Parking up in my usual Cholsey Downs car parking space, we can see they're still setting up the system. POD are tonights party crew, and they have a pretty loud system with them - 7K or so. The bass rumbles with an impressive force. Quite a few people have made it up to the site, and a few are already dancing. It's just before midnight and I've been told that the track had been blocked off by the old bill. Luckily a lot of people managed to make it before us, so I don't know how many people got turned away.
Bouncy techno is played all night by POD, probably the best system I've heard in a while. The rain manages to hold off, but the wind tends to blow you off your feet every so often. 200 people or so make it at its peak. At 1 or 2am a police helicopter flies overhead and starts monitoring what's going on - with the aid of infra red I guess. After about 10 minutes or so, he switches on his search light. People on the dancefloor really don't care to much about the extra lighting and carry on dancing. The chopper evenutally fucks off, with no more Police presence spotted for the rest of the evening.
Around 3am, Ooops Soundsystem turns up, after some problems encountered at a party in Reading. They quickly get setup and are soon playing some excellent Drum n Bass, I'm always happy to see them turn up, as they're pretty friendly, as well as being my local soundsystem. Nice old skool set noted at about 5am.
People are still on the POD dancefloor when I stop dancing at about 6.30am, I head over to my car and sit in the warmth for a while. The crowd starts to thin out about 7.30am and the soundsystem is switched off after about another hour or so. Ooops keep going. We hang around for a bit longer, before making it back down the track. It's a lot worse on the way back - all the cars have churned up the mud. The car I follow down has to keep stopping to move tyres out of the road - some joker/irrate farmer has blocked the track with them. Heading back along the A417 towards Reading, the scenery is fucking amazing, with loads of rolling green hills and even the sun came out. A good party, with plenty of up for it people.
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