You know trainspotting, I guess? That black comedy drama film following a group of heroin addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh. Well the author of the short stories where the film comes from, Scottish Irvine Welsh, embarked on a new project, a TV series which retraces the beginnings of raves and acid house. He called it Ibiza 87.
In this TV show, we follow the course of three British DJs, Paul Oakenfold, Nicky Holloway and Danny Rampling, at the time of the birth of raves. It tackles the moment when the trio flies to Ibiza in 1987 and makes the discovery of the Island and the premises of the acid house. Ibiza 87 will plunge into the golden age of the genre, the Second Summer of Love, the summer of 1988/1989.
It is definitely a period that the Scottish writer is particularly fond of. In addition to Trainspotting which he published in 1993, he had also released the collection of short stories called “The Acid House” the following year. A work also adapted to film, this time by Paul McGuigan, in 1999.
“The house music scene and, most importantly, the friendships made, the adventures Iived and the crazy tales swapped, all those things have been a pivotal part of our lives over the years“, says Irwine Welsh about Ibiza 87 in a press release. “Those beats, pills and travels (whether to the other side of the world or across the town) shaped a generation, and the opportunity to construct a drama from this backdrop is a dream coming true.”
A release date for Ibiza87 is yet to be announced, stay tuned!
