Party Vibe

I think its there, but just a lot more spread out due to the sheer size of the area. For instance even my nearest friends live a couple of hours away, it would take me a hours bike ride to meet up with Damo and his friends or to go to Stowmarket and two hours to get to where Mudstomper lives.

Biotech and Titch are far away on the coast you could get a boat to Denmark from there!

A lot of younger people are shocked at the concept of cycling “all that distance”, as if I were entering the Olympics :laugh_at:, and find trains expensive and sketchy.

Of course many people have cars, but they are expensive to run and licenses often hard to keep for people what live the sort of lifestyles we do… This does also mean that those able to afford driving can just go to other areas for parties (albeit at some personal risk if they are driving 200 miles each way and stretching their mental and physical endurance to the limit!)

Eventually though I think people are going to have to rebuild their local scene as stuff like the credit crunch bites (and not make the same mistakes of the 90s yet again..)

Globaloon – thanks for that link. In fact a CIC might be the best idea for this sort of enterprise (would be good for Leviticus too who are already investigating a similar project)

good to see the people with kids / families responding…

one thing I’ve noticed is a big baby boom here – loads of people I know have either become recent parents or are expecting new arrivals so there is a big need for a venue what could also maybe host family friendly events during the daytime

I know of a couple from one crew who tried to book a hall for a kids birthday party (perfectly legitimately, they were the parents of said child) but there was such paranoia from some of the yokels in the village where it was planned that ruralwatch got activated as they thought it would turn into a massive rave!

it definitely is, although it will take a lot more organisation than just turning up randomly in thetford forest… especially finding a suitable place, as land/buildings will still hold a lot of their value in East Anglia even with the recession…

you need to find somewhere what isn’t prime agricultural land but not a habitat for rare species (as the eco-groups often buy these places), and if you actually wish to use it outside “summer” with some form of covered building… 😉

a TENS license is good for up to 500 people. You only need a full PEL for larger events. TENS has already successfully been used by various promoters in Norfolk, Essex and Bedfordshire since 2005.

TBH I think the major sticking point is finding any sort of space and people willing to put in any effort..

at the moment it seems too many are happy with short term term “solutions” like doing a hall party with fake details and forget the knock on effect is has, not surprising no “normal people” are willing to work with any promoters… after all in the real world putting false details on a contract is known as fraud (even if the money for hire etc is paid..)