Dave Swindells 'Acid House As it Happens' x IDEA

Dave Swindells third book ‘Acid House As it Happens’ , a visual chronicle of 1988, with the publisher IDEA has been another sell out.

Swindells photographed the first Acid nights at Future and Shoom in March 1988, then Spectrum, Trip, Mutoid Waste Company events organised (or otherwise) in car parks and bus depots, all throughout that year of seismic change, ending in November with the appropriately named Adrenalin. Dave documented and wrote it all back then as the nightlife Editor of Time Out and is now re-visiting and re-telling the history of Acid House, as it happened.

In this own words, and of course photographs. It’s a fast ride. THAT WAS THEN… “These pioneering clubs and illicit, underground parties tore up the rule books about how people could socialise together, a direct response to freash-as-paint Acid House tracks, an egalitarian, dressed-down style and Ecstasy suddenly being easily available. This book is dedicated to the people who made it possible to the people: the dancers, clubbers and ravers (and occasional innocent bystanders) who appear in the photos – Dave Swindells