Party Vibe

yep – I’ve noticed that a bit particularly the closer you get to London; lots of people are brought up in the thatcherite “bling” culture and can’t see the point of this sort of party. People obviously still love urban music but they want to be “superstar DJs” and getting bare cash, groupies, free drugs etc; on other urban music scenes ppl are even prepared to fight and kill for the small bit of ca$h that trickles down from the big media/entertainment companies.

I agree with what you say about “youth being scared of ‘authority'” – but this fear is also being turned into anger as well. Society hasn’t helped though; if you can get 5 years for petty shit on ASBOs its almost the same penalty for doing real crime… some kids no doubt think “better to be hanged for a sheep than a lamb”

As for directions no disrespect to mike whoever he may be but you just cannot afford to fuck up like this, particularly when cops can now have electronic maps delivered by radio to their cars. Fuel isn’t cheap, and random cars getting lost in middle england’s narrow lanes leads to noseyparkers calling 999, jepoardising both the drivers and the event itself.

The ordnance survey website shows you how to read a map if you dont’ know already. I’m lucky as I’ve always liked exploring stuff long before I started raving and paid attention in geography class sometimes – but its not that difficult a skill to pick up. If one guy finds it impossible then perhaps someone else can help him or take over this task?

Originally posted by Gabba_bitch
Do you really think we’re an ageing population GL?

I’m increasingly finding that I feel old (in comparison to the new people I meet) when I’m out……surely you do too – we’re a similar age after all.
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not really (although TBH part of me still thinks I’m 20 :D) I seem to come across a fairly wide age group from 20-40+, but with all the “usual suspects” still there and less younger people attending!

been speaking to younger lot (friends, work colleagues etc) in their early 20s and late teens – they all like music but don’t seem as interested in raves as we were at that age – could be because its no longer a “new” thing; but the stakes are far higher (cops, family opposition, harder to get or keep jobs and party etc with new “sickie” monitoring systems and internet monitoring).

As an example I can easily tell if the others in my office were on here looking at raves from the IP addresses, but there are only a handful if any from here yet there are loads of younger staff in this place. About 7-8 years ago nearly everyone under 40 in the office would have been clubbbing or raving..

There is a lot more pressure on people today, & its frighteningly easy to fuck up and get thrown on the scrap heap early in life, so perhaps youth are taking less risks with their lives today.

I don’t regret being a party person but my life would have been a hell of a lot simpler (if less interesting perhaps) had I never got so deeply involved in this scene.. and there is so much negative publicity at the moment about it so can understand this POV in an increasingly uncertain world, people perhaps have other priorities.

OTOH it seems people 12 years younger have less “sense of adventure” than I do even today (and I am fairly “risk-averse” these days)

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Talking of ageing……you coming round mine on the 17th?

should be if I can get out of the office early enough…