A young house music fan has reacted with shock and consternation upon learning that the sole purpose of warehouses is not, as he had previously believed, for the holding of massive raves.
Aaron Hughes, a 24 year old out of work graphic designer/barista, has spoken about how when leaving a recent warehouse rave in East London he was shocked to see what he thought were “overalls models” enter a neighbouring warehouse.
“At first I thought it was some costumed after-after party,” admitted Aaron. “But then someone told me that it was a real working factory and that those men worked there as mechanics. My mind was blown.”
Aaron claimed that he’s still struggling with the the idea that warehouses, rather than being “giant, multi-functional exhibition spaces,” are actually viable places of work for a variety of industrial occupations and businesses.
“It’s just weird,” he continued. “I never really thought that a warehouse could be used for anything other than holding a massive party or maybe a fashion show/art exhibition.
“I used to think that everyone worked with laptops designing apps or on phones fixing video games or making coffee,” he explained. “I didn’t know people still worked in factory-based manual jobs. I’ve studied industrialisation the concept as part of my expensive liberal arts education and written about it in faux intellectual essays, but it was always an abstract concept removed from my experience. It never felt real until now.”
Aaron went on to question why people in the West were still “working menial jobs in factories when there are other countries where people do that? If they want a manual job that gives them exercise then they should just get a real job in finance or something and sporadically promise to go to the gym twice a week, like everybody else.”
Aaron concluded by saying that he had no plans to attend any more warehouse raves now that the “magic is gone” but is hoping to spend more time at festivals, where friends have predicted he will react with shock when he discovers that the fields he will be rolling around in are actually farmland for most of the year.
