A bright but naughty adolescent from country Australia is moved to the city. Caught between a strict private school and a family marred by tragedy; the release of Melbourne's first raves are like an overnight pass to heaven. 20 years on '...See moreA bright but naughty adolescent from country Australia is moved to the city. Caught between a strict private school and a family marred by tragedy; the release of Melbourne's first raves are like an overnight pass to heaven. 20 years on 'Little Joe' reflects on the extent to which this formative experience sparked a drug and alcohol addiction he barely survived. The now infamous 'Melbourne Underground' of the 1990s - a loose affiliation of only a thousand or so 'techno'' enthusiasts - spawned many such problems in ravers' later lives. Now that Electronic Dance Music is mainstream and raves a matter of course, is a much larger cohort headed for the trouble Joe had? Written by
Joe Fitzgerald
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