Love4Life summer soundsystem fun! 2012…
This summer sees the return of the AWA party crew. following the sell out sucess of last years event, and still determined to put the fun back into partying, this years event “love4life” will be a fully licensed weekender, 17th-19th of August, at a rural farm site, in Cornwall, with marquees to party in, and camping on site. These parties were originally an invite only, outdoor gathering, where veteran dj’s of the acid house scene leave their usual set at home, and look towards the back of their record collections. As ever, the event will be a retro vinyl affair, offering a journey into the highlights of house music from the ‘80s and ‘90s, its influences, and acid house, trance, and techno of the ‘90s underground party movement. Celebrating love, life, spine tingling tunes, and the acid house counter culture that inspired people all over the world to smile and dance together.
For the main event on Saturday, free party pioneers DiY Soundsystem will be bringing the original Black Box rig and a full crew, inc Digs and Woosh, and Simon DK, with support from Ornate music’s Jonno and Tommo, Warwick, plus Debs n Rob (babble).
Formed back in the heady days of ‘89, in Nottingham, initially throwing house parties, before moving on to throw their first event at The Garage, home to a fledgling Graeme Park, in November of that year.
They went on to take decks and records to Glastonbury ‘90, meeting up with some like minded travellers to forge an inspired liaison that led to the start of the UK free party scene.
From Castle Morton to the Café del Mar, DiY extended their punk ethos into a veritable empire of record label, recording studio, production, club nights, and outdoor parties, with the sound system receiving international underground acclaim. Although becoming deeply involved in a new movement combining protest with pleasure, DiY themselves remained enigmatic, always avoiding simple categorization and demanding that the collective ethos that underlay their philosophy was not sacrificed to the temptation of momentary fame; perhaps the most satisfaction was gained by DiY when ‘In the City 97’ described them as ‘culturally, the most dangerous people in the UK.”.
DiY Discs, their record label, launched in ‘90, with the first LP ‘Strictly 4 Groovers’ licensed to WARP and selling 20000 copies. Remixes by DJ Pierre, Charles Webster, and a young Phil Asher all featured, as did debuts from Atjazz, Nail (Bent) and contributions from Groove Armada’s Andy Cato, himself cutting his teeth at the free parties of the early ‘90s. The imprint currently numbers over 100 releases, with tracks from the crew and some collected on their travels.
These trips abroad took them to Dallas for the legendary Hazy Daze ranch parties, as well as Canada, Sydney, New Zealand, Tokyo, Thailand and as much of Europe as had discovered the deep house groove. Ibiza beckoned in ‘90, invited by Jose Padilla & playing with A Man Called Adam during appearances at Amnesia, Space Terrace & Pacha throughout the ‘90s. Back in the UK, a now infamous coach trip to the Hacienda ended with the whole posse ejected for having too much fun, and a wan Tony Wilson stating ‘we never overrule our bouncers’. 2012 marks 23 years of this legendary outfit and their mission to bring the house music of the clubs to the fields and the freedom of the fields to the clubs.
DJs, Producers and label owners, JONNO & TOMMO hail from London’s Deep House music scene. JONNO, originally from Nottingham and a DJ involved with the Smokescreen ‘free party’ scene, is now head honcho of Rival Recordings UK and has also released under the guise of Arch Rivals and Rubberneck on Drop Music. TOMMO spends his days working at award winning on-line music store Juno Records and running influential deep house label Ornate Music which name checks Toka Project, Fish Go Deep, Agnes & Moodymanc on its current release roster.
If anything is an indication of what these two are capable of, look no further than Doc Martin, who said he’d be playing their remix of Bleep District’s – Secret Disciples “until the grooves ran out”.
Headlining on the second rig, needing no introduction, representing the tek end of the old skool party scene, is our regular guest, and acid techno legend, Chris liberator, from the Stay Up Forever collective. Always well received, with a wealth of releases under his belt, his unique sets are in worldwide demand, and guaranteed to hit the spot. Chris will be joined by a large SUF crew this year, Aaron Liberator, Ant, Rackitt and Gizelle(tbc). Providing support are Sikaflex tbc and Je:5, now key members of international cutting edge techno outfit Ugly Funk, having previously cut their teeth on the infamous BWPT sound system in the ‘90s, throwing regular and rowdy free techno parties across the midlands countryside and city warehouses. Local backup from underground stalwarts Ryan Holland(full contact) and Simon+Mat Spacecase(love4life).
In the third tent.
Back by popular demand, after rocking the last AWA party at the Koola in June ’08, and again at love4life August 2010, are the oldskoolanthemz.com crew (the biggest and most active old skool site on the net with over 10000 members) They will be bringing a bunch of talented djs joined by, and a huge stack of oldskool vinyl covering Club classics and 80s-90s house styles, oldskool hip hop, breaks, electro and beyond. The OSA crew will be joined by Dj Triple Hex…aka Dj Matt ( Original Pirate Sounds 90-93, Headrushlive.com , In-Ter-Dance , Kaos Project) and other guests tbc.
Friday Night social and the Sunday session will feature a more eclectic mix of classic records.
On site catering for veggies and meat eaters, fire, fully licensed reasonably priced bars, and camping available Friday Saturday and Sunday night, to make it easier for those who travel a long way to attend.
Line up as confirmed so far…
Friday night social…
7pm untill midnight.tbc
DJ’s
Chris Liberator+Rackitt(SUF house set)yes really!
Adam Wilson
Dan Cartel
Bar
Fire
Overnight camping.
Saturday main event….
Bar and music lunch time till 4am tbc
Rig 1 DiY soundsystem(house music pioneers since 89!)
Digs and Woosh
Simon DK
Jonno & Tommo (Ornate Music)
Warwick
Rob+Debs(babble)
Cass-Roc(Krush)tbc
Mr Radish(OSA)
Adam Wilson(OSA)
Dan Badder
all playing on the original Black Box Soundsystem.
Rig 2 Retro underground sounds: SUF special!
Chris Liberator(stay up forever)
Aaron Liberator(stay up forever)
Rackitt(stay up forever)
Gizelle(stay up forever)
Sikaflex(uglyfunk)tbc
Je5(uglyfunk/BWPT)
Simon+Matt Spacecase(love4life)
Ryan Holland(love4life)
Sound provided by Top Hat(now with extra bass!)
Rig 3
Butty(OSA)
Skizzo(disco biz kids)
Amino Clang
Triple Hex(Dj Triple Hex…aka Dj Matt ( Original Pirate Sounds 90-93 )
RDT(love4life/TopHat)
Alex Bennet(OSA)
Deb(OSA)
Indica(TopHat)
more tbc
Also
Bars
Fire
Overnight camping.
Sunday Chillout Session.
Bar and music lunch time till 8pm tbc
Rig 1 DiY and friends
Rig 2 Tiddles, followed by the SUF b2b sunday stomp!
Food and drink avail
Fire
Overnight Camping
Catering on site.
Decor by Lush and The Alphawave Project tbc
There will be a large family camping area, for those who cant get a babysitter!
No charge for under16s accompanied by parent at all times.
Campervans welcome but space is limited, please ask about availability.
Decent friendly security team.
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Thank you to everyone for your support of this event, capacity is 499, and is ticket only, none available at the gate, so please, if you are serious about attending, and especially if you are traveling a long way, as many are, don’t waste any time getting in touch, or you will miss out.
Ticket types are as follows….
Saturday main event only
20 Pounds
This admits you to the venue, on Saturday 18th August for the main event, from 1 pm until midday on Sunday. This includes camping, but not access to the Sunday entertainment.
Weekend camping
35 pounds
This admits you to the venue to camp all weekend, and includes access to the site, from 1pm on Friday 17th August until 11am on Monday 20th August.
Please let us know how many tents your party are bringing.
Weekend campervan
35 pounds
This admits you to the venue, to stay in your van all weekend, and includes access to the event, from 1pm on Friday 17th August until 11am on Monday 20th August.
Your mates sharing the van will need a weekend camping ticket each, only the driver needs a weekend campervan ticket.
Please let us know the type (size) of the vehicle so we can keep track of space available.
There will be a small additional charge(at cost) for secure postal delivery and paypal fees, this will be on the paypal invoice we send to you.
HOW TO BUY YOUR TICKETS….
Copy and paste this into an email…fill in all the gaps, and send it to Helen…love4life@live.co.uk
name (including your last name!)
Full postal address, including postcode. (somewhere that your tickets can be signed for)
Email address that you use for Paypal payments
Number of tickets required. Please state whether you would like Weekend Camping tickets, Campervan tickets, or Saturday only tickets. If you are the driver of a campervan, you will need a Campervan ticket. Everyone else in your van needs a Weekend Camping ticket.
Number of cars your group will be arriving in
Number of tents your group will have
Number of children (16 years old and younger) in your group
Thank you!!!
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The venue will be at full capacity, so parking, camping and campervan space is limited, please help everyone out by sharing transport and tents where possible, and please try not to bring a huge tent or van for just one person.
Parents, whilst we would advise that you try to get the weekend off child care so you are free to party unhindered, we understand that some of you will wish to bring your brood. If you are bringing your kids to this event, please ensure they are with you at all times, and that you keep them out of harms way.
The licensing dept has advised us that children are allowed in the bar areas with their parents, we would advise that you excersise particular caution after dark.
There is plenty of space on the site to organise some kids activities, let us know if you have any ideas!!
Thanks for your support
See you in the summer!
Here is a link to last years recordings..
come celebrate our cultural history!!!!
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Only 500 tickets and they are selling fast – book yours soon to avoid disappointment!
Happy, friendly, bouncy weekend rave in a field in Cornwall full of lovely people listening to old vinyls on nice systems.
Remember ’88-’94? Don’t miss out!
I recon there is less than 50 odd ticket left,
we signed up for ours as soon as we heard as its so popular 🙂
Cool! Would be nice to meet you in person TG.
Amino Clang (formerly TekTonic).
Wicked!
Also see J:e5 playing used to chat to him on here loads!
Just look out for a green and yellow topped little Merc van and come say hello, or we’ll sort summat out
We’ll defo be wherever babble / smokescreen are as we’ll be meeting up with the midlands contingent!
tank girl! i might know you already! will keep an eye out!!
Tragically, the Fun Police (aka EHO) have put an end to this wonderful weekend.
Trying my best to hold back the tears :'(
on what grounds? as the license app process is public record, do you have links to the FOI stuff or local press reports or anything? The only way we can hope to challenge this rampant nimbyism what infects our country is to openly discuss the bad news and shine a strong light onto the problems, one that can be seen the length of Europe and beyond…
FFS this is in a remote bit of SW England but hosted by crews with 20+ years of event management experience, which has occured without problems before. Without wanting a witchhunt, I think whoever complained about this and/or the council officers who stopped the event should be exposed to scrutiny and made to justify their actions, especially as the organisers here have taken the mature option of going to the trouble and expense of applying for the correct licenses.
Incidentally although the Dutch have lots of similar events they don’t get a easy ride either (the more I learn of their language the more info I can unearth) and they have to put up with similar levels of opposition, but make a point about how much the EDM scene contributes to their economy. For instance although commercial trance isn’t everyones favourite, the 4 main DJ’s (AWB, Tiësto, Ferry Corsten and Sander Van Doorn) contribute €50 000 000 of legal, taxable revenue to the Eurozone from record sales alone. Money which generates legitimate jobs in the music industry and beyond, and taxes that can be spent on public services. This is in the middle of a bitter economic depression what is threatening the eurozone existence. That they are achieving this isn’t something to be dismissed or sneezed at.
Basically, it looks like nobody complained, but the EHO put a stop to it by saying that somebody MIGHT complain about the sound (the site was moved fromlast year’s site to be even more remote… and there were no complaints last year). He says that the event can go on, if its for Saturday night only (not a weekender) and the music gets turned down at 11 and switched off at 1.
Reports from the organisers suggest that the event would probably be given the go-ahead if it was a sports event that disrupted a community or a cellebration of the queen on the highstreet of any town in Cornwall… but a fully licenced, legal and above-board cellebration of the acid house and 90’s rave scene impecably organised by conscientious, local people for a handfull (only 500 tickets sold) of lovely and like-minded citizens of our wonderful country who are passionate about a particular musical style (repetative beats anyone?) and have no desire to piss off anybody is a no-go!
Beggars belief don’t it!
*repeatedly bangs head against a brick wall*
I’d say (for obvious reasons) go East but then the cops want £20 000+ upfront costs for a similar event and because Glade etc pay this amount without dissent (as its cheaper than what SE England ask for) the constabulary expect this sort of cash to be handed over..
TBH if I were the organisers I’d try and work out the revenue what any local businesses would have got and send a pressrel into the local media saying “this is what you lost out on”
without going to deep into the politics if you are faced with “classical free market liberalism” (which a lot of the dutch promoters are) this is one way of fighting back…
They changed the ruling in April I think for this – before that only the police could object, now EHO can too as has happened here – we found out about the deadline for our event ( UnDeRgRoUnD Music Festival | Facebook Underground Music Festival) JUST in time to get our TEN app in
Also I noticed you said 500 tickets for sale – if you were doing a TEN, then the total is 499 including all crew and performers, just for future reference 🙂 good luck and hope you can bring this event back in future as looks ace!
@PippageUMF 492774 wrote:
They changed the ruling in April I think for this – before that only the police could object, now EHO can too as has happened here – we found out about the deadline for our event
yep I saw this in a CAMRA magazine of all places (yes, I am a member :laugh_at: ) – to be fair their work in getting more tolerance for late night events often goes unnoticed by some younger ravers (but not the older lot).
seriously though the reality is this was brought it by the current elected government to give more of a voice to the local nimbys (but perhaps with a bit of anonymity because the complainers don’t want reprisals, same as cops don’t say who grassed you up)
with TENS cops didn’t bother listening to locals unless there were proveable allegations that there could be serious crime/disorder at the event (a few pill and powder heads are not normally serious crime/disorder, unless they do it on the comedowns and brag about their crimes online, that does make a difference to how party folk are judged) – consider why real ale drinkers (who are in reality a much diverse group) don’t mind being portrayed as mostly harmless old codgers with beards rather than hard bastards with Millwall tattooed on their forehead and two bull terriers.. 😉
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