Since 1991, we’ve been capturing the heart and soul of the Scottish rave scene, filming at legendary events like LOVE at the Plaza Glasgow, Maelstrom at Marco’s Forum, Awesome 101 in Livingston, Holocaust in New Cumnock, Sweatbox Ballys in Arbroath, Network Paisley, BarnOwl Strathaven, Mayfair Glasgow, Move Coatbridge, Bishops in Elgin, Moist Fife, Gaelforce Dumbarton, Revolution (Awesome 101) at Dalleagles Farm, Metro Saltcoats, Kellys in Portrush, Tunnel in Glasgow, Fubar Stirling, Hanger 13 Ayr, TechnoTrance at the Barrowlands, Rez Luminaire at Ingliston, Streetrave’s Eurodance event at Prestwick Airport, Stornoway and so many more. Paul was always buying more cameras batteries and lights to last throughout the night, he would give cameras to his friends to go film what they want, “just go get the vibe, I only need 10% if you can hold the shot!” It grew arms from there Paul and Linda were relentless in their weekend expeditions to rave hotspots like Plaza Glasgow’s LOVE, Holocaust in New Cumnock, Streetrave’s airport parties, Rezerection’s legendary gatherings, Hanger 13, and many more across Scotland’s underground circuit filming this new vibe called rave.
We have transcribed this interview with journalist Claire Wyburn that we found in an old M8 Magazine from 1993, click on the magazine below to read the full interview with M8 journalist Claire Wyburn, a deeper insight into who Double Vision was and how it all started.
In 1999 the Double Vision crew took time out from the rave scene due to careers work family and changes in the scene.
Fast forwarding to around 2008 lots of ravers from back in the day began to appear on the social media platform Bebo, ravers started reconnecting with each other and reminisce about the amazing times that we all had in the 90’s. Paul had just given up his career as a building inspector to become full-time carer to his mum who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Paul was inspired by the buzz about the rave scene on Bebo, in his spare time from caring for his mum he would dig out some of his old tapes and make small video clips to post on to Bebo and YouTube for all the oldskool ravers to see. Paul quickly grew frustrated at the limitations of Bebo’s new video platform and reached out to student sound engineer and web builder Marc McLean to create a dedicated website to show all the old tapes. At that time Marc had just started learning how to edit video with Protools at college, it amazed him because back in the day he always remembered Paul using tape machines and a mixer to edit video and how much of a nightmare it could be a times, it was 2008, Paul had just started using digital capturing and editing software to put clips on Bebo, Paul and Marc started going out with cameras at weekends filming hardstyle and hardcore events around the Glasgow area and posting on to the early social media platforms.
It’s now 2026 and we are still filming rave and nightclub events, collaborating with film makers, documentary makers, archive researchers and wedding videographers, we shoot on 3 Sony HXR video cameras, 3 Black Edition GoPro’s, Nikon D3300 on DJI Ronin S and DJI Mini 2, During the covid19 lockdown we built 2 new Ryzen ROG Strix based edit PC’s and upgraded our archive storage to increase our workflow quality and capacity. It has taken the last 15 years to get all the 90’s footage together rescuing hundreds of tapes and editing all the live cameras together as much as we possibly could, as well as still going out now and then filming current music events and creating new content. We are passionate about video, photography and building our online archive.
Double Vision Studio Glasgow 2010
It is our vision to rescue as many of the original tapes as possible and use this website to document how Scotland raved throughout the 1990’s it is paramount that we keep these memories alive. From the word go we knew this was going to be a monumental task, Paul’s technique for logging and storing all the tapes was always chaotic back in the day, literally hundreds of tapes lying around in boxes, on shelves, some unlabelled, some boxes stored up his cold damp loft for years.
Tapes with multiple labels and all the ink fading away because the tapes have been pushed into the edit machines so many times over the years, some tapes are snapped, some tapes have liquid ingress, probably beer.
As well as the condition of the tapes there are also issues like some of the crew turning the camera off and on at random times making it tricky to keep large projects in sync, the machines we use to digitise the tapes constantly need their heads cleaned due to the dust etc accumulated on the tapes over the years. if the heads build up too much dust etc the video image ends up ruined and the tape has to be recaptured. Once its all loaded into our computers it has to be cleaned up and edited and archived to be shown here on our website at some point in time.
Our collaborations include MTV, MTV Europe, MTV Dance Zone, MTV Chillout Zone, STV Chartbite, STV News, BBC Scotland, The Sound Of Belgium (TSOB), Scoobs The Rave Years by Journey Pictures – David Street, The Story of STREETrave ’89-’09 – Lemon Productions – Jon Mancini, Bits & Pieces Documentary – BBC Tune, Colours TV, BTTF Events, Sector Events Scotland, Masters of Hardcore, Coloursfest, Fantazia, ‘Hold Me’ Tim Knights – V&A Dundee, ‘Scotland The Rave’ Documentary – Two Rivers Media, Sons of Ecstasy – Warner Bros-Discovery.
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