RECOVERY

RECOVERY

LET ME TAKE YOU BACK

TO APRIL 1997

THE ORIGIN OF RECOVERY

STARTED IN NEWCASTLE 

AT A LOCAL GAY SCENE

BAR CALLED

HEAVENS ABOVE

THEN AS IT GREW IN SIZE

IT THEN MOVED TO 

ROCKIES BAR.

THE IDEA WAS BROUGHT TOGETHER

BY ALAN ANGUS & STEPHEN WILSON

THE CONCEPT WAS TO HAVE A

DAY TIME RECOVERY ON

SUNDAY AFTERNOONS.

DURING THIS TIME PEOPLE

WERE EMBRACING ROCKSHOTS

WHICH WAS HOSTED BY 

A GROUP OF CLUB PROMOTERS

CALLED "NICE"

A HEDONISTIC CLUB EVENT

WHICH HAD A BETTER AFTER PARTY

THAN THE MAIN EVENTS ORGANISED.

 IN THE BEGINNING RECOVERY

WAS A LARGE GROUP OF 

FRIENDS JUST KEEPING THE PARTY GOING

FROM THE NIGHT BEFORE.

THEN WITHIN WEEKS IT BECAME

BIGGER AND BETTER.

THE SUMMER OF 1997 

WAS OFFICIALLY THE

SUMMER OF LOVE AGAIN

IT WAS THE FIRST EVER 

NORTH EAST EVENT THAT 

WAS CATERED TO

 A MULTI DIVERSITY CROWD.

RACE,CREED & SEXUALITY 

WERE JUST LABELS.

FUN WAS THE AGENDA

SOMETIMES TOO MUCH FUN

RECOVERY WAS A PLACE 

TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS 

& EMBRACE THE MUSIC

YOU WERE ALL THERE AT ONE TIME

A MOMENT IN TIME WHEN

WE WERE ALL ONE.

BIG THANKS TO ALAN ANGUS,

ALISTAIR BACK,ANT,JOHN BOY,

BILLY FANDANGO & KERRY JAMES.

IT WAS A TRIP.

NOT FORGETTING 

LEE DAWSON FOR GETTING

ME TO GO DOWN ON THAT FIRST

BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND.

BIG LOVE

STEPHEN WILSON

(STEPHEN LOVE)

IN THE WORDS OF REPUBLICA

"READY TO GO"