Big Night Out

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Big Night Out
GenreDocumentary, Nightlife,
Directed byRhys James
Creative directorSpike Jonze
StarringClive Martin
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes16
Production
Executive producersSpike Jonze, Shane Smith, Eddy Moretti, Al Brown, Yonni Usiskin
ProducerRhys James
Production locationsUnited Kingdom, People's Republic of Donetsk, Ukraine, Romania, Ibiza, Greece, Holland
CinematographyGrant Armour, Owen Laird
Running time60 minutes
Release
Original networkViceland
Original releaseSeptember 2016 (2016-09) –
present

Big Night Out [1] is a television series airing on Viceland, hosted by journalist and Vice correspondent Clive Martin, who is traveling the world to discover how partying has become an act of rebellion, subsistence or survival for young people everywhere.

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History

Big Night Out started as a written series of articles in 2012 on vice.com, written by Vice writer and correspondent, Clive Martin. [2] Big Night Out transitioned to a short form video web series on VICE's newly launched music channel Noisey [3] in 2013, and ran for 8 episodes. [4]

Moving back onto vice.com, Big Night Out had success moving onto longer form more investigative films exploring the relationship between nightlife and wider social and societal issues, with Locked Off garnering significant attention for its exploration of the UK's resurgent illegal rave scene. [5]

In 2016 Viceland commissioned a full TV series to coincide with the UK channel launch. The first season premiered on September 29, 2016. [6]

Episodes

Web Series (Noisey)

NumberTitleOriginal Air Date
1 "Gabber : The Evil EDM" August 8, 2013
In the first episode of Big Night Out, journalist Clive Martin heads north to Glasgow in search of a 'big night out' in the UK Gabber scene. To do this he must endure 200 bpm tunes, scores of shirtless men punching the ceiling, hockey mask wearing hardcore fiends, and a man with a rather unusual tattoo.
2 "Psytrance Rave In A Forest" August 22, 2013
In the second episode of new Noisey series Big Night Out, journalist Clive Martin ventures into the little-understood world of Psytrance. He stumbles across a forest rave deep in the English countryside, and finds himself dodging swinging dreadlocks, hula hoops and evil clowns.
3 "Drum N Bass : The Scene That Refuses To Die" September 5, 2013
Following his recent explorations into gabber and psytrance, journalist Clive Martin travels to the suburbs to investigate the age-old phenomenon of drum n bass, trying to understand how it goes beyond music, and starts to inform the entirety of British youth culture with its white trainers, gun fingers and amphetamines.
4 "The Drunken Student Disco" September 19, 2013
After investigating gabber, psytrance and D&B, Noisey's Clive Martin takes on a university Rugby team in the ultimate student night out. To do this, he must endure the pre-lash, the dirty pint, a club playing 90s classics, a 10 shot challenge and the Macarena. Can he be a big man on campus, or will he be the first man down?
5 "The Metal Night" October 7, 2013
Having finally recovered from his investigation into the drunken student disco, Noisey's Clive Martin heads to the dark side to investigate the shadowy world of the UK Metal scene. In a club with an enormous Satan behind the DJ booth, we meet all the stock characters; from grungers, to goths, to overgrown emo kids. Is the UK Metal scene just a dated mass of cliches, or does it mean something more? Big Night Out salutes those who are about to rock.
6 "RIP Indie" October 18, 2013
For this episode Clive goes to investigate just what happened to the indie dream; the ideal of trilbys, Camden Town, skinny jeans and mockney accents. Donning his best Libertines jacket, he heads to a club in East London, and finds out that the scene isn't quite as he remembered it.
7 "Do Brits Get Hip Hop?" February 4, 2014
The UK Hip Hop scene is a largely maligned part of British music. It's often mocked for its propensities for peaked beanies, bad lyrics, silly names and the overwhelming stench of cheap skunk. So Clive and the team headed down to Bristol, the spiritual home of the British B-Boy scene to investigate if people from the UK can do rap, or if we should just leave it to the Americans.
8 The People VS Big Night Out November 14, 2013
Over the course of the Big Night Out series, host Clive Martin has received a fair bit of abuse via YouTube comments. So we thought it was only fair to give him the opportunity to respond to some of them. [7]

VICE Web Series

TitleOriginal Air Date
"Ibiza: Spring Breakers Of Europe"October 2, 2014
Ibiza is a place that looms large in all our imaginations, the sun-kissed, beer-drenched rock in the middle of the Mediterranean where all our hedonistic dreams can come true. But what is it that makes people come back year after year to the same tiny island?

Host Clive Martin sets off to investigate the magnetic appeal of "the party island," and meets a cast of characters including DJs Carl Cox and Luciano, a crew of scantily clad club-dancers, puking kids on vacation, Alfredo Fiorito—the man who basically invented Ibiza as we know it today—and a 10-foot-tall flying rave robot.

"Locked Off : Illegal Raves In The UK"May 23, 2016
Rave Culture is one of Britain's great cultural exports, but after its first wave in the late eighties and early nineties, it was soon forced into the underground by stringent new laws and superclubs. But forward 25 years into in the midst of a nationwide purge on the nation's nightlife, where nearly half of all British clubs have shut down in the last decade, and a new kind of scene has emerged.

Clive Martin investigates this 21st century version of Rave, where young people break into disused spaces with the help of bolt-cutters and complicated squatting laws, to suck on balloons and go hard into the early morning. But with the police using increasingly extreme tactics to clamp down on these parties, and more than one fatality causing nationwide media panic, can the scene survive? [8]

Season 1: VICELAND

Clive Martin DJs with a refugee in Greece, obeys curfew in war-torn Ukraine and investigates police crackdowns on nightclubs in the UK. Witnessing partying as more than an act of rebellion, it's an act of survival. [9]

NumberTitleOriginal Air Date
1 "Rave In The Rebel State (Ukraine)" September 19, 2016
Ukraine is a politically polarized nation divided by war. Clive investigates how the youth is expressing their frustrations through their late night party scene.
2"Purgatory In Paradise (Greek Islands)"September 27, 2016
Greece is a hub of hedonistic nightlife and the site of a refugee crisis. How do the tourists, the immigrants and the destitute locals coexist in this island paradise?
3 "Bastards Of The Bible Belt (Holland)" October 4, 2016
Hardcore provides an escape for young misfits from Holland's industrial ghost towns. But the Protestant Church is fighting back, making Rave the new generational battleground.
4"Dancing On The Devil's Isle (Ibiza)"October 11, 2016
Ibiza is the undisputed Mediterranean Mecca for ravers. Clive meets some of the local legends who keep partygoers returning to the island year after year.
5"Bolero Of The Balkans (Romania)"October 18, 2016
Two beaches in Romania became home to two very different party cultures when the country opened its doors after the communist regime. But has this new found freedom come at a cost?
6"Locked Off (UK)"October 25, 2016
21st century rave culture has survived the mass cull of British nightclubs and now faces an extreme police crackdown. Clive investigates the ways kids manage to still rave despite this suppression.

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