There are certain triggers that take you straight back to the 90s and early noughties. The smell of hair gel, the taste of an alcopop, the sound of a cheesy classic.
Anyone who lived in or visited Wales' second city in that era will undoubtedly have hazy memories of some of the country's most legendary nightclubs like Time, Envy and Cinderellas.
And for a certain generation there was one man in Swansea who epitomised that period. His name was Crazy Gary.
Stood behind the decks looking to deliver a party atmosphere each and every night, his success rate as the master of ceremonies was so prolific that he wore a t-shirt which read: ''If I can't get them going, nobody can."
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And for people who went to the children's parties he DJ'd at, or the 'blue light discos' at those legendary old venues, or the likes of Whispers, Shades, Valbonne, Cafe G's and Castle Hotel, the memory of Crazy Gary's fun-loving antics - from dressing up in wild costumes to leading dance routines - lives on.
But whatever happened to the man, the legend?
We found Gary Morgan working at builders merchants Fixing Solutions in Garngoch. And whilst he has "hung up his CDs", there's still a glint in his eye when you ask him about those halcyon days.
"I was a party jock, I played party stuff and did a lot of dressing up in costumes like Tina Turner - I did Shirley Bassey - I used to take wigs, masks, all sorts of things. It was just one big party," Mr Morgan recalled.
It all started from a young age. Gary developed a passion for music. By the time he was 13 he was entertaining kids at a youth club in Treboeth.
"I had a small record box and some tapes of the top 40 recorded on Sunday nights. We had a music centre where you had to flick from record to tape trying to avoid the DJ introducing the song," he said.
"One of the mums asked me to DJ her son's birthday party. She borrowed the set up from youth club and hired St Peter's church hall. I enjoyed it and asked my mates who were DJs if I could go along with them. So Carl and John took me under their wing and every gig I was squashed in the back of the Ford Capri.
"A while later I did my first adult disco in the Hafod Inn. I made some lights and my gran ordered a twin turntable and speakers. Then I did a regular disco in Cimla RFC and every time I turned up the entertainment secretary said 'the crazy one is here again'.
"It stuck, and everywhere I was going then, it was 'Crazy Gary, Crazy Gary'. I'd be walking down the street, I'd see a kid saying, 'Oh mam, look, it's Crazy Gary.' I had some business cards made and went with it."
Mr Morgan was approached by the late sergeant Mike Godrich to DJ for a blue light disco organised by the police.
He recalled: "I worked alongside Mike for 29-years, which initially started with the 13 to 17-year-olds, then, as they were so successful, were introduced into the community centres and social clubs all over Swansea for the six to 12-year-olds, another massive success until sadly Mike passed away.
"After working the blue light disco for 29 years I asked if I could take over the running of the disco myself but was told no. It was given to the PCSOs in these areas, and eventually the discos were stopped by their bosses."
The DJ's love was for the disco era of music and although he admits he had to adapt his playlist to suit the taste of teenagers when working at the blue light discos at the likes of Time and Envy, playing modern songs and genres like RnB, he still admits he "got away with doing all the party stuff."
"Two and a half thousand kids in Time & Envy, watching them doing the YMCA, the macarena, the Cha Cha slide - it was one hell of a sight," he said.
At Cinderella's, there were three songs Mr Morgan would play back to back which became somewhat legendary, filling the dancefloor each time he played Dancing With An Angel, Flying High and Just Give Me Ecstasy.
"I loved working with kids, I put 200% into my kids parties. I'd put all the party tunes on, and half the time I'd be out on the dance floor with them, because they couldn't remember the dances," Mr Morgan said.
Although he still DJs occasionally, Mr Morgan admitted he gave up doing it just before the coronavirus pandemic began.
The now 56-year-old said: "After doing it for so long, I'm not able to get up and party now. There are so many DJs coming up through the ranks doing it for next to nothing, I thought, it was time for me to hang up my CDs. I still do a little bit now and again to help out.
"It's a lot different now. I worked in most of the pubs and clubs in Swansea. It was packed, it was totally different than things are today. People used to go out Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
"I loved every minute of it. Even now, I have customers coming in where I work and they'll say, 'Oh I remember you, you used to do the blue light discos' - or 'you used to do pop and crisps'.
"It's a great buzz. It's a nice feeling to be told I was an important part of someone's childhood."
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