Barnowl Strathaven 1991-92

Barn Owl (sometimes written Barnowl) was an early-90s Scottish rave held in/around Strathaven — a rural, barn/warehouse-style party typical of the era’s underground scene in 1991 and 1992. we have some contemporary video footage and short clips amongst our archive tapes showing the event and the crowd, indicating it was a notable local old-skool rave.

The archive material includes walkabout footage and performance clips — one specific clip tags Q-TEX (a Scottish/UK techno/hardcore act) at Barnowl in 1992, which matches the harder-edged rave sound that scene favoured in that period.  The footage and posts suggest the event had the usual elements of early-90s raves: big crowds, industrial/rural venue, resident and guest DJs, and the kind of one-off parties DV crews filmed around Scotland at the time.  Because Barnowl was part of the underground/old-skool circuit, formal press coverage is sparse — most surviving records are video clips, social posts and memory posts from our DVarchives rather than newspaper reports.

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Barn Owl - Strathaven '92

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