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Irvine Welsh play announced

Ecstasy, Irvine Welsh's collection of short stories which looks at the love lives of disco biscuit guzzling ravers in '90s Edinburgh, has been adapted into...

Alexander Shulgin, the first person to synthesize MDMA, dies

The new material follows the tease of a global tour

Disclosure have shared a new track.

After taking a hiaitus from recording, the UK duo made up of brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence have released...

She’d allegedly attended the Don’t Let Daddy Know event at Manchester’s Victoria Warehouse this weekend...

A teenager has died over the bank holiday weekend after reportedly taking a ‘MasterCard’ ecstasy pill whilst attending the Don’t Let Daddy Know event at...

Photographer Stuart Linden Rhodes, known mononymously Linden, spent the ‘90s capturing the queer clubbing scene in the north of England on his camera. Now his...

Throughout the 1990s, Stuart Linden Rhodes was a teacher by day and a writer and photographer covering the north’s gay clubbing scene at night. In...

The podcast will be available soon

The story of rave and ecstasy in the UK has been explored in a new BBC Podcast.

The podcast, entitled Ecstasy: The Battle of Rave...

The 'Skype' pills contain up to three times the regular dose of MDMA... 

Five people have been left “critically ill” after Parklife festival due to high-strength ecstasy, leading police to issue a warning. 

The 'Skype' tablets are said...

Next up on Bristol’s Livity Sound is Toma Kami with the ‘Negative Extasy’ EP. Hear the radiant and rhythmically complex ‘Aces’ now...

Ever-reliable Bristol label Livity Sound will release Toma Kami’s new EP ‘Negative Extasy’ this Friday 28th June.

The label’s first release of 2019 – following...

Tom Cruise, legal highs & classic Chicago sounds

Dori Oskowitz has been announced as the director of a new, as-yet-untitled independent film about the ecstasy-fuelled rave movement in Dallas, Texas, during the mid-1980s. ...

Win guestlists for Ecstasy, Passion & Pain this Saturday

While Mylo's days as a dance music revolutionary maybe behind him, his legacy lives on. His LP 'Destroy Rock & Roll' may have changed...

To watch 'Ecstasy', the new film of classic Irvine Welsh novel

If you've ever read Scottish-born author Irvine Welsh, whose opus 'Trainspotting' was turned into a hugely successful film in the '90s, then...

Professor Nutt's book on minimising harms of legal and illegal drugs

Since being sacked as chair of the government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs in 2009, Professor David Nutt has been a voice of...

Stop, pause, play, REWIND! 

German confectioners Haribo have just launched a new range of ‘DJ themed’ sweets, called DJ Brause (which translates to ‘DJ sherbert’).

The sour sweets are...

A 19-year-old died at Creamfields and a 17-year-old died at Leeds Festival, while Police have issued a drug warning

Two teenagers have died at festivals in the UK over the bank holiday. 

Creamfields and Leeds Festival, which both took place in the North of...

The channel will launch on BBC Sounds next month

BBC Radio 1 have announced a 24-hour dance music stream.

Launching next month, on Friday 9th October at 6PM, the BBC Radio 1 Dance dedicated...