25 reasons why 90s clubbing was great according to Terry Farley

Larry Levan in action

Our tongue-in-cheek feature on "why 90s raving was shit" certainly kicked up a storm at the weekend. But veteran London DJ and acid house pioneer Terry Farley certainly begs to differ. Here, he's written a response as to why raving in the 90s was actually the shit and he's done so in the style of his long defunct but definitely not forgotten dance music fanzine, Boy's Own.

1. The End. The first underground super club open 'til 6am.

2. Larry Levan. At Ministry of Sound, open 'til mid-morning on a Sunday.

3. DJ Harvey. Turning up for his spot at Ministry with records in a Tesco shopping bag.

4. Clubbing trips to Rimini and Ibiza. Kids from all over the country getting on it over there.

5. The fashion. Clogs and beehives on the girls at Soho Theatre club, psychedelic skinheads at Love Ranch, motorcycle boots and Michiko jackets, Roman crops and white Levis, Nike Riffs and Air Force Ones, Evisu from Duffer, Maharishi snow pants (yes, honest), someone bringing you back a Supreme T-shirt from NYC or Tokyo.

6. The big Sasha versus Weatherall mixing debate.

7. Boy's Own's Free Danny Tenaglia party in a Brixton gay bar.

8. Back 2 Basics. The best Northern club... Ever.

Masters At Work (aka MAW) in '97

9. MAW dub mania.

10. Mitsubishis "rescuing clubland." (Mixmag)

11. Girls FM. London's finest ever house pirate with ­Kenny and Luke's show being the soundtrack to those wonderful drives across Waterloo Bridge at night.

12. Kerri Chandler and Frankie Knuckles.

13. Saving up to visit the Sound Factory in NYC. Best club in the world '90-'94.

14. Tribal records. Every record sounded like the future.

15. Wildpitch and US tribal mixes.

16. Acetates of new music sending kids wild. And DJs paying £50 a time for one.

17. Nipping into Trade at 11am for a 'late drink'.

18. Sunday afternoons at Full Circle. ­ A pub on a dodgy road outside Slough where Tenaglia, DJ Pierre, Richie Hawtin, Carl Craig and Tony Humphries would spin.

19. Having far too much to do than worry about what's on TV.

20. Market workers' pubs that opened at 5AM. And were full of beaned up kids at breakfast time.

21. No one asking you to play old-skool.

22. Everyone you knew having a job they loved doing.

Space Terrace, '92

23. Space Ibiza. When it was a pitch-black techno after hours club full of queens from Barcelona.

24. The Space terrace in the late 90s. When it was in its vibrant and sexy infancy.

25. People saying, "They're as good as the Californian Sunrises..." They never were.