Class of 88-The True Acid House Experience-Kindle Special Edition Out Now
The founder of LSD magazine, (which I proudly write for) and the organiser of the Genesis, Acid
Parties in the late eighties, (of which I was a proud card carrying member), Wayne Anthony has released a brand new version of his definitive document of the era seen through the eyes of one of the main players
" The organisers were better than we were, I only wish I had them as my lieutenants, because they were brilliant. They could organise thousands of people in two hours to go from one spot to another. The military can’t do that now, the police definitely couldn’t do it “
Kenneth Tappenden MBE –
Police Commander (Police Pay Party Unit 1989/90) 2010
Class of 88 – The True Acid House Experience (Special Edition) Kindle Version Out Now!
“Wayne Anthony took his first Ecstasy tablet in Spain in 1987. Then the Summer of Love hit Britain in ‘88 and, together with the rest of the youth of the UK, Wayne embraced the bright new Acid House lifestyle of dance music, MDMA and all-night celebrations as Britain partied like never before.
Yet when Wayne turned his natural East End entrepreneurial instincts to the rave world, and began organising the infamous Genesis dance parties for thousands of kids, he quickly discovered the seamy downside of the Acid House dream. Beneath the shiny smiley surfaces lurked a vicious world of violence, police harassment, gangsters, protection rackets and organised crime.
In two years as an illegal dance party promoter, Wayne Anthony made-and lost-hundreds of thousands of pounds, took vast amounts of drugs, and jumped out of an aero plane on LSD. He was also beaten up by psychotic ex-paratroopers, menaced by criminals and blackmailers, confronted with sawn-off shotguns, kidnapped and threatened with murder.
Wayne Anthony spent two years breaking and entering into warehouses and putting his life on the line in the vanguard of the dance party revolution which swept the UK in the late eighties.
Class of 88 is his raw, idiosyncratic and fascinating account of how Acid House changed his life, and Great Britain, for ever.
The Special Edition
The Special Edition has been completely rewritten and now includes brand new stories from Wayne Anthony¹s epic journey into the world of Acid House and the organisers that staged some of the biggest illegal warehouse parties in the history Great Britain. 
The party promoter was the first amongst his contemporaries to tell his true story to the world. Genesis is one of the founding companies that created and neutered a platform for large-scale all night dance parties. This brought Wayne and his Genesis partners to the attention of gun totting mercenaries, well known gangsters, bank robbers, and members of parliament, riot squads though worse of all The Media. This true story tells the epic tale of England¹s biggest sub-cultural movement that began on the Island¹s of Ibiza and Tenerife in 1987. The influence of promoters such as Wayne Anthony can be felt in almost every dance music venue in the world today. Ten years on this Special Edition goes even further into the history of the worlds biggest Acid House promoters.”
Over 100 Added Pages
Class of 88 – Amazon Kindle Link – http://amzn.to/c88kindhome
Wayne Anthony’s Acid House History Blog –
http://acidhousehistory.blogspot.com/
PS: Secondhand Copies of the Original Paperback Sell on Amazon for up to
£350 and £500 on E Bay
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Class-88-True-House-Experience/dp/0753502402/ref=sr_1_1ie=UTF8&qid=1309437171&sr=8-1
Great video by Nicky Dungeons…… Shout out mate!!
