Sorry folks if giving directions to this party has raised concern. No excuses I’m just an ignorant hedonist.
As it was the pigs turned up on Friday afternoon,4 in total, H&S and all. As it was a private party on private land they were told that their intervention was not welcome and off they went. They did do a bit of roadblocking but thats par for the course around here. Unfortunately the weather was difficult and turned the site into a mud pit, otherwise a lot more vehicles would have got on site and not clogged up the road.
So wot’s the score with letting folk know where the party is. Any advice is welcome.
it clearly seems that the cops in your area are more lenient; (which force of the 4 Welsh forces is it?) In England they would not have accepted the “private party” excuse and would have tried to prosecute the organisers for “unlicensed entertainment”, and/or called for backup until they had enough cops to shut the rave down.
I am not sure whether the devolution means that the laws are now slightly different in Wales, and the local councils (who need to assist the cops press charges) are not as yet doing so. if you have any legal or political students you know, you may wish to check with them. It might be a cultural thing as well, a country which has a long-standing musical heritage may not want to be seen clamping down on the local music scene!
The danger is more for your local scene. The weather is getting better (even in Wales 😉 ) English rigs are getting a hard time, and may wish to join you when they see posts like this and think ” look at these Welsh, if they can put whole addresses on public message boards anyone can party there!”
Sadly, not all of them have the common sense or courtesy to ask first, and may overwhelm a small village where there are only a few access roads. It could also be hard to turn away a fellow rave crew (who may then just set up in a less appropriate place due to lack of local knowledge and cause further problems).
People unfamiliar to the area may get lost and drive around aimlessly, park up in peoples private land etc and then all your villagers understandably complain about the invasion and the heddlu finally think enoughs enough and go storming in..
I’d just suggest you use a partyline, and send it to people via the private message facility.
I would state here thought that this is not 100% security. Whilst we carry out some security checking on users (mostly to remove spammers and people just trying to sell commercial products) , we cannot check everybody and there is TBH nothing stopping a cop or an anti-rave vigilanté registering here as well if they just lurk or send PM’s (moderators here do not normally look at other peoples PM’s, unlike on other boards!)
But by doing so this also shows its a private event by invitation only – no different from when you have your own birthday and decide who to invite round your house, it will also make it easier to keep an eye on the numbers so you do not get overcrowded (it can happen and causes big problems in the long term) and will make it easier to ensure those who attend your events are actually true party people who understand what free parties are about (those who do not can cause other problems.).
