The millennium certainly started with a bang for clubbers but in the UK, it was more the bang of a cultural balloon bursting. Through the 90s the literally wide-eyed optimism and sense of unity of acid house had turned into a decade of constant growth, subgenre diversification and commercialisation peaking in the superclub era of the end of the decade. But it couldn't last.
'Millennium eve was quite disappointing, really,' says Johnno Burgess, co-founder of dance promoters Bugged Out, which has just celebrated its 30th birthday. Loads of people tasted losing shitloads of money for the first time that night. The year 1999 had been a boom year all Ibiza and Fatboy Slim and Mitsubishis [a notoriously strong brand of ecstasy pills], so there was no end of hype for New Year.
The UK scene, post millennium, just died on its feet, says DJ Sasha, who epitomised the superclub era. It lost its unified cultural identity, with the emergence of different subgenres fragmenting the scene further.
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