Thank you devon party goers just a big Thank You to all the people that donated equipment, time, energy, ideas, skills, talents, land, smiles, fun and frolicks to the party near ashcombe in devon last night
you are too many to be sure i can thank you all here, you know who you are, but be proud of what looks to be the start of a summer to remember
Thanks in particular made be made to Lord Rayner for his peaceful loan of a wood (word to the aristocracy, ummm) , to The Tourettes for the best vaudaville-punk-ska-street poetry warm up I ever did see, to Tony and Rose for an amazing performance (long may you entertain together) despite numb fingers, to The Collectiv for just being a wicked band and pushing boundaries, to all the DJ's that made me unable to stand still, to Sarah for her fire, to you all.
I hope you all enjoyed it three quarters as much as i did or you didn't half have a good time.
And in particular a very special thanks to the guy who left a message on the infoline when he was lost to tell us "you're full of fucking shit, i can't understand a word of that". The other 400 people had the skills to follow the very simple directions, sorry mate, hope it all worked out.
is it a bank holiday next weekend? it is? what does that tell you?
Thank you Trefil was great, i had a great weekend paying for it now though! dont go away for to long my first ever one and it was mad! Luved it to much xx
Moot review – 2004-05-15 this was the 1st time I had been to an outdoor party for 3 years - having taken a long break from partying from 2002 onwards for a number of reasons...
So it was with great interest and anticipation I set off on the journey with a couple of friends from Reading. After a few wrong turnings [1] we ended up at Farley Mount; a bit of Hampshire woodland which once was the haunt of a notorious highwayman surrounded by areas which had seen fighting during the English civil war.
But thankfully tonight there was to be no-one getting robbed; nor (at least until Sunday) any major fighting - just one of Southern England's finest Moots [2].
We arrived to find Hampshires finest traffic cops and various "Rural support units" - more bobbies in Range Rovers [3] blocking the entry point; and Hampshire's spotter plane [4] (which would not have looked that out of place in an old war movie!)
These cops were however relatively good natured and didn't really bother hassling us as we parked the car and entered the site on foot, although they said that the party would be closed down soon.
Some rigs were already there and setting up; Storm, Tunnel and Brainfuel (they were negotiating for *hours* with the very tenacious traffic cops; the most senior of of whom carried a blue folder throughout the dialogue. Perhaps this contained the "What to do when a RAVE happens in your force area" type documents the bobbies have become very fond of compiing recently....
The traffic cops (understandably) expressed concerns over "obstruction" and "bad parking"; to which many responded "we would have parked in better places, but there are a large amount of Range Rovers blocking the road", and a big white car with its headlamps on full beam dazzling everyone coming up the hill :)
Eventually, the rigs set up and the music kicked out; the Police found their backup slowly drifting away and a crackling voice on their radio said no more was to be found from elsewhere; the traffic cops found themselves outnumbered, the butt of many jokes and realised they could not stop the ever-increasing flow of vehicles now arriving at the site.
They still returned later with an even more senior officer, who took a look at the rigs, and then all went to the roads and directed the remaining cars into appropriate car parks! That was the last we were to see of cops for some hours. We all went exploring the various parts of the site; I met many friends old and new, and completely overlooked a mound of gravel (put there to deter ravers' vehciles after a previous event at this site!) until I had been brought sharply to the floor by falling over said mound.
The rigs became louder, night became a beautiful early morning. With no roadblocks, yet more vans and cars arrived. Survival crew had joined at the entry point, along with Underdog (with an excellent female MC called Lia D).
The atmosphere was brilliant. Although previous UK outdoor parties had been blighted by bad attitudes and violence, there was none of this here - minor disagreements due to "crew politics" were sorted out peacefully, former "enemies" partied instead of provoking eacb other.
Although the full Sokaid Collective could not turn out in full strengh due to the earlier confiscation of their generator sets at the ill-starred UK Teknival, Somatek decided to set up an Itsy-Bitsy style mini-rig.
However, some of the crew were in no state to set up a rig; I offered my assistance and although successful in setting up the system added a rope burn (from a genset starter rope) and an electric shock (from a faulty earth on a mains lead)to my catalogue of minor mishaps for the night. Even these did not dampen my renewed enthusiasm for outdoor events - wandered about the site chatting, dancing and obtaining some excellent video footage until early afternoon.
By then the spotter plane had returned - it circled the site every minute. I managed to get some footage of it; and got the impression the pilot was aware of this and ever so slightly showing off with a few subtle banking manoevures.
However at the entry point things were not so rosy. The traffic cops had been replaced by 3 vans of rather more unfriendly Hampshire "territorial support group" [TSG] units; about 20 officers in total all in "public order gear". These are referred to on the British street as the "riot squad" - although like most cops here they carry no fire-arms they have shields, hard helmets and batons raised and are intended to be intimidating. When you see cops like this, it usually means that they means business.
Word went through the site that the TSG were about - as it was afternoon already and many had had a good innings some rigs stood down; and the post-rave collection of trash in bags (an essential part of UK outdoor raves) started.
What happened next is unclear. Survival were still playing, and either the cops tried to seize their genset without warning (they should issue an official warning before doing so) or people who should have known better attempted to pelt the cops with cans, bottles; in retaliation, some of the cops charged and a few ravers were hit with batons.
However the gung-ho cops had overlooked the fact that there were rather more people in the woods than you would have seen at the entry point..!
At this point, hundreds more people came out of the woods, and advanced towards the cops. There was no further violence. They put their batons down; backed off, their sarge said words to the effect of "OK - you win this round! - we won't bother you any more!" and retreated.
But as it was now mid-afternoon, many people were becoming tired due to the summer heat and as "normal" people were starting to fill up the woodland and park, the crews chilled out for a bit, and soon afterward those who had kept going until the bitter end stood down , packed up the rigs, and filled trash bags so the site would not be left in a mess leading to a further appearance of the cops.
All good things have unfortunately to come to an end and we could have done without the violence on the part of Hampshire Constabulary -(the traffic cops had already been told we would stand down by Sunday afternoon!) but this was an amazing start to Britains "Moot" season.
I hope part two is even better..
GL : GB-RDN
[1] UK crews - buy *proper* OS maps and learn how to give directions
properly!
[2] A "moot" in an old English term for a group discussion (often on legal matters) or a meeting of free people in the countryside.
[3] A British SUV.
[4] Hampshire use a fixed wing aircraft for surveillance rather than a helicopter; it is cheaper and provides higher quality pictures.
Was the noise r us party any good ? I wanted to go too a squat party in london last week-end but my mates were being boring and I partied in brixton again but I wanted to know if any of the squat parties were any good.
tribe of munt Had a great time at the tribe of munt party last night. Having not been out in London for a while finding such a positive atmosphere and great tunes was very much appreciated. Very fucking amused by the hard house party full of antipodians down the road and majorly glad to have figured out it wasn't the party we were looking for before we went in.
thankyou lovely people just a quick note to say a big thankyou to all the people who helped put on our party on saturday, and of course the many people who attended, despite the efforts of the local constabulary and the technical prob's with phone line.
the party was in our eyes a success, the rig was booming till will after 9am with wicked banging music.
there will for definate be more party's from us in the future, 1st sat of the month.
thanks again
l&b
S.S.System
raves in surrey can ne 1 tell me if there are ne free partys goinon in surrey??
New to free partys so don't no much! Went to 1 in Crawley the other week , small but good, and i met a bloke called ketamine kolin!!
Grrr Drove over to Kent last Saturday for the Liquid Connective party through the pissing rain, to discover that I had been given the wrong f**ckin number. No party for me.
Don't you just hate that?
Last w/e west London shenanigans who went 2 the multiriggers in west London last weekend? fun in parts but met defo wanted 2 stop things &^ eventually got a noise abatement order (worrying 2 see the met being so harsh when they once let parties go...)
still we relocated 2 various other venues when the big 1 got shut down (despite a lot of ppl getting stop checked). a mad weekend..
storm my saviors!!!! Hi all,
hope u all had a gr8 weekend I did, haven't been freepartying in a while coz im a bit of a wimp wen it comes to the cold weather and all that.
But I heard about an event that storm put on in the coven oxford so I got my glad rags on and headed down there unfortunately I come from milton keynes so it was a bit of a long way down there but it was all worth it!!! top nite, familier faces gr8 music and laughing gas!! storm u rule cant wait till party season u've wet my appitite!!! wot did everyone else get up to n e one else go to project storm?? :D
svnye i went and i had a fucking wicked night. i payed a fuck of a lot of money to go on a coach and skip all the cuing. However i feeel it is a fucking absolutepisstake to those left in the que . what a fucking stupid system. and ive also heard better free party sound systems than that
So how was yours? A bit late I know, but may I wish you all peace , love and happiness for 2004. How did your start to the new year go? For me it was excellent. My friends and I put on a party, a good vibe, great crowd of people (the people make the party) and a lovely chilled out after party. I can't think of a better start to the new year and hope that it sets the tone for the rest of the year. Any one else?
back in the UK from the DAM Alright there people. I have had loads of good nights with in Amsterdam (wonder how many people are still there that I know)? I would just like to say that after nearly nine years in the Netherlands I consider myself slightly Amsterdamaged!!! but it is all good.... with some fantastic memories(hoi polio ect).
Back in the UK now for around a year and would just like to share somewhere that I have found up here in Newcastle. Now I have been partying since around 1990 (all the free partys in and around the Oxford and London area). Now this place called SHINDIG and it reminds me soooo much of that lovin feeling that used to be around a good few years ago. Everyone is out for a good time getting smashed and feeling happy, you know not just standing around staring looking like they have just been shot in the arse looking for some one to take it out on.
If anyone else knows of any good places like this then please let me know as they are getting harder and harder to find.
Anyway good luck to everyone and hope this new year brings happyness and joy to everyone...
Jack the Lad
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