Rave culture will be revived by someone who was there in Second Summer of Love at Farnham Maltings on July 17 at 7.30pm. Writer Emmy Happisburgh said: “I went to my first rave in 1989. It was in a field in Alfold and was shut down by the police just as I got there - which was just as well because my parents thought I was at a sleepover at a friend’s. “After that, I concentrated on my school and theatre work for a while, but I did find myself at the legendary Sterns on Highdown Hill near Worthing in the early 1990s. “This was a club night held in an old manor house. It looked like it was haunted from the outside but inside it was full of hundreds of teenagers, ultraviolet backdrops and a new kind of music called House. ‘The Underground - Sterns’ basement - was my favourite dance floor of the era. I will never forget the feeling of unity in that place.”
