Party Vibe

it might seem excessive but I think they are now definitely trying to deter people who are “just ravers” (rather than DJ’s, rig owners) from attending or contributing anything to an illegal rave – in East Anglia they are starting to seize peoples cars :hopeless:

cops now see illegal raves to be one of the biggest areas where drugs are openly consumed and sold, they have worked out that some crews may be funded at least in party by drugs revenue, and they genuinely feel that occasional party drug use leads to more problematic use because of some peoples lack of self control

think about all the “nice middle class families” where their teenage kids have discovered pills or K and are fine at the weekends but start going psycho on the comedowns or they are dropping out of school/college. I remember this happening amongst my mates in 1991-2 so it must be even worse these days with drugs being cheaper and more easily available.

I bet you must know people like this as well… bear in mind there is a lot more cross referencing of data on people such as links with other incidents, NHS records etc.. also all the things the authorities have learned since the early rave days of the 1990s..

OK even if many of the youths sort themselves out its not after causing a fair bit of pain to themselves and those close to them and holding themselves back in life (in a ruthlessly competitive world)

take a look at our own drugs forums and sadly there seem to be a lot of people trying to get off ketamine or even smack who started on these things through the rave scene… whilst those forums do a lot of good helping people they also mean outsiders and authority figures also read and judge the party scene by what they see.. (this goes for everything posted on the internet)

its going to take a change on our part (less people fucking up) and possibly less parties for a bit before the situation gets any better (if it does..)

the problem is these days the media aren’t exaggerating (especially in East Anglia where there was a group of people with liberal views who would often challenge inaccurate media depictions of raves).

The stuff like mess, damage and overuse of drugs is real, something most ravers have seen with their own eyes..

if you are feeling like that (and it is usually the girls who pick up on this before the blokes) then there is definitely something wrong.

One thing I’ve noticed is a lot of girls in their late teens/twenties stopping partying or even leaving crews because they don’t agree with stuff like the mess and aggression, this has been going on for some years now..

its a difficult one as everyone is just being daft/stubborn at the moment plus its the soft targets being hit (land which borders on to public access areas for instance) as many spaces of land are locked down solid – with each party that happens the word spreads and landowners beef up their security measures. Often the farms belong to fairly elderly people which makes the bad publicity even worse..

That said, I’ve been to parties even in East Anglia where you wouldn’t have known afterwards there had been a rave in that place as the clean up was done well there are farmers who don’t mind it if people clean up and don’t damage farm type stuff (a lot of todays farmers may be my sort of age group and were once ravers themselves) but there is always some idiot what takes the piss..

what is a big shame for those of you in your teens/20s is these problems have been left to fester for 10 years, so I think you are unfortunately being punished for the crimes of the previous generation of ravers (many of whom have simply walked away and gone “back into normal life”)