I am aware of that site (was doing urbex in my mid teens long before I started raving!) – and the tensions between urbex crews and some party people (not all!)
I can see why he gets angry as a lot of buildings (particularly in cities) just get trashed 3 times over when they are raved; plus raves in industrial areas encourage the rentaguards to lock things down further and mistrust any group of young people trying to get access to buildings (such as the explorers). The “smashy smashy crew” and taggers have done a lot more damage than just buildings… they have given all ravers a very bad name.
It is an interesting site; but I wouldn’t really advise using it to select party venues.
Most of the venues on there would actually be highly unsafe to hold a rave in and many have rentaguards to keep out squatters and travellers (often they are guarded by traveller types themselves in an urban “poacher turned gamekeeper” scenario). They are also well known to cops and Fire Brigade as they get used for dog training and firefighters practice exercises.
Others look good on first sight, but are too near residential areas or are buildings with too many small rooms/corridors where scum can lurk and people can be attacked etc.
Many have the services disconnected (even water etc), and missing floors, asbestos etc. I wouldn’t even explore them alone whilst relatively sober (in case I met with an accident etc), let alone consider using some of the buildings for parties.
Also the urbex community is a wider group of people that contains lots of people who are more sympathetic to conventional society including rentaguards themselves and people who may be prepared to tip off the cops if they think a building will be targeted for raves.
If you are determined to put on warehouse parties you need to do your own homework and recce missions…
