Rave Up with Arielle Free

[DC]

it's amazing that it's nearly 2010. do you remember where you were 10 years ago? i spent the millenium with my family, and i remember going outside when the fireworks were going off at 12. you could even see the lazers from birmingham in the sky. the i phone i have for instance and most of the technology in our house today was incomprehensible, and i could of never forseen the life i have right now and the people i've met, and the things i was going to do.

i remember enjoying myself more in the first 3 to 4 years of the decade, but i guess as you get older responsibility comes in to ruin things. i started gaining more interest in dj'ing and music in 2000 so those are the golden times for me. then most people think the past is better than the present i guess.

here was the track of the moment this time 10 years ago!

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[Robbie Keane]

*ahem*

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[E*F*4L]

it only seems like yesterday that everyone was going on about the millennium bug & the building of the Dome, even Kylie "can't get you out of my head" doesn't seem that long ago but it was in 2001 & number#1 on 9/11 even seeing that on tv doesn't seem like that long ago.

the one thing i will say is that time does really fly when you get older, where does it all go

[Lucinda]

It is sad getting older. I remember spending the last few hours of 1999 with a big group of my neighbours and their little kids. Now they've all moved away and I've grown up but it really doesn't seem that long ago. I am realising that what Alan says is very true, time does speed up as you get older. It's sad.

[Jono]

It's been a busy one. From leaving primary school to leaving high school to leaving sixth form to starting university. So many amazing things I did in this decade. It's so weird a lot us will be hitting thirty before the next decade is out. Well, that's if we make it

When I heard Nihal's Chart of the Decade I was quite bemused by the number of songs I thought were well beyond 2000. Who would have thought the hits of S Club 7 were in the noughties? I thought they were mostly nineties.

Pioneering websites like MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook... and Unofficial Mills didn't even exist at the start of the decade. I didn't even know of Google until about 2004.

I hardly listened to Radio 1 back in 2000 either. So strange how things have changed so quickly.

[DC]

i started secondary school in 1999, so i bought in the millenium whilst there. year 7 was a bag of nerves time for the most part with me, it was something completley different and i was out of my depth until year 8 came along. so i used to take a pocket radio to school with me, an old beat up sony walkman with batteries to spare. radio 1 was the only station that i could pick up in that building, so it offered me a sense of the outside world that i craved so much. simon mayo, jo whiley and mark & lard kept me company at times when i could drop in to listen.

i remember only having the internet at school, i didn't get it at home until 2003. i knew about google because our teachers used to enforce it on us to use for research, until we found proxy sites that we broke into for free music and sometimes porn. there was no myspace, facebook, twitter or youtube. and if they were there they would of been blocked anyway. so we used to use msn (remember, msn kids) to keep in touch.

i have always been into house music, and was at that time. but it was split with all the others at school. they were too young to understand what i liked so they went for the obvious stuff, all the 'greebo's' as they were called were into sum 41, linkin park, limp bizkit, foo fighters. and the rest just seemed to like anything, later everyone seemed to drop their guard in year 11, most of my friends i converted into listening to judge jules on a weekend. and the others seemed to be into a lot of the r&b crap that was coming out at the time, outkast, kanye west, twista etc.

the later noughties after 2004/5 have been mostly a blur for me, they seem all the same bar one or two things. apart from zidane's headbutt.

[rainbow_brite]

I was 11 in 1999 so I stayed at home with my mum and younger sis on Millennium Eve. I remember listening to Radio 1 back then but not an awful lot due to being in school most of the day. Me and my class went to the Millennium Dome on a school trip in about 2000, from what I can remember it wasn't that impressive inside.

As a kid I listened to the chart music that was around basically, but I discovered proper music when I was 16, it was round about the time Radio 1 started playing more guitar bands in the daytime as well so it was a good introduction for me, now I listen to mainly rock and electronic music.

I'd say I've changed a fair bit in 10 years, probably a lot of my old school friends would be surprised to see how I turned out in the last 5 years.