yeah thought it was overcrowding which was the cause…
I don’t mean this as a diss to various parts of the country as its babylon doing this but TBH I think (especially since I use DSI a bit these days) that because of the drugs crackdowns of the last 12 years legal events are being pushed further and further away from “nicer” areas and also away from London, SE and Eastern England…
they are being pushed into less suitable venues, often in inner city high crime areas in the Midlands, North and Scotland or in South Central England (portsmouth, southampton) and its not because they are “welcomed” but because feds can’t lock down these areas as much due to real crime happening loads..
There are also less and less legal dance events due to the clampdowns (if a venue gets busted for drugs or drug gang related violence and is put on closure the owner is fucked, they have basically lost their livelihood)
Some of my mates round here are promoters but few of them can find venues who will accept a “rave-type” crowd as the managers all say “ooh, theres drugs and the cops will close us down” (especially with all this undercover visits and electronic sniffer dogs malarkey)
So clubland today seems like its all done with bad vibes and bad grace and paranoia.
The venue owners want the money from the event but they don’t want the drugs because they are para of the feds,
They have all these “men in black” bouncers, which of course make people take more drugs (perhaps near overdose levels) before they go in to avoid being busted, the venues are over capacity anyway because they are taking in punters from outside the normal area as nowadays you have to travel to find an event
and this is why people die; because there is zero tolerance rather than it saving people.
It shows how harsh the war on drugs is, the fucking puritans who stubbornly refuse to accept any drug use are sacrificing young lives to enforce their moral codes. They are no better than the “religious” terrorists IMO, its just that they are killing individual people slowly with their moralising than loads at once..
