown emo kids. Is the UK Metal scene just a dated mass of cliches, or does it mean something more? Big Night Out salutes those who are about to rock.
For this episode Clive goes to investigate just what happened to the indie dream; the ideal of trilbys, Camden Town, skinny jeans and mockney accents. Donning his best Libertines jacket, he heads to a club in East London, and finds out that the scene isn't quite as he remembered it.
Over the course of the Big Night Out series, host Clive Martin has received a fair bit of abuse via YouTube comments. So we thought it was only fair to give him the opportunity to respond to some of them.
The UK Hip Hop scene is a largely maligned part of British music. It's often mocked for its propensities for peaked beanies, bad lyrics, silly names and the overwhelming stench of cheap skunk. So Clive and the team headed down to Bristol, the spiritual home of the British B-Boy scene to investigate if people from the UK can do rap, or if we should just leave it to the Americans.
Host Clive Martin sets off to investigate the magnetic appeal of "the party island", and meets a cast of characters including DJs Carl Cox and Luciano, a crew of scantily clad club-dancers, puking Brits abroad, Alfredo Fiorito – the man who basically invented Ibiza as we know it today – and a 10-foot-tall flying rave robot.
Clive Martin investigates this 21st century version of Rave, where young people break into disused spaces with the help of bolt-cutters and complicated squatting laws, to suck on balloons and go hard into the early morning. But with the police using increasingly extreme tactics to clamp down on these parties, and more than one fatality causing nationwide media panic, can the scene survive?
Greece is a hub of hedonistic nightlife and the site of a refugee crisis. How do the tourists, the immigrants and the destitute locals coexist in this island paradise?
Two beaches in Romania became home to two very different party cultures when the country opened its doors after the communist regime. But has this new found freedom come at a cost?
Ukraine is a politically polarized nation divided by war. Clive investigates how the youth is expressing their frustrations through their late night party scene.
Hardcore provides an escape for young misfits from Holland's industrial ghost towns, but the Protestant Church fights back, making raves the new generational battleground.
Clive meets some of the local legends who keep partygoers returning to Ibiza, the undisputed Mediterranean Mecca for ravers, year after year.
Rave culture of the 21st century survives the mass culling of British nightclubs and faces an extreme police crackdown and Clive investigates the ways kids manage to still rave despite this suppression.
