I remember 5 of us travelling to Gatecrasher one night, the doorman would over let 2 of us in due to us been "overdressed" in shirt, trousers and shoes😂.

Morning Sam...Stephen! Lovely surrounds, nice blue sky and plenty of sunshine. Know nothing about drugs, apart from booze, but you paint a good picture of how things used to be. I'd moved on by the time you're talking about and got myself a proper life. Thanks for the walk and talk...always enjoyable.

Such a good show Sam.really great stories mate.

Brilliant vlog as always Sam very very informative really enjoyed your content and the channel Sam as always the best to you and yours Sam from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪

Really enjoyable vlog Sam cocky was definitely on the rich list his wealth was supposedly anywhere between 250and 400 million.having read his book and watched many documentaries I was shocked when he and his crew had arsenal of weapons including sleeping with hand grenades under their pillows when living in Holland.who knows if he can adjust to normal life when released.respect as always Sam.

I ve been subscribed just over a year now and I knew that you seemed familiar from somewhere and all now becomes very clear!! Many a lost weekend in Sheffield, Rawcus @ Bed on a Friday night, Gatecrasher Saturday night then straight to Insomniacz until mid day Sunday then onto the Howard for a few hours before heading to Sunday Mass for more Hard House!

Another great little film Sam. Good to see you looking so well pal X

Love hearing this kind of history I had family friends as a kid and met warrior from gladiators before everything went down and others iv later heared connected to Curtis not mentioning names. It's real life history great stuff

I remember Gatecrasher at the Adelphi! That scene contributed to the downfall of football violence as well. Not easy to batter someone when u remember hugging them the week before 😆

Funny you did this talk. I'm currently doing my 7 weeks training at long lartin and Curtis Warren came up. Was interesting to listen to the story.

Just started watching your video and love them all very interesting especially the ones life stops Last but not least love seeing Stevie lovely dog beautiful cost

Bang on fella. Seems you were raving crew, we were Wigan, Sam's,, KGB, Coalville, NS, like, but you summarise the game precisely. Keep On.

Nostalgia! The days when you could skive school, go into a shop in your school uniform and in the deepest voice you could..... "Ten Lambert & Butler Please" Local shop used to have a tin on the counter with 6 or 7 single cigs in for sale 25-50p each depending on the brand. Great days standing outside a shop working up the courage to be the 3rd in your group to go in and try get served. If you did.....💪

Good to hear someone talking about Insomniacs, used to go to Gatecrasher on a Saturday till 6am, then Insomniacs till 12pm then everyone used to relocate to The Howard from then.

Today is the first anniversary of grandma's passing cannot believe It's been a year already me and My sisters have bought something to mark occasion It's a collection of angel statues wrapped in fairy- lights placed container with an message from each of us anyway thank-you for doing What you do you've really helped me throughout my grief process best regards to your family take care of yourself give Stephen a hug from me keep spreading the positive message

Great again big chap. Love from Glasgow

Crasher and insomniacs. Great times! Trance and hard house...have a wiggle Sam?

John Palmer was on the rich list first I think. I’m 53…loved the Blackburn parties and Manchester scene. As you say, very little violence in dance clubs. Before them, you were guaranteed there’d be a couple of scraps in normal clubs where booze was the only drug. That said I was in the Hacienda when everyone was leaving, the bouncers kicked off with a rival gang…pretty spectacular. And I was in a car sat outside another club one Friday night when there was a drive by - couple of shots from a shotgun at bouncers outside Millionaires.

Hey up Sam,how you and the big lad doing,,another quality video with lots of true words and common sense,, watching this video in Majorca it's 22.00 hour and it's still 38 degrees,,,all the best to you both..... Tee from Rothwell

Cheers pal, great video

Love the way you say it as it is 👍🏻

You are bang on with what you say from someone who knows 👏👍

Ty sam for blog lv to stevie we need more talkers of truth and life concerns ,lv mark and maria vor clb

Great vlog Sam as always, lovely to see the handsome Stephen 🐕‍🦺x

How do Neil, I’ve Read all your books and listened to your podcasts etc… think your a top bloke massive respect and these videos are fantastic… would love to meet for a coffee as I’m a local lad to Wakey :)

BOY NOW THAT WAS GOOD TIME . WE USED TO DO THE SOUND FOR THE ACID HOUSE PARTIES. AS SOON AS DRINK CAME IN THAT F IT ALL UP . WAS GREAT WHEN ITS WAS JUST ECSTASY. NO PUNCH UPS THAY WHERE ALL LOVED UP . I STILL GOT A 12K SOUND SYSTEM IN MY HOUSE PARTIES OUT IN OPEN FIELDS PARTIES IN OLD BUILDING. BUT NOTHING IS FOR EVER .

He's no genius, spent half his life in a box, no amount of money can change that

Excellent mate love the videos 👌

i went gate crasher once and had my drink spiked n the bouncers sorted me right out. good lads there

When i started on the doors i was still underage,i got the job by being stuck in between two pissed up groups trying to kill each other back in the late 80's and i had to pick a side to negotiate with.. I never paid for another pint that night and worked the doors on two pubs for a long time and to be honest when E's came along everyone gave a sigh of relief because it went from an all out battle every ten minutes to being hugged all night.. Talk about surreal.. I'm not that far off the big 60 and i've never taken drugs apart from prescription, drink and baccy but i had a drink spiked a long time back and still to this day can't remember atleast a week but i lost more than that as apparently i tried killing someone so got my arse kicked.I only found out later on it was spiked as i'd never taken drugs before. In all honesty though i know a lot of dealers in illicit drugs are scum but who looks at the pharmaceutical sector?,hardly anyone and they are the real true scum yet they poison people daily and legally. So who are the real criminals in this world and it isn't the dealer on a street corner or the person buying it.

The talk on addiction 20+heroin 2yearsclean me you were spot on all the best to everyone especially STEPHEN 🐕 🏍️🇮🇲🏍️🏍️🇮🇲

i miss the late 90s early 00s was a great time to be going out lol

Great content as usual

Brilliant book ,,what real life was like in early 80s in liverpool,,struggles and strife

Hey Sam. Yeah I remember that. We used to call them singles. Great to see ya

Hey Sam, loving your channel, and of course the very wonderful Steven. My question is: Now Marraide Phillpott has been released. She is banned from Derby, she is 41. Do you think Michael Phillpott will walk the streets again? He is 71 now.

You are very true in what you are saying.

Huge respect for this channel. Drugs are commodities and, like any other commodity, they are subject to the laws of supply and demand. The demand is huge and, as people are starting to realise, addiction is rooted in trauma and this trauma inspires demand, when it comes to addiction. People can be addicted to anything. We need to understand addiction for what it is and treat it as such: a public health issue. Respect to the channel and all that want to see a better world. As for Warren, he's done his time and he will make a killing via entering the KZfaq game! Or merely writing his memoirs - who that is interested in these topics wouldn't buy a copy? Hopefully he has reformed and will come out and offer his insights into the state of affairs, based on his experiences. I can't see him trying to catch up with the drug game, but he doesn't need to. There is a huge market for voices such as his, and he could probably sit back and get paid for offering his thoughts if he wanted to.

Lol...spot on about the bass.

Thank goodness i was too old for all that mess.My children too young.Missed it by the grace.

Same thing happened in Kelly’s portrush in 1994.police raided the club with everybody off their heads drugs chucked all over the floor.mad

Bit warm for the dog Sam mate, my Mrs always tells me, great video though ♥️♥️♥️

yo samm i hope your good .I saw tony last tuesday walking past the library .And when you did the doors was it debbie Harry and sharwoddy waddy sweet ruebetts ,5 park drive tipped or singles, and a curly wurley .And curtis will be in your van or in shaun attwoods studio its coming.

Brilliant video mate respect YNWA brother

brilliant info sam , subbed u bro

Top bloke keep it up pal 👍

I was on b wing as a yp in Walton 1982 with Curtis and his best buddy little Danny black. Johnny Phillips was there too and he turned out to be part of curtis’s team later in life

Legalise all drugs,make it a health issue. Let Dr s prescribe. Never happen because most of legal system rely on users/dealers.

Good video Sam 💯💯

A great subject 😊

Used to go to Gatecrasher used to love the place 👍

I remember going to the infamous Oscars nightclub in Longleat. The cops eventually got it shut down. Drugs !

6:10, Sam when I was in secondary school Tony Bell the ice cream van would arrive in the school grounds at lunch selling single cigs for 10p ffs :-p

Ahh thanks for the vlog sam. Id never heard of curtis warren b4, so was interesting to hear his story. Yes drugs will always be around, as u said, its supply & demand. Nobody mkes some1 take drugs, but same time i can imagine a casual user slowly but surely getting sucked into addiction. And like u said some ppl tke drugs to help with the pain of past traumas, which is really sad. Lovely to see beautiful Stephen, hes always such a happy boy 🐾💙

I've read A lot on Curtis Warren supposed to be getting out end of year like you said and did you ever come across Warren Slaney and if so what did you think of him and would you consider doing some content on him if you did come across him thanks for your content

Very interesting video. You took me back to those early days of Acid House/Rave. The very scene, did embrace some of the Hippy culture and philosophy. I first started to go to the 'Havana' in Middlesbrough and knew Lee Duffy, MC Lee and DJ Huey, who was my friend. I witnessed the times it all went pear shaped too. I was speaking to Lee Duffy on the night he got killed. But the beginning days, it was a special time to have experienced. Thanks and respect mate.

Great that Sam thank u

I really respect your point about what makes people addicts in the first place very good and true point of what should be getting addressed and about how people use prescription drugs drink even self-harm to challenge those things., what I also think is an issue is the way the law has gone out of control and how the law turns around and invents numbers invents figures blinds the jury's with science forensic lies also backing it up as well because when they set a figure that they want someone to give back it's an exaggerated figure it's a guarantee that it's been multiplied by a minimum of 50% more than it should be¡ the amount of people that are incarcerated falsely a wrong for amount of times and they're all in for manslaughter but they all get convicted for murder all it is is one big pantomime to the police and prosecution and they're perpetuating the problem add on top of that sadistic prison staff it's just a never-ending cycle keeping people paid. ¡ you seem a very amicable person Sam I would appreciate if you could direct message me so that we could have a discussion please kind regards

ow do, SAM n Stephen.. great story as normal m8... read up about Curtis warren, and like you say they wanted 197 million, from him.. but what would they do with the money ? i bet it it would disappear in to plenty of high ranking pockets. in court it was said curtis warren, Between March 2008 and October 2009 the mobile telephones were used in prison to make some 34,000 telephone calls and texts, on average about 62 calls were taking place a day. while awaiting trial in Jersey, bloody hell, i have not made that many call in my life..... si thi..

How do, another great podcast Sam 👍

I used to go to mossside for fish and chips 🍟

I was a heroin addict for 32 years it was very few and far between that I had a day off there were a few but not many , I've now been clean over 3 years and getting clean wasn't easy it was hard I had to leave the small city I was brought up in and change my whole life, I joined a recovery page on social media and found out about the fellowship of Narcotics anonymous and cocaine anonymous and I took a interest in them , I was soon to find a sponsor and completed the twelve steps but my thirst for knowledge of my addiction so I completed the green and gold which is a more spiritual program which gave my thirst a quench i learnt loads of why I took heroin and it all came down to trauma that I had in my childhood so your spot on with what you say

Read: The Devil by Stephen French. Good stories on Cocky.

Howdy lads 💥 ta much 🎯 .

Curtis Warren the one and only number 1 👌👊😎

If you haven't already sambo, read the book by greaham Johnson powder wars it was they best read I've ever read. Links to cocky a book I personally didn't get on with. powder wars is a story that is pod cast worthy

if he has any dough left they will be watching him like hawks to snatch it up..

How do boss 💙 from brum as always

Singles were 8p in Wales in the 80’s

I think he's in some top 20 lists. After the USA I think the UK is one of the biggest consumers of drugs so it makes sense.

Interesting Insight Sam Your Channel Respect to Stevie

as always sam awsome im from the wirral and remeber those days kid

well said

Good video Sam, as ever. You made some excellent points. Not bad for a Wakie lad. Best wishes from Huddersfield. Pity Stevie steals the show every time. Just think that with his entrepreneurial skills, Curtis could have been another Musk or Jobs, clearly a very astute businessman. If he has served his time he should be freed!

Hope you're good sam👌

100% I'm an addict, have been for decades, it's not an easy life.... But it is what it is, but you can't necessarily blame certain individuals... It's on a larger scale than that, there's always going to be a Curtis Warren....or whoever, if they legalised it and kept on top of its quality! I think you would see a decline in crime... It's simple

Love it

I think he will be, but he won't come back to the UK. We crossed paths back in the 90s, through the rave scene, the scousers ran pretty much everything back then. Loving the vids Sam, keep doing what you do.

His last sentence was a fit up.

I worked at palis London Road

Go on Sam give us your top 5 songs or bands

Crasher Kidz as they were known. Fun times

Let’s all talk about jail like it’s a great place to be

neil read the very back page curtis has a statement at the end nobody mentions this (fattend up for the kill)

I see him in amsterdam we was having a smoke and he was sitting opposite us he was alrite this was about 20 years ago

Single ciggy & a match - the 10p Lucy was called round ere

Criminalisation is useless. Too many people in high places will keep "drugs" ILLEGAL. They learnt their lesson during US prohibition. And NEVER again will they miss that opportunity.

Love Stephen

He’s forgetting the kinahins 😉

If you havn't read ' Cocky' about the rise of Cutis warren i highly recomend it. A second hand copy from ebay is cheap as chips.

im 53 now and i used to go shop for my mam and dad for cigs when i was 7 lol the shopkeeper would say do your parents know id say yes they sent me so they sold them me

Really intriguing insightful perspective as always I've seen news articles on this individual his story is Very intriguing I believe BBC radio 5 are doing a series on him ahead of his prison release in November agree with you on What you said on supply and demand there will be someone to fill the power vacuum left by the previous person will be interesting to see how mr Warren adapts to the outside world if he is granted parole It's lovely to see Stephen again thank-you for doing What you do take care best regards to your family

John Palmer 105 on the Sunday times rich list £300 million late 90s

If you've just done a 20 stretch, I seriously doubt he'll go back to doing what he was. He'll be well away from the drugs if he does do anything. I suspect he's still got money.

Ah yeah gatecrasher and love2be. Remember our trips down to Sheffield. Mid 90s were a good time to be young

Did you ever work on doors down at niche

Legalize asap all drugs

Absolutely he will get out Sam but doubt he will come back to Liverpool

Curtis helps stop bullying in jail model prisoner he needs be released now

I'm from Liverpool and to have a name as infamous as his is difficult to "achieve" here (and I don't say that with any sense of pride or adulation either). Liverpool is a working class, anti-establishment city and as a result; it encourages a certain type of behaviour, so it has its fair share of young tearaways and being a coastal city that faces the America's, drug importation is huge here. I've travelled all over the country and nowhere apart from certain areas of London is as rife with drugs and drug dealers as Liverpool, so to climb Liverpools drug hierarchy and surpass the competition here to the heights he did is nothing short of astounding. I hope he doesn't fall back into it, it's no coincidence Liverpools worst period of crime, violence and drug use/addiction was when he was at his peak