Party Vibe

Ramsholt was a large 3 day rave held in Suffolk in Summer 2005 about 8 miles away from the centre of Ipswich.

Unfortunately I missed out on this as I only moved here in 2006. Doubtless it was a fun party with a massive stack (at least until the riot cops moved in) – a pic of it is even featured on the “Illegal Ravers UK” CD you could at one time buy in tescos (!) – but the backlash from this led to even more entrenchment of the zero tolerance policy here.

its a common observation that there are “few people in front of the stacks” at videos of foreign parties or even large UK raves. There are various reasons for this – one is that making videos usually requires daylight (unless you have a really flash camera with about 16dB video gain) and its sometimes too hot to be in front of the rig – but also at bigger parties there are often loads of rigs and at larger events for safety/security reasons people tend to stay in their own crews or in groups from their own countries/regions (I even noticed this at Wales in 2007).

it wasn’t a magazine (although they did once exist), just a CD of cheesy happy hardcore tracks with a picture of the rave stack on the front cover. I don’t think they even asked permission to use it (although you could argue the ravers didn’t ask permission to be in the field)