@General Lighting 385834 wrote:
if its who/where I think it was I’d always classed them as SE England rigs rather than bumpkin ones as every winter they’d be in Reading or Outer London 😉 – compared to EA most of SE England is suburbs rather than proper countryside….
bear in mind though my last few years partying were spent in EA where things are different – 3 crews will usually do a big link up rather than have separate stacks.
not “gangs” as such, very small numbers of people what know one another bringing their personal scores to the parties and then others taking sides. but once someone gets injured to the point the NHS are required it defeats any argument that unlicensed events should be tolerated, especially when Ambulance units have to be sent considerable distances into the country.
I think you (wisely!) stopped going just before things started going downhill…
I never went to EA (well, if I did I dont remember it), it was further south than that, and the west country a bit too. The crapist venues they ever used were quarry’s, but this was in summer never went in winter. Think they do the ushall warehouse stuff or cold barns in winter. Never appealed though and I was always trying to sort out my mental health so as song as I was strong enough to not go I did.
What really makes me angry is when a few idiots chuck bottles or give the OB hassel. Not seen it much at all, but there can sometimes be a couple of idiots, as with anything. But 99% of the time everyone if just friendly and polite and its all good. sometimes get some drunken chav idiot from the local town though.
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