Yes folks,

So, as most of you know, i used to spend hours a day on this forum and i used to spend quite some time meeting up with you all in real life.
Around 10 years ago - when i was still traveling the world - this forum was kind of my home, and the forummembers where the roommates i would've loved to have instead of the real ones i had.

Actually, this forum and the people on it were the centre of my life.
Fuck, that sounds so sad, but it's true, and i have such amazing memories of this forum and the members, both online and offline. And now i always check the forum every now and then, and i still feel a lot of love for my chemical friends - you all know who you are.

So, to the old crew... what are your favourite memories of 'The Days'. You know, when the forum was exploding with posts when EBW8/EBW9 was released @ Pete Tong, when MX went missing (burrito explosion) or the fucking animals in erics house. Or maybe memories of when we met up in real life. Going to my first chems gig with chemd'up (Brian) and irishfan (Thomas) and acidchildren (rich). Meeting whirly for the first time. Having darkstar over in Amsterdam. Meeting mippio - one of the most amazing (house ) persons i have ever met and probably will ever meet.

What are yours?

Lots of love - keep the memories alive!

x

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Oh i think i posted this in the wrong section?

My favorite chemical mammaries:

Awwwww, JEANS! You make me smile.

I'll post a few pics that bring a smile to my face.

August 2008 - Olympia Gig



Love to see Mipps raging. This was at the gig itself.



Loved being able to hang out with Chemical friends. This photo was taken in the tube after the show.

October 2007 - Los Angeles



We have, from left to right, Whirlygirl, Toomuchstash/Makeskidskill, me, Biff (being a creeper in the shower), and Bosco.

Whirls & Stash were gracious enough to have us hang in their hotel room at the Standard for a bit before the event, which was, in Ed's words, a "dodgy rave."

And meeting Tom & Ed that night was super, duper, duper fuckin' awesome.

Love those four pictures, even if i only knew the names of you.

Awww, you guys...

Aaaaaaaaaah those pics are awesome!
And so funny of mips!

Hahaha.

Good to see everybody agaiN!

MadPooter, on 19 June 2014 - 3:41 AM, said:

Wait, what? I missed you guys at Olypmia 08??? What the... Seems like I wasn't able to use the internet properly..

I missed a the gathering at the chicago's gig. Its a shame really. A missed opportunity.

My time here lately has been sporadic at best, mainly popping up every now and about but not posting with the manic frequency as I once did. Like Jeanie, I had invested so much time here in the past, as though the Chemical Brothers (and everything that came along with their music: the forum, the people) orbited around my life like a satellite. If I couldn't hop a plane to Glastonbury or whereverintheworld to see a gig, I knew I could hop on the forum and in some remote way, live that experience somewhat vicariously through the person posting their share. I divulged a lot of information here myself, and relayed a lot of Chems related and off-topic experiences and feelings, and in many ways used the memories built on here to help carry me through some of the darkest periods of my life so far. Call it escapism, if you will. I owe a lot to the bodies that make up this forum. These names I see every day. I love this place, and love the people that inhabit our corner of the world. Even those folks that, looking back, I locked horns with. Time has a way of softening things up a bit.

Anyway, I have incredible memories that took place as a result of the Chemical Brothers. My first Chemical related meet-up was at Coachella 2001 but it wasn't related to the forum. It was a group of us from the old mailing list. After 3 years of babbling with them through email, I thought it would be fun to actually meet these people in person. And the rest is history.


My first forum meet-up happened in 2005. My husband and I went to London to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary and the timing was such, that I'd be celebrating my birthday on British soil. A forumite named Sneakerbeater was doing a dj set in Woking which happened to be on my birthday, so - how perfect! This was before social networking and Facebooking and Twittering and all of that. I didn't even have a mobile phone at that time. Everything was sort of planned out here on the forum, and surely it all came together on a hope and a prayer. Literally. I don't even think any of us conversed by email beforehand. For all we knew, we were going to meet up with axe murderers and never to be heard from again. On the day, my husband and I took a train out and met iguanapunk and chemicalfan, and we all went to check sneakerbeater's set out together. It remains my most favorite birthday ever in the history of my universe And nobody was murdered, which was awesome. That was kind of the start of something special. From there on I met so many incredible people - Pooter, mipps, Jeanie Beanie, mcmarsh, Bosco, Biff, Darkstarexodus... so many awesome people with amazing lives that I am blessed to have in my life, off the forum. Even if it is on Facebook or whatever.

Other great memories include getting voicemail messages from Jeanie, mippio and the gang during the opening of a Chems set they were at. And having these online friendships layer over into 'real life'. I've had many a forumite crash on my couch or on my floor. Some have seen my son grow from a little kid into a young man. Time is weird like that. Oh, having the opportunity to meet Tom and Ed, and having Ed meet my son. That wouldn't have happened had the forum not been here.

Sigh. Memories. So many, many good ones. I'm happy to relive them all in my mind's eye and see the friends I've made grow into their lives. It's pretty great, actually.

That is so cool, so many awesome experiences. The Brothers changed all of our lives...

Whirls, only seeing this now, that was a great post.
So much memories, this place will always hold a very very special place in my heart!

Jeanie, on 30 December 2014 - 5:14 AM, said:

I adore you, Jeanie. You are my long lost Dutch sister.

Hello Chemical Brothers and Sisters!


Not sure I have a favorite memory...not sure I remember much due to all the drunk posting! <-- not good.


I wish I got to meet many of you guys, but never really had much of a chance. I might be the only one here who lives in the Atlanta area.

Anyway...not really a memory, but a very related note. Whirly is literally one of the first internet friends I ever made...going all the way back to around 1998, when I got my first computer and had AOL dial up...it was on "The Chemical Brothers Mailing List" or something to that effect...before forums and message boards existed as far as I know. Pretty crazy...that was 17 years ago!


Discussions about music and drugs, live experiences, digging for new tracks and sharing a similar bond. It's all been great. I think it will ramp back up soon too with new music coming out. I know I will post here more as news breaks and things get released. In general, I have reduced my online presence as a whole...stopped posting on my electronic music boards, political boards and dropped facebook. Now I kinda pop in and out of those worlds instead of always being in them. I miss it...but I don't...but I do.


I always rambled too much.