10 years of festival and clubbing lingo.
The UK’s premier dance festival, GlobalGathering, will be celebrating its tenth year this summer with its most spectacular production to date – the festival canvassed festival goers to provide an overview of some of the wittiest clubbing and festival slang spanning their 10 year history…
• Monkey juggler- the lone festival dancer, dancing wildly to a rhythm only he can hear
• Camp Tramp – he hasn’t washed, hasn’t changed his clothes for three days and now here he is, beggin for ciggys
• The tent commandment – thou shalt not leave the putting up of thy tent until 3 in the morning
• Trespassing out – passing out in a tent that is not your own. You don’t know how you got there. You don’t know who these people next to you are….
• The Ejector Selector – bouncer
• Tesco disco – club where everybody’s ‘stacking the shelves’
• Doomcore – very dark techno genre – often played at clubs with names like ‘3rd World War’
• Shape Shifter – particularly bad dancer – no particular style
• Keeping it Tidy – keeping yourself nice and not ‘losing it’ in a club
• Luft-wafter – a topless German techno enthusiast with body odour issues
• Mum ‘n’ Bass – a woman of advanced years still giving it large on the dancefloor
• Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box – popular early rave dance
• Shed – a new music style- somewhere between house and garage
• All gone Pete Tong – everything’s gone wrong
• All tong gone Pete Wrong – everything’s gone very, very wrong indeed
• Its All Gravy – everything is cool
• Beefa – Ibiza
• Neckless wonder – bouncer
• Moon-burnt – pale from too much clubbing
• A bit chish and fips – a confused state
• Ounce-bouncer – fat dancer
• The Crapocalypse – when you enter a festival/club toilet, desperate, only to find it unbelievable filthy and without any paper
• Rave flu – popular affliction affecting the hardcore clubber and the cause of many Mondays off work
• Giving it ‘shaggy’ – adopting the expression and refrain of Jamaican popstar Shaggy when a bouncer has smelled a cigarette and is searching around you – “it wasn’t me”
• Hooves – decent speakers; “they hoof it”
• Dibble – those who confiscate hooves
• Nice one – party without dibble
• Golden Hour – An hour before the club closes, best chance to pull
• Dance-apella: A dance performed without music. Usually absent-mindedly, or to burn off excess energy.
• Deja-moo: The feeling you’ve seen that cow somewhere before at another rave.
• Disco nap: Going to sleep one or two hours before a big night of clubbing.
• On a mission – a trip to the shops to buy food at 4am – usually preceeded by an hour long debate on who will undertake the ‘mission’
Credit: The UK’s premier dance festival, GlobalGathering, will be celebrating its tenth year this summer with its most spectacular production to date. Taking place in Stratford-upon-Avon on the 30th and 31st July, the festival is proud to announce seminal dance legends Faithless and hip-hop impresario Dizzee Rascal as headline acts on the tenth anniversary bill.
For more information and tickets visit: www.globalgathering.com