10 years of festival and clubbing lingo.

The UK’s premier dance festival, GlobalGathering, will be celebrating its tenth year this summer with its most spectacular production to date – the festival canvassed festival goers to provide an overview of some of the wittiest clubbing and festival slang spanning their 10 year history…

• Monkey juggler- the lone festival dancer, dancing wildly to a rhythm only he can hear

• Camp Tramp – he hasn’t washed, hasn’t changed his clothes for three days and now here he is, beggin for ciggys

• The tent commandment – thou shalt not leave the putting up of thy tent until 3 in the morning

• Trespassing out – passing out in a tent that is not your own. You don’t know how you got there. You don’t know who these people next to you are….

• The Ejector Selector – bouncer

• Tesco disco – club where everybody’s ‘stacking the shelves’

• Doomcore – very dark techno genre – often played at clubs with names like ‘3rd World War’

• Shape Shifter – particularly bad dancer – no particular style

• Keeping it Tidy – keeping yourself nice and not ‘losing it’ in a club

• Luft-wafter – a topless German techno enthusiast with body odour issues

• Mum ‘n’ Bass – a woman of advanced years still giving it large on the dancefloor

• Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box – popular early rave dance

• Shed – a new music style- somewhere between house and garage

• All gone Pete Tong – everything’s gone wrong

• All tong gone Pete Wrong – everything’s gone very, very wrong indeed

• Its All Gravy – everything is cool

• Beefa – Ibiza

• Neckless wonder – bouncer

• Moon-burnt – pale from too much clubbing

• A bit chish and fips – a confused state

• Ounce-bouncer – fat dancer

• The Crapocalypse – when you enter a festival/club toilet, desperate, only to find it unbelievable filthy and without any paper

• Rave flu – popular affliction affecting the hardcore clubber and the cause of many Mondays off work

• Giving it ‘shaggy’ – adopting the expression and refrain of Jamaican popstar Shaggy when a bouncer has smelled a cigarette and is searching around you – “it wasn’t me”

• Hooves – decent speakers; “they hoof it”

• Dibble – those who confiscate hooves

• Nice one – party without dibble

• Golden Hour – An hour before the club closes, best chance to pull

• Dance-apella: A dance performed without music. Usually absent-mindedly, or to burn off excess energy.

• Deja-moo: The feeling you’ve seen that cow somewhere before at another rave.

• Disco nap: Going to sleep one or two hours before a big night of clubbing.

• On a mission – a trip to the shops to buy food at 4am – usually preceeded by an hour long debate on who will undertake the ‘mission’

Credit: The UK’s premier dance festival, GlobalGathering, will be celebrating its tenth year this summer with its most spectacular production to date. Taking place in Stratford-upon-Avon on the 30th and 31st July, the festival is proud to announce seminal dance legends Faithless and hip-hop impresario Dizzee Rascal as headline acts on the tenth anniversary bill.

For more information and tickets visit: www.globalgathering.com