@doublethink 508204 wrote:
Holborn. Was fine just London is so expensive
yeah true, depends what you’re doing though tbf. Can have some real cheap days/night’s out in London if you plan ahead. If you’re going there to have a drink in pubs, it can rack up a fair bill, also the big clubs/venues will really take the piss with prices. Even the underground rave scene in London is generally charging double to treble what it was 5 years ago to get in. the beers still cost about 1.50 though so it’s all good. Tbh the effort put in to psytrance raves can well outdo the effort put into some of the random D+B/techno/gabba raves I used to go to, including security what merits the extra cash, even the shitty squat parties are now charging a tenner mostly. and that’s not far off what some small events are charging for a licensed venu with fees to be payed.
Now I’m not knocking the crews that charge a tenner for a room and a sound system, that’s perfectly fine, just the people doing it by the books must be getting squeezed to fuck with earnings.
I remember when it was £3 for many squat parties, you get fuck all thrills for your £3, just a fucked room and some sick music. I think now the underground music scene is becoming less underground and more “middle ground”, as a fuck of a lot more people know and attend places that 5 odd years ago no one would of heard of, the venu’s and decor are meeting in the middle. So it’s more cash, less shitty buildings and less gabba.
Also the newish squatting laws may of made people think twice about possibly fucking up their chance of a future building to live in by holding a party that far out of the law as it will have a knock on effect in the long run, as happened with the scum crew and the government reaction to that.
I’m seeing a lot of buildings owned or rented by the crew or friends of, as opposed to actual squats now days. Most likely with a tens.
