Scene Confirmed Dead

[AP] Paris, November 11^th 2004

The Scene has been officially pronounced dead this morning, having finally Succumbed to illness at 2:30am in a Paris military hospital. Sources

close to The Scene confirmed that it passed away quietly and in the company of loved ones.

Some may say that it has been a long time coming. Aides and friends of The Scene have long said that its health was deteriorating. The Scene will have an official state funeral tomorrow in its spiritual home of Anjuna, Goa, although militant hardliners have thrown up disagreements about where it should finally lay to rest.

“Militant American hardliners are adamant that The Scene was born in California in the sixties,” said Professor Nigel Bom Shankar, an expert at this sort of thing. “They believe that the values of hippyness and love which The Scene extolled were first conceived in the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco.”

“However that lot are, as they were then, full of steaming vegan donkey shite,” Bom Shankar continued.

“Others, such as legendary British psytrance pioneer Quentin Ponsonby-Smythe, are adamant that the scene had humbler, more british beginnings. The Scene, they believe, was born when a load of toffed-up law graduates went travelling and took like acid man in India man and it was like beautiful with all those people taking like acid man. They too are as daft as three women trying to parallel park an original 1986 cabinet version of Sega's Out Run.”

The race is already on to find a successor to The Scene. Hallucinogen is understood to be collaborating with Busted on their upcoming album, Infected Mushroom will be representing Israel in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, and GMS are hoping to be gangbanging delta goodream, though they confess that this has little to do with music.

(c) psyreviews 2004