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Saturday evening was spent driving around the Oxfordshire country looking for a party. The original site at the White Horse hill, near Wantage, had police road blocking the entrance, we parked up and took a stroll across a few fields before getting a call confirming that the soundsystem was moving to a new site. Luckliy I knew the way to this one, so leading a small convoy, we turned up at the next site, to find yet again the police had another road block setup. We all stopped at a petrol station and waited (with token police car) for half an hour. Getting a bit worried that no parties were gonna happen, we were just about to head off home, when another convoy went passed us - we hopped on the end. a couple of miles down the road, we turn up a dirt track and drove up it for two miles, police were five cars behind us and had blocked off the dirt track.

Get up to the site on the Oxford Downs, and find one soundsystem already pumping out nice hard house/techno tunes. As we turned up so did two other soundsystems - one being Ooops, these two quickly setup and pumped out jungle/dnb and techno. Quite a few people are already there, 300+, two mobile shops, plently of nutters (one with a sharp saw!) and a wicked party atmosphere.

Danced all night, with the rain at 8.30 stopping us. Ooops Soundsystem carried on though. Journey home was a bit of an interesting one....our mates had had to park their car outside the venue, as they couldn't get the car through the road block. They'd ended up going down a road into the middle of nowhere with a police car following them, they'd decided to drive up a dirt track and booted it up there. with police car in tow. they'd turned into a field, locked up the car, legged it and watched the police find the car from the other side of the field. When we got there in the morning, the field turned out to be full of pigs (the bacon kind) and all the tyres had been let down on the car - hmmm I wonder who that was (and it wasn't the farmer, as we met him and he was quite a sound farmer). we went back to the (after)party and managed somehow to find a footpump, got the car pumped up again and eventually got home about lunchtime. very very strange night, but indeed one of the best parties yet.....

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