Amnesia House
The Ultimate Rave Experience Part III
Saturday 4th October 2025
Kasbah
Coventry

2025 has seen Amnesia taking a northern trip to Liverpool as they collaborated with Up the Dock over the summer, whilst partying on the white isle of Ibiza at Slipback in Time. Amnesia returned back to their home town in Coventry to present The Ultimate Rave Experience Part III at the Kasbah.

For their penultimate party of the year Amnesia assembled a line-up featuring many legends of rave from the past 35 years, welcoming a Moving Shadow takeover of the drum and bass arena.

Approaching the Kasbah you could hear the party was in full swing, as the bass was thumping from the outdoor garden arena. Got my ticket scanned and a quick search from security headed through the double doors and onto the dance floor.

Finishing up in the main arena with ‘You’ve got the Love’ was Jumping Jack Frost. It was PA time from one of the pioneers of midlands hardcore, Nebula II. I headed to the balcony to watch the show, Nebula II got thing going and opened up with ‘Flatliners’.

Being on the balcony you can watch the madness of the dance floor whilst having a great view of the massive LED wall on stage, strobe boxes that lit up the balcony, accompanied by a the Laser show which illuminated the arena. Nebula II was armed with PA paraphernalia, dropping plenty of Reinforced classics including ‘Seance’, ‘X-Plore H-Core’ and ‘Atheama’.

Next up was the Amnesia House original residents Shock C and MC Hi Fi, really enjoyed this set a solid party set with lots of crate digging as expected from the Don Christies legend. Shock C laid down numerous 91-92 slammers including ‘The Tape, ‘ Night in motion’, ‘Lets do it’ whilst he got the crowd jumping with ‘Move your body’.

MC Hi Fi was rocking the Coventry crowd in control, I really enjoyed the 2nd half of Shock C’s set plenty of bleepy tracks with ‘NJoi’s – Adrenalin’, ‘Chime Mutation’, ‘Surgery’ and ‘Energiser’.

Making their Amnesia House debut was the legendary Moving Shadow duo, 2 Bad Mice who opened up with ‘Egyptian Empire – The Horn Track’. Mad P was on mic duties for this set a firm Amnesia House favourite who had the crowd reciting his lyrics throughout the set. 2 Bad Mice played an early 90’s set as they dropped tracks such as ‘NHS’, ‘Get down’ and of course their colossal rave classic ‘Bombscare’.

Of course when you have Mad P hosting your set, you have to play the Topbuzz anthem ‘Living in Darkness’. Mad P dedicated this to his mother as it was the 40th anniversary of her passing RIEP Cynthia Jarrett.

Briefly popped into the drum and bass arena to catch Sleepless and TNT tearing down with a DNB classic set. The left wing was rammed whilst the duo took the crowd back to the 00’s whilst mixing over 3 decks. The energy from Sleepless was unreal playing classics such as ‘Be True’, ‘Signs’, High contrast of ‘ Renegade Snares’ and ‘Satellite Type 2’.

Back to the main arena and time for the second PA of the evening from Production House’s very own The House Crew. Really enjoyed the stage show from the trio as Nino and Micro hyping up the crowd, bouncing around on stage. Nino rapped to his record ‘All we wanna do is dance’ before unleashing the House crew monster ‘Keep the fires burning’ as the infamous lyrics ‘Cut the mid range drop the bass’ bellowed out in the Kasbah.

The House Crew carried on to play a plethora of their renowned tracks ‘We are hardcore’, ‘The theme’ a favourite of mine which does not get played enough, ‘Superhero’ and finished off with ‘Euphoria’.

Penultimate set of the night came from Nicky Blackmarket it’s not often he plays a 92-94 set and this was well worth the wait. Nicky opened up with ‘Baptised by dub’ moved onto ‘Exodus’ and the Slammin’ vinyl classic ‘Original badboy’ which had the crowd jumping. Chalkie White was brilliant throughout the set in his element whilst interacting with the crowd.

Nicky upped the tempo as he dropped ‘Ephemerol’, ‘Bell Tune’ and ‘Chaos Julia – Atmosphere’ some proper 93 darkside business. The Bukem trinity was unleashed with the mighty ‘Music’, ‘Horizons’ and ‘Atlantis’ which had the crowd calling for the rewind after each track, eventually closing off with his own classic ‘Have you got any more spam’.

Closing the night was the Kings of the oldskool the Ratpack, at this point the main arena turned into a sardine tin as the whole of the Amnesia crowd assembled into the main room for the final hour. In true Ratpack form Mark opened up with ‘Searchin’ for my Rizla’ to start the proceedings.

Mark and Ev ensured no one was left standing still as they rocked the crowd throwing in all the party classics ‘I feel this way’, ‘Move your body’ and ‘Closer to all your dreams’. Evenson commanded the crowd with his infamous ‘Oi oiiii’ and had the Kasbah singing along especially when the Ratpack anthem ‘Captain of the Ship’ was played.

The Ratpack closed the proceedings with Njoi’s ‘Anthem’ along with the mash-up of Sweet Harmony and Brothers Sisters before send the crowd home with Pete Bouncer’s Raving I’m Raving

Another fantastic party from the Amnesia crew, the tune selection in the main arena was spot on, I really enjoyed the PA from House Crew plenty of classics I’ve not heard in a long while and Nicky Blackmarket was my set of the evening, whilst the Ratpack do what they do best closing the night with a party set.

A little thin in the main arena compared to previous parties though it did pick up as the day went on especially for the final 3 hours as the main arena turned into a sardine tin.

Nev and the Amnesia Crew, Mad P, Nicky and Mrs Blackmarket, Mark and Ev, Micro, Nino, Floyd, Simon from 2 Badmice, Shock C, Joe Nebula, Chalkie White, Hi Fi, Phil Noizee B, Ed and Sarah, Adam Maxi, Chappers, Steve Faydz, Danny Lines, Madcap, Five Alive, T-Cuts, Nick Smooth, Sleepless and TNT, Brian BK, Donny from Wolves, Happy, Dave Junglist, Jamie Euphoria, John & Kath Nation, PA,Keeny, also to everyone else whose names I don't' know but faces I recognise.