Hybrid soundsystem falls over I fucking hate attention seeking people who want to climb on top of speaker cabs. What I find more insulting is when people put there beer cans inside the folded horn enclosure and shit. Fucking nobs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wm31e5zJyE123
Dance event organiser ID&T goes American Dance event organiser ID&T goes American
Thursday 21 March 2013Dutch dance event and festival organiser ID&T has been taken over by American company SFX Entertainment in a deal valuing the Dutch firm at $130m.SFX is buying 75% of the shares in ID&T, which is known for events such as Sensation, Thunderdome and Mysteryland.
The company was founded in 1992 and is active in 22 countries in Europe, plus the Americas, Asia and Australia.
‘The creative heart, which comes up with and develops the parties and festivals, will remain completely in Dutch hands,’ the company is quoted as saying by news agency ANP.
‘It will continue in Amsterdam with the name M-Design’.ID&T rejected a $100m takeover offer last year, ANP said.
SFX Purchases 75% Stake in Global Event Brand ID&T, Announce U.S. Edition of Tomorrowland
ID&T and its new partner SFX announced the first U.S. edition of Tomorrowland, the Dutch promoter’s flagship event held annually in Belgium (July 26-28, 2013), during a flashy reception at the Mondrian hotel Wednesday during Miami Music Week, dance music’s biggest U.S. industry soiree of the year.
The announcement follows news that SFX has acquired 75% of ID&T’s entire global business.The event, renamed TomorrowWorld in the U.S., will take place in Atlanta during the last weekend in September on a span of privately owned farmland just outside the city “almost God-made for a festival,” SFX CEO Robert F.X. Sillerman tells Billboard. Reservations (for eventual ticket purchases) can be made online starting at 8 p.m. Thursday, although more than 500,000 people have already opted-in for more TomorrowWorld information, prior to even knowing the country in which the previously teased event would take place.
But the companies held back the bigger reveal, originally reported by the New York Times: SFX has acquired 75% of ID&T’s entire global business at a price of approximately $97.5 million (valuing the company at $130 million total), superseding their original North American-only joint venture, announced just a month ago. The deal will introduce several of ID&T’s over 20 event brands -- including hardstyle-focused Q-Dance -- to the U.S. and beyond.“We very quickly got to know one another and we respect them so much and their talents, the way they approach things, and I think they recognize what we bring to the table,” Sillerman says. “It just made sense to do the whole thing.”For ID&T CEO/founder Duncan Stutterheim, the move ends a long period of dancing with several different suitors, including Live Nation most notably, which brought 21-plus ID&T event Sensation to the U.S. for the first time last year. Its double play at Brooklyn’s new Barclays Center grossed $3.6 million and drew 22,509 dancers, according to Billboard Boxscore.
But the two companies drifted apart in the subsequent months: AEG is promoting the current Sensation tour, hitting Toronto’s Rogers Centre on June 1.“We had one deal we agreed on from both sides,” Stutterheim says of the Live Nation-Sensation partnership. “We had a talk after that, but the whole vision of [Sillerman] was far more interesting to us. It was on a new level, not just executing as a promoter. [Live Nation] was a good promoter, they did a good job for us, but this is the next step -- a 360 model of media on top of the events. I really love that vision.”Announced in June 2012, the revived SFX originally seemed to be following the model Sillerman pioneered with the original one in the ‘90s -- rolling up concert promoters and live venues, and flipping them for a profit; only this time in the exploding EDM space, rather than rock and pop.
But with the acquisition of ID&T,*music platform Beatport*last month (and its reported 40 million users), and the*addition of investment partner WPP*-- one of the world’s leading communications agencies -- his ultimate purpose is becoming clearer. SFX means to create a global media platform, based in youth culture, music and huge events.“It’s bigger than all of us; the whole idea,” Stutterheim says. “If you call me in two years and it didn’t work, we have to look at only ourselves, because all the tools are there now.”Three-day Tomorrowland is the jewel in ID&T’s crown, selling out 180,000 tickets in seconds this year to attendees from more than 200 countries.
Unlike its biggest and most obvious competitor, Insomniac’s Electric Daisy Carnival, Tomorrowland allows and encourages patrons to camp out. Sources say that organizers even toured the storied site of Saugerties, N.Y., before settling on Atlanta.When asked upon his initial deal with ID&T if Tomorrowland could be like the EDM generation’s Woodstock, Sillerman said, “Sure. Clearly the reason we’re doing this joint venture is we think there’s a huge appetite in the U.S. for their method and quality.”It’s that careful attention to detail that made it impossible for ID&T to expand on its own, and got them looking for a partner in the first place. “We are a creative company; creative people,” Stutterheim says. “It was getting too big for us. We couldn’t find ourselves anymore. The festival here in Atlanta is a lot of money to put on; $15-16 million just to put it up only one country, and the demand is the whole world. We couldn’t do it. We needed help.”The quick move to bring Tomorrowland stateside, not even two months after the SFX joint venture was announced, ups the stakes for Insomniac and its top rumored suitor, Live Nation. Three-day passes for EDC 2013 (June 21-23) went on sale in January and are still available; the event sold out in May 2012. Some of EDC’s estimated 300,000 unduplicated attendees could choose to head to Atlanta this year. The two festivals will be the biggest test of EDM’s scale to date.
TomorrowWorld slides into the U.S. EDM-friendly festival calendar in one of the only open slots left, with Ultra Music Festival owning March, Coachella in April, Electric Daisy New York in May, Electric Daisy Las Vegas and Bonnaroo in June, Lollapalooza in August, and Electric Zoo (formerly the unofficial closer of the season) in early September.
But according to Stutterheim, the European festival season was more of a concern: Tomorrowland’s massive stage sets have to make it across the ocean from Belgium to Atlanta, with enough time to properly ship and assemble them.“We rent what we can, but we are physically transporting a lot of stuff; all the decorations,” he says. “We can’t plan a week after the Belgian edition. But with Sensation we have a lot of experience with shipping. We travel with five shows to 24 countries.”While the EDM world has balked at the introduction of corporate man-in-black Sillerman to its ranks -- there’s even a joke @EDMCEO Twitter account -- Stutterheim says they’ve got him all wrong.*“He is a character, but he was also the guy sitting in a room of 20 people with the vision questions,” he says of a recent meeting between SFX, Beatport, WPP and ID&T leaders. “I saw a side of him that was not only a billionaire guy playing around. He asked questions about the consumer, ‘What do they want?’ And that’s exactly what we’ve done for 20 years. [Sillerman] asked the same questions, not just how to make the stock grow, but also the experience level of the consumer.”
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16 year old stabbed at squat party BRIGHTON [h=3]16-year-old stabbed at Brighton squat party[/h]
1:10pm Wednesday 5th December 2012 in News
By Ben Parsons, Crime Reporter
[IMG]http://www.theargus.co.uk/resources/images/2253937/?type=articleLandscape[/IMG]The building in Freehold Terrace, Brighton, where the stabbing occured during a party
A 16-year-old is accused of trying to stab another teenager to death during a rave at a squat.
He was charged with attempted murder after the youth suffered a punctured lung early on Sunday morning (December 2).
It is understood many of the revellers inside the disused building in Freehold Terrace, Brighton, were young teenagers.
People living in the street have complained to police about noise and anti-social behaviour since squatters moved into the former workshop about ten days ago.
Late on Saturday night (December 1), music, including hip hop and dubstep, began playing at the site and groups of young people arrived.
At about 2.30am an ambulance was called to treat a 16-year-old boy outside. It is believed he had been stabbed four times with a knife.
He was taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in a serious condition and was still being treated yesterday (December 4).
Two youths, both aged 16, were arrested between Sunday night and Monday morning.
One was charged with attempted murder and appeared at Brighton Youth Court yesterday.
He spoke only to confirm his name and age and was remanded in custody until December 11.
The second suspect was released on bail while the police investigation continues.
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Brighton teenager in court on attempted murder charge
Locked up
It is understood the site’s owners have now secured the building.
Though the gates were locked yesterday and some windows boarded up, broken panes were visible and the forecourt was scattered with glass and beer crates.
About five adults were said to have been living in the squat last week, but several of the people present at the time of the wounding were believed to have been under 16.
Patrick Benna, 31, whose girlfriend lives in Freehold Terrace, said he had seen drunk people going to the squat in the evenings during the week.
He said: “This weekend I saw lots of people going in.
“The music started at eleven or twelve.
“I heard windows smashing. There was lots of glass on the road this weekend.”
Fire death
The police investigation comes just days after the death of a man in a fire in a boarded up squat in St George’s Terrace, Kemp Town, last Wednesday.
The dead man’s identity has not been released, but he is said to have been 40 or 41. His next of kin have not yet been informed.
A post-mortem was inconclusive and toxicology tests are being carried out to establish whether he had drugs or alcohol in his system.
A 48-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of arson and released on bail without charge until January 14.
Mike Weatherley, Conservative MP for Hove, supported the recent criminalisation of squatting in residential properties and has called for the ban to be extended to commercial buildings.
After Sunday’s stabbing, he said: “I was upset to hear about this incident of extreme violence in a squat, which follows the sad recent case of a death in another.
“I can’t emphasise enough just how dangerous these buildings can be.”
Poor lad12
Summer of rave documentary A doc that has just been uploaded to the devonsparties youtube page. It is a BBC doc so don't expect too much spot on info lol I haven't seen it yet so I will comment after.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp_40M4g9P8
March 16th 2013 – NEED A RAVE!!! Hi guys and girlies I'm looking for a rave East Anglia on 16th march..... anyone know of anyting going on that weekend????
I wanna get messy :p:crazy_diz
Kingston/Croydon places to go Hi folks. Going to Kingston end of March for a few days. Need to find somewhere hardcore where pupils are dilated and there is plenty of trade. Not familiar with these areas but if Kingston doesn't have much to offer then I guess Croydon is the next best/closest option? We were going to do it properly in Brighton which is very hardcore, but hotels are too expensive there, we missed out, should have booked sooner. Any info would be very much appreciated.
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Ministry of Sound opinions/views So after deciding im gonna go here with a few friends and some Mtv, just looking for peoples opinions on the place
Iv read some reviews complaining security is really tight? Is it really anymore tight than any other club?
Good advice to buy tickets prior to the night? i assume yes
Thanks guys12…45
Twisted tribe Psytrance party LONDON 16/02/13 Seems phat, PM me for partyline. LONDON
TRIBE is back and we are ready to make some more smash bash events... this time VALENTINES DAY - MULTI GENRE
DAMAGE - £10 ALL NITE
London ‘rave’ superclub music choices Hi guys, 1st time poster here!
a real newb when it comes to London clubbing, what I'm looking for is somewhere that plenty of people are spaced so I don't look out of place! Now I went to Fabric recently and whilst i found it good, the music really isn't to my taste. Don't get me wrong when I'm rollin I can enjoy it, but id rather something a lot more Dance like, ie with some sort of lyrics, and not something that sounds like one continuous beat (to me)
From all the searches iv done most places seem to be predominantly House
Is there any alternatives?
Thanks
"Mum blasted after taking baby to a rave " – WARNING: Sun article… Mum blasted after taking 4-month-old baby to a RAVE | The Sun |News
Thoughts?
I don't see the problem really, it's typical Sun exaggerating misinformation hysteria
It's hardly a proper rave, it was a licensed event in a university arts centre, which houses an arts and crafts gallery, community theatre and organic cafe. They have tight restrictions on noise limits and numbers, strict security and police monitoring every area, everyone drug swabbed and searched by hedlu on entry and it's mostly students and local hippyish types that go.
Surely she should be trusted to look after her own baby wherever she is, she had the ear protectors put on and was there to see her other child's band in a separate room so obviously cares about her children.
Some people seem to really disagree though and think it's an outrage :crazy:12
I’m looking for rave party in london Hello, I'm Italian boy....I would like to know how can to find one rave in London...I would like to go...please tell me......
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