THIS SITE IS DEDICATED TO ANDY WILLIAMS

- AKA DJ PURE, 1966-2006 - RIP

....1989 THE SUMMER OF LOVE,  MY FRIENDS AND I WERE HEARING THIS NEW ACID HOUSE MUSIC CONSISTING OF NEW BELEARIC AND RYTHMICAL ELECTRONIC BLEEPS , LIVELY PIANO RIFFS AND WE LOVED IT!... I REMEMBER HEARING A GUY CALLED GERALD-VOODOO RAY, FOR THE FIRST TIME IT BLEW ME AWAY (CLASSIC)  IT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST SINGLE CDS I BOUGHT. WE ALL LIVED 30 MILES OUTSIDE OF LONDON ON THE SURREY, HAMPSHIRE BORDER AND THIS RAVE WAVE OVERCAME EVERYONE IT WAS NEW, EXCITING AND VERY FRESH. WE HAD NEVER HEARD THIS TYPE OF MUSIC AND HAD NO CLUE TO WHERE THIS MUSICAL REVOLUTION WOULD LEAD .... WE WERE ALL 18 - 20 YRS OLD, AND ENTERING A NEW ERA. SUDDENLY EVERYONE I KNEW WHO WAS INTO THIS NEW MUSIC SCENE CULTURE; WERE WEARING SHELL SUITS, TRAVEL FOX TRAINERS, LA GEARS, KICKERS, BRIGHT BAGGY CLOTHES, SILLY HATS, WHISTLES ETC - GOING TO ILLEGAL PARTIES IN FIELDS, EMPTY WAREHOUSES AND FACTORIES, POPPING PILLS EVERY WEEKEND AND LOVING IT! A FAR CRY FROM THE  CHEEZY WEEKEND DISCOS WE WERE USED TO.

 IT CHANGED EVERYTHING....

THIS NEW YOUTH CULTURE TOOK OVER OUR LIVES, WE DEFINATELY LIVED FOR THE WEEKEND!! THE BUZZ AT THE RAVES WAS CONTAGIOUS AND THE FEELING WAS MUTUAL, THE HYPNOTIC MUSIC AND HAPPY CROWD MADE YOU FEEL AT ONE WITH YOUR SELF, EVERYONE LOVED EACH OTHER AND THE FEELING OF UNITY WAS OVERWHELMING, THERE WAS A HUGE SENSE OF BELONGING AND FREEDOM - I PERSONALLY NEVER FELT THAT WAY BEFORE. ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT I WAS THERE AND LOVED EVERY BIT OF IT AND WOULDNT OF CHANGED IT FOR THE WORLD. MORE AND MORE INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC WAS OVERFLOWING ONTO PIRATE RADIO STATIONS, LOTS OF UP AND COMING DJS, LOTS MORE RECORD SHOPS AND NEW RECORD LABELS.  BIG PROMOTERS WERE ORGANISING SECRET ILLEGAL RAVES EVERYWHERE, YOU HAD TO RING A HOTLINE LATE AT NIGHT FOR DIRECTIONS AND GO TO A SECRET MEETING PLACE AND JOIN THE CONVOY (SO EXCITING) FOR UP TO 25000 PEOPLE, SOMETIMES MORE.

IT WAS ALL HAPPENING!!!!!

WE ALL GOT INVOLVED AND WANTED A PIECE OF THE ACTION. WE LOVED THE EXCITEMENT OF MEETING UP WITH PEOPLE, JOINING IN CONVOYS AND TRAVELLING ALL OVER THE COUNTRY MAINLY ROUND THE M25 AND LISTENING OUT FOR LOUD THUMPING MUSIC AND LOOKING FOR LAZERS AND LITERALLY LANDING IN A 50K SOUND SYSTEM IN A FIELD WITH SMILEY FACES.  THIS WHOLE SCENE TOOK OVER OUR LIVES.

ANDY WILLIAMS (MY OTHER HALF) WENT STRAIGHT INTO BEING A DJ, AS HE WAS A  DISCO DJ IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES, BUT THIS WAS A DIFFERENT BALL GAME, OUT CAME THE TECHNICS 1210s AND THE CONSUMPTION OF VINYL WAS REBORN AGAIN. HE BECAME A WELL RESPECTED DJ, AND WAS WELL KNOWN IN OUR AREA. HE ALSO RAN RADIOACTIVE 101.8 FM PIRATE RADIO STATION. I MYSELF BECAME A DJ TOO, EVERYONE WANTED TO BE A DJ, AND THEY DID, IF THEY WERE GOOD ENOUGH THEY WENT ON TO CREATE A GOOD PROFESSIONAL CAREER FOR THEMSELVES AND SOME STILL ARE. ANDY WENT ON TO ORGANIZE PARTIES SUCH AS, CHOBHAM COMMON, ORBITAL 89, RADIOACTIVE, SHYBOYZ, ONE NATION, PANACHE, ARE A FEW TO MENTION.