some solstice photos courtesy of Markutz from southwestunderground.net
check out the photos my heathen bredren
http://www.infexious.net/markutz/solstice2006/
A Little Fatty spent a hot cool weekend on makeshift dancefloor on a farm in Devon :horay:
heard some pretty good live sets plus a couple of bands playing psychadelic folk & roll, or was that dub and bass? or was it acid country disco? :alien_abd
whatever it was, it was good to hear live :bigsmile:
got a chance to catch up with some very good friends i don't see often enough, cemented some recent friendships and made some brand new ones :wink:
the rig performed well and after a few minor alterations on the hop it handled the techno, electro / techno, DnB, breaks excellently :angel:
was especially good cos we had our daughter with us. she loves loud basslines and dancing.
she didn't make a fuss at all about her earplugs going in before she was allowed near the rig and she slept peacefully plenty when she needed to:cloud9:
and she danced to my reggae breakfast set (best father's day present i could have asked for)
didn't get to take the long walk around the farm in the morning as we were running out of food and supplies for our little one (and champagne and cake for ourselves).. but the short walk was mind-blowing
loved watching the low hills emerge through the mist... and found about 20 different types of plant growing that you wouldn't normally expect to see growing in this country :surprised
got back to the city and ended up dancing salsa with a large straw hat on my head and massive old lady style sunglasses on in a packed square in town for the afternoon
all on a couple cups of coffee, a couple of beers and a possibly suspect cigarette. and some cake.
/me feels healthy this monday
nice party tvc totaly enjoyed it just wanted to say thanks to all the peeps involved in the gathering on sat just gone, ( the Beach) was cool little party. the four of us that came had wicked time, well up for sum more. anytime !!
Ps. friendly pete drop us a pm
kind regards
Lbc
Isreali party bust! Friday night there was an illegal party in tel aviv with 2 stages, punk and ska bands on one and jungle and tekno on the second... Cops shut us down at 2am, arriving like Czech-death style in riot gear by the busloads. unfortunately, there were a bunch of foolish-drunk young punks that started to throw rocks at the pigs - and shyt got out of control. many were injured, hospitolized and beaten for simple shyt like taking pictures of officers mashing down the youth. many were jailed for "police brutality" - aka harming officers, even tho those arrested werent the ones who started shyt by throwing rocks. long story = short, here's some footage from israel tv........
http://roomush.rusisrael.com/10news.mpg
Teknival movies I have been looking at some of the Teknival movies.
Very impressed with the size of the sound systems.
Alot of them look very professional, how do they afford to run them?
I take it that most of the Teknival's are free parties.
One thing though, there does not seem to be a lot of people in the footage.
Is this because they are not fully running or maybe it is the morning after?
Police priorites… How annoying was this weekend…
(btw, this wasn’t my rig or anything to do with me, I was just there as a spectator…)
Psy trance party on Friday night. Lovely little location and a huge amount of effort had gone into setting up. Screen with projector, laser shining off at the hills on the side of the valley, lights and flurou all over the place. A small stereo stack and friendly people.
Trouble was, as we arrived in the car park (about 0035 sat morning) so did the police. I walked up the hill with them towards the site though none of us could hear it until a way up the path from the road. I asked how many people had complained and they said I wouldn’t believe them if they told me (never trust a copper ;))
Turns out they’d had no complaints at all!! Not even a single one! A National Trust warden had driven past the car park and seen the cars and phoned them. As a result of the ZERO complaints they couldn’t Sec63 it (ha ha ha ha… or public nuisance, or anything along those lines!) Fair play to the police, when he called it in he said it was a small party, friendly and all that, but the National Trust said they wanted us off. So the copper said – be on your way. I pointed out that trespass is a civil matter and not enforceable by the police but the courts. He they said that aggravated trespass is a matter for the police, but no one was resisting I said. He said that the fire constituted damage to the property so it had become agg. Trespass. Not having a lawyer nearby (and not wanting to cause too much aggro) I conceded and got him to follow me round with a torch so I could do a litter pick instead.
In the end 6 police cars and a fire engine (for the fire which we wanted put out properly before we’d be happy leaving the site) turned up to shut it down. Not sure what happened after that as I headed home as I needed sleep for the footie on Sat…
So. A couple of points. The whole reason the party got shut down is cos people parked in a car park. Halfway up this track is a large area of grass. By being responsible and getting people to park in the car park they gave the party away so the Nat Trust have now forced our hand and the directions to my parties will now say ‘don’t be responsible, park on the grass instead’ I don’t want this, neither does anyone really but it seems to be the only way…
The second part is; does a bonfire count as damage therefore making it agg. Trespass? If the fire wasn’t there and there was no damage then the police would have had to concede that there was nothing illegal going on…
So it was a bit shitty really.
And to top it all off. Friday night there’s 6 police cars to stop a friendly party breaking no law. Saturday afternoon there’s more police on the high street than I’ve even seen. But when it comes to half midnight it takes them 30 minutes to get a car down to clear up after a fight in which my mates ear got bitten off. 30 minutes from a phone call from a pub saying there’s someone here with half an ear. I was fuming…
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