Nuclear rave... This was definitely one to remember.
After the success of Judgement Day, I wanted to make the next event huge. I had way too many ideas
and was eager to execute as many of them as I could. Human Part and I made a document on our
drive to brainstorm all of the ideas we were having. The resulting document was some
unhinged psychotic looking scrawl of text that might not make any sense at all. I cropped some
of the images but looking at them again I realize there is too little context so I will just
summarize some of the ideas we had here.
Build a giant nuke
Get a giant blow up alien
Make giant nuclear waste containers
Get a very unflattering go-pro cam
Get dummy security cameras mounted everywhere
Have people dressed up in suits act like they are looking for someone?
Dress up in biohazard cleanup jumpsuits
Buy a bunch of Kratom, rip off the seals and labels and have Jordy sell them out of the
back of his truck???
Well we did some of that. Most of the shit in there was way too far fetched to do in real life.
I did build a towering 9 or 10 foot tall nuclear bomb and I did paint some huge 50 gallon barrels
yellow and stenciled a radioactive warning on them with spray paint. I did weld three metal barriers
for the crowd to hold on to and run into while they relentlessly moshed, and I made merch based on
an experience I had at the first dance party I had ever been to. Matthew Fit was playing at The Block,
a night club that no longer exists because apparently the owners couldn't all come to any agreements
on anything. This snobby girl who had moved to SLC from SF in a house her parents gave her
was absolutely hammered and spit into my ear saying "Yeah there's a lot I wanna do with the music
scene here." Oh how she missed her summers grooving to tech house in Ibiza.
Here's Kaylee posing in the first merch drop. I had such a crush on her at the time LOL hi puke
One of the coolest things we did (and most underutilized imo) was the raver cam. Unfortunately the battery didn't last long
enough and we couldn't figure out a way to mount it to a neck brace to make the angle as unflattering
as possible for the wearer. It was still a pretty funny angle though.
There was definitely something different about Nuclear rave. The energy was completely off the charts.
People were absolutely hyped up for no reason at all and to this day, Our MOCKED CLUB tribute set
is a feeling I aspire to feel again.
The entire crowd was on board with our set. People jumped up on top of the barrells, the sub, each
other! This was also the night I met my partner, "Fan-girl". She licked my hand during my set and we still talk
about it to this day. If you look closely towards the beginning of the video,
you can see her violently pull my hand behind the camera. Really a great night.
All that aside though, I have realized this probably is not something I ever WILL feel again. At that time, I
didn't know who I was at all, I was very "bro-ey" and that's DEFINITELY not the case now. Nuclear rave
was a product of its time, and in a way, a product of me. It was fun while it lasted but we don't
need to go back!
