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Getting the horn for Drum and Bass
Drum and Bass | Thursday 21st February 2013 | Alfie
We love a horn, but keep it for when there's no one around to annoy, or at least blow it at the right moment! For those of you out there lucky enough to have been born in the 90's, you missed the first advent of the rave-horn. No, not that funny feeling in your little chinos when you've been hitting the MKAT - the plastic horns that plagued the rave-scene while you were still in nappies. You also missed Thundercats, Keenan and Kel and Fresh Prince (when it first came on, not the repeats), which is a shame - but you have Youtube for that.
Recently (and worryingly) they seem to be reappearing at an alarming rate. Now, I don't have an objection when you're at some massive, open-air festival or carnival. A horn-blower at Notting Hill, for example, isn't going to irk you too much. At foreign festivals it isn't too bad either, apart from when your mate "Kev the legend" is stood in his pants, parping one at full volume in some poor local's restaurant at 8am. A nightclub - especially the smaller capacity ones out there - is not the right time or place!
Before you dismiss me as a kill-joy, I am anything but. I love to see people skanking out, hard. I like to see people lose it to the music and just go wild. I don't like somebody so completely ruined that they've chewed their own cheeks off, blowing a horn at however many million decibels into my ear canal. If you must show to the world that you're a "raver" in an awful 90's fashion - may I suggest the over-sized dummy? It'll probably save you from eating your own lips, too.
