1990 

NINETEENNINETY

 THE NEWS

• ​The Stone Roses play their legendary Spike Island gig in Cheshire with support from MC Tunes, Dave Haslam, Paul Oakenfold and Frankie Bones.

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• Pirate radio station Kiss becomes Britain’s first legal dance music radio station. 

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• Moby releases "Go" and plays it at a UK rave to raptuous applause.

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• Manchester police continue a long running battle with the Hacienda after a death the previous summer. After a long court case the club is allowed to stay open.

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• 20th Anniversary of Glastonbury. It was renamed  “Glastonbury Festival for Contemporary Performing Arts”. There were huge clashes between travellers and police with 235 people arrested and £50,000 worth of damage. As a result of this, it was cancelled the following year.

• The Entertainment (Increased Penalties) Act was introduced to increase the fines for not having a license in a venue used for dancing, music or other entertainment.

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• Alex Patterson (who would go on to form the Orb) and Jimmy Cauty from the KLF begin their residency at the Land of Oz night at Heaven in London, and inadvertently invent Ambient music.

• In one of the biggest mass-arrests in British history, 836 clubbers are detained at the Love Decade party near Leeds.

• Sasha becomes resident at Shellys in Stoke on Trent.

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       Notable albums:

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• Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam

• Happy Mondays - Pills n Thrills and Bellyaches

• The Beloved - Happiness

• Adamski - Doctor Adamski's Musical Pharmacy

• Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour 

 THE MUSIC 

 THE PICTURES