Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture

In Among The Thugs, Bill Buford argues that the spatial organization of the football stadium – fans are shunted like cattle down narrow dark passages into packed ‘pens’ – is almost deliberately designed to generate a herd-mentality.

The name ‘The Children’ comes from Chicago house slang: to be a ‘child’ was to be gay, a member of house’s surrogate family. ‘Step-child’ was the term for a straight person accepted by gays.