About - DVCREW SCOTLAND

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, and so many more.

We have transcribed this interview with journalist Claire Wyburn that we found in an old M8 Magazine.

The more raves and clubs I went to, the more I began to spot the hyperactive pair leaping about on stage, filming all the best rave bands, and prowling around the dance floor, waiting to capture all the weirdest dancers and the more extrovert punters who aren’t camera shy. You just cant miss Paul Martin and Linda Hynds, the Double Vision camera crew. I have seen them at The Bunker, at Marco’s Forum in Livingston, The Tunnel nightclub in Glasgow, at Prestwick Airport, and everywhere else in between!

Fresh back from New York after recording They were busy filming Ultra-sonic recording their latest single live down at Hanger13 in Ayr, the night I finally decided stop pissing about and ask one of them who they were…..I’m very glad I did, for Paul’s energy and enthusiasm is catching, and talking to him is a superb way to cheer you up! For Paul is, as he readily admits, “just like one of the punters,” and what better qualification for Scotland’s only independent video company dedicated to capturing out thriving rave scene and dance culture on video. A few weeks later, I found myself outside their comfortable Glasgow abode, clutching a couple of bottles of red wine and looking forward to a night watching all of Double Vision’s video footage. What a night it was! Double Vision have a veritable rave archive…

Every little black video tape contains reels and reels of The Prodigy, Oceanic, N-Joi, Chase The Rhythm, SL2 Rozalla, Bassheads, Altern8, Lenny Dee, Bass Generator, Mickey B, Chill FM, Suburban Delay at the Rez during their prime, and Jon Campbell of TTF, Whom remarks, “Now, if that’s not a fan of the dance generation, what is?” Double Vision produced the videos for TTF’s first two songs, Real Love and New Emotion, and now the camera crew are working with Chill FM. “Chill FM are going to be Scotland’s hottest band one day,” Paul believes, “and they’re my favourite band right now. They definitely have the Double Vision vibe. Their Stage show works on camera so well, what with their dancers antics, MC Sean Mack’s energy and Laura’s vocals. Add the fireworks and the graphic screen and you’ve got a video which will blow anyone away!” Paul hopes to bring out Chill FM video soon. And the pair have just finished Ultra-sonic’s video, which will include footage of all the bands best gigs. In fact, Ultra-sonic and Chill FM speak highly of Double Vision and there can’t be many Scottish rave bands who haven’t used, or don’t know about Paul and Linda. However, the couple have worked hard for their current reputation.

“We’re conscientious,” Paul explains, “and we spend countless hours going through all our film for the bands videos, picking out the best moments. We can take hours and hours of footage and only get a couple of minutes of magic moments. That’s why we try to stay in a venue for as long as it is open, if we went away early, we’d probably miss something exciting!” and who left early anyway? The couple hold down day time jobs as well – Paul is a building inspector and a joiner, and Linda is a nurse – but both would prefer to commit themselves full-time to their video work.

Linda spent 10 years travelling around Europe and the United states and she didn’t come back to Scotland until 1988 “Paul and I were childhood sweethearts”, she confides “We used to hold hands during playtime at our primary school in Glasgow!” After all the years of separation, Paul bumped into Linda again outside their local butcher shop, where Linda was buying some roast beef. Coincidentally, the couple now live across the road from their old school! Paul remembers well the fateful day he saw Linda again: “I walked past the butcher’s window,” he recalls, “and even though I was struggling with my 18 cans of Red Stripe and a bottle of Vodka, and I hadn’t seen her for over ten years, I recognised her straight away and I just had to speak to her again! “I asked her back to my flat for a drink,” he continues, “but she said she had to buy some sweetcorn, so I told her I had a whole bag of the bloody stuff in my flat and I hated it, so she could have mine!” Obviously this was an offer Linda couldn’t refuse, and she found herself getting drunk on Paul’s Vodka and catching up on old times! “it was love at first sight all over again for me,” Linda readily admits, though she recalls that Paul didn’t actually have my sweetcorn in his flat at all! And that was the beginning of a great team.

Paul has always been a whizz kid with the still camera, so he simply bought a video camcorder and learned the game by going out there and doing it.” It started out as a hobby,” says Paul, “We used to video rock bands like The Almighty, Zodiac Mind Warp and the Bleeding Hearts whom supporting David Bowie. RAR, Rock And Roll… “When we look back at these now we have a laugh – we’ve improved so much. Double Vision’s big break came when Belgian band Praga Khan asked them to to the Rave Alert single at Streetrave’s all-nighter in Prestwick Airport. “The video was shown on MTV every day…

Pauls recalls, “then Praga Khan asked us over to Belgium, where they decided they wanted us to film their tour in the States filming.” So last New Year, Paul and Linda went to New York with Praga Khan, “What a time that was!” Paul enthuses, “We were so excited and Praga Khan were so calm, I can remember flying into New York and seeing the Statue of Liberty and thinking, ‘Wow! This is living!’ We got the star treatment during our stay – we were put up in a classy hotel and a limo drove us to all of Praga Khan’s gigs.” I also got Robert De Niro’s autograph as he was staying at the same hotel…

*Praga Khan & Jade 4U at the Double Vision studio in Glasgow 1992*

“American punters aren’t as good as us Scots at raving though,” Paul reckons, “We’re better dancers, they tend to watch the band and jig around a bit!” But this was all so far removed from his very first job, which he approached with considerable trepidation: “I was looking at the instruction booklet for my video camera a few days before I was supposed to start filming, and I was thinking, ‘How the fuck do you work this thing?’ That was five years ago, Today the couple add their own graphics to their videos and the end result is a bit like U2′s Zoo TV, only n a smaller scale. But the question I really wanted to ask was did Double Vision possess any snippets of film of certain bands doing anything they shouldn’t?”Aah,” said Paul, “we knew you were going to ask us that… Of course!”

In 1999 the Double Vision crew took time out from the rave scene due to careers work family and changes in the scene. 10 years later 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 dementia. 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 teamed up with student sound engineer and web builder Marc McLean to create a dedicated website to show all the old tapes.

We took on the challenge to rescue as many of the tapes as possible and use this website to document how Scotland raved throughout the 1990’s. Right from the outset 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 suffer liquid ingress most likely our go to beer Red Stripe.

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.

We started going back out filming music events again in 2009 under the alias DVcrew Scotland (Double Vision Scotland). It is now 2025 and we still go out when we can creating content for our website and event promoter social media platforms.

We don’t just film raves and nightclubs, we work with film makers, documentary makers, archive researchers and wedding videographers mainly as camera operators, editors and archive suppliers. We are not academically trained but have taught ourselves how to shoot & edit video since the 1990’s, we shoot with 3 Sony HXR video cameras, Zoom H4nPro, 3 Black Edition GoPro’s Nikon DSLR DJI Ronin S and DJI Mini 2. We are not a business or a company, we are two guys that are passionate about video, photography and building our online archive.

During lockdown we have built 2 new Ryzen ROG Strix based edit PC’s to increase our workflow quality and capacity, we have also had to invest in archive storage to keep all our data safe there is over 50 terabytes of archives between our two studios, oldskool 91-98 footage and 2009-2025 footage, we continue to build on the old school vibe and rescue every little bit from the original tapes that we can. 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 in the planning stages of what events from the 1990’s we are going to show on our our custom built livestream studio. We have at least a good few hundred hours, its going to be epic we cant wait to show it all in it’s entirety.

Our content has appeared on MTV, MTV Europe, MTV Dance Zone, MTV Chillout Zone, STV Chartbite, STV News, BBC Scotland, The Sound Of Belgium, Scoobs The Rave Years by Journey Pictures – David Street, The Story of STREETrave ’89-’09 – Lemon Productions, Bits & Pieces Documentary by BBC Tune, ‘Hold Me’ Tim Knights – Night Fever Exhibition – V&A Dundee, ‘Scotland The Rave’ Documentary – Two Rivers Media, Sons of Ecstasy – Warner Bros-Discovery.

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