Party Vibe

@DaftFader 406714 wrote:

This was just down the road to me and yes it was a LEGAL event.

I didn’t go cos I knew the type of people who would go – I think it was in a part of haighnault forrest or epping forrest – they used to be the same forrest till it got chopped up by loads of roads/buildings.)

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I remember reading about the violence that crowd were involved in when I was young Josh’s age – and the people what got nicked were a few years older than me

might not be surprising they can’t get a license for shit these days, especially calling it “summer of love”, even the councils and old bill will just laugh in their faces 😉

Exactly the same happened two decades ago with the first rise in free parties.

Criminalising squatting for genuine housing purposes might well be slightly more problematic but bear in mind squatting is already illegal in Scotland which is more left-wing than other parts of the UK, and other EU nations are clamping down on squats. Also cops know the difference between geniune homeless people (they and other authorities keep records of them) and middle class kids breaking into a building to hold a party.

I doubt it will stop the party scene totally but action will be taken to stop larger more obvious/blatant events and/orquasi commercial events bypassing licensing laws. its also a lot easier with todays surveilance and worse, peoples loose talk online for feds to work out if someone might be laundering their benefits money through drug sales – particularly litres of ketamine (just ask the PCT for details of how many folk are presenting with severe genitourinary problems in the 16-40 age group when (other than STIs) these are otherwise uncommon 😉 ). The NHS won’t of course hand over individuals details but they do exchange the numbers of those seeking treatment – and from this its easy to work out how much of a ketamine problem each area has. Ditto with drugs-related mental health issues.

I suspect many of the people who continue to do small scale free parties will be those what have normal jobs and a bit of spare time/cash and aren’t blatantly selling boatloads of drugs to fund them, just like what it was really like in the so-called “good days”.

one elephant in the room which wasn’t present in the 90s and Noughties though is that easy but well paid jobs in IT/offices are gone overseas and never coming back….. and people work longer hours and have less spare time and cash.

Maybe in future people who are lucky enough to get hold of a disused building without it being evicted/locked off (perhaps for a peppercorn rent) will find its too valuable a resource to risk on just one weekends’ party and might ultimately do something more positive/long term with it (like the old style social centre)