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March 30, 2013 at 6:40 pm

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DaftFader

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I’ve been to that place twice, and both times there’s been an attempted robbery towards either me or a friend. I was lucky to retain my cash, they went to swipe it out of my hand by punching me in the face to shock me then grabbing my cash at the bar but i got it back out of his grip and just took the one punch in the face before i swiftly moved to the door area where the bouncers were, but only for them to side with the people trying to rob me and kick me out for trying to steal THEIR money!!h

My friend stupidly took a £2000-£3000 family heirloom (a solid gold antique Buddha pendant on a gold chain) around his neck to the other rave we went to there (after many attempts of me trying to talk everyone out of even going)! Some guy tried to swipe it from around his neck, and my mate just floored him in about 2 punches, but then 3-4 others suddenly appeared and kicked the living shit out of him. He had something like 30% vision in one of his eyes and bout 60% in the other for a fair while after that, they thought he was going to go blind as the guys were stomping/kicking his head whilst he was on the floor. The all happened 10-15 foot away from the bouncers and they did NOTHING, nothing what so ever! They just let it happen.

It’s funny how they defend the robbers and chuck out the person getting robbed, then let some people who seriously physically assault someone just vanish like that from right under their noses. I’ve seen bouncers in cahoots with local thieves at a fair few venue’s but this really was a piss take. Normally it’s just a little scrota nicking a girls bag when their not looking and dumping the thing in the toilets with the bouncers blessing for a cut, not a full on assault being let get away with (they took his chain as well ofc).

I mean I know it happens some places, I’ve actually witnessed my friend get the shit beat out of him by a bouncer whilst i was being held and forced to watch by another after asking where the exit was and being told, “you can come this way” and escorting us into the fire escape, only for that to happen. In this instance it was a few minor bruises and a bloodied nose, caused by a few punches NOT someone stamping on their head ffs!

Rat Pack wrote:

[h=5]Announcement from Rat Pack

To all of our fans who attended last night. We firstly wish to thank you for your continued support and love. Without you our music is nothing and we know this and have never lost sight of it.

Last night our party was intended to celebrate our fine achievement of 25 years in the Dance Music Industry. We worked hard to bring you a feast of UK talent and our wish was to bring you a night you will never forget.

We are heartbroken today to see that so many of you were left in the cold and not looked after accordingly by the venue security and staff. We feel strongly that we was let down by the venue and this was the main reason for the failure of organisation on the door and queuing systems.

We wish to tell you the facts as we have them right now and we will update you accordingly at each and every step of the way.

Our ticket allocation data 2 weeks ago (March 14th) was cut off at 2400 pre sales. The remainder of tickets (400) which would have taken us to the venue capacity was held back, for the door.

We apologise to each and every one of you who experienced such unpleasant circumstances last night. We are heartbroken.

This event was never intended to be a ‘money spinner’ Our DJ costs, production costs, venue costs and so forth were high. This was because this was intended to be a celebration of UK dance music for you, our cherished fans.

We have had to consult people prior to be able to update you and whilst you’re frustrated (understandably so) please understand we have to be factual when we tell you the situation. This has taken some time and we appreciate fully your patience.

Rat Pack[/h]

They haven’t mentioned it officially but it sounds like the security were up to their old tricks again going by some of the comments people have made on face book about things that happened.

I may of gone to this had I not caught the flu a few days ago, and that was after vowing never to go back to that place again.

Just a word of warning peeps. :group_hug

Can’t help but feel a bit sorry for The Rat Pack, they are getting sooo much stick for this, like it was personally them who planned it all to happen like this lol. For some reason the afterparty never opened it’s doors either, after everyone had already bought advanced tickets.
March 30, 2013 at 6:53 pm

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TheStealthyRacoon

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Note: I am not supporting this picture, I just think its mighty funny.

Was just about to make a thread on this. I didnt go, but looked at the fb page this morning to see some pics of what I missed and boy are there a lot of angry ravers!

Apparently it wasnt even that good if you DID manage to get in; so crowed you couldnt dance, useless bouncers, poor sound…
March 30, 2013 at 7:09 pm

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DaftFader

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So far upon reading comments on fb more, I’ve not heard of anyone getting robbed with bouncers involved, so mby I was a bit harsh to say they are back to their old ways, but they definitely fucked up big time with organization and some people are saying they were treated badly by the bouncers, but haven’t elaborated on that.
March 30, 2013 at 7:14 pm

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General Lighting

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And folk wonder why there is form 696 in London, greater licensing controls and no town within 100 miles of the capital will license any event with a multicultural crowd listening to music over 125 bpm (provinicial cops and NHS don’t have the resources to deal with this sort of carnage).

There is a very nasty undercurrent on todays nightlife caused by social divisions. There are a lot of scrotes from the estates who see any “middle class” folk (be they from London itself or from further afield) as easy prey for robberies and in EDM-friendly clubs where drugs are taken folk don’t like “snitching” Whereas in the TOW(n)IE type venues if some girl (or boy!) get their bag or bling robbed they will be straight on to feds to make a statement and CCTV is better (most of the townie clubs have strong lighting) so thieves get caught far quicker.

In Ipswich the current bouncers seem to be clued up and well disciplined foreigners and a mixture of locals (but not footy hooligan meatheads) who are vetted by Police and they have a town wide digital radio system (nearly as good as airwave) , backup from CCTV and to be fair they keep the town relatively safe. Even then there are 15-20 more coppers on duty (every weekend in town just for the booze-friendly clubs, and there isn’t a venue in town I will set foot in in spite of friends promoting or attending all sorts of things from guitar based band gigs to drum and bass events. To be fair the venues themselves are relatively safe but a night out in town is no longer fun like it once was.

mind you I remember that “summer of love” revival in Loughton where it kicked off there and blokes older than me were fighting with weapons and bottles and metpol locked off the entire street…

TBH I don’t think you can even try and recreate the 1980s/1990s early rave scene any more. it wasn’t just about drugs but a different era when there was a carefree, even naïve optimism about even in the harsher streets of bigger cities and those days will not return.
March 31, 2013 at 11:55 am

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Negatives – The queue took the piss big time. 2.5hours in the freezing cold. People pushing in everywhere.
Posistives – my first rave in 20 years. Wasnt really a rave, more of a club night. When the old acid house tracks kicked in hard and loud, that made me smile and i found my old raving groove. Not sure if it was the fact there is a lot of people on different substances and the fact booze played a big part, but the love and feeling completely comfortable wasnt really there. Then we moved to Arena 3 for final few hours. Old house banging out, the vibe was more alive there. The old skool crew know how it works! This is what i was after, the buzz was back.
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March 31, 2013 at 12:11 pm

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eye.

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I love rat pack, this news made me sad. That’s sounds fucked up daft 🙁
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