Short-lived musical fad from the late
eighties, when the
Happy Mondays,
Spacemen 3,
the Stone Roses and, erm, a few other bands (
Flowered Up, anyone) took too much
ecstasy in
Manchester, UK, listened to too much
Acid House, and made some great, lolloping, disco-meets-rolling-stones music.
Was quite nice, until the gangsters rolled in and started making smackheads of everyone.