In 2009 I took a month and wrote all day everyday to capture my memoirs of my rave career.
I then saved the file and 10 years passed.
A few weeks ago I re-opened the file for the first time and was hit with the power of the words on the screen. No wonder it took all of this time, 10 years later and 20 years after the events portrayed in the book. There was too much trauma for me to deal with. It’s taken 20 years to be able to tell my story.
I’ve committed myself to finish my memoir project and finish it now. I’m about finished the second draft. After that it gets handed to an editor. Some time after that it will be published.
The thing that I asked myself now was the “why?”. Why did I do it? Why would someone go through everything I went through? I had the answer – you. The ravers. You inspired and motivated me at every point.
And I have an amazing tool to pull from – all of my emails dating back to the mid 1990s. I started to go through them. Your voices will now be in the book. Why what I did mattered to you, how it affected you.
I’ve often said these memoirs will be my last contribution to the scene. I’m going to be proud to share such a document. An honest review of an incredible time. No one knows what it was like to experience those intense highs and intense lows that I went through.
Please keep an eye on my page for further updates about this.