Party Vibe

if its fully licensed then they shouldn’t have any paranoia about saying at least the region its in (its fair enough they might not want to divulge full address to avoid issues with non ticket holders and the Police accept and understand this). its also the right of every UK citizen to contact the Council where the event is licensed and get a copy of the app to scrutinise (often its shown online in the freedom of information section). you can do this for any event or venue in your local area or further afield – i have done so for my own research purposes to help people understand the law and apply for lixcenses.

For all events of this size the licensing doc can be anything up to 300 pages long and the Council expect to have full details and disclosure of the sound system crews etc.

I also have a gut feeling that advertising a unlicensed event in this manner by claiming it is licensed could land the organisers in even worse shit than doing a illegal one particularly if they end up attracting vulnerable young people to random parts of London late at night.

if anything unpleasant were to happen to one of these young people, all it would take is one middle class parent with a bit of legal knowledge to put a civil Court case in against the organisers. Although the Police do not usually get involved in civil cases, they will in many cases help folk get details if there is an associated criminal case. However with a genuinely licensed event there are also protections for the organisers, as they would already have to set both a minimum age limit and in the licensing doc explain exactly how they are protecting young people (age 16-18) from harm, which provided they stick to their conditions would be a defence against any civil cases.

Its about time we in England adopted a far more sensible licensing policy and more tolerance and acceptance of EDM events in smaller towns / cities outside London. That would actually make all the events (including London ones) way safer, put money back into the local economy and also makes people attending them safer. It works well enough in NL and other European nations…

when I first started out everyone was hyper fucking paranoid about phones etc being monitored or even to brag about drugs in the pub or stagger around the streets blatantly fucked. the reality was that those boffins what knew how to tap phones were busy dealing with really bad heavy shit like actual terrorist bombers and many of them were ex-hippies and had some sympathy for ravers, but in some ways the “paranoia” paid off as it showed a bit of respect to the rest of society.

Now people are being shameless about what is viewed as criminal activity it is obviously going to bite them on the arse further down the line. especially when you can track what college/uni FB users go to and don’t even have to be a member.

there’s another risk I was thinking of last night, also another reason why I don’t use FB is because my real name is quite literally shared with “10 000 Chinamen” (similarly with linkedin). Many of them do the same sort of day job I do (or even more brainy stuff), some look like me. The bulk of them live in Singapore and Malaysia. This is hardly surprising given my ancestry.

But what happens if someone in a “liberal western” nation gets confused, friends a person with the same name in a foreign country and then starts bombarding them with messages about drugs, illegal raves etc to their internet in a country where it is strongly monitored? many of these folk, without even meaning to be malicious or grasses, would brick it and contact FB admin or even their law enforcement, simply so they do not get implicated in cross border crimes.