The beer tent was one of the first tent's erected (of course!) but no beer, the tea, coffee, hot chocolate and ice cream stall was dealing with that one though. The gyroscope lady was late, she never arrived until 1am, but went down like a storm when she got things spinning along nicely, a queue as long as the field. Then finally the beer arrived at 2am and now the site was overflowing with true party people in a true party style.
There was supposed to be a barn at our disposal as well as a marquee, unfortunately the barn was not available this week-end but as luck would have it, a call came in on the mobile from a bunch of guys (whom none of us knew) who had heard about the bash, they just happened to have a 7k sound system and tarps, asking if there was room for them to come and play with us.
Of course there was, they were called Vega and were from Suffolk, their spirits had been dampened by the Cuntstabulary in Peterborough who apparently blocked off roads leading to there event, we thank them for having the guts to ring us and ask, that€s all it takes you know. So now the car-park (one of the fields) was completely full and over-spilling on the farmer's lane. At a rough guess we all reckon that there was around 1200 faces, all happy ones, running round having an absolute ball. The musical taste for the evening was a varied one, consisting of hard-funky house, tripping-along-nicely-trance, tit-banging techno, subtle-but-sweet-French house and of course not forgetting good-old-skanking dub & reggae for the morning worshippers who never want to go home.
Not one complaint from the near-by neighbours and only one Panda car
monitoring the situation from about 3 miles away, handing out producers like
they were raffle tickets, get past him and your prize was an one of the best
nights out in a field you were gonna have for a long, long time. The
feed-back from this event varied from "the best party I have ever been to"
to " it reminded me of how parties used to be" to " the best night of my
life". We would like to thank all the people who made the effort to make it
to this event, whether you were a party helper, trouper, or just a complete
nutter, without all of you, where the hell would we go and what the hell
would we do, and once again can we say a big "THANK-YOU" for keeping the
party scene alive and true.
Vinyl Vera