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Become a friend of Ransom Note and support independent journalism. People still in my room. A half arsed discussion about how we should all get at least four hours sleep before heading off. Two cabs arrive. The shop at the end of Clerkenwell Road — the usual vacant stare from the guy behind the counter — chewing gum, fags, Red-Bull, pay, turn right out of the shop — walk.

That weird smell of pheromones and misbehaviour emanating from the air con just before you follow the right turn on Clerkenwell Road. Split the guys and girls into same sex groups new pretend to not know each other — give the game away by giggling. Follow the beat down the first set of stairs, walls painted red.

The distant thud becomes an club glorious noise, the surges of excitement and anticipation become too strong to control. Walk through Trade-Lite, plan to go back there later. Created gay run by the clubland club Laurence New, Trade quickly gained a reputation as a club night not for the faint of heart. What is it that Trade had?

What trade people carry on going week after week? Escapism through dancing to the edgiest york dance tracks became a way of life for people wanting a release, an escape from the bullshit humdrum of life for 10 or so glorious hours, only to return with a bump at around 2pm on a Tuesday afternoon. Alongside the sounds was the possibility of light law-breaking through medication, it all came together perfectly.

But the thing that made Trade so special was the Trade community known as the Trade Babies. On the bridge across the dance floor one night another clubber came up holding an invisible plate as york eating, and when asked what he was doing, said he been eating all night from the imaginary buffet he thought was set up on the back wall.

I left at some godforsaken hour on Sunday afternoon and went across the road to the local pub which about 50 Trade Babies descended upon. I entered the pub and for some reason couldn't walk in a straight line, I tripped over and proceeded to knock a load of porcelain plates off the wall which all smashed on the floor of the pub.

I collapsed in a heap still in the fur coat and hat, and ended up being force fed orange juice by a Muscle Mary who looked after me while in a state. The most special thing about Trade was that everyone was so lovely. You would spend about 30 minutes getting from one end of the main bar to the other because everyone would stop and kiss you and say how fab you were, for one morning we all felt so incredible and really affectionate towards each other.

I definitely wanted to go but I was really nervous as I had never had ecstasy before, or any Class A drugs for that matter, and I knew that going to Trade involved taking E. We arrived at Turnmills at trade 4. The queue was about a mile long and the bass was booming up through the pavement outside. We were ushered into the back door and led down a series of corridors and stairwells until someone opened a door right onto the middle of the dancefloor!

It was manic, talk about a head fuck! Patsy gay me the grand tour, and then went to buy me my first pill!