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How daytime raves introduced clubbing to a generation of young British South Asians - Mixmag.net

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Safi Bugel explores the history of daytime rave culture and its seismic impact on British South Asian youths in the 1980s and '90s Restricted by their parents’ expectations yet fuelled by a desire to let loose, British Asian kids worked around a hostile and predominantly white club circuit to forge their own scene in the 1980s and ‘90s, operating in the afternoons and at local venues. Taking place across the UK from London to Bradford, these daytime parties were avenues for young people of South Asian descent to dance, drink or even hook up — set to the soundtrack of their own music and on their own terms. “I wasn’t allowed out much as a young person,” says Sarah Sayeed, a British Bangladeshi musician who came of age during the ‘90s. Sarah was just 15 years old when she began skipping school to catch the daytime raves at Hammersmith Palais— a self-proclaimed act of rebellion while living at her family home. Indifferent to drinking alcohol or catching the attention of boys, she was inst

Restricted by their parents’ expectations yet fuelled by a desire to let loose, British Asian kids worked around a hostile and predominantly white club circuit to forge their own scene in the 1980s and ‘90s, operating in the afternoons and at local venues. Taking place across the UK from London to Bradford, these daytime parties were avenues for young people of South Asian descent to dance, drink or even hook up — set to the soundtrack of their own music and on their own terms. “I wasn’t allowed out much as a young person,” says Sarah Sayeed, a British Bangladeshi musician who came of age duri

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