Party Vibe

one thing I unearthed through my Dutch studies was that as well as the big ID&T events a lot of the big name DJ’s play far smaller local venues around where they grew up and got their first sets – and that as well as the big events with 30000 people there are smaller friendlier venues for 300 people. it ties in with the Northern European concept of gezelligheid which is hard to explain and not easily translatable but in the context of EDM could be best explained as how folk compromise – the organisers encourage their punters not to stumble around with polos and nick things out of the local shops or abuse transport staff workers, they use really brainy concepts to keep the noise in and not anoy neighbours and there is a whole very dedicated events industry in that country which is as professional as the folk I buy computers from for work (you are often talking about a pallet of 5 computers, which are to be deployed to end users within the week so fuck ups and delays aren’t an option, suppliers what do this get deselected”

yet when I study UK events organisations what are supposed to be working as a industry rather than just as a hobby project (and ethical right on busines is not impossible) I get the impression that many are slack as fuck because “they don’t want it to be too much like “real” work” unlike the Europeans who do it proper (as Sinner often shows us). Even the Yanks are doing better than we are, and we are in the country what supposedly invented raves. this really needs to be changed (mind you the Olympics aren’t exactly a good example, empty seats, logistics problems, and David Guetta had a far better helicopter for his arrival at Tomorrowland than the Queen and James Bond had ) – both of them and the aircraft looked all like 1970s relics TBH. 😉

BTW what has really surprised me about London is how few EDM events seem to happen for the size, even smaller ones. I would have expected our promotions forum to be full of events every weekend of every conceivable genre, yet its always the usual suspects. when I lived in the capital there was some sort of affordable event every weekend and similarly when I lived in Reading (both in SE england and the capital) – to be fair OOOPS are making a comeback but we need more crews like them across the UK…

there is a facebook comment from the organisers of the larger commercial festival claiming that if one of the events had not cancelled then all events would have a massive noise restriction. I find no reason to disbelieve this but surely then the young people of norfolk should start lobbying their Councillors and say they have a right to have these music events? its not as if they are every weekend, and East Anglia as a whole is big. they cannot just give up a quarter of England and keep running away to London or similar “easier” areas as the promoters there are facing the same problems with nimbys [many of whom have local power as well] and another regions worth of punters can push a event above licensing limits.

also some of the local promoters have clearly tried to “walk before they could run” but their punters haven’t helped. I’ve seen young folk from the region hang their heads in shame when discussing on here their peers behaviour at licensed events. BTW here’s a comment about EH

Lord Somerleyton, the landowner, said: “Nothing hugely difficult happened at Eastern Haze, but there was a lot of litter and sick.

“We’re expecting a different event with Folk East in terms of how it’s run and the type of person who’s coming who’s a bit more concerned about the environment.

“We haven’t courted any festivals since, but we were waiting for something to come along that wasn’t competing with nearby Latitude.

the lord is being diplomatic, but reading between the lines you can see the negative impact was permanent. OK the venue is just across the Waveney but only by a few metres TBH and Suffolk landowners are even more stubbornly biased against EDM events due to the mistakes of previous years.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-19105736