Look into your heart and think about your deepest, truest desires. Consider what would bring you pure, unadulterated joy and happiness. For some, it would perhaps be something existential, like finding contentment with their lot in life; for others it would something more sweeping, like once-more inhabiting a world that does not appear to be on the precipice of self-annihilation. However, I'm sure that statistically, for some out there, the thing that would bring them the most joy would be to see their immediate blood relatives covered head to toe in neon paint, glow-sticks clutched in their whirling hands as their bodies, clad in an array of iridescent fabrics, flail around arrhythmically to a Prodigy remix in a warehouse in Swords.
Well, for those who would consider themselves members of this latter group, and, in order to justify the preceding paragraph, I really hope there are some of you out there, your day has come as there is a family rave event happening in Dublin.
The event, titled 'Big Fish Little Fish', will be taking place in Tramline in Dublin on Sunday, June 9th. Thankfully however, as one might expect from an event billed as a 'family rave', you can expect the usual kind of carry-on that would happen at a rave to be dialed down several notches. Instead of having to shirk the advances of a profoundly sweaty middle-aged man trying to sell you insidious narcotics, think 'a craft station'. Rather than having an overly assertive group of young professionals in boiler suits 'letting loose' by dancing very poorly and very extravagantly right up against you, think 'a baby chillout space with mats and small ball pool'.
Indeed the whole event seems to be catering toward a young family crowd. Though, if anyone has watched any recent interviews with Bez, it's probably fair to assume that soft-play areas and arts and crafts tables are about as cognitively challenging as most people who were involved in the original rave scene in the late 80s could now manage.
According to the event page, music on the night will be provided by DJ Mark Archer (Altern 8). There will be a 'multi-sensory dancefloor' which 'comes alive with glitter cannons, bubbles, giant balloons and a parachute dance finale'. If you would like to enter into, what I'm presuming to be 2019's first, and perhaps only, 'parachute dance finale' then pick up tickets now.
