Around 11.30, we headed off to a Cross-bones party, somewhere near London bridge. The rumour was 6 systems, it sounded good.
But when we got there, Cross bones hadn't shown - or at least the "rig hadn't got there yet". Never mind, there were several rooms kicking off, so in we went and I set about exploring the building. From the top floor, I watched out of the window as the police turned up
Around 1.00am we got shut down, but I understand why. It was a 60's high rise office block (big windows!), the fire alarms went off and were silenced in the traditional way. The building was being given "the treatment" and by time we were evicted, the place already needed fairly extensive re-furbishment ....
So we went to the final Insanity party, which was going to be a huge flop, there were very few there before we all turned up and rescued the event. It was in a very smart show-room type place, just Insanity playing and no bar! (although one did eventually turn up). Anyway, enough ppl turned up to make it work and it turned into a really good event.
Upstairs a very smart conference room was reduced to a shell as the night progressed, but in a quite friendly and not at all dark way - ie gradually and with some humour, if you see what I mean.
Again the fire alarms went off and were silenced, a similar fate awaited the burgular alarm as well.
London squats can be a bit scarey sometimes, but apart from one acid flip out and a lot of ket holing, there no major incidents, the alarms wern't needed.
I met the ppl who had liberated the first office block in one of the offices upstairs. They told me how they had taken over the office block we got evicted from ("these buildings find us" they said). They got the rigs out OK and the one who was arrested had been released.
The police turned up at the Insanity party in the early hours and seemed to field complaints from locals, then went away.
I like Insanity and the music they play, but you really need more than one rig in a party. Still, it was fun.
Derek
