I wouldn’t complain about an “excess” of “mainstream” house events or any EDM event, even in London; your events are interesting and house may well be “mainstream” in other venues but I suspect the real reason for this is because folk from other towns in the East of England are travelling to London for a weekend out more often.
The cost of drinks, taxis and anything else in East Anglia now isn’t different from London and socialising in the capital can be less hassle and stress than attending a similar event in your home town play music above 120bpm and the event/punters are way more likely to be monitored by cops. you might also bump into people from work etc whilst under the influence (hassle even for younger folk in small towns/villages where gossip travels quickly, not everyone works in a hedonist friendly hipster IT startup…)
So there are lots of young professional people who live in or near somewhere like Ipswich or Colchester (cheaper and safer for day to day life) but work and/or party in London, a “long weekend” doesn’t look suspicious. The costs of putting on an EDM event in these East Anglian towns are now as much as doing so in the capital or greater. Local Councils can afford to refuse these events, they get enough money from the mainstream daytime economy. The risks of negative incidents are also far greater (people combine binge drinking with party drugs and the results are unpleasant).
In Ipswich the only venue hosting large EDM events is yet again up for sale and numerous other “townie” venues have closed (in some cases I’m glad to see the back of those as they were a clear source of trouble and annoyance in the area). London Liverpool Street is only 1.5 hours away by train (although its way expensive considering the short distance). TBH if I still lived in or nearer London and had more spare time with I’d check out both your event and these “mainstream” house nights..
@Mr_Balls 562026 wrote:
People are not as friendly as they used to be and since it got so popular I think the whole experience has become watered down, especially with the death of the payphone.
welcome 🙂 – although I get what you say in the first bit (the “EDM boom” in the USA looks to me more like they are trying to make a a supersized version of what happened across Europe in the late 1990s, and commercialise it with modern technology, already tried here and it went tits up within a few years) the music is still likely to remain popular long after the big events stop happening.
I’m not 100% sure about the second bit though, as in British English a payphone is this…
not safe to use for passing unlicensed rave locations – British Telecom was once government run so the cops know exactly where all the payphones are (this one is next to a large football (soccer) stadium in the middle of town) and they can easily get intercept warrants if they think they are being used for illegal purposes, some got hidden cameras installed if they got used by hard drugs dealers, they are also clearly not big enough to hold a rave inside….
